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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Racial Genocide: The Case of the Martinsville Seven, William L. Patterson, 1969
24 Aug 2022
For Black August, read William L. Patterson on racial genocide, the law, and the Martinsville Seven.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Liberals Love Liz Cheney
24 Aug 2022
When liberals aren't rehabilitating war criminals like George W. Bush they fall in love with right wing republicans like Liz Cheney. They stand for nothing and fall for anything. They are traitors to the millions of people who want to see progressive change in this country.
Chris Hedges
Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
31 Aug 2022
The Ukraine crisis makes clear that permanent war requires permanent state censorship.
Al Mayadeen
Africans Take UK to Court Over Abuses Committed During Colonial Era
31 Aug 2022
Kenyan activists are suing the United Kingdom for its grave abuses during the country’s colonial era after London refused to take any accountability for its crimes.
Kahlil Wall-Johnson
Liberal Requiem for the Cold War
31 Aug 2022
The U.S. loss of unipolar power has created liberal angst which does little to foster understanding of the new multipolar world.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Nehanda Abiodun and the Legacy of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex
31 Aug 2022
The late Nehanda Abiodun was an African American revolutionary who exemplified the movement to end national oppression and the criminalization of a people.
Melissa Béralus
Why Does the United States Continue to Occupy a Haitian Island?
31 Aug 2022
The U.S. mined a million tons of guano on a Haitian island without paying a cent to the Haitian authorities. Other countries have sold the product for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Jon Jeter
'You Can't Swim the Same River Twice': Why Full Employment Was a Great Idea, But is No More
31 Aug 2022
Had it been fully implemented the Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill would have been a boon to U.S. workers. Any talk of reviving it is now moot, as the industrial economy of the 1970s has been hollowed out by finance capital. Employment today is not what it was 50 years ago.
Hermela Aregawi
The “International Community” is an Unreliable Broker in Ethiopia Conflict
31 Aug 2022
The ongoing conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has been fueled by support from the United States. It is yet another proxy war which has brough great suffering to thousands of people.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alyosha Goldstein and Simón Ventura Trujillo’s book, “For Antifascist Futures”
31 Aug 2022
This week’s featured authors are Alyosha Goldstein and Simón Ventura Trujillo. Goldstein is Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Trujillo is Assistant Professor in the English Department at New York University. Their co-edited book is, For Antifascist Futures: Against the…