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Jeremy Kuzmarov
U.S. Spreads Misery Across the Globe Imposing Sanctions on a Third of Humanity
04 Jan 2023
The U.S. imposes unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, against millions of people around the world. Sanctions are war by other means, creating as much damage as bombs and bullets do.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Africa in Review 2022: Regional Dynamics and Continental Security
04 Jan 2023
The first in a three-part series analyzing African politics in 2022.
Jacqueline Luqman
Film Review: Netflix’s ‘Descendant’ Shows Capitalism Continues to Oppress African Descendants
04 Jan 2023
The trans-Atlantice slave trade did not end with the 1808 ban. The Clotilda arrived in 1860 and the descendants of those enslaved people are impacted by that history, as are all African people in the U.S.
West African Peoples Organization
The Imperialist Aggressiveness and the Birth of the West African Peoples Organization (WAPO)
04 Jan 2023
Anti-imperialist unity has long been sought by African people but has been thwarted by outside forces. The people still struggle to reach this goal, and the West African Peoples Organization is the latest formation in this effort.
Julie Varughese
Why One Organization Dubbed the U.S.-Africa Summit the ‘Meeting of Uncle Tom and Uncle Sam’
04 Jan 2023
The U.S. Africa Leaders Summit held in Washington in December demonstrated the depth of U.S. disregard for African nations. The photo opportunity extravaganza proved only that the U.S. commitment to imperialist hegemony is alive and well.
Socialist Movement of Workers of the Dominican Republic
We Condemn the Raid on the Headquarters of the Haitian-Dominican Women's Movement
04 Jan 2023
The Dominican Republic continues to abuse its Haitian descended population. The Haitian-Dominican Women's Movement (MUDHA) was recently raided by government agents.
Nizar K. Visram
Israel Got the Middle Finger at the World Cup
04 Jan 2023
The U.S. brokered Abraham Accords normalized relations between Israel and some Persian Gul Arab regimes. But Israel discovered at the recent World Cup that the Arab masses are still in solidarity with Palestine.
Gus Griffin
The Hopeful Legacy of Roberto Clemente
04 Jan 2023
Roberto Clemente was one of the all-time great baseball players and one of the best in a long line of Afro-Latinos. He also acted in solidarity with people around the world, which ironically led to his untimely death.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor , Sarah Abdelaziz
Abolitionist Teaching: An Interview with Sarah Abdelaziz
04 Jan 2023
"Abolition" is the word of the moment. But what does it mean? How should it be taught? Robert Sirvent and Sarah Abdelaziz discuss.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Adam Bledsoe
04 Jan 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Adam Bledsoe. Bledsoe is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. His article “Neither Ground on Which to Stand, nor Self to Defend: The Structural Denial (and Radical Histories) of Black Self-Defense.”