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Pavan Kulkarni
67 Killed in Stampedes at Christmas Food Drives in Nigeria as IMF-Induced Hunger Engulfed Millions More in 2024
15 Jan 2025
After dozens died in stampedes, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu remarked, “We should just get on with it.” Tinubu’s IMF-prescribed policies have more than doubled food prices in the country, condemning millions more to hunger.
Pan-African Community Action PACA
The DC Bus Fare Evasion Crackdown: Targeting, Detaining, and Surveilling the Black Working Class
15 Jan 2025
Washington, D.C., is implementing a new campaign intended to crack down on fare evasion. This bill, like many others of its kind, will serve as a tool deployed in the ongoing war against the Black working class by increasing policing and punishing those who cannot bear the hardship of the…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Joe Biden's Terrible Legacy
15 Jan 2025
The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for imperialist and neo-liberal interests,…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: The Problem of Haiti is the Same as Latin America: Gerard Pierre-Charles, 1983
15 Jan 2025
Despite selling out Haiti, former Haitian leftist Gerard Pierre-Charles’s 1983 diagnosis of the imperialist assault on current movements still resonates today.
Jacqueline Luqman
Trump’s Presidency and the Prospects for Peace in 2025: Adapted Remarks from the IMG
22 Jan 2025
Jacqueline Luqman recently delivered these remarks at a webinar hosted by the International Manifesto Group, "Trump’s Presidency and the Prospects for Peace in 2025."
Carlos Sirah
Dispatch: Through the Fire
22 Jan 2025
The fires raging through southern California have devastated Black communities, such as in Altadena. The failures of city and state political leadership to provide proper emergency services have left residents without answers. Carlos Sirah of the Black Alliance for Peace Southern…
Gabriel Rockhill
A Major Milestone in Socialist History - A Review of People’s China at 75: The Flag Stays Red
22 Jan 2025
"People’s China at 75: The Flag Stays Red" analyzes the People's Republic of China and its ongoing socialist project.
Arnold August
Justin Trudeau: Most Slavish, Superficial, Hypocritical, Pro-U.S. Prime Minister Ever
22 Jan 2025
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decade as the leader of the Liberal Party has come to an abrupt and embarrassing halt. His term as PM is marked with unabashed servitude to U.S. interests, bigotry, and frat boy antics. While his time in office has finally come to an end, it is unlikely that…
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Combatting Imperialism, Defending Sovereignty: Zone of Peace in Haiti and the Americas
22 Jan 2025
On Sunday, January 19th, 2025, the Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace hosted its first webinar of the year, “Combatting Imperialism, Defending Sovereignty: Zone of Peace in Haiti and the Americas.” The following is an extended version of the introductory remarks.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda Advances Toward Annexing DRC’s Kivu Provinces with the West’s Tacit Blessing
22 Jan 2025
Rwandan colonization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) proceeds apace.