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Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Temerity, Tartuffery, and Toxic Identity Reductionism…the Latest Democrat Party Hoggwash
21 May 2025
The Democratic Party would rather silence critics like Hogg than fix its own rot. Their reliance on Black Misleaders to do the dirty work exposes once again that the Democrats care more about power…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
How the GOP is Saving the Fossil Fuel Industry From Trump…With Help From the Democrats
14 May 2025
Despite Trump’s tariffs battering the fossil fuel industry, bipartisan policies, including Democrat-backed subsidies, are rescuing Big Oil, locking in climate destruction while working-class…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Neo-Kautskyism: Exposing the Bernie/AOC “Fight Oligarchy” Tour de Farce
23 Apr 2025
Lenin called out Kautsky’s fake socialism more than a century ago—today, Bernie and AOC are playing the same game, trading radical change for liberal theatrics.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist , Claudia O'Brien Moscoso , Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
A Snapshot of the Global War Against African People: Reflections From Ecuador
16 Apr 2025
Defying Ecuador’s attempt to bar international monitors, election observers documented how Daniel Noboa’s contested victory, secured amid militarized polling stations and state violence, escalates…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
From Uncle Tom to Cousin Cory: (Or, The Curious Case of Mr. Booker’s Senate Floor Minstrel Show)
09 Apr 2025
Senator Cory Booker’s recent 25-hour Senate speech is hailed by some as an act of resistance. Really, it exposes the moral bankruptcy of neoliberal politics, as his performative progressivism clashes…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Fog of Class War
12 Mar 2025
A class consciousness among the working masses, one that takes the issue of race seriously, is critical at this moment. Still, the democrats are working to disrupt this effort to organize against the…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
While Trump Waves a Flag of white “Supremacy,” Democrats are Waving a White Flag of Surrender
12 Feb 2025
Donald Trump began his presidency with an onslaught of executive actions meant to dismantle those governmental agencies that offer any lifeline for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor white…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Comes with the Cost of Sacrificing Constitutionally Mandated Human Rights of NYC’s Environmental Justice Communities
08 Jan 2025
NYC's new congestion pricing program has grave environmental justice implications for poor, working class, and Black communities which will be subjected to increased pollution and poor air quality.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Zionist Effort to Defund Climate and Environmental Justice
27 Nov 2024
Nonprofit organizations of all orientations are under attack, with threats of withholding funding, for their association with Palestine solidarity activities. Climate justice organizations have not…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Unprincipled, Unstrategic, and Unsustainable: e(U)logy for the U.S. Climate “Movement”
13 Nov 2024
The ineffectiveness of the climate movement during the 2024 election signals its inevitable collapse. But from the rubble, a new movement dedicated to the working class can be built.