| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Political Prisoners: “Say Their Names”
06 Aug 2020
Unless folks are under the delusion that victory over the “fascists” is imminent, the condition of political prisoners should be a deeply personal, as well as political, concern to all activists.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
American Left Silence on China Helps Lay Foundation for the U.S.’ New Cold War
05 Aug 2020
When it comes to China, Democracy Now, Jacobin, The Nation and others on the imperial-minded US ‘left” are allies of white supremacy.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“We Need a National Industrial Commission, a Permanent One”
05 Aug 2020
Like the first Covd-19 relief package, the pending bill will have been written by “sleep-deprived staff and inattentive lawmakers who are making this all up on the fly.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Testi-lyin’ low Barr
05 Aug 2020
a man ‘made’ $13 billion in a day—while Stomachs of millions of men, women and children are symphony orchestras tuning to “Last Days of Pompeo…”
Netfa Freeman
AFRICOM Crying Russia in Libya: A Pot and Kettle Syndrome
05 Aug 2020
The US waged unprovoked war against Libya and has militarily occupied Africa, but is still singing its old song that Russia is the aggressor on the continent.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Aug 2020
“Freedom Rider: Let the Movement Be Radical” by Margaret Kimberley
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
05 Aug 2020
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism brought me to Marxism and not the other way around.
Diane Gee
Detroit is No Portland
05 Aug 2020
It would be lunacy to send troops to Detroit, as Trump has threatened. “This is pre-emptive warfare.”
BAP National Coordinating Committee
Black August and Black Liberation: “Study, Fast, Train, Fight.”
05 Aug 2020
We owe it to our ancestors and our incarcerated comrades to escalate the struggle against the white settler state and its imperial capitalist order.
Nick Estes and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Examining the Wreckage White Supremacy and Imperialism Have Wrought
05 Aug 2020
Indigenous and African resistance and intellectual traditions provide key insights to the very nature of capitalism and how it has unfolded throughout space and time.