| Black Agenda Report

Jenny Brown
Hotel Workers Strike Against Scab Staffing App and Anti-Black Racism
09 Aug 2023
A hotel workers strike in California exposes anti-Black hiring practices, and the predation of the "gig" economy.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
"Booming" Economy Means More Bad Jobs and Faster Race to the Bottom
02 Aug 2023
For the past 30 years, no matter which party has been in power, the US economy has produced more and more “bad” jobs – because the Race to the Bottom is ruling class policy.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Forge Negro-Labor Unity for Peace and Jobs, Paul Robeson, 1950
12 Apr 2023
Paul Robeson’s 1950 speech to the delegates of the National Labor Conference for Negro Rights should remind us that there is no Black liberation struggle without the Black working masses.
Peoples Dispatch
87% of Service Workers in the US South Were Injured on the Job Last Year
12 Apr 2023
Southern service workers allege that South Carolina’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration discriminates against Black workers.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War, Repression and Capitalist Misery
09 Nov 2022
The 50 year old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: To the Point of Production: An Interview with John Watson of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 1969
07 Sep 2022
A 1969 interview with a founder of Detroit’s League of Revolutionary Black Workers reminds us of the radical genius and hope of Black labor.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Essay: Record of Revolts in Negro Workers’ Past: Mary Adams, May 1, 1928
04 May 2022
A May Day 1928 essay by Black communist Williana “Liana” Jones Burroughs – aka Mary Adams – recounts the history of African revolt in the Americas.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Stop Confusing the Fight Against Racism with Neoliberalism
23 Nov 2021
The electoral appeal of anti-Black racism is a constant in the U.S.
Roy Singham
On the Road from Detroit to South Africa: Black Radical Internationalist Traditions
23 Nov 2021
Roy Singham reminisces about his work with the late General Gordon Baker, Jr. and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) in Detroit and its connections with South African workers.
Philip Harvey
A History of Unemployment and the Search for Solutions
21 Apr 2021
The only time the United States has experienced real full employment was during World Wars I and II.