| Black Agenda Report

Shaun Ossei-Owusu
Coronavirus and the Politics of Disposability
06 May 2020
When the dust settles, as in all U.S. disasters, there will be a tale to tell of who mattered and who was sacrificed.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Late-Stage Racial Capitalism Opened the Door to the Killer Virus
30 Apr 2020
The white settler state always inflicts excessive mortality on racially subject peoples, and capitalism inflicts death on large sections of its disproportionately non-white working class and poor.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
U.S. Response to COVID-19 Equals Genocide for Blacks, but “Progressive” Leaders Offer Nothing But Words
22 Apr 2020
AOC and Bernie Sanders made public condemnations of the corporate bailout but did little in the way of resistance.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Yellow Skin, White Masks: Andrew Yang and the Democratic Party’s School of White Supremacist Thought
15 Apr 2020
Yang’s hope that Asian-Americans fight racism by marrying themselves to American exceptionalism is nothing more than an attempt to maintain his own economic privileges.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes
01 Apr 2020
The systemic failure of the capitalist order triggered by the coronavirus has reinforced the growing awareness that extreme wealth inequality is a fundamental characteristic of the system.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The U.S. is a Failed State, and COVID-19 Proves it
25 Mar 2020
The United States’ capitalist and imperialist economy cannot provide a modicum of social welfare to its people and has been in perpetual war with Black Americans and Indigenous Peoples since its fo
Hannah Appel
Debtors of the World, Unite!
18 Mar 2020
Debt’s ubiquity is a burden, but also an opportunity. “The point of debtors’ unions it is to build collective power—people power.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeff Ferrell’s “Drift”
12 Feb 2020
Late stage capitalism and its wars have imposed a permanent state of dislocation and disorientation on much of humanity, the “drift” of an unstable system.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Capitalist Crisis Has Made the U.S. a Pariah State
11 Dec 2019
U.S. imperialism has nothing left to offer humanity but ecological destruction, endless war, and a decline in living standards domestically and globally.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
“Booming” Economy Means More Bad Jobs and Faster Race to the Bottom
05 Dec 2019
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.