| Black Agenda Report

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Obama-fication of “The Squad” Strengthens the Right at the Expense of the Left
13 Jan 2021
The so-called ‘progressive” model would have us wait half a dozen election cycles before taking real action on the demand for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Squad Won’t Fight Pelosi and Corporate Power
07 Jan 2021
For the first time in this century, significant numbers of young people of all races are expressing raw hatred for the Democrats and denouncing “The Squad” for collaborating with the oligarchy.
Don Fitz
What Does the Esau Revolution Despise?
10 Dec 2020
The Democrats’ relentless suppression of the Green Party affected the mind-set of more voters than all the right-wing howls put together.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Billionaires’ Duopoly Wins on Tuesday
29 Oct 2020
Allegiance to the Democratic half of the duopoly – whether active or passive – is still allegiance to corporate rule, not a strategy for transformative change.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats are Officially Republicans
26 Aug 2020
The Democrats claim to be the opposition party, but they seek out Republicans, hate the left of their own party, and don’t seem to care if they lose the election.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Black Caucus and the Dictatorship of (White) Capital
30 Jul 2020
Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Leftists Jump the Corporate Democratic Ship, Leaving Sanders Behind
14 May 2020
History may record that the corporate duopoly dike was finally broken in the Time of Plague, with the defection of Bernie’s former sheep from the Democratic Party.
Wilmer J. Leon III
The Dangers of Binary Politics for the African American Community
25 Mar 2020
We have traded our interests in for “electability” and “anybody but Trump.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: U.S. Continues Its War on the Rest of the World
04 Mar 2020
The duopoly corporate parties enforce silence and ignorance on foreign policy to ensure that Americans have neither the knowledge nor the tools to resist their country’s policy of endless war.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
How the Democratic Party Strangled Black Politics
13 Jun 2019
Nothing changes on the electoral scene, and little at the grassroots level, unless the structure of capitalist hegemony over political discourse in the U.S. -- the corporate duopoly -- is broken.