| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Reneging on George Floyd Promises: The Minneapolis Police Name-Change Con
13 Aug 2020
When Black Lives Matter chapters demand “abolition” and “defunding” of the police, rather than community control of the cops, they play into the hands of charlatans and misleaders on city councils
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.
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
Who is the Most Dangerous Fascist?
23 Jul 2020
Most American leftists are incoherent on the term fascism, and Democrats have utterly destroyed the word’s meaning.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change – So Give Them No Choice
16 Jul 2020
An existential political crisis for the racial capitalist order will only happen when the left puts forward a viable political alternative.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement
09 Jul 2020
The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Protest and Power
02 Jul 2020
Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control
25 Jun 2020
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More
18 Jun 2020
Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and accep
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits
11 Jun 2020
Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration.