Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Has Covid-19 Initiated the Final, Fatal Crisis of Capitalism?
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
27 Jul 2020
🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Has Covid-19 Initiated the Final, Fatal Crisis of Capitalism?

The Covid-19-sparkd global economic depression is “a singular event in the history of world capitalism,” said Duboisian scholar Anthony Monteiro. “It might be the crisis that so disabled the world capitalist system that it will never be the same.” What’s different from previous crises is, this time, “there is no capitalist nation that can save capitalism the way the US did after World War Two,” said Monteiro. “This is like a crisis unto death.”

Late Stage Capitalism

Related Podcasts

 Billionaire Wealth Breaks All Records in Crisis
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Billionaire Wealth Breaks All Records in Crisis
02 February 2021
The US billionaire class has grown at unprecedented speed during the pandemic and economic crises, increasing their wealth by over a trillion dolla
Democrats Deploy “Diversity” to Mask Renewed War and Austerity
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Democrats Deploy “Diversity” to Mask Renewed War and Austerity
15 December 2020
The “new regime is just a return to the old regime of endless austerity and war,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro, an o
Reading During “Perfect Storm” of Crisis
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Reading During “Perfect Storm” of Crisis
29 June 2020
Medical, economic and political crises have combined to create a “perfect storm for reading, because of the ways that the ideology of whiteness has

More Stories


  • Black-Palestinian solidarity
    Hanna Eid
    Black-Palestinian Solidarity; Clearing the Fog
    28 Feb 2024
    While revolutionary Black organizations after the Panthers continued to support Palestine vocally, the realities of COINTELPRO and mass incarceration have had a profound impact on the organization…
  • Senegalese President Macky Sall
    Tanupriya Singh
    Senegalese Civil Society “remains vigilant” As Top Court Overturns Election Delay
    28 Feb 2024
    The Constitutional Council nullified a presidential decree and a law passed by parliament postponing the February 25 elections. The chief election body has ordered that elections be held “as soon as…
  • Black Agenda Radio
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Black Agenda Radio February 23, 2024
    23 Feb 2024
    This week we hear about the implications of the anti-imperialist struggle in the African nation Guinea-Bissau.
  • DRC
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Colonialism, Imperialism, and Conflict in the Congo
    23 Feb 2024
    Abayomi Azikiwe joins us to discuss events in eastern Congo, the role of US backed nations such as Rwanda, and the history of exploitation and imperial control which caused the…
  • Immigrant Justice Network
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Bipartisan Consensus for Punitive Immigration Policies Continues - Part 2
    23 Feb 2024
    Aly Wane of the Immigrant Justice Network discusses immigration in the second part of a two-part interview. Punitive immigration policies are bipartisan, with groups such as Haitians being targeted…
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us