| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Socialism or Amazonism
26 Oct 2017
“Jeff Bezos and his ilk have used their political power to create an economic order of near absolute worker insecurity.” Two unfolding developments show the stark choices faces humanity.
Elizabeth Yeampierre , Naomi Klein
Imagine a Puerto Rico Recovery Designed by Puerto Ricans
01 Nov 2017
“Puerto Ricans are wise to shock doctrine tactics.” It’s tough to shock Puerto Ricans. Not after the presidential paper-towel toss. Not after Donald Trump repeatedly attacked San Juan’s mayor for daring to fight for her people’s lives. Not after he threatened to skip out on the island in its…
Martín Pastor
More US Troops in Latin America: Signs of an Invasion Foretold?
01 Nov 2017
“The upcoming military exercise is just another piece in this growing pattern of militarization and regional threat.”
Vijay Prashad
The American War Machine Is Already on the Death March Across the African Continent
01 Nov 2017
“Fleets of white Toyota trucks arrived in the desert to carry refugees and drugs to Europe and to bring weapons into central and western Africa.”
Charo Mina-Rojas
Afro-Colombia Women Demand Rights and Demilitarization
01 Nov 2017
”The women, peace and security agenda, if implemented and financially resourced, can be the pathway to peace in my country and around the world.”
Devyn Springer
Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?
01 Nov 2017
“Few on the broader US left can name more than a handful of African revolutionaries.”
Nicholas Grant
African Americans, Apartheid and the Cold War
01 Nov 2017
“Anticommunism provided a global language that could be used to silence anti-racist organizing.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Huey Newton's Lessons for World Revolution in Our Times
01 Nov 2017
“Huey used the framework of dialectical materialism, which gave him the understanding that all development is a struggle between contradictions.” BAR contributor Danny Haiphong delivered the following remarks to a day-long conference on “Huey P. Newton: Our Struggle for Self-Determination and World…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Burundi Exits the ICC: an interview with David Paul Jacobs
01 Nov 2017
Last year the African Union resisted Western pressure to intervene militarily in Burundi. On October 26, Burundi officially completed its withdrawal from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) without being indicted. The next day the Non-Aligned Movement of 120 member nations…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Putin, Trump and Manafort
01 Nov 2017
“Anyone and anything connected to Russia gets the double standard treatment and is targeted for attack.” The American propaganda campaign being waged against the Russian Federation and its president Vladimir Putin has reached a stage of perverse perfection. It is virtually impossible to put forth a…