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Phakamile Hlubi
NUMSA: The South African Union That Confronts New Forms of Apartheid Through Class Struggle
03 Jan 2018
“The massacre of the mine workers in August of 2012 was actually the catalyst for the decision that NUMSA made in the following year to break away from the alliance.” The Dawn News spoke to Phakamile Hlubi of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa about their struggle against the…
Netfa Freeman
What Western Imperialism Is Up to Now in Zimbabwe
03 Jan 2018
“The capitalist agenda is to neo-colonize Zimbabwe and appropriate its labor and land.” When the press and media of the so-called Western world adjust their depiction of a nation they had formally demonized to one worthy of cooperation we should pause for a more critical analysis.
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Cornel West Vs. Coates: A Necessary Debate That Black Agenda Report Has Amplified Since Its Inception
03 Jan 2018
“Coates has benefitted from the neo-liberal brand of Black leadership that grew in strength during the era of Obama.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Who Killed Erica Garner
03 Jan 2018
“Obama never gave Eric Garner or his family the justice that he had the power to give.” “I felt the same pain that my father felt on that day when he was screaming, ‘I can’t breathe.” -- Erica Garner
David Dayen
Puerto Rico Homeowners Brace for Another Disaster: Foreclosures
03 Jan 2018
“Maybe they believe the land is worth more than keeping people in the homes.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison , Boniface Musavuli
Congolese President Attacks Peaceful New Year’s Eve Protestors
03 Jan 2018
“While the rest of the world celebrates their hopes for the New Year, the Congolese suffer repression and death.”
3 Little Words (For 2 EGs)
03 Jan 2018
One to three three on one Life hanging on tatted arms of a windpipe- crushing Nazi thug 3 little words 12 letters 11 times Not artful air escaping sides of a saxophonist’s mouth Song For Her Father— Fire-breathing, bullhorn Blues shouter; Drum major Marching, meeting, texting, tweeting, writing:…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Will Black Agenda Report Be Here Next New Year? That's Up To Our Readers...
04 Jan 2018
Glen Ford, Margaret Kimberley and I left Black Commentator to start Black Agenda Report in 2006. It’s 2018 and we’re still here. We want to be here at the start of 2019 too. We opposed the permanent wars of US empire back when the president was a Republican named Bush. Unlike most…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Validity and Usefulness of the Term “Black Misleadership Class”
04 Jan 2018
“It is both an actual and aspirational class, which ultimately sees its interests as tied to those of U.S. imperialism and its ruling circles.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Help Save BAR from Google, Trump, the Democrats and Their Spies
04 Jan 2018
“The whole of the ruling class is united in the campaign to squeeze the Left out of the web.”