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Ken Morgan
Revisiting Black Nationalism and the National Question
24 Jan 2018
“Economic disparities, police brutality, inequalities et al. go together with capitalism.” I was privileged to learn from and work with Harry Haywood. Most if not all readers of the Black Agenda Report know his legacy and history in the black struggle. If not, please do check him out.
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Women’s March on the Pentagon to Confront the Bipartisan War Machine? An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
24 Jan 2018
“Since the Dems took control of the House in 2007, the antiwar movement has been pitiful.” AG: Cindy Sheehan, I understand that you’ve started organizing a Women’s March on the Pentagon. Why?
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Centrist Politics Are Ruling Class Politics, not Martin Luther King’s
24 Jan 2018
“Democrats have been a reliable source of fake progressivism and real imperial policy.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Robert Mercer Rules
24 Jan 2018
“An ultra-rich right winger put Trump in the White House and now controls the country’s political agenda.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
DACA Joins the Mad Rush to War
25 Jan 2018
“Measured in military dollars, the Democratic leadership is more warlike than the Trump administration.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging, Part 1 of 3
25 Jan 2018
The US left has a fundamental problem, perhaps the root of most of its other problems. That fundamental problem is that the US left is not organized as or led by any class conscious or class oriented formations. Union membership is somewhere around 5% of the workforce, and major unions have long…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Salute To Shift Holders! (Down With Boss Tweet!)
25 Jan 2018
He’s, obviously, not a New Yorker, riding trains 4 and 5 in the morning. Trains packed with hoodie-crowned; shuttered chocolate, mocha, peanut butter, caramel, coffee-colored faces— Lunch bucket UN—palpable power, Grabbing their last Zs, before Shifts Holding levers, running the city. He, obviously…
Richard Moser
Jackson Rising: At Last, a Real Strategic Plan
30 Jan 2018
“When the bubble bursts we will need a network of worker cooperatives and people’s assemblies to sustain us.” “Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality…. — Malcolm X Jackson Rising is the most important book I have read…
Horace G. Campbell
Hugh Masekela: No Room for Compromise
30 Jan 2018
“Up to the very end he was critical of the way in which the top leadership of the African National Congress had capitulated before international capital.”
Sampie Terreblanche
The Co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’
01 Feb 2018
After the ascendancy of Cyril Ramaphosa to the presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) last month, it is vital to understand deep structural barriers that prevent South Africa’s achievement of desperately needed socio-economic justice. The ideological shifts that took place in the ANC’s…