| Black Agenda Report

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…
David Sheen
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld boosts Israel’s “shoot to kill” fantasy tours
01 Feb 2018
Jerry Seinfeld drew criticism earlier this month when it emerged that while in Israel to perform in Tel Aviv, the famous comedian visited an air force base and took his family to a tourist attraction in the occupied West Bank for ideological and military instruction. Caliber 3, the Israeli firm…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
How Donald Trump Rode in on “Dark Money”
01 Feb 2018
“It wasn’t the Russians that brought us Trump, but the usual suspects: private equity and hedge funds bandits.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda and the War on Terror A Book Review
01 Feb 2018
Helen Epstein’s new book Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda and the War on Terror is dense with detailed and fascinating accounts of events in Ugandan history and politics and those of neighboring nations. I’m familiar with much of it, but there’s also much I hadn’t known, some I disagree with, and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Stop the Immigration Police State
01 Feb 2018
Lukasz Niec is a Polish born green card holder and Wisconsin physician. He is now held in immigration detention because of juvenile crimes and adult interactions with police which didn’t result in convictions. Despite the minor nature of his offenses he is deportable. But it must be pointed out…