| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: How to Remember Lynching
02 May 2018
“Lynch law is still practiced today by police across the country.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Blues For Boss Tweet (and $cammany Haul)
02 May 2018
Called it ‘Stormy Sunday—’ Monday was more Mad Called it ‘Stormy Sunday—’ Monday was more Mad Mass murder worldwide— Caracas to Baghdad… Missiles flew on Friday— Saturday he went out to putt Missiles flew on Friday— Saturday he went out to putt War House on Wednesday— Another 1% tax cut… Bombing…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bill Cosby Should Have Been Denounced by Black America Long Ago
02 May 2018
The following article was authored by Glen Ford when he was editor of The Black Commentator. Bill Cosby’s Confused Notions of ‘Responsibility’ The Black Commentator, June 3, 2004
Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M.
There is a Structural Crisis of Capitalism
09 May 2018
“Capitalism has become an “obsolete social system.” A Marxist thinker of profound originality and theoretical innovation, Samir Amin continues to intellectually equip us to comprehend, analyse and critique the “obsolete” nature of present-day capitalism, the unequal North-South divide between…
Musawenkosi Cabe
In South Africa, channelizing Marx Towards Building a United Front
09 May 2018
“The union understands that it will have to go beyond theory and mobilize the working class.” “Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever expanding union of workers.”– Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Tryon P. Woods
“Rest in Power”: Stephon Clark and Black Self-Defense, Part I
09 May 2018
“Policing precedes law and literally creates it as it goes along.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Why Michelle Wolf Angered the US Ruling Class So Much
09 May 2018
“The so-called ‘anti-Trump’ opposition is only concerned with critiquing the president so long as its relationship with the White House remains relatively stable.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump and Israeli Collusion
09 May 2018
“Trump is the one true believer in Israeli’s right to reign supreme in its region and in command of American foreign policy.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Why Is Former Black Panther Chip Fitzgerald Still Behind Bars?
09 May 2018
“The good news is that we don't have to wait the full five years.”
Howie Hawkins
The case for an independent Left party: From the bottom up
10 May 2018
...Democrats may replace the irrationalities and racist revanchism of Trump, but they won’t replace the austerity capitalism and militaristic imperialism to which the Democratic Party is committed...