| Black Agenda Report

Patrick Bond
South Africa Suffers Capitalist Crisis Déjà Vu
09 Jan 2019
The old guard of South Africa’s ruling party put on new clothes last year, and a new party of the working class finally made its debut.
Teodrose Fikre
The Diversity Hustle
09 Jan 2019
A merry-go-round that has different colors and genders of jackasses and elephants is pure deception. “Putting new mannequins in window displays and keeping policies intact does everything to perpetuate fraudulence and does nothing to fix the underlying problems.”
Stansfield Smith
Is Russia Imperialist?
09 Jan 2019
Let’s examine Russia’s actual role and status in the world, to determine if Moscow is really the seat of an imperial state. “Russia plays very little part in the quintessential imperialist activity: the export of capital to the periphery and the extraction of profit from developing countries’ labor…
Ellen Brown
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
09 Jan 2019
A universal income program can help correct the debt bubble problem without fear of “overheating” the economy. “It could actually be funded year after year without driving up taxes or prices.”
R. Divya Nair
The Influence Of Gandhian Socialism on Du Bois and King
09 Jan 2019
Two great icons of 20th century Black struggle found a valuable resource in Gandhi and his movement for national liberation. “Du Bois recognized that Gandhi’s greatest gift was his devotion to the study and resolution of the great social evils of poverty, violence, and colonial oppression.”
Jason Hickelby
How Britain Stole $45 Trillion From India And Lied About It
09 Jan 2019
British colonizers turned a scam for defrauding peasants into a parasitical relationship that made England rich and impoverished a subcontinent. “$45 trillion is 17 times more than the total annual gross domestic product of the United Kingdom today.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Eunsong Kim’s “gospel of regicide”and Juno Salazar Parreñas’ “Decolonizing Extinction”
09 Jan 2019
Our authors contemplate the “antiblack horizon” in Asian American imaginaries, and orangutans’ relationship to colonialism and white supremacy. In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Eunsong Kimand Juno Salazar Parreñas.…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: "Mia Mingus”
09 Jan 2019
Prison abolition and reform are compatible “when reform is done in service of abolition." “State violence and intimate violence are deeply connected.” In this feature, we ask abolitionists a few questions about their work. This week’s featured activist is Mia Mingus.Mingus is a writer, educator and…
Roy S. Johnson
Angela Davis “Stunned” at Award Revocation, But Still Coming to Birmingham
09 Jan 2019
Davis joins a long list of scholars and activists who have been censored in efforts to silence debate on Israeli apartheid. “My long-term support of justice for Palestine was at issue.” Activist, poet, academic and writer Angela Davis says she was “stunned” to learn last Saturday that the…
Paul Buchheit
By the Best Definition, the Poverty Rate Should Be Tripled
09 Jan 2019
If measured by 1960s yardsticks, today’s US poverty rates are three times higher than officially recognized. “The United Nations describes the U.S. as a nation that is near the bottom of the developed world in safety net support and economic mobility.”