| Black Agenda Report

A Discussion with Nick Brana
The Left Must Finally Break With the Democrats
13 Feb 2019
It is vitally important to create a mass-based and corporate-free party of working people. “The Democratic Party is so conservative that Pelosi is now left of center.”
Adom Getachew
When Jamaica Led the Postcolonial Fight Against Exploitation
13 Feb 2019
In the 1970s, a bloc of Third world states forced the UN to take seriously the unequal distribution of global wealth. “The New International Economic Order was conceived as the international corollary to the domestic projects of socialism.” This essay appears in Evil Empire and is adapted from…
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
13 Feb 2019
This week readers were eager to discuss anti-Russian war hysteria and the role of privatization in public education. Strong responses came for “Freedom Rider: Democrats Are the McCarthyites” and “Cory Booker Hates Public Schools.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kristian Williams’s “Our Enemies in Blue”
13 Feb 2019
Throughout their history the police have reliably served the interests of white supremacy. “While we may not be able to fix policing, it might be possible to abolish it.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kia Caldwell’s “Health Equity in Brazil”
13 Feb 2019
Policies and laws promoting equity and equality of any type are under severe attack now in Brazil. “Bolsonaro’s political ascendance has been very troubling.”
Lee Fang
Kamala Harris First Won Office As ‘Law and Order’ Candidate
13 Feb 2019
“Harris’s first campaign reflected familiar tactics in an era of booming mass incarceration.” “Harris attacked Hallinan as too weak and ineffective to keep communities safe from dangerous criminals.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
In the Crosshairs of the Washington Mafia: Venezuela and Julian Assange
13 Feb 2019
The DC Exceptional Mob is running amok, corrupting whole professions (journalism) and overthrowing sovereign nations (Venezuela). “The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Organization for Economic Cooperation are all part of the mob.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Will Shaun King Speak Up for Independent Media? Probably Not
13 Feb 2019
How can a guy that praises the CIA and the FBI claim to be following in the footsteps of Frederick Douglass? “King supports Corey Booker, a virtual Black Republican in the Democratic War Party.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Confronting the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
13 Feb 2019
Democrats may hate Trump, but they join in white supremacist solidarity with his aggression against the mostly non-white people of Venezeula. “It is accepted as normal that the U.S. and Europe have the right and, indeed, the responsibility to police the world.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Voters Used to Destroy Bernie Sanders
13 Feb 2019
The ever-rightward moving Democrats are using their most reliable constituency to thwart Sanders. “Sanders’ statements are carefully dissected and any words or phrases that might trigger black angst are amplified or even made up out of whole cloth.”