| Black Agenda Report

Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
25 Mar 2020
This week the Democratic Party and the failures of US healthcare were on your mind.
Russell Rickford
Black Politics, Class Struggle and the Illusion of Centrism
25 Mar 2020
Black Democratic Party operatives seek to camouflage class antagonisms among African Americans and to equate racial progress with the feeble policies of “diversity and inclusion.” “Black poor and laboring folk need to escape the clutches of Democratic Party hucksters while restoring their own…
Black Alliance For Peace
Coronavirus, Militarism and the End of an Illusion
25 Mar 2020
People are waking people up to the fact that the US state and government does not belong to them but to a capitalist class that is only looking out for itself. “The ‘sheltering in place’ order is starting to look like a convenient tool for the state to manage the growing frustration, fear and…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Chinese Disease?
25 Mar 2020
He didn’t say Chinese debt, did he? He didn’t say Chinese pharmaceuticals, did he? He didn’t say Chinese phone, did he? He didn’t say Chinese computer, did he? He didn’t say Chinese pen, did he? He didn’t say Chinese tie, did he? He didn’t say Chinese martial arts muscled men guarding his dumb body…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Can COVID-19 Take Down NATO?
25 Mar 2020
The Pentagon insisted on going ahead with provocative NATO war games near Russia’s borders, despite the coronavirus epidemic, but Germany pulled its forces out and closed its roads to troop movements. “The virus will spread on the more than 800 US bases strategically scattered around the globe,…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The U.S. is a Failed State, and COVID-19 Proves it
25 Mar 2020
The United States’ capitalist and imperialist economy cannot provide a modicum of social welfare to its people and has been in perpetual war with Black Americans and Indigenous Peoples since its formation. “COVID-19 proves that the United States’ war on the world is a drag on humanity.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Revolutionary Change and COVID-19
25 Mar 2020
The genie has escaped from the bottle, revealing the deep injustices and cruelties that are embedded in US capitalism and its warped relationship to the peoples it rules, and the world. “COVID-19 is an opportunity to demand change while the people are paying attention to the crisis.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time of Plague and Meltdown: Mass Murder by Corporate Duopoly
26 Mar 2020
The shrinking of the public health sector is a capitalist crime, abetted by the two corporate parties. “There is now no possibility of avoiding many tens of thousands of deaths due to a shortage of equipment, beds and health care personnel.”
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
On Being Black, Southern And Rural In The Time Of COVID-19
01 Apr 2020
Elders and already sick folks are at risk down South, the Blackest region of the nation with the worst health care. “Black Southerners are once again in this nation’s peripheral vision—even as the global pandemic threatens to devastate our communities.”
Alan MacLeod
IMF Conditions Emergency COVID-19 Loan to Venezuela on Regime Change
01 Apr 2020
The IMF refused a COVID–19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan Guaidó. “The country has nevertheless been showered with help from its allies, especially Cuba and China.”