| Black Agenda Report

Pascal Robert
Are Black People the Crash Test Dummies for Democrats?
10 Nov 2021
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: David Lester’s Book “Prophet Against Slavery”
10 Nov 2021
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Build Back Better Street Heat- Shoe Leather Legislators-Pavement Policymakers
10 Nov 2021
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
On American Patriotism: A Marxist Polemic
10 Nov 2021
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Abyssinia’s War and What Comes Next. Marcus Garvey, January, 1937
10 Nov 2021
When Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, the Black World rallied in support and solidarity. Marcus Garvey argued that the Black World was misguided and mistaken -- and asserted that Haile Selassie was a fraud.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as Existential Threats to the US
10 Nov 2021
Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to US class warfare.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
U.S. Threatens Regime Change in Nicaragua
10 Nov 2021
Nicaragua has been a target of U.S. aggressions since the 1850s. The Biden administration’s attack on the newly elected government is the latest chapter in a long and sordid history. Eyewitness accounts of the electoral process reveal the manipulations and lies concocted by the U.S. and its…
Basav Sen
We’re About to Pass Up a Generational Opportunity to Stem the Climate Crisis
17 Nov 2021
The Build Back Better program isn't just just inadequate on climate. It will have disastrous consequences if there is no active mass movement to counter its provisions. This article originally appeared in In These Times and was produced in partnership with Foreign Policy In Focus.
Issa Shivji
Let a Hundred Socialist Flowers Bloom: A Conversation with Issa Shivji
17 Nov 2021
In this extensive interview, socialist activist and writer Issa Shivji discusses the peasantry, capitalist development and socialism. In a discussion with Freedom Mazwi he argues that those who predicted the end of history, have been proven woefully wrong. Capitalism and the planet are in deep…
Steve D. Whitaker
So Said, Not So Easily Done
17 Nov 2021
The island nations of the Caribbean are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Their governments and people need action from those countries with the power to stop the impending catastrophe. This article originally appeared in Tenement Yaad Media.