| Black Agenda Report

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INTERVIEW: Amy Jacques Garvey, 1973
24 May 2023
In one of the last interviews before her death, Amy Jacques Garvey provides a powerful riposte to those contemporary revisionists that would seek to dismiss the power of the UNIA and Garvey movement…
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FACT SHEET: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, 1967
17 May 2023
Do you know that the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) published a fact sheet in 1967 detailing the truth about the history of Zionist, British, and U.S. aggression against the…
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ESSAY: British Imperialism in the West Indies, George Padmore, 1938
10 May 2023
In 1938, Pan-Africanist George Padmore called for the West Indian toiling masses to fight against British imperialism and for self-determination. Almost a century later, the Caribbean still suffers,…
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SPEECH: “I’ll Be Damned if I Go Back to Work Under Those Conditions!” Lucy E. Parsons, May 1, 1930
03 May 2023
A 1930 speech by Black anarchist and labor organizer, Lucy Parsons, recalls the radical origins of May Day.
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ESSAY: The Struggle for the Leninist Position on the Negro Question in the United States, Harry Haywood, 1933
26 Apr 2023
On the 153th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin, we present Harry Haywood’s theoretical work on imperialism, capitalism, and Black self-determination which emphasizes the importance of Lenin…
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MANIFESTO: A Call to Workers and Peasants of Curacao, 1932
19 Apr 2023
Reparations for slavery? What about imperialism? A 1932 statement on Dutch imperialism as the exploiter of the masses of Curaçao suggests why.
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SPEECH: Forge Negro-Labor Unity for Peace and Jobs, Paul Robeson, 1950
12 Apr 2023
Paul Robeson’s 1950 speech to the delegates of the National Labor Conference for Negro Rights should remind us that there is no Black liberation struggle without the Black working masses.
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ESSAY: New Creation or Familiar Death? An Open Letter to Black Students in the North: Vincent Harding, 1969
05 Apr 2023
Vincent Harding’s reflections on the expansion of Black Studies in the 1960s offers an ominous warning on the hiring of Black faculty and administrators today.
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INTERVIEW: Randall Robinson: Third World Advocate, 1983
29 Mar 2023
Remembering Randall Robinson: Black internationalist, anti-imperialist, and friend of Haiti.
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ESSAY: Currency Crisis in the West, 1965
22 Mar 2023
A 1965 article from Kwame Nkrumah’s journal The Spark highlights the role of monetary policy – and the US dollar – as an instrument of imperialism and neocolonial rule.