| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change – So Give Them No Choice
16 Jul 2020
An existential political crisis for the racial capitalist order will only happen when the left puts forward a viable political alternative.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement
09 Jul 2020
The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Protest and Power
02 Jul 2020
Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control
25 Jun 2020
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More
18 Jun 2020
Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and accep
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits
11 Jun 2020
Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Movement Gets BIG – and Its Enemies Reveal Themselves
04 Jun 2020
The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people’s willingness to confront power through the pol
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Blue Plague and Black Death
27 May 2020
George Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Indict and Punish the Perpetrators of Covid Mass Death
21 May 2020
Not just Trump, but the whole US ruling class must pay for the mass Covid death toll among Blacks, because only the ruling class has the power to systematically allocate life-death chances for whol
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Leftists Jump the Corporate Democratic Ship, Leaving Sanders Behind
14 May 2020
History may record that the corporate duopoly dike was finally broken in the Time of Plague, with the defection of Bernie’s former sheep from the Democratic Party.