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Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Don't Look Up Reflects the Cynicism of Capitalist Decay, for Better and for Worse
05 Jan 2022
The controversial film offers insight into the crisis of the system but misses the mark in key areas.
Justin Hosbey, J.T. Roane
A Totally Different Form of Living: On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies
01 Dec 2021
This is a brief reflection on water, swamps, bayous, wetlands, and Black life in the United States, and the forms of freedom and racialized unfreedom that these ecologies have facilitated.
BAR Editors
COP26: Black Agenda Report Special Issue
17 Nov 2021
Black Agenda Report is giving special attention to the recent COP26 climate summit.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Climate Action Pretense at COP26
17 Nov 2021
Joe Biden’s presence at COP26 was a photo opportunity giving the impression that he is fighting the climate crisis. But the U.S.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Industrial Nations Value Capitalism Over People at Global Climate Conference
17 Nov 2021
Inaction on the climate crisis is to be expected when capital is valued more than humanity.
Monthly Review Online
COP26 Was a Failure But the People's Alternative Can Still Be a Success
17 Nov 2021
COP26 ended the way climate summits always do, with promises for change from countries which have every intention of keeping the status quo.
Rishika Pardikar
Behind the Scenes at COP26: Developing Countries Fume Over U.S. Pressure to Alter Climate Finance Terms
17 Nov 2021
Rich capitalist nations use a variety of means to escape paying compensation to the Global South for climate change damage. The outcome at COP26 was no different in this regard.
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.
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.
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.