US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Police “Reform” = Counterinsurgency
03 Nov 2020
Attempts to “reform” the police through body cameras, so-called “community” policing and other such measures “all presume the continued presence of police” in oppressed communities, said Dy
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Billionaires’ Duopoly Wins on Tuesday
29 Oct 2020
Allegiance to the Democratic half of the duopoly – whether active or passive – is still allegiance to corporate rule, not a strategy for transformative change.
Howie Hawkins
Whatever Happened to Left Solidarity?
28 Oct 2020
In hopes of getting rid of Trump, progressives have followed Trump to the right.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
COVID-19 Exposes Economic Misery as U.S. Capitalism’s “New Normal”
28 Oct 2020
Neoliberal capitalism is incapable of containing the pandemic or facilitating an economic recovery for the masses.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bankrolling blu klux klans?
28 Oct 2020
Rhythms of red, white, blue ‘party’ lights flashing beneath screaming sirens; The rush of warm crimson drawing 2, 4, 6, 8, 10—and then some…
Ameer Hasan Loggins
We’re All Living in a Future Created by Slavery
28 Oct 2020
The carceral class is made up of persons of African descent who are systematically stigmatized as unfit for freedom and deserving of the dehumanization that comes with being incarcerated.
Ashton Rome
What the Political Realignment Suggest about the Prospects for Fascism
28 Oct 2020
The Democratic Party has seemingly accomplished the impossible – a revival of centrism in the midst of its collapse.
Erica Caines
Black Bolivia and the Socialist Electoral Triumph
28 Oct 2020
Indigenous and Afro-Bolivians spent every day resisting the coup to complete the socialist aspirations of their party.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
28 Oct 2020
This week you discussed the role of racism in foreign policy, Black America and the duopoly, and global elites’ plans for exploiting the Covid crisis.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Danielle Morgan’s “Laughing to Keep From Dying”
28 Oct 2020
There is nothing strange about Black folks laughing at the sheer immensity of ways we can die.