| Black Agenda Report

Lautaro Rivara
“Poor Rich Haiti” or How Imperialists and Local Oligarchy Have Sought to Destroy Agriculture in Haiti
31 Mar 2021
The author unpacks the tired trope of “poor rich Haiti,” highlighting the role of foreign capital and local elites in the destruction of life in the countryside.
Arif Bulkan and Alissa Trotz
Oil Fuels Guyana’s Internecine Conflict
31 Mar 2021
Guyana’s historically oppressed peoples direct their hostility at each other while neo-imperial powers hide in plain sight and reap the country’s wealth.
Alexi Jones and Wendy Sawyer
New Data on Jail Populations: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
31 Mar 2021
The pandemic forced many police departments, courts and jails to take steps that reformers had been demanding for decades.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Establishment Role in Anti-Asian Bigotry
24 Mar 2021
Joe Biden is no better than Trump in advocating de facto white supremacy with his foreign policy, and corporate media fan the flames of anti-Chinese racism.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
New Global Alliance Defends UN Charter in Clear Rebuke of U.S. Imperialism
24 Mar 2021
The United States has long positioned its imperial ambitions as the definition of international law and rejected entirely the spirit and authority of the U.N. Charter.
The Editors, Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: A Draft Proposal for the Founding of the International Working Peoples Association, 1979
24 Mar 2021
The following is a manifesto in the full sense of the word; a Black anarchist’s proposal for a sweeping approach to a nation and world without capitalism.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
PIMP: Paper In Militarists’ Pockets (Business as usual…)
24 Mar 2021
$13 billion aircraft carriers, $10 pencils and $500 hammers, renamed “portable hand-held transcribing devices” and “impact fasteners;” so war-profiteer pimps—war
Tim Madigan
Remembering Tulsa
24 Mar 2021
In 1921 thousands of whites attacked the Black population of Tulsa, Oklahoma with machine guns, airplanes, fire and pure hatred, killing at least 300.
Kayla Hui
The Answer to Anti-Asian Racism Is Not More Policing
24 Mar 2021
More policing rarely results in justice for anyone, and only puts Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color (BIPOC), including Asian people, at risk for more violence.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jean Casimir’s, “The Haitians: A Decolonial History”
24 Mar 2021
The worldview animating Haitian masses today is leading to a social context ungovernable within the framework of prevailing economic neo-liberalism.