Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Only a “Transformational” Electoral Politics is Useful
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
05 Jan 2021
🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Only a “Transformational” Electoral Politics is Useful

Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and 2016 Green Party vice presidential candidate, said electoral politics should be treated as a “strategic question” for the Black liberation movement, depending on its usefulness in putting forward “transitional demands.” The larger mission is to build “independent political formations” that “ultimately will arrive at a socialist transformation.” Baraka said organizers should avoid “bourgeois” electoral politics that fails to confront capitalism and “colonial” rule.

Black Alliance For Peace

Related Podcasts

Bombing of Iran
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the U.S. War on Iran
13 March 2026
The United States attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran began on February 28. Our guest provides analysis on this U.S.
BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025
14 November 2025
In this week’s segment, we hear about an international tribunal for Palestine, which will document and render a ruling on evidence of genocide in G
Venezuela
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Week of Action in Solidarity with Venezuela
14 November 2025
The U.S.

More Stories


  • Exclusive: How Haiti’s Assassination Plot Unraveled, Minute by Minute and Text by Text
    David Adams , Jake Johnston
    Exclusive: How Haiti’s Assassination Plot Unraveled, Minute by Minute and Text by Text
    10 May 2023
    Messages and texts from those suspected of the plot to assassinate Haitian president Jovenel Moise make for fascinating reading. One of them communicated with Ariel Henry, who was named Prime…
  • ‘Anti-Black’ Claim Raised About Cuba As Solidarity Activists Stopped at U.S. Border & Black Socialists Arraigned in United States for Collaborating with Russia
    Julie Varughese
    ‘Anti-Black’ Claim Raised About Cuba As Solidarity Activists Stopped at U.S. Border & Black Socialists Arraigned in United States for Collaborating with Russia
    10 May 2023
    Claims of anti-Black racism in revolutionary countries should be treated with great skepticism. This trope is used as a tool to target countries for regime change plots and other attacks. While in…
  • Witnessing Afro Cubans and Social Change
    Austin Cole
    Witnessing Afro Cubans and Social Change
    10 May 2023
    There cannot be any discussion of Cuban politics that does not include perspectives from the African descended population. There is much to learn from people who are living in a revolutionary process…
  • This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City
    Micah Herskind
    This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City
    10 May 2023
    Cop City is the culmination of years of "Atlanta Way" neo-liberalism intended to advantage corporate interests and affluent white people. Black people have been pushed out and those that remain live…
  • Erasure vs. Sumud: How the Nakba Came to Define the Collective Palestinian Identity
    Ramzy Baroud
    Erasure vs. Sumud: How the Nakba Came to Define the Collective Palestinian Identity
    10 May 2023
    The catastrophe for the Palestinian people began 75 years ago and their struggle against the apartheid state continues.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us