The Rulers are in Crisis

19 Jun 2017

The rulers of the U.S. face a “crisis of legitimacy,” said Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar and frequent contributor to Black Agenda Report. “All of the institutions of governing and ruling the people are being rejected by the people,” said Monteiro. This crisis exists in “all the major centers of global capitalism,” and demands that the left make “strategic decisions about how we move forward.”

More Stories

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025
11 Jul 2025
In this week’s segment, we discuss how the UK government protects Israel through terrorism statute lawfare, and media manipulation. But first, Donald Trump announced an early end to Temporary…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Haitian Communities Devastated by Efforts to End Temporary Protective Status
11 Jul 2025
The Donald Trump administration recently announced the end of Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for 500,000 Haitians currently living in the United States. TPS was first granted in 2010 after the…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
UK State Repression on Behalf of Israel
11 Jul 2025
Roger McKenzie is the international editor of the UK-based Morning Star, the only English-language socialist daily newspaper in the world. He joins us from Oxford to discuss how the UK supports…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
New York Times Joins a White Supremacist In Attacking Zohran Mamdani
09 Jul 2025
Zohran Mamdani, the choice of Democratic Party voters in New York City, is anathema to the billionaire class. So much so that the New York Times elevated the work of a white supremacist in an effort…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Even During Disaster, The Pittsburgh Courier, 1927
09 Jul 2025
“Neither disaster, catastrophe, nor calamity can take precedence … over the color-caste system.”