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

Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
06 Apr 2020
🖨️ Print Article

Cooperation Jackson, based in Jackson, Mississippi, issued the call and list of demands to protect the people from both the virus and disaster capitalism. “The society that emerges from this crisis is going to be different,” said Cooperation Jackson spokesman Kali Akuno. “This could be good or bad. We’re not going back to what was.”

disaster capitalism

Related Podcasts

Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 6, 2020
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 6, 2020
06 April 2020
Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
Students May Strike for "Social Welfare" During Crisis
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Students May Strike for "Social Welfare" During Crisis
06 April 2020
Semassa Boko, a student activist and PhD candidate at the University of California at Irvine, wrote an article on the concept of a
Working People Must Build Solidarity in Resistance
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Working People Must Build Solidarity in Resistance
06 April 2020
The general strike is “extremely promising” because “it is the surest way that workers have to protect their own health, since obviously the state

More Stories


  • Victory for DC Tenants in Catholic Church-Owned Buildings
    Yasmina Mrabet
    Victory for DC Tenants in Catholic Church-Owned Buildings
    24 Jul 2019
    Tenants fight back and win in the city with the nation’s highest rate of gentrification, by far.
  • The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti
    Seth Donnelly and Judith Mirkinson
    The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti
    24 Jul 2019
    The Lasalin massacre was designed to punish and destroy a neighborhood long known as a stronghold of the grassroots opposition.
  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 22, 2019
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 22, 2019
    23 Jul 2019
    Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 22, 2019 Reparations Demand: End Capitalism
  • Trump’s Message: US is White Man’s Country
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Trump’s Message: US is White Man’s Country
    23 Jul 2019
    Donald Trump’s racist attacks on immigrants and “The Squad” are designed to tell his base that the US is a White Man’s Country and he is the president who’s going to keep it that way,” said Black A
  • Colonialism is What’s Wrong With Puerto Rico
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Colonialism is What’s Wrong With Puerto Rico
    23 Jul 2019
    Progressive Puerto Ricans hope the mass protests that have rocked the colonized island will result in more than just the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosello, said Daniel Vila
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us