| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Sanders vs the Endless Austerity Regime
11 Jul 2019
Bernie Sanders must very quickly get serious about building a grassroots movement-type politics on the ground that disrupts the corporate-managed pace, coverage and content of the primary season. “The corporate media have acted in near-unison to alternatively ignore or malign Sanders.”
Thomas C. Mountain
Africans Solving African Problems: Bringing Peace to Sudan
17 Jul 2019
The road to peace in the Horn of Africa once again ran through Eritrea, the socialist country the West loves to hate. “Credit must be given to those who deserve it, the leadership of Eritrea.”
Stephen Corry
Too Many Africans?
17 Jul 2019
To address “overpopulation,” the richer countries must do two things – consume less and stop stealing Africa’s resources. “Africa does not have anything like the overpopulation problem that England has.”
Bruce Katz
Israel’s Indispensable Service to Oil Thieves and Empire
17 Jul 2019
Israel began as a European colony and has remained interlocked with imperial power, unfailingly serving as the West’s beachhead in the Middle East. “Israel’s role would be to suppress pan-Arab nationalist movements that preached ‘Arab oil for the Arabs’ in defiance of Western ‘interests,’”…
Ken Morgan
The U.S. Economy Still Puts Blacks at the Bottom of the Barrel
17 Jul 2019
If this is a thriving economy, then the next crash is going to obliterate Black people, entirely. “For nearly every indicator, blacks cluster near or at the bottom – history endlessly repeating itself.”
Stansfield Smith
Bernie Sanders’ Present Fight against Corporate Rule vs. the Bernie of 1989
17 Jul 2019
Sanders used to preach that “we can’t tail after the Democrats,” but now he’s selling the pipedream of reforming the Democratic Party. “The Bernie Sanders campaign seeks to corral socialist sentiment inside the corporate Democrat Party just as the Trump campaign seeks to corral fascist…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kellie Jackson’s “Force and Freedom”
17 Jul 2019
Slavery was created by violence and the path to freedom in the US is never nonviolent. “I want readers to see black abolitionists as the founders and foot soldiers of their own movement.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ron Ridenour’s “The Russian Peace Threat”
17 Jul 2019
Seventy years of US savagery in the world prove the need for solidarity with all movements against repression, inequality, war and capitalism, “Che’s ‘new man’ (and woman) vision is what we need.”
Shea Howell
Detroit Targeted for Massive Facial Surveillance
17 Jul 2019
A Black elected police commissioner was manhandled at a public meeting for protesting a draconian facial recognition scheme. “Across the globe, from Ferguson to China, these technologies are being used to target activists.”
Gyasi Lake
There’s No Such Thing as a “Progressive Prosecutor” in a System Designed to Criminalize Blackness
17 Jul 2019
Incremental changes are treated as if they are touchdowns when they are just moving the chains. “We must be wary of a Democratic party trying to co-opt the left political messaging to placate radical demands of transformation.”