| Black Agenda Report

Gary Johnson
GOOD AND DEAD
04 Dec 2019
On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Killing of Fred Hampton by Chicago Police Chicago never an enlightened city has declared itself a sanctuary city to blunt federal predatory immigration policy and shrieks of a tweeter-in-chief inciting his base’s hatred of The Other
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Boss Tweet’s Blitzkrieg
04 Dec 2019
I wake in a cold sweat, scrambling for the internet— What salvoes were let loose while we slept? How badly Bombed is the safety net? What rights are left? What damage has the daily dose of …
Contributing Editor Ann Garrison
Millions Die in Congo While the UN Keeps the Peace
04 Dec 2019
The UN Peacekeeping Mission has been in Congo for 20 years without protecting the people or the peace. “Rwanda is responsible for what is going wrong in the peace in Congo!”
BAR Contributing Editor Danny Haiphong
Colin Kaepernick Shows that American Innocence is a White Supremacist Sport
04 Dec 2019
The Black struggle for dignity and self-determination will forever be criminalized as a problem by the white elite and their hirelings in the Black misleadership class. “We must hold Black servants of the American Empire accountable.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Liberals Love the Military
04 Dec 2019
Self-styled liberals believe they are a better class of people than Trump, but are bigger supporters of unjust wars than the so-called “deplorables.” “Liberals eagerly wait for a war they can believe in.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Booming” Economy Means More Bad Jobs and Faster Race to the Bottom
05 Dec 2019
For the past 30 years, no matter which party has been in power, the US economy has produced more and more “bad” jobs – because the Race to the Bottom is ruling class policy. “Whole sectors have become precarity zones.”
Lucas Koerner
How the Global North’s ‘Left’ Media Helped Paved the Way for Bolivia’s Right-Wing Coup
11 Dec 2019
So-called progressives in the US can find every wart in foreign governments, but are blind to Washington’s regime change crimes. “One ‘left’ outlet played down the reality of a coup d'etat, drawing false equivalences between the Morales government and the fascist right.”
Netfa Freeman
Abstract Leftism Leaves Bolivia and the Global South in Imperialist Crosshairs
11 Dec 2019
The phony US Left specializes in finding excuses to betray victims of US imperialism. “It apparently does not matter to liberals that the forced takeover in Bolivia is unconstitutional and US support for it is a flagrant violation of international law.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ana Maldonado, Pilar Troya Fernandez, and Vijay Prashad
A Letter to Intellectuals Who Deride Revolutions in the Name of Purity
11 Dec 2019
Critics on the left in North America and in Europe gave the Chavez and Morales governments no time to breathe. “Any attempt to fully transcend capitalism was constrained by the power of the bourgeoisie, which is now the source of counter-revolution.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adeline Masquelier’s “Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger”
11 Dec 2019
Young men in Niger meet at fadas to figure out what to do with their lives under uncaring global capitalism. “High unemployment and intensifying informalization are no longer specific to the Global South.”