| Black Agenda Report

Erica Caines
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
08 Jan 2020
Black adults must not allow “Hollywood to fill in the blanks” in our children’s understanding of Black history. “We are in a time where individualism is encouraged over community.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The Anti-War Movement is Fired Up!
08 Jan 2020
It is imperative that the antiwar movement grows exponentially very quickly and becomes a major force in 2020. “The US is losing imperial power and cannot continue to be a bully that violates international law.”
Mark P. Fancher
Beware Imperialist Gaslighting – Assassination is Not Legal
08 Jan 2020
The U.S. government has been in the business of killing foreign leaders for a long time – but it’s still a crime. “Trump has boasted of the Soleimani assassination and the corporate media has been his biggest cheerleader.”
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Ready for the Roaring ‘20s?
08 Jan 2020
This Orange Age outrage— Reich of the child’s cage Cancer at fourth stage— Rogue state’s rampage… is a tiny blip on capitalism’s Continuum… Its hypnotic ebb and flow, distilled decades of woe— decades of darkness, Slowly bend in scalding magma, bubbling up from below… Sorry for…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
In the Year Ahead, Both Perils and Prospects Exist for the American Left
08 Jan 2020
There may be two political parties in the United States, but there is only one ruling class agenda. “Will the Black struggle for self-determination and socialism regain its prominence in the U.S.?”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
John Kerry Did It
08 Jan 2020
The “it” being: put Republicans in power by allowing George Bush to steal the presidency for the second time, in 2004, with no assistance from Russians, Wikileaks or Jill Stein. “Greens did it, Russia did it, Wikileaks did it, and we’re all going to do it again.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
Sheep-Dogging on Steroids: The New Democratic Party Anti-War Activists
08 Jan 2020
The rhetoric of the Democratic “progressives” only gives cover to the ongoing criminality of the U.S. state and its commitment to permanent war – with congressional approval. “Progressives are not taking comprehensive anti-war positions and certainly have not embraced anti-imperialist positions.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Iran and the Need for Black Activism
08 Jan 2020
Black Americans, as perpetual targets of US lies and attacks, should be the first to reject Washington’s rationales for war with Iran. “The days of outspoken progressives in the Congressional Black Caucus are long gone.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump is a Criminal, But the Democrats Belong to the Same Mafia
09 Jan 2020
The Republicans and Democrats are united under the American imperial banner, and only differ on details of strategy to maintain Washington’s global domination. “None can be free of the scourge of war – the ultimate crime against humanity, from which all others flow – while the warmakers are in…
Stansfield Smith
The Coup in Bolivia: Lessons for our Movement
15 Jan 2020
The ruling class has the capacity to manufacture and implement a coup or a domestic wave of political repression almost off-the-shelf. “The corporate media can be a more sophisticated tool for regime change than the military.” The US engineered another coup, this time Bolivia, and again our…