| Black Agenda Report

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Oooh, what a lil’ Movement can do…
08 Jul 2020
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Oooh, oooh… Oooh, oooh… Oooh, oooh… Oooh, oooh…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The State and White supremacy: The Inextricable Link
08 Jul 2020
The demand for “justice” by the public had the ironic result of re-legitimizing the state as an institution that could in fact render justice – but only an empowered people can establish a just order. “It is the settler state, and the corrupt colonial/capitalist system and the interests that it…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Beware of Right Deviations That Have Emerged from the Three-Headed Crisis of US Imperialism
08 Jul 2020
Libertarianism, like all capitalist ideologies, is bound with white supremacy. “Mass characterization of the partial ‘lockdowns’ in cities across the U.S. as ‘medical martial law’ deflected from the very real dangers of the U.S.-response to COVID-19.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Police Defunding Con Game
08 Jul 2020
Cutting police budgets without establishing public control over their behavior doesn’t solve the problem, and invites politicians to shuffle budget numbers around like a three-card monte swindle. “False friends display window dressing and treachery.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement
09 Jul 2020
The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power. “Defunding the police – inevitably, in practice – is an immersion in Democratic Party budgetary dickering that legitimizes the imposition of the…
Lauren Smith
Truth + Justice = Green Party’s Trailblazing World Peace Platform
15 Jul 2020
With ballot access in most states and a comprehensive new program for world peace, the Green’s national ticket is ready to battle the oligarchs’ duopoly. “The fallacy that the Greens are a one-trick pony environmental group must be dispelled.”
Look Left Staff
Ajamju Baraka on Race, Class and Protest in the United States
15 Jul 2020
Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka urged vigilance against US “attempts to control the narrative” of the Black Lives Matter movement. “They were scared to death of young black, white and brown people engaged in resistance.”
Riva Enteen
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Dump the Democrats
15 Jul 2020
The Democrats are likely to put forward a Black woman prosecutor to legitimize the mass incarceration plague that Joe Biden helped inflict on Black America. “Until we accept that the Democrats will never deliver, we will not look at alternatives.”
Mike Elk
How Black and Brown Workers Are Redefining Strikes in the Digital COVID Age
15 Jul 2020
White labor leaders are failing to understand non-traditional organizing that has developed from viral social media movements. “On July 20 Black Lives Matters activists intend to hold strikes and work stoppages in more than 25 cities.” During George Floyd’s funeral on June 9th, Black…
Kathryn Bedecarré
Storming the Bastille: #BlackLivesMatter, “Allies” and the Fear of Black Revolt
15 Jul 2020
Does the belatedness and ubiquity/banality of allyship echo an anxiety about the enormous restraint that African Americans have exercised? “What is the difference between a yard sign that says BLM and a yard sign that says ‘Assata is welcome here?”