10 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report
Barber Sermon on Militarism Reveals Philosophical & Political Limitations of the Poor Peoples Campaign
– Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The PPC is the voice of the Institutional Church in the US. It pinpoints immoral policies and people as root causes of war, empire, militarism and austerity, refuses to admit the existence of capitalism as the problem or socialism as the solution.
Trump Wages Economic War on the Planet
– Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Donald Trump thinks he’s embarked on a “signature policy” of his own on Iran, but it’s really Netanyahu’s show.
Freedom Rider: Trump and Israeli Collusion
– Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Ultimately Israel wants to instigate an American attack on Iran and a Trump presidency is their best chance to make that happen.
Why Is Former Black Panther Chip Fitzgerald Still Behind Bars?
– Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Chip Fitzgerald’s lawyer explains why longest-serving Black Panther political prisoner has agreed to wait a few more years before asking for parole
The case for an independent Left party: From the bottom up
Howie Hawkins
If the 13 million votes received by self-styled “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries accomplished nothing else positive, it put the questions of socialism and independent working-class politics up for public discussion.
Why Michelle Wolf Angered the US Ruling Class So Much
Danny Haiphong, BAR contributor
“The so-called ‘anti-Trump’ opposition is only concerned with critiquing the president so long as its relationship with the White House
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DNC Suit Endangers Press Freedoms “If the DNC can sue Wikileaks for economic espionage, then why can’t they sue The New York Timesor The Interceptfor reporting on” purloined emails, said Chip Gibbons
Rev. Pinkney Exonerated, Set Free “Nobody ever defeated these people,” but “we’re going to come together and win this war — it’s goin’ down,” declared comapny town Benton Harbor Black activist Rev. Edward Pinkney.
ANC Tried to Purge Winnie Mandela Winnie Mandela, the political activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela who died last month at age 81, “became a target for her unwavering support of the ideas contained in the Freedom Charter,”
Nationwide Prison Strike Set for August 21 – September 9 The death of 7 inmates in fighting at South Carolina’s Lee correctional facility “is an indictment on the nation as a whole,” said Brother Dee, of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak…
“Rest in Power”: Stephon Clark and Black Self-Defense, Part I
Tryon P. Woods
“Policing precedes law and literally creates it as it goes along.”
In South Africa, channelizing Marx Towards Building a United Front
Musawenkosi Cabe
“The union understands that it will have to go beyond theory and mobilize the working class.”
There is a Structural Crisis of Capitalism
Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M.
“Capitalism has become an “obsolete social system.”
The New Dark Age 
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