12 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
When Black Lives Matter chapters demand “abolition” and “defunding” of the police, rather than community control of the cops, they play into the hands of charlatans and misleaders on city councils and in the halls of Congress.
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10 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report
with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Black August” Honors Captives of Armed Struggle / Black Brazilians Hit Hard by Covid-19 / Insurance Industry Vital to US Slavery / Midwives Could Help Stem Maternal and Infant Death Toll
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5 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
When it comes to China, Democracy Now, Jacobin, The Nation and others on the imperial-minded US ‘left” are allies of white supremacy.
“The racism that undergirds the New Cold War against China is nothing new.”
30 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers.
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27 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
The Covid-19-sparkd global economic depression is “a singular event in the history of world capitalism,” said Duboisian scholar Anthony Monteiro. “It might be the crisis that so disabled the world capitalist system that it will never be the same.” What’s different from previous crises is, this time, “there is no capitalist nation that can save capitalism the way the US did after World War Two,” said Monteiro. “This is like a crisis unto death.”
23 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Most American leftists are incoherent on the term fascism, and Democrats have utterly destroyed the word’s meaning.
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20 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
The Historical Quest for a Black Nation / Move 9 are Free – Mumia is Next / Maroons As Movement Role Models
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Thanks to the New African Independence Movement of the 1970s, today’s Democratic politicians are discussing reparations for Black Americans, said Edward Onaci, a professor of history at Ursinus College. Onaci is author of the book, “Free the Land: The Republic of New Africa and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State.”
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16 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
An existential political crisis for the racial capitalist order will only happen when the left puts forward a viable political alternative.
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13 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
9 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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.
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6 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
George Floyd Protests Were Result of Years of Organizing / AFRICOM Enforces US Colonial Project / Celebrating the “Father of Black Liberation Theology” / “Kwaito” Music Moves South African Youth Continue reading
2 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams.
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