20 June 2019 — Black Agenda Report The Ruling Class Will Not Tolerate the Sanders-Led Assault on Austerity – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The whole point of the austerity project is to disempower workers and concentrate wealth at the top. The rulers will kill to keep that dream alive. Continue reading

13 June 2019 — Black Agenda Report How the Democratic Party Strangled Black Politics by Glen Ford Nothing changes on the electoral scene, and little at the grassroots level, unless the structure of capitalist hegemony over political discourse in the U.S. — the corporate duopoly — is broken. Continue reading

6 June 2019 — Black Agenda Report Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Alicia Garza and her crew conducted what they claim is the biggest survey of Black political opinion ever — but failed to ask a single question about foreign policy. Continue reading

31 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report We Can’t Have A Party of Our Own Because Poor People Can’t Be Trusted? – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Poor people shouldn’t try to build their own party in the U.S. We just can’t afford It, and can’t be trusted. Continue reading

25 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report The Battle For Ballot Access is a Century Old. It’s Time to Break it Open – Bruce A.Dixon A century ago, Republicans and Democrats passed ballot access restrictions to prevent socialists from getting on the ballot in the US. It’s time to organize to break those barriers. Continue reading

17 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in… Continue reading

9 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report Black Mothers Dying in US – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Only a social and economic transformation can lift Black America to a First World state of well-being. Black health requires Black Power. Continue reading

2 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report Black Voters Are Biden’s Polling Balloon. We Need to Bust It. – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Joe Biden enters the Democratic presidential race as front runner. Half his voters are black, a clear hangover from the Obama era. Continue reading

26 April 2019 — Black Agenda Report Why ADOS “Reparationists” Oppose Free Tuition and Student Debt Forgiveness – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor The latest foolishness from the ADOS “reparationists” exposes the real purpose of their shtick, to substitute reparations chatter for productive class analysis and organizing Continue reading

18 April 2019 — Black Agenda Report Is the Apartheid Colonial Settler State of Israel “Reparations” For Jews? ADOS Thinks So.  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor When ADOS leaders & followers make the ridiculous claim that the apartheid state of Israel is “reparations” for Jews they betray their own right wing and capitalist… Continue reading

11 April 2019 — Black Agenda Report A Reckoning for Al Sharpton and the Black Misleadership Class – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor With support for “socialism” rising, the political fate of Al Sharpton and the rest of the Democratic party’s Black corporate minions is in doubt — and they know it. Continue reading

4 April 2019 — Black Agenda Report Mass Manufacturers of Slander and Lies – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The U.S. has nothing to offer Africa but guns, drones and an extended half-life for the neocolonial order. Continue reading

28 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report Russiagate Implodes, Pleasing Trump But Leaving the Left in the Cold  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor  The “Deep State” escalated a dispute within the U.S. corporate electoral duopoly into a geopolitical crisis, an “attack on America” Continue reading

20 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report Reparations Means Global Social Transformation  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Reparations is not a token gesture of concern, apology or even solidarity; it seeks justice and redress of wrongs through the transformation of a people’s condition. Continue reading

14 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report ADOS Shrinks Reparations Politics to Fit the Narrow Horizon of Tribalism  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor ADOS views black American descendants of slaves as a tribe, deprecating solidarity, and ignoring empire and capitalism without whose elimination reparations are impossible anyway. Continue reading

7 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report Reparations Now? Maybe In Order To Get The Job Done It’s Time to Call It Something Else  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor While reparations for the descendants of slaves in the US is entirely morally justifiable, it’s an elusive goal. Untangling its psychological and moral baggage… Continue reading

21 February 2019 — Black Agenda Report Bernie Tries to Steal the Rich Man’s Party  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The plutocrats did not invest billions of dollars every election cycle in the Democratic Party to see it used as a tool of their disempowerment. Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris: The Fix is In  –… Continue reading