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About Ajamu Baraka

Ajamu Baraka is the national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and was the 2016 candidate for vice president on the Green Party ticket. Baraka serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC). He is an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report and contributing columnist for Counterpunch. He was recently awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial 2019 Peace Prize and the Serena Shirm award for uncompromised integrity in journalism.
  • The Intercept (Photo illustration: Elise Swain/The Intercept; Photos: Getty Images)

    Commemorations of the attack on Iraq March 20th and Libya March 19th reaffirm that the U.S./EU/NATO axis of domination remains the greatest threat to International peace on our Planet

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 22, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Iraq and Libya were both targeted by the U.S. in the month of March. The anniversaries of these war crimes must be commemorated, and the nature of the US/EU/NATO war machine must be understood.

  • Malcolm X Speaks in Harlem in June 1963 (Photo: AP)

    Why embracing anti-colonialism made Malcolm a marked man

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 22, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Malcolm X was a legendary revolutionary who is still loved by millions of people. The anniversary of his assassination is an opportunity to reflect on his impact.

  • Zelensky laughs

    The Ukrainian Solidarity Network: The highest stage of White Western social imperialism

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 18, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Ukraine conflict was caused by the U.S. backed right wing coup in 2014 and the duplicity of Europeans who claimed to be working for peace. Anyone who supports these actions but claims leftist credentials must be challenged.

  • Mural in Caracas, Venezuela (Photo: Erik Cleves Kristenson)

    The crisis of Western imperialism and the imperative of war and repression

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 30, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The world as we know it must change. Humanity cannot survive under imperialist and capitalist structures.

  • Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron wore the black sun insignia used by Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalioon

    The new White supremacist consensus, Part 2: shootings in Buffalo solidify the consensus

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 18, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The latest mass shooter in Buffalo, New York was clearly a racist, and identified with Ukrainian and other neo-Nazis. But white supremacy has a stronger hold on European and U.S. society than is commonly acknowledged. The avowed racist is not the only problem.

  • William Barber II quotes | Quotes of famous people1,183 × 904 Quotes of Famous People William Barber II quotes | Quotes of famous people

    The poor people’s campaign and the moral dilemma of liberalism

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 4, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The demands for justice at home and abroad must not be sacrificed on the altar of what is called pragmatism. The false choices presented by liberalism can undermine the movement altogether.

  • A march of the Azov Battalian, Svoboda, and other far-right radical groups in Kiev, October 14, 2017. (Photo: Reuters / Gleb Garanich)

    A new consensus on Whiteness?

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 20, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Biden administration and corporate media cover up the existence of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine. They are disappeared from the official narrative in order to get public buy-in for U.S. policy.

  • New York City protest, 2017. (Photo: Reuters)

    War and the challenge of human rights in the United States and beyond

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 23, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The U.S. justifies wars of aggression in the name of human rights. The term has no meaning domestically either, as the people’s needs are subordinated to those of the ruling class.

  • Azov Battalion in Kyiv Photo: Sopa Images / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty

    What does it have to do with Black folks?

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 5, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The worldview of liberals usually ends at the borders of the U.S. settler-state until they are mobilized by the oligarchy to provide ideological cover for the latest imperialist intrigue. This is as true for the liberal Black “misleadership” class as it is for Euro-American liberals.

  • Malcolm X quote

    People centered human rights and the Black radical tradition

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 7, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    International Human Rights Day is December 10. On that day in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was promulgated as the first in a series of covenants, treaties, and legal interpretations that would make up the post-war human rights framework.

  • COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures

    COP26: greenwashing and Plutocratic misadventures

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 17, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    COP26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern colonial and capitalist states most responsible for creating the climate crisis are unwilling to place people before profits in order to address the planet’s looming ecological collapse and humanitarian catastrophe.

  • Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance

    Class warfare and socialist resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as existential threats to the U.S.

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 10, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to U.S. class warfare.

  • an artists depiction of 'the white man's burden' - a racist rationalization for imperialism

    The Western left’s collaboration with the Western bourgeoisie

    Originally published: Hood Communist on September 9, 2021 (more by Hood Communist)  |

    Changes in historical conditions can elevate a secondary contradiction to a primary, and antagonistic contradiction, in an instant.

  • From Palestine to Colombia: The End of the White World Colonial/Capitalist Project?

    From Palestine to Colombia: The end of the White world colonial/capitalist project?

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 12, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Despite the quickening decline of the “West,” the U.S. and its junior partners in imperialism are determined to hold humanity hostage to terminal capitalist greed and violence.

  • Murder of Daunte Wright Ruined Derek Chauvin Show Trial

    Murder of Daunte Wright ruined Derek Chauvin show trial

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 15, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Black-murder-by-cop next door to Minneapolis shows the world the dehumanization that is built into the white supremacist DNA of settler-colonialism will continue to produce crimes against our collective humanity.

  • The US Has Long Led the Assault on Human Rights

    The U.S. has long led the assault on human rights

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 2, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The historical record on U.S. human rights policies, both domestic and international, is one of hypocrisy, deceit, and denigration.

  • No to the New Cold war with China

    No to the New Cold war with China

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 29, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The African radical, anti-imperialist, internationalist movement, sees the Chinese state and the Chinese people much differently than the U.S. state and its ruling class.

  • Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights

    Coronavirus and the crisis of African American human rights

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 15, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    With the overwhelming evidence that the capitalist system is fundamentally antithetical to the realization of human rights, including what should be an elementary right—access to healthcare—the presidency of Donald J. Trump has been a godsend for the capitalist rulers.

  • As Biden Racks up Delegates the Crisis Among Black Folks and Democrat Party Deepens

    As Biden racks up delegates the crisis among Black folks and Democrat Party deepens

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 12, 2020 by Ajamu Baraka (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Slick operatives among the Black Misleadership Class have made an electoral pact with big capitalists that is totally against the interests of the Black working class.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Post-Political Post-Aesthetics
    Marc James Léger Picasso in Palestine

    The universal premises of culture and politics have been subject to criticism from the moment that Enlightenment theories emerged. In postmodern theory, radical skepticism replaces judgement and makes universal speculation seem like either an absurd game or a violent imposition.

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  • The Puzzle of Financialization
    Harry Magdoff Monthly Review Volume 45, Number 5 (October 1993)

    In this reprise from October 1993, Henry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy ask: “Isn’t there anyone around here who understands how this capitalist system works?”

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