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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.
  • 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.

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