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About Glen Ford

Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford [at] BlackAgendaReport.com.
  • Glen Ford wrote many powerful essays, but his unflinching analysis of the history of the holiday we call Thanksgiving endures 20 years after he wrote it.

    The end of American Thanksgivings: A cause for Universal rejoicing

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

    Humanity cannot tolerate a 21st Century superpower, much of whose population perceives the world through the eyes of 17th Century land and flesh bandits.

  • Biden, the Emcee at the Billionaires’ Ball

    Biden, the emcee at the Billionaires’ Ball

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 26, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Lords of Capital use periods of crisis to devour the less-rich and reshape the political economy to their further advantage, so that the Joe Bidens of the world jump higher and come quicker when summoned.

  • Corporate Democrats Want to Run Against Trump-like Republicans Forever

    Corporate Democrats want to run against Trump-like Republicans forever

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 5, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Whoever wins the Electoral College, race-based politics will continue to allow the corporate rulers to ignore public demands for relief from the Race to the Bottom and endless war.

  • "You can't have capitalism without racism." Source: Peter James Hudson on “The African Origins of Racial Capitalism.”

    You can’t understand capitalism without race

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 18, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The centrality of race in the devilment of capitalism continues to be resisted by “the sort of hardline, orthodox folks who only look at class, alongside the sort of liberals and so-called racial multiculturals who have the misconception that race no longer matters,” said Charisse Burden-Stelly, professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College.

  • U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, speaks during a news conference unveiling policing reform and and equal justice legislation at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 8, 2020. Democratic lawmakers released a broad police overhaul bill hoping to turn the energy of the nationwide Black Lives Matter demonstrations into concrete legal changes that could make it easier to prosecute police abuse and misconduct. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    The Black Caucus and the dictatorship of (White) capital

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 30, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers.

  • Who is the Most Dangerous Fascist?

    Who is the most dangerous fascist?

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 23, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Most American leftists are incoherent on the term fascism, and Democrats have utterly destroyed the word’s meaning.

  • Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement

    Don’t let the Democratic Party bury the movement

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 9, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    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.

  • Protest and Power

    Protest and power

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

    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.

  • Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control

    Yes, defund the cops–and put them under community control

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 25, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces.

  • Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More

    Community control of the police – and a whole lot more

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 18, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and acceptable.

  • The Movement Gets BIG – and Its Enemies Reveal Themselves / Photo: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms

    The Movement gets BIG–and its enemies reveal themselves

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 4, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    When things seem like they’re coming apart, we need to ask: for whom? it may be that things are finally coming together. 

  • The Blue Plague and Black Death

    The blue plague and black death

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 27, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    George Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion.

  • Leftists Jump the Corporate Democratic Ship, Leaving Sanders Behind

    Leftists jump the Corporate Democratic ship, leaving Sanders behind

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 14, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    History may record that the corporate duopoly dike was finally broken in the Time of Plague, with the defection of Bernie’s former sheep from the Democratic Party.

  • Resistance Growing to Covid-Capitalism

    Resistance growing to covid-capitalism

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 9, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital–like the killer virus–cares for nothing but reproducing itself.

  • Late-Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis- Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions

    Late-stage imperial omni-crisis: Death by virus and internal contradictions

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 19, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    “The system…is failing. Let’s admit it,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on March 14 at a White House briefing.

  • Das Kapital, Marx

    Marx’s ‘Capital’ as a literary experience

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 10, 2020 by Tiana Reid (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Columbia University PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature Tiana Reid finds that her students benefit from reading volume one of Karl Marx’s “Capital.” “There are so many literary wsys to read it, which I don’t think blunt the more radical political reading,” said Reid, who conducts research in Black Studies, Marxism and feminism. 

  • Fear Pervades Black Politics, and Makes Us Agents of Our Own Oppression

    Fear pervades Black politics, and makes us agents of our own oppression

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 5, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Black youth see the truth, and will act on it, we are certain.

  • Bloomberg Wants to Swallow the Democrats and Spit Out the Sandernistas Glen Ford, BAR executive editor 20 Feb 2020

    Bloomberg wants to swallow the Democrats and spit out the Sandernistas

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 20, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    If, somehow, Bernie Sanders is allowed to win the nomination, Michael Bloomberg and other plutocrats will have created a Democratic Party machinery purpose-built to defy Sanders–as nominee, and even as president.

  • Bloomberg Becoming Oligarch-in-Chief of Democratic Party

    Bloomberg becoming Oligarch-in-Chief of Democratic Party

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 6, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    If Sanders wins the nomination, Michael Bloomberg and his filthy rich brethren are already preparing to fund and erect an alternative structure of dependable corporate governance.

  • Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the Global Race to the Bottom

    Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the global race to the bottom

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 23, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Bloomberg has put himself and his fortune into the contest to rally his (ruling) classmates to the task of shoring up corporate control of the Party if Sanders seizes the top spot.

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