Article Subjects and Geography: Media
Notes from the Editors, March 2022
March 1, 2022
The struggle over schools today requires battles over both the privatization of education and the current attempts to limit its social content and meaning. Those fighting against this changing totality must align themselves with the embattled radical teachers in the trenches. In the famous words of Grace Lee Boggs, more than a half-century ago, it is necessary to create "a new system of education that will have as its means and its end the development of the great masses of people to govern over themselves and administer over things."
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Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn’s Political Assassination
February 1, 2022
Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted propaganda campaign by the British right-wing military-industrial establishment and amplified by mainstream media.
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The Fight to Save San Francisco’s City College: An Organizer’s View
February 1, 2022
Free City! is a book for organizers, by organizers. Written from inside the struggle, it is a history of the five-year campaign to save San Francisco's community college system from being shuttered by a highly politicized accreditation agency. The movement went on to win support and funding for the country's most inclusive free college measure.
�We Must Return to the Future
January 1, 2022
The Cuban Revolution cannot disintegrate because it was never made of meringue. Not because it has not been sweet, but because the revolution has also tasted bitter fruits that, to date, we have known how to turn into strengths.
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Disney, Salò, and Pasolini’s Inconsumable Art
November 1, 2021
The increasing consolidation of the modern entertainment industry by a small clique of multinational streaming giants is the next step in the "standardization of style" in mass-consumed art. The work of Pier Paolo Pasolini can help remind us of what we're missing.
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Herd impunity?
October 1, 2021
A new poem by Black Agenda Report poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner.
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COVID-19 in the Two Koreas
September 1, 2021
The two Koreas—sharing a language, cultural traditions, history of imperial conquest and war, and interrupted family connections—both have mostly succeeded in controlling the pandemic, within different political-economic systems and with markedly different methods.
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