April 1, 2022
The U.S. industrial-military-congressional complex is made up of the interdependent dynamics of military contractor corporations, military forces, intelligence agencies, and the civilian national security state, which take form as strategy, political-economy factors, and international affairs shift.
April 1, 2022
Elizabeth "Betita" Sutherland Martinez spent her life fighting the death and destruction imposed by the White House and the Pentagon, from border jails to police barracks in every city and town across the United States.
April 1, 2022
A new poem by Marge Piercy.
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."
March 1, 2022
The Great Depression is almost one century old. Today in the United States we remember this international economic collapse, and the suffering it engendered, by reading novels and essays about it, watching plays, viewing paintings—often forgetting that the U.S. government of that time encouraged and financially supported much of this art. Not only art: the Depression was one of the few times that the federal government ever stepped in to help ordinary people get on their feet.
February 1, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic shows no signs of going away, with a new wave of SARS-CoV-2 now occurring in the form of the more readily transmittable Omicron variant. In these circumstances, the issue of vaccine imperialism, dividing the Global North and the Global South, has taken on new significance.
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.
February 1, 2022
A new poem by Black Agenda Report poet-in-residence, Raymond "Nat" Turner.
January 1, 2022
Cuba's world leadership in sustainable human development is of world-historic importance.