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How ‘No Kings’ Takes The ‘Move’ Out Of Movements

by Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, published on Black Agenda Report, October 24, 2025 Stuck in a Neutral Gear of Watered Down and Whitewashed Prefigurative Politics. You cannot defeat a king with a parade. The failure of “No Kings” is the refusal to build real power beyond a single day of protest. “If participants are motivated by hope of psychic completion—by community[…]

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No Kings and the Lure of Spectacle

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 22, 2025 The most recent No Kings march will hopefully be the last. A Democratic Party get out the vote effort is a show that obscures and obstructs the real work of organizing.  Many years ago the late Glen Ford, then the Black Agenda Report executive editor, related his experience with[…]

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Fighting Trump and the Black Collaborators Too

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, September 24, 2025 Fighting Trump’s racist attacks is obviously a necessity but that fight must include opposing the Black misleadership class and their collaboration. Black Agenda Report has long pointed out that billionaire rule and its capture of the political process has made electoral politics a less and less effective means of[…]

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Obama Colluded With the Surveillance State Against Trump

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 30, 2025 It is true that Barack Obama used the surveillance state apparatus in an effort to undermine the first Donald Trump administration with the Russiagate fraud. What Trump calls “Obamagate” is very real.   “It probably helps him a lot, the immunity ruling. But it doesn’t help the people around him[…]

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Zohran Mamdani’s victory: What we know and don’t know

Worker World Commentary, by Monica Moorhead, published July 1, 2025 To say that Zohran Mamdani winning the Democratic Party primary for mayor of New York City on June 24 was a complete stunner would be a monumental understatement. He officially beat his opponent, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who conceded his defeat the same night as the vote. While[…]

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Democrat Zohran Mamdani and Superman the Movie: Billionaire’s Debate Damage Control as U.S. Opinion Increasingly Rejects Zionist’s Palestine Genocide

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 25, 2025 As a teenage Superman fan of yesteryear, in the 1950s, I recall that Superman was described on radio as a “strange visitor from another planet.” I couldn’t resist going to my local Oakland movie theater to see the latest iteration starring David Corenswet as Superman. I was surprised. While the[…]

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Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not US Sanctions, Says Ex-UN Special Rapporteur

by Marjorie Cohn, published on the LA Progressive, July 15, 2025 The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Note that all of Albanese’s recent reports are linked in this article.  [jb] The day after Donald Trump welcomed indicted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States[…]

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As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Service Members Have Duty to Disobey

by Marjorie Cohn, published on Socialist Action, June 11, 2025 The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control. People are likely to get hurt. National Guard soldiers are posted near an entrance to the Federal Building in Los Angeles during a demonstration in response to a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids throughout the country, on June 10,[…]

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Corruption, Lies, Biden’s Health and Trump’s Victory

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 14, 2025 The same corporate media talking heads who told us to ignore Biden’s failing health are now cashing in with books revealing political cover ups while also covering up their own role in facilitating corruption and inevitably a defeat. In 2020, this columnist and many other people observed that Joe Biden was[…]

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Trump Is the Symptom, U.S. Imperialism Is the Disease

Statement by the U.S. Peace Council, April 28, 2025 Popular resistance to the Trump administration’s erratic, anti-people, and dangerous domestic and foreign policies is growing every day as seen with the massive demonstrations held throughout the country on and after April 5. We welcome these protests and the popular demands raised by them, but we must criticize significant flaws that[…]

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