- A round-up of The Black Agenda Review's posts from 2022 Archived Message
Posted by sashimi
on January 4, 2023, 9:00 am
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4 January 2023 (quote) The first edition of The Black Agenda Review appeared on 2 December 2020. Its mission was, and is, to serve as a weekly political-education supplement of the Black Agenda Report. The Review has attempted to take on a longer historical, and more explicitly pedagogical, perspective than the Black Agenda Report. It revisits and reprints from the historical archive of books, statements, speeches, and manifestos of Pan-African, Black internationalist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist thought and struggle. Since the publication of our initial manifesto of first principles, The Black Agenda Review has reprinted more than one hundred items, fifty in the past year alone. A review of 2022 gives one a sense of the scale and scope of the project, and of the breadth and depth of pan-African thought. Over the past year, The Black Agenda Review reprinted documents by the imperial and colonial authorities - and statements by anti-imperial and anti-colonial organizations and institutions. In the former category, we published the well-known 1833 act to emancipate England's slaves (and to compensate the slave owners) and the little-known 1890 Brussels Act providing Europeans with the legal and humanitarian justification for the colonization of Africa. We unearthed a 1958 NATO white paper outlining their plans to break Afro-Asian solidarity and counter communist-nationalist alliances, and we published a declassified CIA document outlining their strategies for covert action in Angola in the 1970s. We also reprinted the prologue to one of the most important, but perhaps least understood statements of contemporary imperial policy: 2022's United States Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability. (/quote) -- Cont'd at https://blackagendareport.com/declaration-commander-chief-jean-jacques-dessalines-people-hayti-gonaives-january-1-1804 |
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