Bruce Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon is the founder and managing editor of the Black Agenda Report.  He is a former member of the Black Panther Party, and long-time activist and community organizer.  Reach him on Twitter at @brucedixon.

Flawed WWII History Underlies the Bipartisan Hostility Toward Russia

For over 70 years, politicians from both parties have built their politics on this fake history. US troops are still in Germany, still in Japan more than two generations after the war, and the US maintains an empire of a thousand military bases on six continents and fleets in every ocean.

Flawed WWII History Underlies the Bipartisan Hostility Toward Russia

There’s fake news. And then there’s fake history. Fake news lies about the world as it is. But fake history is the context for fake news. Fake history sanctifies abominations past and present. Fake history erases the struggle over thousands of years between those many who produced the planet’s wealth and the greedy few who appropriate it for

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Bruce Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon is the founder and managing editor of the Black Agenda Report.  He is a former member of the Black Panther Party, and long-time activist and community organizer.  Reach him on Twitter at @brucedixon.

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It’s Time for an Authentic 21st Century American Left Political Party

Without parties, all we have are activists, responsible to nobody except their own consciences. That doesn’t lead to contending for power, it leads to “activist-ism” if there can be such a word.

It’s Time for an Authentic 21st Century American Left Political Party

Let’s face it, the U.S. left is a long way right now from contending for power. One of many useful questions asked at last week’s Left Forum in NYC invited some of us to speculate on what an authentic 21st century U.S. left might look like. Here’s what I came up with. 1. An authentic left must

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Bruce A. Dixon is the founder and managing editor of the Black Agenda Report.  He is a former member of the Black Panther Party, and long-time activist and community organizer.  Reach him on Twitter at @brucedixon.

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The Left Needs More Critical Debate and Less Name Calling and Mic Drops

The American left simply doesn’t have a tradition of honest and robust critical debate and interaction. DSAers and Berniecrats only speak to each other. Revolutionary nationalists mainly talk to other revolutionary nationalists, Greens only talk to other Greens, and so on

The Left Needs More Critical Debate and Less Name Calling and Mic Drops

Transcript -- A couple months ago I attended a gathering at somebody’s Atlanta home. At some point past all the introductions, a couple comrades with whom I was less familiar leveled some particular critiques of Black Agenda Report, and of another person in the room connected with the Green Party, labeling us “ultraleftists.” Our

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Bruce A. Dixon is the founder and managing editor of the Black Agenda Report.  He is a former member of the Black Panther Party, and long-time activist and community organizer.  Reach him on Twitter at @brucedixon.

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