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The Black Agenda
Glen Ford
OR Books, £15.99
GLEN FORD was an experienced independent journalist steered by what he described as a black-left perspective. He was a Marxist, primarily concerned with the welfare of black people but never shying away from castigating the US history of imperialism and racism.
This collection of speeches and written work is uncompromising in its assault on the US attempt to “pillage the world with impunity,” re-enact the white man’s burden and impose its corporate mastery of the planet.
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