Political Economy

Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Jun 2020
This week community control of police, rage in protests, and the black political class were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar’s “Deadly Biocultures”
24 Jun 2020
Market logics, commodification, extraction, and exploitation condition our possibilities for life and expose many to ever-expanding forms of precarity.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lola Olufemi’s “Feminism, Interrupted”
24 Jun 2020
The political project we are invested in will require long term conviction and must be internationalist in its orientation.
Kate Levine and Joanna Schwartz
Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too
24 Jun 2020
Police violence is tied to other agents in criminal law enforcement, including and especially prosecutors.
Wilmer J. Leon III
A Moment or a Movement? The Blowback Will Tell
24 Jun 2020
You cannot separate the racist police aggression in the streets of the US and the racist US aggression against Venezuela, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Yemen, Libya and Syria.
Julian Cola
Ungentrifying International News Reporting from Brazil to Ecuador and Beyond
24 Jun 2020
So-called “racial democracy” has systematically excluded and kept black people at the dirt end of the socioeconomic totem pole in Brazil, as reflected in its media.
Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone
Food, Land and Power: Revisiting Black Cooperative Movements
24 Jun 2020
Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership?
Riva Enteen
Seize the Time or Face Fascism
24 Jun 2020
Either we seize the time and bring power to the people, or we must be prepared to face overt fascism.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 22, 2020
22 Jun 2020
A New Generation, Same Struggle
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Will Blacks Oppose or Defend US Empire?
22 Jun 2020
Defense of Haitian independence was the first foreign policy focus of African Americans, said Brandon Byrd, professor of history at Vanderbilt University and author of “The Bl