Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Elite Deploy Spy Hi-Tech Against the People
22 Jun 2020
Recent reports show the US military spied on George Floyd protests in 15 cities with planes, helicopters and drones.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Zero Degree Rage” Focuses Black Minds
22 Jun 2020
Nicholas Brady, professor of Africana Studies at Bucknell University and author of an article titled “Zero Degree Rage,” sees massed popular emotion as a liberatory weapon.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
A New Generation, Same Struggle
22 Jun 2020
Despite an interim of more than 30 years, the current wave of protests shares similar goals to the 1989 student rebellion at Howard University, said Josh Myers, a professor of
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More
18 Jun 2020
Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and accep
Don Fitz
How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19
17 Jun 2020
Cuba uses its decades of experience to create an example of how a country can confront the virus with a compassionate and competent plan.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Churchill, Columbus and Leopold Fall Down
17 Jun 2020
Millions of white people glorify mass murderers because their sense of identity and place in society is deeply tied to white supremacy.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Rebellion Against Police Repression Must Guard Against ALL Enemies, Whether Red, Blue, or Green
17 Jun 2020
The terrain of struggle will need to expand for the movement to avoid a Democratic Party-induced slumber.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The State (For Cam and B) and Mo’ Foul Play
17 Jun 2020
Papa’s proud of you, handsome Grandsons, for hand-lettered signs, for taking to the streets during your generation’s 10 days that shook the world!
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Building Power to Win is the Revolutionary Approach to Bourgeois Electoralism”
17 Jun 2020
We must make clear that it is imperialism that degrades and destroys the earth, makes water a commodity, food a luxury, education an impossibility, and health care a distant dream.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Say Its Name: Genocide!
17 Jun 2020
Unless we identify genocide as the common underpinning to all of the brutality directed against Black people in the US, we are talking about the wrong thing.