Political Economy

Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
17 Jun 2020
This week colonial genocides, white supremacy, and the Democratic Party’s role were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Samantha N. Sheppard’s “Sporting Blackness”
17 Jun 2020
Black memory is a muscle trained, flexed, and disciplined by colonialism, enslavement, and racial terror, as well as collective Black struggle.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kristen R. Ghodsee’s “Second World, Second Sex”
17 Jun 2020
Socialist ideas about the inextricable links between class, race, and gender predate the concept of intersectionality.
Berna Ellorin and Adrian Bonifacio
Re-Embracing Internationalism and Class Solidarity in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter
17 Jun 2020
The struggle against systemic racism and the police state in the US is integral and linked to the struggle against US wars of aggression overseas.
Erica Caines
Black-Outs, ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Black Power
17 Jun 2020
Community control of police and prison abolition have been completely removed from the conversations dictated by a mainstream and complacent narrative.
The Public Archive
Caribbean Workers and Capitalist Geography: An interview with Marion Werner
17 Jun 2020
Global Displacements is an examination of the impact of the global organization of capitalist accumulation and exploitation on the life and labor of Haitian and Dominica
Ajamu Baraka and Bahman Azad
Update on Charges Against the Venezuela Embassy Protectors
17 Jun 2020
It was agreed that dropping the federal charges and seeking no jail time in return for pleading to a very low-level DC Code charge was an important victory.
T.P. Wilkinson
Political ABCs: Maybe the Difference between a “Cop” and a “Crook” is Just a Badge
17 Jun 2020
What has recently been condemned as corrupt and brutal policing is actually consistent with historical tradition of localized repression.
Rachel R. Hardeman, Ph.D., M.P.H., Eduardo M. Medina, M.D., M.P.H., Rhea W. Boyd, M.D., M.P.H.
Stolen Breaths
17 Jun 2020
Demonstrators are laying bare the deep pain that persists for black people fighting to live under the crushing weight of injustice that has long been at our necks.
Ron Wilkins
To Observe and Protect: Community Alert Patrol and the Fight Against Police Terror in the 1960s
17 Jun 2020
The Black Panther Party modeled their policing initiatives after Black citizens’ patrols in Los Angeles.