Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 25, 2020
26 May 2020
Black Is Back Coalition’s “Ballot and the Bulllet” Electoral School
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Lasting Legacy of Combahee River Collective Statement
26 May 2020
In 1977 a group of Black feminists issued a statement that “has been a kind of touchstone over the decades for women who are thinking about women’s issues through the intersectional lens of racism,
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Another ALD, But Africa Still Not Free
26 May 2020
More than a half century after most African states gained nominal independence, the continent is still economically and politically dependent on “external actors,” said Ndubuisi Christ
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: US Incapable of Protecting Its People
26 May 2020
The nation’s best known political prisoner asks, “Who really believes that the US government can, or will, vaccinate over 300 million people – a government that can’t find the people it promised to
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition’s “Ballot and the Bulllet” Electoral School
26 May 2020
Since the smashing of the Black Liberation Movement, “the electoral process has been monopolized by the petit-bourgeois sell-out sector,” said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Indict and Punish the Perpetrators of Covid Mass Death
21 May 2020
Not just Trump, but the whole US ruling class must pay for the mass Covid death toll among Blacks, because only the ruling class has the power to systematically allocate life-death chances for
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedomrider: Obamagate is Real
20 May 2020
Obama’s fans like to think of the First Black President as scholarly and above the fray of dirty politics, but he appears to have conspired with the FBI to set up the incoming administration.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
American Exceptionalism and the American Left’s China Double Standard
20 May 2020
The threat that the American Left sees in China aligns with the white supremacist underpinnings of American exceptionalism.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Neoliberalism, Intervention and Anti-Blackness: A Webinar* Presentation
20 May 2020
The elevation of anti-blackness as a kind of universal problem eliminates the basis for solidarity among the colonized and puts some African Americans on the side of U.S. imperialism.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Trump vs. Biden: The China-Hating Contest Is On Like Donkey Kong
20 May 2020
Trump and Biden promise their fans a roaring hate-fest this election cycle, as they vie for the honor of defending America’s right to full spectrum dominance of every corner of the globe.