Political Economy

Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Chicago Community Bond Fund
08 Apr 2020
This arena of the mutual aid movement is energized by “a vision of the absence of prisons, jails, detention, and criminalization.”
Elizabeth Cooney
Blacks May be Bearing the Brunt of Covid-19, But Access to Data is Limited
08 Apr 2020
The feds don’t keep racial data on the coronavirus, but local reports show Blacks are dying at multiple the rates of whites in some cities.
Soraya Nadia Mcdonald
In 1918 and 2020, Race Colors America’s Response to Epidemics
08 Apr 2020
A century ago, In cities across the nation, black people struck by the flu were often left to fend for themselves.
Jessica Corbett
Moral Leaders Demand Coronavirus Relief for Most Vulnerable
08 Apr 2020
The relief package “leaves out the majority of homeless, undocumented immigrants, the disabled, and anyone too poor to have to file taxes,” says the Poor Peoples Campaign.
Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado and Zoe PC
Trump Sends Gun boats to Venezuela While the World Partners to Fight a Deadly Pandemic
08 Apr 2020
The Trump administration has used the fabricated narco-trafficking charges against Maduro and other officials as an excuse to intensify pressure on Venezuela.
Philippe Gendrault
Public Health? Anyone? Twelve Ways to Avoid Talking About Capitalism
08 Apr 2020
The failure of the American public health delivery system facing the Covid-19 is a socio-political and ideological failure born from the intrinsic contradictions of contemporary capitalism at large
Barry Spector
Affirmative Action for White People
08 Apr 2020
Most whites have been able to live out their lives completely unaware of the long term, institutional factors that have kept people of color down – and themselves up.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 6, 2020
06 Apr 2020
Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Students May Strike for "Social Welfare" During Crisis
06 Apr 2020
Semassa Boko, a student activist and PhD candidate at the University of California at Irvine, wrote an article on the concept of a social welfare strike “under conditions where the
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Working People Must Build Solidarity in Resistance
06 Apr 2020
The general strike is “extremely promising” because “it is the surest way that workers have to protect their own health, since obviously the state and their employers are not interested in doing th