Political Economy

Zachary Mondesire
What Role for the Black American Left on Sudan?
24 Jul 2019
The American website Black Agenda Report commented on the protests in Sudan and got it completely wrong.
Samar Al-Bulushi, Peter James Hudson, Zachary Mondesire, Corinna Mullin, Jemima Pierre
Zionism and Global African Studies
24 Jul 2019
Delegates to a conference on Global Africa at Oxford University say Zionists and their apologists are targeting the academy.
Jordanna Matlon
Black Masculinity Under Racial Capitalism
24 Jul 2019
A truly radical counterhegemony can only be realized by disassociating both blackness and manhood from capitalist registers of worth.
Yasmina Mrabet
Victory for DC Tenants in Catholic Church-Owned Buildings
24 Jul 2019
Tenants fight back and win in the city with the nation’s highest rate of gentrification, by far.
Seth Donnelly and Judith Mirkinson
The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti
24 Jul 2019
The Lasalin massacre was designed to punish and destroy a neighborhood long known as a stronghold of the grassroots opposition.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Trump’s Message: US is White Man’s Country
23 Jul 2019
Donald Trump’s racist attacks on immigrants and “The Squad” are designed to tell his base that the US is a White Man’s Country and he is the president who’s going to keep it that way,” said Black A
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Colonialism is What’s Wrong With Puerto Rico
23 Jul 2019
Progressive Puerto Ricans hope the mass protests that have rocked the colonized island will result in more than just the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosello, said Daniel Vila
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Institutionalized Impunity for Killer Cops
23 Jul 2019
The cops that caused the deaths of Eric Garner, Sandra Bland and countless other Black people are protected by a “social contract” with the rulers of the nation, sais New York City activist
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Reparations Demand: End Capitalism
23 Jul 2019
“We cannot negotiate with the system that facilitated our ancestors’ enslavement,” sad William C.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The “Squad” Will Need to Realize that You Can’t Defeat White Supremacy with White Supremacy
18 Jul 2019
The “squad” condemns Trump for his white nationalism, not understanding that as a white supremacist settler-colonial state, white nationalism is “American” nationalism.