Political Economy

Kimberley Richards
Angela Davis Reoffered Award By Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
30 Jan 2019
An embarrassed and shamed Institute reinstates award “in keeping with its commitment to learning from its mistakes.”
Julian Vigo
Humanitarian Aid is Broken: Haiti, a Look Back
30 Jan 2019
Much of the money sent to help Haiti ended up being spent on western citizens at the expense of Haitian suffering.
Eric Blanc
Never Trust a Billionaire’s Antiracism
30 Jan 2019
The LA teachers strike was a tale of two competing antiracist visions — one upheld by privatizing billionaires and another pushed by working people.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New South African Party to “Overthrow Capitalism”
29 Jan 2019
Irvin Jim, leader of South Africa’s largest union, told a People’s Forum audience in New York City that the newly formed Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party is not “another refor
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The “Feminism” of Rich, Mass Murdering Women
29 Jan 2019
The war industry brags that five top weapons corporations are headed by women.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
MLK Fought for Workers’ Rights
29 Jan 2019
Dr Martin Luther King, who was killed supporting Memphis garbage workers, often noted that most Black people are working class, said labor historian Peter Cole.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bernie Sanders vs Kamala the Jailer and Her Corporate Backers
24 Jan 2019
The best thing that can happen in 2020 is for Bernie Sanders to do fantastically in the primaries and be cheated out of the nomination, once again, thus giving millions of leftish Democrats a
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Free Marzieh Hashemi
23 Jan 2019
A Black American journalist languishes in a DC jail, imprisoned without charge as part of the US vendetta against Iran, yet the Black political class has not raised a peep in protest.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Anti-imperialist Dilemma: What If the US is “Right” About the Election in DR Congo?
23 Jan 2019
The US may, for once, be doing the right thing in the Congo, although undoubtedly for its own imperial reasons.
Paul Street
Chicago Racist Police-State Blues: Sixteen Shots for Laquan, Three Years for Van Dyke
23 Jan 2019
Street activism led to an historic murder conviction of a killer cop, but then a racist judge let him off with a light sentence.