Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
White Supremacists Wage Race War
06 Nov 2018
The armed White Power movement has shifted, since the Vietnam War era, from “earlier incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan to a much more coordinated war against the federal government” and Black and Je
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Solitary Confinement As a Tool of Political Oppression
06 Nov 2018
Since at least the 1950s, prison officials have used solitary confinement as a political tool against Black inmates, said Brittany Friedman, a professor of sociology at Rutgers Uni
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Real Prison Reform Requires Constitutional Revision
06 Nov 2018
Eliminating the portion of the 13thAmendment to the US Constitution that allow enslavement of prisoners is central to prison reform, said prison abolitionist and spoken word artist Max Part
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Fascism is Real, But the “Resistance” is Mostly Fake
31 Oct 2018
Fascism is always a danger under capitalism, with its frequent crises and endemic white supremacy, but the phony “resistance” is only concerned about electing Democrats.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Bernie and Barbara: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
31 Oct 2018
How can Bernie Sanders or Barbara Lee keep any of their social democratic promises while scapegoating Russia?
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: American Terror Is Not New
30 Oct 2018
The casual, endemic and racist violence that characterizes American behavior at home and abroad cannot be laid at the doorstep of the current buffoon in the White House.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Theory 101: Common, Gaddafi, and the Global Significance of the Black Misleadership Class
30 Oct 2018
The legitimacy of the US Black misleadership class resides in its ability to distort and claim leadership over the legitimate struggles of Black Americans to further their own careers within the ru
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Chandra Bhimull’s “Empire in the Air“and Kyle Mays’ “Hip Hop Beats”
30 Oct 2018
An author disentangles transatlantic slavery and transatlantic flight; another writer imagines a world where Black and Indigenous Lives actually matter.
Gerald A. Perreira
Trump and Saudi Arabia – One Rogue State to Another
30 Oct 2018
Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Euro-American Empire are at the root of so much bloodshed, it becomes impossible to even list the atrocities.
Philadelphia Saturday Free School
The Black Worker in Our Time: An Indispensable Force for Peace and Justice
30 Oct 2018
In this moment of imperialist crisis white working people must accept unity with and leadership by black workers.