Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Haiti Regime Versus The People
29 Oct 2018
The people of Haiti don’t believe a word President Jovenel Moise has to say, said Dahoud Andre, spokesman for the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Workers are Focus of Philadelphia Conference
29 Oct 2018
“We take the Duboisian approach, and say that the central agency of class consciousness and class leadership is to be found in the Black working class,” said Duboisian scholar Dr.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition: “US Out of Africa”
29 Oct 2018
“Self-determination is the highest expression of democracy,” said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, which holds it
Jessica Pupovac and Kari Lydersen
Women in Prison Punished More Harshly than Men Around the Country
25 Oct 2018
Women in prisons across the country are disciplined at significantly higher rates than male inmates for mostly minor, subjective infractions.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Great Un-Blackening: The Corporate Project to Erase Black People from Politics
25 Oct 2018
Corporate rule imposes a duopoly system in which one party is overtly white supremacist and the other party refuses to tackle racial oppression – but both pursue austerity and war.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Migrant Caravan and U.S. Policy
24 Oct 2018
Washington blames “socialism” when Venezuelans flee their country’s US-created economic crisis, but defame Honduran refugees fleeing the misery created by the US in that country.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Intel Report on Assassins: “Rwandans are cold ass mofos”
24 Oct 2018
Memos from an intel-for-hire outfit reveal that Washington’s top ally in Africa, Rwanda dictator Paul Kagame, runs one of the world’s most prolific assassination squads.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Theory 101: The State as Personified by the Embrace of Michelle Obama and George W. Bush
24 Oct 2018
The collapse of imperialism has been restrained by the military state.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Robyn Maynard’s "Policing Black Lives" and Alex Vitale’s "The End of Policing”
24 Oct 2018
So-called “community policing” may actually expand police power, and Canadian racial tolerance is a myth.
a review by Ron Ridenour
“The Russians are Coming, Again (“first as tragedy, then as farce”)
24 Oct 2018
The US has been waging hot and cod war against Russia for almost a century -- wars that are always accompanied by massive lying to the American public.