Political Economy

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Julietta Singh’s “Unthinking Mastery”
22 Aug 2018
Singh’s book argues that we have yet to understand critically and dynamically how dangerous all forms and practices of mastery are.
Stacy Bannerman
Is Climate the Worst Casualty?
22 Aug 2018
If we don’t get serious about stopping the U.S. war machine, we could lose the biggest battle of our lives.
Ameth Lô
The Long March to Post-Capitalist Transition: Pan-Africanist Perspectives
22 Aug 2018
A Pan-Africanist politics is necessary because weak neo-colonial states are incapable of assuring their own survival or of negotiating how their country is inserted into the world system.
David Keys
Details of Horrific First Voyages in Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Revealed
22 Aug 2018
As the world ignores the ignominious 500th anniversary of the buying and selling of slaves between Africa and the Americas, historians uncover its first horrific voyages.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Aretha Rejoins “Celestial Choir”
20 Aug 2018
Mumia Abu Jamal on the passing of Black music great Aretha Franklin: “She returns to the celestial choir after 76 summers of earthly life.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Real Chance for Mumia Freedom
20 Aug 2018
“Those hearings that are coming up on August 30th could lead to a new trial for Mumia,” said Orie Lumumba, of Family and Concerned Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Underground Fugitives Foresaw US Decline and Repression
20 Aug 2018
The underground radicals of the 1960s and 70s were prescient in their political analysis, according to Stephen Dillon, author of Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Banks’ Chief Export: White Supremacy
20 Aug 2018
Wall Street bankers brought their brand of racism to the US imperial project in the Caribbean and Latin America, said Peter James Hudson, author of Bankers of Empire: How Wall
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Imperial Head Doesn’t Know What Imperial Hand Is Doing
20 Aug 2018
“The whole imperialist system is in a state of severe crisis,” said Black Is Back Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela, at the coalition’s annual conference, in St. Louis.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
New Study Reveals Old Fact: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened
16 Aug 2018
“The whiter the neighborhood they entered, the less safe Black boys felt.”