Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Capitalism Can’t Fix Racial Wealth Gap
14 Aug 2018
Black banks are useful and should be supported, but only some form of reparations can confront the disastrous Black economic condition, said Mehrsa Baradaran, author of “The Color
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Martial Law By Other Means: Corporate Strangulation of Dissent
09 Aug 2018
“The ‘hate speech’ trick, in practice, rewards Black people’s occupiers and abusers (the police) and renders voices of protest illegitimate and mute.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Wikileaks: Rwandan Reconciliation Is a Lie
08 Aug 2018
One of the many thousands of diplomatic cables that Wikileaks released between February 18, 2010, and September 1, 2011 revealed the lie beneath Rwanda's shiny surface.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Russiagate Crusaders Don’t Want Democracy, Just War
08 Aug 2018
“No political movement in the US exists to stop the Deep State from suppressing the content and ideology of Black Agenda Report or even Black Lives Matter as agents of the Kremlin.”
Tryon P. Woods
Putting Afro-Pessimism, Intersectionality, and Solidarity to Work
08 Aug 2018
“If the Movement for Black Lives can indirectly lead to an expanded sphere of safety for white women of a certain class status, with no commensurate enhanced protection for black people
Chip Gibbons and Boots Riley
An Interview With Boots Riley: “In the World of Film, We’ve Edited out All Rebellion”
08 Aug 2018
“I think the movement needs to organize the 93 percent of the work force that is not organized.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Mehrsa Baradaran’s “The Color of Money”
08 Aug 2018
“’Black capitalism’ was a crucial part of President Nixon’s ‘southern strategy’ and the rhetoric and administration of his program is still intact.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter James Hudson’s “Bankers and Empire”
08 Aug 2018
“There can be no ‘black internationalism’ without an attack on imperialism and finance capitalism.”
Brandon Do
Toward a New Vision for the Palestine Solidarity Movement
08 Aug 2018
“For 70 years Israel has been the biggest purveyor of war and chaos in what colonizers termed as the “Middle East.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dr Fred Moten: The Black Social Self-View
06 Aug 2018
The constant denial of individual Black personhood that is a legacy of centuries of slavery has given us “a chance to organizer around something other than the debilitating and vicious notion of in