Political Economy

Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Jihad Abdulmumit: Black Radical Movement Needs Infrastructure
06 Aug 2018
There is some continuity between today’s Black movement and the Sixties, however, “today’s struggle lacks the infrastructure in-the-hood-building” of the Panther era, said Jihad Abdulmumit
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dr Anthony Monteiro: Capitalist Profits = People’s Impoverishment
06 Aug 2018
Apple’s triumph in becoming the first corporation in history to be valued at a trillion dollars is “in many ways a meaningless achievement for the vast majority of the American people,” said Dubosi
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Bizarre Facebook Path to Corporate Fascism
02 Aug 2018
“The Facebook intervention is a qualitative escalation of the McCarthyite offensive.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Rwandan Dictator Paul Kagame’s Paranoia Strikes Deep
01 Aug 2018
“Dissidents say Kagame shuttered houses of worship because they were the last spaces in Rwanda where people felt safe from his totalitarian grip.”
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Trump and the Politics of Neoliberal Distraction
01 Aug 2018
“If Trump decides to ‘throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Russiagate Covers Up Black Vote Theft
01 Aug 2018
“The Democrats want our votes, but if we aren’t allowed to vote at all they pretend not to know.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
As it Screams Russia, the Ruling Class Continues its Process of Elimination
01 Aug 2018
“Millions of Black people have been funneled into the mass Black incarceration state as a means to account for the disposability of their labor and the threat that their resistance has
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness
01 Aug 2018
“The meme of militant Black America has been allowed to cannibalise the broader traditions of resistance within which those militants were situated.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sylvia Chan-Malik’s “Being Muslim”
01 Aug 2018
“The book shows how deeply intertwined logics of anti-Muslim racism are with those of anti-Blackness.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Fessenden’s “Religion Around Billie Holiday”
01 Aug 2018
“Billie Holiday reminds us to look unflinchingly at the face of power, to call things by their true names.”