Political Economy

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Democratic Party Politics 101 with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Corporate Media
25 Jul 2018
“Democrats have firmly implanted themselves on the side of Wall Street and its militarist corporate partners.”
Paul Street
Same Old Obama: The First Black Presidential Library and Gentrification on Chicago’s South Side
25 Jul 2018
“Real estate interests are licking their chops over ‘development’ opportunities linked to the Obama Center’s construction.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Fred Moten’s “consent not to be a single being”
25 Jul 2018
“We have lived, and continue to live, in a climate that doesn’t support life.”
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Trump’s Protection Racket Swamps Africa
25 Jul 2018
“Enormous sacrifices made in the protracted and often brutal anti-colonial resistance wars are now coming to naught.”
Salvador Rangel
“These Are Not Our Kids”: The Racial Capitalism of Caging Children at the Border
25 Jul 2018
“The Trump administration takes every opportunity to divert attention from the fact that there are a lot of people suffering in poverty in the richest country in the world.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Abolish the US Gulag
23 Jul 2018
Activists with Critical Resistance NYC have launched a letter-writing campaign to political prisoners.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Russiagate is an Historical “Farce”
23 Jul 2018
“We see the Democrats, who are supposed to be a party of civil liberties and human rights, adopting McCarthyist tactics,” said Jeremy Kuzmarov, co-author, along with John Marciano,
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Capitalism Incompatible With Democracy
23 Jul 2018
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor of New York, last week endorsed “social ownership of the economy.” “If you have concentrated wealth,” said Hawkins, “that tran
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Russiagate is a Ruling Class Diversion
19 Jul 2018
“Trump supporters see themselves as a distinct and independent force in the nation -- the saviors of America, in their diseased minds -- and they now hate the
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Musings from Margins:The NATO and Putin Summits, Plus High Crimes, Misdemeanors and Liberal Madness
18 Jul 2018
“The liberals posing as radicals have been exposed and their sentimental pro-empire proclivities revealed.”