Political Economy

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
California Leads the Way in Resistance to the Rule of Bankers
12 Jul 2018
“There can be no reversal of the corporate “race to the bottom” unless the Lords of Capital are dethroned.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Nuclear Power in Africa?
11 Jul 2018
“Sub-Saharan Africa faces an extraordinary level of energy poverty.”
Paul Street
Bernie Sanders: “Don’t Be Rude to White Nationalists, Do What Alexandria Did”
11 Jul 2018
“People Have a Right to Go Into a Restaurant and Have Dinner”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On July 4th, American Exceptionalism, and Ruling Class fear of Trump
11 Jul 2018
“With each passing day under Trump, the mythology of US exceptionalism becomes more fragile.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ari Heinrich’s “Chinese Surplus”
11 Jul 2018
“Cutting-edge biomedical technology actually perpetuates certain inequalities.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vince Schleitwiler’s “Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific”
11 Jul 2018
“The constraints empire placed on its racial contradictions are falling away.”
Judith Shulevitz
Forgotten Feminisms: Johnnie Tillmon’s Battle Against ‘The Man’
11 Jul 2018
“Mainstream feminists never quite knew what to do with the welfare rights movement.”
Mark P. Fancher
Make a White Turn and Come to a Dead End
11 Jul 2018
“White workers have not only failed to precisely identify their class enemies, they have also held on to the racial baggage of their ancestors.”
The Public Archive
Labor and Liberation: An Interview with Margaret Stevens
11 Jul 2018
“Black working class militancy is THE essential precondition for the fight against racism, but it is not sufficient.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Military Spending = Cash for Corporations
09 Jul 2018
At $716 billion, the US military budget is larger than the defense spending of the next ten nations, combined, yet is mostly wasted, said William Hartung, author of Prophe