Political Economy

Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Outlaw Poverty, Says Activist
27 Mar 2018
Nyle Fort, an activist with the Poor People’s Campaign, was among the speakers at a New York City event designed to bring Black and immigrant communities together on issues of mass
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. at Peace? Some Americans Think So
27 Mar 2018
The U.S. Senate voted down, 55 to 44, a bill co-sponsored by Bernie Sanders that would have ended U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabia-led war against Yemen.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Baraka on Leftists That Collaborate with Empire
27 Mar 2018
“We have not made a revolution in the U.S., but we have all these ‘revolutionary theorists’ that know exactly how to do that,” said Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
No Holding Back “Black” Brazil
22 Mar 2018
“The Brazilian state is conducting an even more lethal war against its Black population than its northern counterpart’s militarized oppression of U.S. Blacks.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Luciana Bohne
21 Mar 2018
“My advice to the non-communist western left is to exorcise the ghost of anti-communism and to look into the history of communism, as it really existed.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Vladimir Putin and War Propaganda
21 Mar 2018
“Lies about the Russian government are war propaganda and they are meant to get public support for military action against Russia and its allies.”
Kweli Nzito
A Tale of Three Apartheids and the Land Conundrums
21 Mar 2018
“White settlers were convinced that the lands they appropriated in the ‘dark continent’ and other lands were theirs by right.”
Jaime A Alves
Marielle Franco’s Assassination: One of Tens of Thousands of Black Murders in Brazil
21 Mar 2018
“Brazil`s terrocratic regime continues producing black dead bodies in astonishing scales without disturbing the normalcy of everyday political life in this country.”
Tatyana Hopkins
Black Panther Party Principles Resurrected in Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico
21 Mar 2018
“The Young Lords saw the Black Panthers trying to get justice for Black people, and they knew they needed to do the same thing.”
Sven Beckert
Today’s Capitalism Was Born in Slavery
21 Mar 2018
“We must develop a new appreciation for the centrality of slavery, in the United States and elsewhere, in the emergence of modern capitalism.”