Political Economy

Lucas Koerner
Will the Venezuelan Masses Still Stand with Maduro at Election Time?
07 Mar 2018
“The people know that it’s easier to deepen a revolution while being in government than to turn it over to a right-wing that has no respect for life.”
Chris Hedges
Legalizing Tyranny
07 Mar 2018
“The carcel state is a subculture unto itself, with an $81 billion budget and tremendous political clout.”
Rachel Wolkenstein
New Legal Action is a Path to Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Freedom, But a Re-ignited International Mobilization is Critical for Victory
07 Mar 2018
“It will take international mobilization of the masses, centrally labor and its allies, minorities, immigrants and youth to turn the tide and win Mumia’s freedom.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
PROP Calls for Free Mass Transit for NYC Poor
06 Mar 2018
“Our position is that the city should provide free fares to low income people,” said Robert Gangi, of the Police Reform Organizing Project, who notes that 85 to 90 percent of the 2
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Beware the Dangers of Reformism
05 Mar 2018
Reformers often wind up legitimizing and strengthening police power, said Dylan Rodriguez, professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Holding the Line Against Neoliberalism in Jackson MS
05 Mar 2018
Cooperation Jackson activist Kali Akuno said the grassroots movement can count on broad aspects of unity with the overwhelmingly Black capital city’s political class.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Great, Bloody Black Dispersal from the Cities
01 Mar 2018
“The grand plan is to reverse the demography of the Seventies by forcing Blacks out of the central cities and into suburbs and small towns, rendering Black peo
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Why the Shooting Will Continue
28 Feb 2018
“All the sound and fury about gun control is useless because this society demands that the slave patrol never disband.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Elías Gonzalez
28 Feb 2018
“W.E.B. Du Bois. He really gave us the language; James Baldwin gave us the style.”
Paul Street
Good Panther, Bad Panther
28 Feb 2018
“Black revolutionary consciousness is merged with white and bourgeois Urban Nightmare