Political Economy

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Oligarch Jeff Bezos
17 Jan 2018
“Republicans and Democrats alike are willing to turn over government coffers to Bezos and his ilk and the rights of the people be damned.”
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Why We Must Protect the World from the United States
17 Jan 2018
“For oppressed nations and peoples of the world, the U.S.
Daniel Zamora
The Case Against a Basic Income
17 Jan 2018
“If the payment isn’t high enough to let people to refuse work, UBI might push wages down and create more “bullshit jobs.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment
17 Jan 2018
“The violent appropriation of Native land by white settlers was seen as an individual right in the Second Amendment of the U.S.
Jake Johnston
UN-Backed Police Massacred Haitians With Impunity
17 Jan 2018
“When the police finally left the campus, around 11 a.m., nine civilians lay dead in the courtyard — five of whom had been shot in the head.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Blacks Mark New Orleans’ 300th Birthday
16 Jan 2018
Dr Clyde Robertson will oversee three days of events marking three centuries of Black experience in New Orleans, beginning January 18.
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Mumia: 36 Years Behind Bars
16 Jan 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner is locked in a complex legal battle that might overturn his 1982 conviction in the death of a Philadelphia cop.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Peace Requires Social Transformation
16 Jan 2018
The peace movement “must recognize that war is an instrument of class rule, and that we have to overthrow this enemy and build and new society, on a new basis,” said Ajamu Baraka,
Doug Henwood
Behind The News: Jane McAlevey on Organizing For Power, Liza Featherstone on Patriarchy
11 Jan 2018
Jane McAlevey explains why Democrats were able to stop the demolition of Obamacare but unable and unwilling to do the same for the ghastly Republican tax cut and Liza Featherstone on the difference
Kali Akuno , Gyasi Williams
Up Against the Fabrication Divide
10 Jan 2018
The Third Digital Revolution[1], a revolution in cyber-physical integration and personal fabrication, is changing the world, and changing humanity, culturally an