Political Economy

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Their System, Our Lives: A Political Obituary in Service of Revolutionary Emancipation
05 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong The class conflict remains the central contradiction among human beings – a fact that too many “movement” leaders seem eager to forget. As a result, they attempt to…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Ghosts of Grenfell: Genocide in the Mainland of Capitalism
28 Jun 2017
by Danny Haiphong The fire that killed an unknown number of mainly Black and Asian Londoners has plunged Britain’s right-wing government deeper into crisis. Brits are connecting the capitalist dots…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Capitalism Kills, Socialism Heals
21 Jun 2017
by Danny Haiphong Death is a for-profit enterprise. In defense of capitalism, the ruling classes are prepared to kill on a staggering scale. “It is estimated that since World War II, US wars have…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party, and the UK’s Socialist Surge
21 Jun 2017
by Ann Garrison The resurgence of a more genuinely “left” Labor Party under Jeremy Corbyn has lefty Americans wondering if the magic can be exported. It’s not likely, as long as the…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 19, 2017
19 Jun 2017
Time for a Constitutional Right To Vote “We need visionary demands,” said Bruce Dixon, speaking at the Black Agenda Report panel at the annual Left Forum conference in New York City. A…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Crisis of US Imperial Governance and the Struggle for a New World
07 Jun 2017
by Danny Haiphong “The struggle against neo-liberal capital and anti-Russian hysteria is a struggle to transform and revolutionize society,” writes Black Agenda Report contributor Danny Haiphong, who…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Russia’s Vladimir Putin v. NBC’s Megyn Kelly
07 Jun 2017
by Ann Garrison Vladimir Putin mopped the floor with NBC’s Megyn Kelly last weekend, responding to her canned anti-Russia spiel with the contempt, and even humor, it deserved. NBC failed to broadcast…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama vs. Trump
31 May 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Barack Obama sold Saudi Arabia record amounts of weapons, joined its murderous war in Yemen, and interfered in European elections by…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
10 Examples of How US imperialism Continues to Kill the People and Planet
31 May 2017
by Danny Haiphong The capitalist narrative, aggressively fronted by the Democratic Party in 2016, holds that “conditions in the U.S. were never better.” But all the objective facts say otherwise. “…
This Is Hell
The working class is now united: A report on dissent and democracy in Brazil
31 May 2017
Corruption allegations and protests against Brazil's Workers Party and its president Dilma Roussef were widely reported in the US. But since a soft coup ousted the Workers Party and its president a…