Political Economy

Anoa Changa
More Surveillance Won’t Stop White Supremacy -- It Will Target Activists of Color
17 Mar 2021
Violence from people of color and other marginalized groups – or even simply fear of such violence -- is dealt with immediately and with the harshest of consequences.
Abdirahman A. Abdalla
The Somali Election Impasse in Historical Context
17 Mar 2021
Somalia’s current corruptionist comprador bourgeoisie has no independent socio-political base and is therefore totally beholden to Western imperialist interests.
Lucas M. Koerner
Who’s Afraid of Hugo Chávez? Race, Empire, and Chavismo’s Revolutionary Subjectivity
17 Mar 2021
What is it about Chávez and the national-popular movement bearing his name that is so threatening to the US Empire to this day?
Mireille Fanon Mendes France
Can We Listen to the Voice of the Haitian People?
17 Mar 2021
The West’s treatment of Haiti confirms that white supremacy has still not abandoned its plan to impose a racially racist, violent, capitalist and imperial world order.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 15, 2021
15 Mar 2021
Community Control is Best Route to Abolishing Policing As We Know It
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Europe and US Now Policing Black Migrants in Africa
15 Mar 2021
To justify US and European military occupation of much of Africa, migrants seeking jobs in the north of the continent or in Europe “are labeled as criminals and terrorists” when they are “just look
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition Partners Praise 19-Point Self-Determination Agenda
15 Mar 2021
At a webinar last week, Jericho Movement chairperson Jihad Abdulmumit said the Black Is Back Coalition’s National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination “covers everything,
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Community Control is Best Route to Abolishing Policing As We Know It
15 Mar 2021
Community control of police advocates in the Washington, DC region say their approach is the best -- and most democratic – way to achieve both defunding and total abolition of policing as it exists
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Trump/Biden Foreign Policy
10 Mar 2021
Biden rules like Trump regarding Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Haiti, because the two imperial parties serve the same masters.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Anti-Asian Racism Never Stopped Being an Outgrowth of U.S. Imperialism
10 Mar 2021
Scant attention has been placed on the context of anti-Asian racism and its roots in the history of U.S. imperialism.