Political Economy

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Impeachment Theater
17 Feb 2021
Democracy is hanging on by a thread -- not due to marauding Trumpsters – but because of bipartisan support for neoliberal policies.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
What isn’t in Judas and The Black Messiah is Just as Important as What is
17 Feb 2021
Hollywood is big, mostly white, capitalist business, so it’s no surprise that its new film on Fred Hampton provides little information on Black Panther politics and history.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: Ten Commandments of Democracy in Haiti, September 25, 1991
17 Feb 2021
Almost 20 years ago, the president elected by Haiti’s poor majority gave the United Nations a lesson in the meaning of democracy for historically oppressed peoples.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
What did low Barr know?
17 Feb 2021
Liars, liars your loaded dice/tilted table theater’s on fire— But prosecutors and gas-lighting lawyers concur on Empire…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Kizito Mihigo and the Struggle for Rwandan Truth and Reconciliation
17 Feb 2021
Rwandans around the world celebrate the life of the nation’s most popular singer, apparently killed for opposing Paul Kagame’s ethnic and military dictatorship, writes Ann Garrison.
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
17 Feb 2021
This week color-blindness on the left and the Black Misleadership Class were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Akira Drake Rodriguez’s “Diverging Space for Deviants”
17 Feb 2021
We must realize what we’ve lost in the demolition and sale of public housing units.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adriaan van Klinken’s Book, “Kenyan, Christian, Queer”
17 Feb 2021
Increasing levels of LGBT/community organization, social mobilization, and political activism can be observed in different parts of the continent.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Is Biden Committing Diplomatic Suicide Over the Iran Nuclear Agreement?
17 Feb 2021
Biden is taking the position that the US will not rejoin the agreement or drop its unilateral sanctions until Iran first comes back into compliance.
Margaret Flowers
Urgent Solidarity With Haiti Is Needed
17 Feb 2021
“President” Jovenel Moïse has dismantled the democratic institutions of the state and rules unilaterally with the support of the police, military and western allies.