Political Economy

Minkah Makalani
Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race
10 Feb 2021
An examination Robinson’s body of work can enrich our understanding of racial capitalism and offer additional tools for overcoming our political impasse.
Mya Shone
The Vaccine Distribution Crisis: Capitalism in its Death Agony
10 Feb 2021
The hoarding of existing supply and the refusal to create a vast public infrastructure capable of producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines are inherent consequences of capitalism.
Caitlin Johnstone
Electoral Politics Use The Same Containment Strategies As Alzheimer’s Facilities
10 Feb 2021
The US electoral system is like a dementia facility run by Democratic Party staff members pretending to want the same thing we want. “It’s a locked facility.”
Margaret Flowers
Popular Resistance: The Anti-War Movement Must Not Go Back to Sleep Under Biden
10 Feb 2021
Biden has chosen the most diverse group of war mongers and torture supporters the nation has ever had.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 8, 2021
08 Feb 2021
Activists Seed Public Schools With Black Liberation Curriculum
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black American Slave Legacy Inherited by Diaspora Immigrants
08 Feb 2021
Black immigrants are not included in the standard American immigration story because newcomers from the African diaspora “inherit the legacy” of US Black chattel slavery, said Kovie Biakolo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Political Party Puts Grassroots Organizing First
08 Feb 2021
Although the Baltimore-based Ujima People’s Progress Party has engaged in electoral politics during its decade of operations, its focus is grassroots organizing, mutual aid, and political education
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Activists Seed Public Schools With Black Liberation Curriculum
08 Feb 2021
The Ida B Wells Education Project has begun “centering Black liberation movements” in the classroom curriculum of a growing number of public schools, said Peta Lindsay, a founder o
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Nightmare Years Will Repeat Themselves – Until the People Kick Out the Cabal
04 Feb 2021
To take on the corporate imperial racial capitalist state, we need a Black-led movement that puts politics in command and names the Democratic perpetrators and collaborators that are culpable in th
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Never Ending COVID Crisis
03 Feb 2021
Profits determine the US response to a health care crisis, so Americans are in trouble regardless of who occupies the White House.