Political Economy

Popular Resistance
Now that Trump Has Been Defeated...
11 Nov 2020
We need to continue building power from the bottom up through organizing, political education and community assemblies.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Argentinians Demand Inclusion in National Story
10 Nov 2020
Argentina created a mythology of national whiteness that pretended the country’s Black population had long ago gone extinct, and ignored the presence of indigenous people.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
A “Communalist” Future?
10 Nov 2020
“Socialism is communalism in the modern form,” said activist and University of Illinois doctoral candidate Shay Akil McLean, citing Kwame Nkrumah.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Biden to Oversee a Kinder, Gentler Repression
10 Nov 2020
“The Democratic Party has used the language of law and order as much as the Republicans,” said Justin Lang, a doctoral candidate and activist at Brown University.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
White Supremacy Lite Wins the Prize
10 Nov 2020
The contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was about how best to preserve whiteness, said Dr Johnny Williams, professor of Sociology at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticu
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Corporate Democrats Want to Run Against Trump-like Republicans Forever
05 Nov 2020
Whoever wins the Electoral College, race-based politics will continue to allow the corporate rulers to ignore public demands for relief from the Race to the Bottom and endless war.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black People Lose in 2020
05 Nov 2020
Black people will get nothing from a Joe Biden administration except fiscal austerity and the precarity that comes with it.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
American Exceptionalism Won’t Save the U.S. Empire from Itself, or Stop China’s Rise
04 Nov 2020
China’s rise reflects a bourgeoning global movement away from U.S. imperialism and toward self-determination.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
That is not the Question
04 Nov 2020
The question is not if teargas breath thugs weaponizing COVID; co-signing starvation; stage whispering, “Lock her up!” ripping children from mothers’ arms—splintering
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rubble Kings: How the Violence Stopped and Hip Hop Emerged in the South Bronx
04 Nov 2020
A fact-based, crowd-funded film on urban devastation and gang warfare in the South Bronx packs a bigger political punch than the cult classic, The Warriors.