Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia on 2020 Elections
03 Nov 2020
The polls were wrong in 2016, and they may be wrong this year, too, said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay for Prison Radio.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Queerness in Africa is Complicated
03 Nov 2020
Thirty African countries have laws against homosexuality, but debate still rages over whether homophobia is endemic to Africa or a European import.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Black Racism is Everywhere in the Americas
03 Nov 2020
Anti-Black racism is not limited to the US, said Jomaira Salas, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Rutgers University and author of an article on Black Latina girls.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Police “Reform” = Counterinsurgency
03 Nov 2020
Attempts to “reform” the police through body cameras, so-called “community” policing and other such measures “all presume the continued presence of police” in oppressed communities, said Dy
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Billionaires’ Duopoly Wins on Tuesday
29 Oct 2020
Allegiance to the Democratic half of the duopoly – whether active or passive – is still allegiance to corporate rule, not a strategy for transformative change.
Howie Hawkins
Whatever Happened to Left Solidarity?
28 Oct 2020
In hopes of getting rid of Trump, progressives have followed Trump to the right.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
COVID-19 Exposes Economic Misery as U.S. Capitalism’s “New Normal”
28 Oct 2020
Neoliberal capitalism is incapable of containing the pandemic or facilitating an economic recovery for the masses.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bankrolling blu klux klans?
28 Oct 2020
Rhythms of red, white, blue ‘party’ lights flashing beneath screaming sirens; The rush of warm crimson drawing 2, 4, 6, 8, 10—and then some…
Ameer Hasan Loggins
We’re All Living in a Future Created by Slavery
28 Oct 2020
The carceral class is made up of persons of African descent who are systematically stigmatized as unfit for freedom and deserving of the dehumanization that comes with being incarcerated.
Ashton Rome
What the Political Realignment Suggest about the Prospects for Fascism
28 Oct 2020
The Democratic Party has seemingly accomplished the impossible – a revival of centrism in the midst of its collapse.