Political Economy

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“We Need a National Industrial Commission, a Permanent One”
05 Aug 2020
Like the first Covd-19 relief package, the pending bill will have been written by “sleep-deprived staff and inattentive lawmakers who are making this all up on the fly.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Testi-lyin’ low Barr
05 Aug 2020
a man ‘made’ $13 billion in a day—while Stomachs of millions of men, women and children are symphony orchestras tuning to “Last Days of Pompeo…”
Earl Hazell
Essays on The Cult of White Feminism: The “Cos”-play of Elizabeth Warren
05 Aug 2020
A Black artist looks at the role of White Feminism in neutralizing the Progressive and Socialist Left in America, and its consequences.
Netfa Freeman
AFRICOM Crying Russia in Libya: A Pot and Kettle Syndrome
05 Aug 2020
The US waged unprovoked war against Libya and has militarily occupied Africa, but is still singing its old song that Russia is the aggressor on the continent.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Aug 2020
“Freedom Rider: Let the Movement Be Radical” by Margaret Ki
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
05 Aug 2020
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism brought me to Marxism and not the other way around.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Michael Sawyer’s “Black Minded”
05 Aug 2020
This book brings the indispensable voice of Malcolm X into our current political and social climate.
Katelyn Burns
NYPD “Jump Out Boys” Have Been Accosting People for Years
05 Aug 2020
When Trump’s federal cops snatched people off the street in Portland, folks cried “fascist,” but that’s an everyday occurrence in Black and brown New York.
Diane Gee
Detroit is No Portland
05 Aug 2020
It would be lunacy to send troops to Detroit, as Trump has threatened. “This is pre-emptive warfare.”
BAP National Coordinating Committee
Black August and Black Liberation: “Study, Fast, Train, Fight.”
05 Aug 2020
We owe it to our ancestors and our incarcerated comrades to escalate the struggle against the white settler state and its imperial capitalist order.