Political Economy

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Whites See Black Kids as “Disturbing the Peace”
13 Apr 2020
Sky-high rates of suspension of Black students are caused by a pervasive “system of anti-Blackness” rooted in slavery and Jim Crow, said Dr.
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San Francisco Sends 40 Percent of Jail Inmates Home
13 Apr 2020
Chesa Boudin, the leftish district attorney for San Francisco, claims to have reduced the jail population by nearly 40 percent since the onslaught of the epidemic.
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US Could Safely Release Three Out of Four Prisoners
13 Apr 2020
Although Illinois has responded to the Covid-19 epidemic by releasing about 500 state prison inmates, “the scope of the releases is way too small and way too slow, said Alan Mills
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 6, 2020
06 Apr 2020
Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
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Students May Strike for "Social Welfare" During Crisis
06 Apr 2020
Semassa Boko, a student activist and PhD candidate at the University of California at Irvine, wrote an article on the concept of a social welfare strike “under conditions where the
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Working People Must Build Solidarity in Resistance
06 Apr 2020
The general strike is “extremely promising” because “it is the surest way that workers have to protect their own health, since obviously the state and their employers are not interested in doing th
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Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
06 Apr 2020
Cooperation Jackson, based in Jackson, Mississippi, issued the call and list of demands to protect the people from both the virus and disaster capitalism.
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Black Agenda Radio for week of March 30, 2020
30 Mar 2020
COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
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Mumia: Things Fall Apart
30 Mar 2020
Citing the novel by Chinua Achebe, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal notes: “We see outside our doors, our windows, a world we did not know, that now exists.
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Can Black Marxists Imagine the Unimaginable?
30 Mar 2020
“There’s always something new that we couldn’t anticipate,” said Minkah Makalani, professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.