Political Economy

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Mumia to Speak in Philadelphia on Global Youth Against Empire
19 Nov 2019
The nation’s best known political prisoner will mark his 38th year behind bars at a “Youth Rise Up Against Empire” event, December 7th in Philadelphia.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Dems and Repubs are Moneypots, Not Real Political Parties
12 Nov 2019
If the Democrats were a real, mass based party, they would never consider Joe Biden as their nominee because he has no support among the people that energize parties: the youth.
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White Supremacy Goes Back to the Crusades
12 Nov 2019
The roots of western European anti-Blackness lie in the Middle Ages, in the Crusades to seize Arab lands, said Cord Whitaker, a professor at Wellesley College and author of “B
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Class Struggle and Revolution are Inseparable
12 Nov 2019
“If you don’t recognize class oppression, you’re siding with the oppressor,” said Jihad Abdulmumit, chairperson of the National Jericho Movement, speaking to a conference of t
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Ruling Class “Crisis of Legitimacy” is Behind “Bernie Blackout”
12 Nov 2019
The ruling class is attempting “to establish its legitimacy, once again, without the popular mandate of broad sections of the people,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 4, 2019
05 Nov 2019
Black Voters Won’t Save the Democrats
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Mumia: Even Angela Davis Shocked by US Mass Incarceration
05 Nov 2019
Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, notes that even trailblazing prison abolition scholar Angela Davis, herself a former political prisoner, underestimated
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Green New Deal vs White Supremacy
05 Nov 2019
The fight for a Green New Deal is bringing together a “multiracial, multiclass coalition” that is meeting their environmental, economic and psychological needs “in a far more efficient and better w
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Fundamental Black and Native Opposition to White Setller State
05 Nov 2019
Blacks and Native Americans continue to pose a threat to the “conquistador white settler nation,” agues Tiffany King, author of “The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black
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Black Voters Won’t Save the Democrats
05 Nov 2019
If the Democrats continue to behave as if the working class is white, they won’t be able to count on huge Black turnouts at the polls, said activist and public interest attorney Malaik