Political Economy

Sylvie Laurent, interviewed by Arvind Dilawar
MLK Was a Radical Who Hated Not Only Racial Subordination But Class Exploitation
07 Apr 2021
King explicitly linked the value of human dignity to the material conditions necessary to enable people to live a decent life.
by Jahan Choudhry, Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
07 Apr 2021
In "On Anarchism and Black Revolution" Peter James Hudson examines the historical roots of critiques of anarchism and its relationship to Black liberation movements.
Troizel Carr
BAR Book Forum: Short Meditations on Christina Sharpe’s “In the Wake”
07 Apr 2021
Being in the wake, in the afterlives of slavery…is to be caught in the reverberating aftermath of a long disaster, a durational dance with danger, with terror.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amandla Thomas-Johnson’s “Becoming Kwame Ture”
07 Apr 2021
The Stokely Carmichael of the 60s continued to politically and ideologically evolve while in Africa where he adopts the names of his political mentors Sekou Toure and Kwame Nkrumah.
Todd Cronan
Fanon Can’t Save You Now
07 Apr 2021
The great revolutionary foresaw the need to “rapidly switch from a national consciousness to a social and political consciousness” committed to the “distribution of wealth and social relations
Mack
Remembering Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald
07 Apr 2021
Having endured 50 years of incarceration, Fitzgerald was California’s longest-serving former Black Panther.
Thad Baltimore
Reporting on Anti-Asian Violence Sets Black People Up to be Harmed
07 Apr 2021
The media focus on Black-Asian “tensions” promoted the misleading idea that Black people are the main perpetrators of anti-Asian attacks.
Amanuel Biedemariam
The Global Anti-Eritrea-Ethiopia Agenda
07 Apr 2021
It is not up to the US to demand or dictate that Eritrea withdraw from Ethiopia -- it is Ethiopia’s and only Ethiopia’s call to make.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Still Unsolved: the Great Crime that Triggered the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
07 Apr 2021
After 27 years, strong evidence implicates Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame and the CIA in the downing of Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana’s airplane.
keith harmon snow
“Hotel Rwanda” Hero Kidnapped: Another Victim of Rwanda’s Grinding Machine
07 Apr 2021
Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame is a mass murdered enabled by the US, and the Rwanda genocide story told by western governments and their media is the exact opposite of the truth.