Political Economy

Ken Morgan
Revisiting Black Nationalism and the National Question
24 Jan 2018
“Economic disparities, police brutality, inequalities et al. go together with capitalism.”
Jemima Pierre
Haitian Detainees are Captive Capital for Private Prison Corporation
24 Jan 2018
“When they cannot make more money out of us, then they deport us quickly.”
Alan Wald
Race and the Logic of Capital
24 Jan 2018
“Solidarity is built less by rhetoric than by “first showing up.”
Angola 3 News
Will California’s Governor Block Parole for Soledad Brother John Clutchette?
24 Jan 2018
“The law has been used to perpetuate an injustice in Mr. Clutchette’s case.”
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Black Caucus’ “New Class”: Worthless, Warmongering Servants of Empire
18 Jan 2018
“The Democrats have perverted the electoral franchise of the nation’s most progressive constituency to the service of a global war machine and an all-pervasive national security state.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Full Spectrum Arrogance: US Bases Spanning the Globe
17 Jan 2018
“There are 50,000 troops still in Germany, still winning World War II three quarters of a century later.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Oligarch Jeff Bezos
17 Jan 2018
“Republicans and Democrats alike are willing to turn over government coffers to Bezos and his ilk and the rights of the people be damned.”
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Why We Must Protect the World from the United States
17 Jan 2018
“For oppressed nations and peoples of the world, the U.S.
Daniel Zamora
The Case Against a Basic Income
17 Jan 2018
“If the payment isn’t high enough to let people to refuse work, UBI might push wages down and create more “bullshit jobs.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment
17 Jan 2018
“The violent appropriation of Native land by white settlers was seen as an individual right in the Second Amendment of the U.S.