Political Economy

Earl Hazell
Blues for Jimmy: In Celebration of the Life of Jimmy Heath
29 Jan 2020
The author studied jazz composition and arranging under “a funny, smart-aleck, short, kind, genius composer and tenor sax player” – a musical giant.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 27, 2020
27 Jan 2020
African Peoples Socialist Party Heightens Global Struggle
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Claudia Jones: Black Feminist Fighter for Socialism
27 Jan 2020
Zifeng Liu, a doctoral student in Africana Studies at Cornell University, has authored a paper on Black activist Claudia Jones, who was deported from the US for her communist affil
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Women Against White Supremacist Empire
27 Jan 2020
Black women played a central role in the fight against European colonization, said Annette Joseph-Gabriel, professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Mic
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
African Peoples Socialist Party Heightens Global Struggle
27 Jan 2020
Omali Yeshitela said his African Peoples Socialist Party’s upcoming plenary gathering is designed to “build and strengthen the regional components of our party through the wor
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the Global Race to the Bottom
23 Jan 2020
Bloomberg has put himself and his fortune into the contest to rally his (ruling) classmates to the task of shoring up corporate control of the Party if Sanders seizes the top spot.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Internet Does Washington’s Dirty Work
22 Jan 2020
As long as the internet is in private hands it should be seen as a “frenemy” -- a useful resource that can also be wielded as a weapon.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
White Supremacy and War Are Vise Grips Strangling the Working Class: What we Can Learn from China
22 Jan 2020
The same white supremacist ideology that dehumanizes Black Americans also steers the US Empire’s regime of endless war abroad.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The New York Fed’s Financial Stranglehold on Iraq
22 Jan 2020
The US is threatening to seize Iraq’s oil revenues if Baghdad expels American troops.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
No, he did-ant—call her Pocahontas—did he?!
22 Jan 2020
"I’m a capitalist to my bones…” - Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA No, the dumb Don did-ant call Hocus-Pocus, “Pocahontas—“ did he?!