Political Economy

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
11 Dec 2019
Readers discussed liberal warhawks, fascism and Trump, and America’s founding myths this week. We share your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adeline Masquelier’s “Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger”
11 Dec 2019
Young men in Niger meet at fadas to figure out what to do with their lives under uncaring global capitalism.
Nana Osei-Opare
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
11 Dec 2019
This teacher has Black liberation on the menu: from Mau Mau and African communists, to Biko, Nkrumah and Fanon.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ana Maldonado, Pilar Troya Fernandez, and Vijay Prashad
A Letter to Intellectuals Who Deride Revolutions in the Name of Purity
11 Dec 2019
Critics on the left in North America and in Europe gave the Chavez and Morales governments no time to breathe.
Netfa Freeman
Abstract Leftism Leaves Bolivia and the Global South in Imperialist Crosshairs
11 Dec 2019
The phony US Left specializes in finding excuses to betray victims of US imperialism.
Lucas Koerner
How the Global North’s ‘Left’ Media Helped Paved the Way for Bolivia’s Right-Wing Coup
11 Dec 2019
So-called progressives in the US can find every wart in foreign governments, but are blind to Washington’s regime change crimes.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Many Blacks Would Welcome Police Exit from Their Communities
10 Dec 2019
“The whole battlefield array of weapons is now deployed in Black and brown communities.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Rastafarians Were Key to Black Freedom Movement
10 Dec 2019
The Jamaica-birthed Rastafarian movement played a key role in the emergence of a global movement for African liberation, said Daive Dunkley, professor of Black Studies at the
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Lawless Judges and Prosecutors Block Mumia’s Road to Freedom
10 Dec 2019
Linn Washington, the Philadelphia-based legal scholar, told a New York City teach-in in support of Mumia Abu Jamal that the nation’s best known political prisoner would be free alr
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 9, 2019
10 Dec 2019
Black Alliance for Peace: It’s Good That NATO is in Disarray