Political Economy

Netfa Freeman
AFRICOM Crying Russia in Libya: A Pot and Kettle Syndrome
05 Aug 2020
The US waged unprovoked war against Libya and has militarily occupied Africa, but is still singing its old song that Russia is the aggressor on the continent.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Aug 2020
“Freedom Rider: Let the Movement Be Radical” by Margaret Ki
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
05 Aug 2020
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism brought me to Marxism and not the other way around.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Michael Sawyer’s “Black Minded”
05 Aug 2020
This book brings the indispensable voice of Malcolm X into our current political and social climate.
Katelyn Burns
NYPD “Jump Out Boys” Have Been Accosting People for Years
05 Aug 2020
When Trump’s federal cops snatched people off the street in Portland, folks cried “fascist,” but that’s an everyday occurrence in Black and brown New York.
Diane Gee
Detroit is No Portland
05 Aug 2020
It would be lunacy to send troops to Detroit, as Trump has threatened. “This is pre-emptive warfare.”
BAP National Coordinating Committee
Black August and Black Liberation: “Study, Fast, Train, Fight.”
05 Aug 2020
We owe it to our ancestors and our incarcerated comrades to escalate the struggle against the white settler state and its imperial capitalist order.
Nick Estes and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Examining the Wreckage White Supremacy and Imperialism Have Wrought
05 Aug 2020
Indigenous and African resistance and intellectual traditions provide key insights to the very nature of capitalism and how it has unfolded throughout space and time.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Black Caucus and the Dictatorship of (White) Capital
30 Jul 2020
Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Free Speech Fetish is American Exceptionalism on Steroids
29 Jul 2020
Harper’s “Letter” is little more than an exercise in white insecurity and opportunism among so-called liberal sections of the establishment.