Political Economy

Peoples Dispatch Staff
Chicago Teachers Score a Historic Victory
06 Nov 2019
The city’s Black-led union, with potent support from the city’s Black and brown communities, faced down the new Black mayor.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 4, 2019
05 Nov 2019
Black Voters Won’t Save the Democrats
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia: Even Angela Davis Shocked by US Mass Incarceration
05 Nov 2019
Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, notes that even trailblazing prison abolition scholar Angela Davis, herself a former political prisoner, underestimated
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Green New Deal vs White Supremacy
05 Nov 2019
The fight for a Green New Deal is bringing together a “multiracial, multiclass coalition” that is meeting their environmental, economic and psychological needs “in a far more efficient and better w
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Fundamental Black and Native Opposition to White Setller State
05 Nov 2019
Blacks and Native Americans continue to pose a threat to the “conquistador white settler nation,” agues Tiffany King, author of “The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Voters Won’t Save the Democrats
05 Nov 2019
If the Democrats continue to behave as if the working class is white, they won’t be able to count on huge Black turnouts at the polls, said activist and public interest attorney Malaik
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Farewell to John Conyers Jr. – and to His Era
31 Oct 2019
John Conyers’ long career is a window on the decline of Black politics in the two generations since the demise of the mass Black movement.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Baghdadi Scam
30 Oct 2019
The Democrats and corporate media don’t really oppose what Donald Trump is doing in Syria or anywhere else.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
History Demands: Turn Imperialist Wars Into Wars Against Imperialism
30 Oct 2019
US imperialism is white supremacist capital on a global rampage, and must be countered by mass mobilizations of the oppressed -- like this weekend’s Black Is Back Coalition march on the White House
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Endures Relentless Interrogation
30 Oct 2019
Rwanda's democratic opposition leader says “there is no space for people to speak freely and peacefully and engage in real democratic process in Rwanda.”