Political Economy

Ben Norton
Grayzone Editor Arrested on Trumped Up Venezuela Embassy Charges
30 Oct 2019
Almost half a year after the siege of the Venezuelan embassy by a right-wing mob, a journalist who helped defend the embassy has been thrown in jail.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
I Celebrate Red Roses of Resistance
30 Oct 2019
San Francisco singer sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, ringlets trickling down ‘round Angelic paper bag brown face, like sweat gathering on her glass of white wine.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Celebrating 13 Years of BAR’s Contribution to the Struggle for Peace, Justice, and Liberation
30 Oct 2019
BAR will never stop linking the conditions of apartheid America with the imperialist wars waged against the people of Libya, Syria, or anywhere else.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
30 Oct 2019
This week readers wrote about the Obama administration's role in Syria, a recent citizens’ delegation to Russia, and BAR’s 13th anniversary celebration. We share your letters for “
Eziaku Nwokocha
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
30 Oct 2019
Open and constructive dialogue is critical in shaping well-rounded students, including the study of transnational feminism and visual and material culture.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Derrick White’s “Blood, Sweat, and Tears”
30 Oct 2019
The inequitable power relations, in terms of race, in college sports is a byproduct of weakening of HBCU sports through desegregation.
Mark P. Fancher
Surviving Until the Revolution Comes
30 Oct 2019
The non-profit industrial complex makes it possible for the capitalist class to not only contain the revolution, but to shut down revolution altogether.
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Striking Chicago Teachers Refused to Give in, Condemn Mayor’s Austerity Budget
30 Oct 2019
Chicago’s teachers are demanding the city fund social supports for communities, as well as teachers, but the mayor is crying broke.
by Chris Brooks, Jane Slaughter
GM Workers Ratify Contract Though "Mixed at Best"
30 Oct 2019
The strike failed to dismantle GM’s multi-“tiered” labor system, or to forestall plant closings.
Erica Caines
Unpacking The Super Exploitation of Black Women
30 Oct 2019
The liberal misinterpretation of identity politics, that favors progressive neoliberals, has dismissed the innate radicalism of a workers centered Black feminism.