Political Economy

Julie Yixia Cai, Dean Baker
Black and Asian American Workers Falling Behind in Getting Back Jobs
22 Sep 2021
Economic recovery is uneven, with Black workers least likely to be employed in the wake of the covid pandemic.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Austerity and Mass Murder: An American Pastime
15 Sep 2021
The race to the bottom is an imperative of austerity, which is foundational to the history of state violence in the U.S.
Frances Madeson
Louisiana Activists Mobilize to Prevent “Shock Doctrine” Policies in Wake of Ida
07 Sep 2021
(This article originally appeared in Truthout.)
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Standing with the Cuban People
23 Jul 2021
The current Black-centered Cuban protest operation is very well orchestrated and if Black people in this country are not careful, they will end up amplifying the dictates of U.S.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power in the West Indies: Walter Rodney, 1969
23 Jul 2021
Rodney succinctly demonstrates how capitalism and colonialism, and nationalism and imperialism, function to create a rigid hierarchy by which color is fused with class to keep the Black majorities
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden is Wrong, Capitalism IS Exploitation
23 Jul 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced numerous examples of “disaster capitalism, and spectacular profits for billionaires.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The TPLF Attack on Ethiopia Contains the Accumulated Evil of the War
23 Jul 2021
The western nations that Ethiopia previously kow-towed to claim national government forces attacked Tigrayan troops first, when precisely the opposite occurred.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Our ‘democracy’
23 Jul 2021
Shangri-La—untaxed, socially-distanced champagne- caviar, Cayman Island, yacht crowds who Pay nothing for water washing their waste to sewage
Patrick D. Anderson
The Conspicuous Absence of Derrick Bell—Rethinking the CRT Debate, Part 1
23 Jul 2021
Bell levels a class critique against the Black bourgeoisie, whom he sees as having led Black political protest down the wrong path time and time again.
Mark P. Fancher
Memo to France as Its Soldiers Leave Africa: “Get Out and Stay Out!”
22 Jul 2021
French bullying of Africa has been driven entirely by self-interest and greed.