The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Any “movement” that leads protest back to the Democratic Party is, by definition, dangerous. Criticism of Donald Trump cannot be a defining feature of change.

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“The principal aspect of United States capitalist society is not merely bourgeois domination but bourgeois white supremacist domination.”

HANDS OFF NATO? Not Palestine? Who got the memo?

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.

Will Trump’s Tariffs Trigger a Second Great Depression?

Jon Jeter

The Trump administration’s escalating trade war has sent shockwaves through the global economy, with Wall Street giants sounding the alarm over an imminent recession. As experts warn of a potential depression, a larger question lingers: Is this economic chaos by design—or simply the result of catastrophic miscalculation?

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

Senator Cory Booker’s recent 25-hour Senate speech is hailed by some as an act of resistance. Really, it exposes the moral bankruptcy of neoliberal politics, as his performative progressivism clashes with his unwavering support for militarism and apartheid.

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“One Spring Day …” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Oliver Robinson

Donald Trump’s new “Safe and Beautiful” task force is little more than a thinly veiled assault on Black working-class communities in Southeast D.C., accelerating policing, displacement, and white vigilante violence. This moment exposes a brutal collaboration between federal and city officials to criminalize poverty and consolidate racial control.

Orinoco Tribune

As Ecuador heads into a pivotal runoff election, left-wing candidate Luisa González emerges as the favorite—but the shadow of foreign interference and political violence looms. In this interview, diplomat and human rights advocate Fidel Narváez warns that while the Citizen Revolution coalition is poised to reclaim power, the far right and external forces may make another attempt to interfere.

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti

The world has lost a champion of justice with the passing of Mario Joseph, a Haitian human rights lawyer who spent nearly three decades fighting for victims of state violence, cholera negligence, and political repression. His legacy lives on through the countless activists, lawyers, and advocates he inspired, carrying forward his belief in justice for Haiti.

Palestine Chronicle Staff

Monther Abed, the sole survivor of the Israeli attack on paramedics in Rafah, reveals the details of the crime in which 15 humanitarian workers were killed.

Jehad Abusalim

For 76 years, Gaza has been has been the defiant heart of Palestinian resistance. Today, as Israel’s genocidal war lays bare the brutal dead end of Zionism, Gaza’s struggle transcends geography, bringing a global reckoning with colonialism, oppression, and the cost of silence.

Alan MacLeod
Betar U.S., a far-right Zionist organization with ties to violent extremism, is quietly shaping Trump administration policy. This influence over government policy signals a dangerous new era of state-backed repression reminiscent of McCarthyism.

Socialist Workers Movement of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican far-right’s violent march on Friusa collapsed in disarray, exposing weakness in the movement as racist mobs failed to overrun a working-class community. However, the threat remains. This was not just a
chaotic spectacle but a dangerous escalation in the far-right’s campaign to scapegoat Haitian immigrants and divide the working class.