Wednesday, 29 October 2025 — Black Agenda Report
The Shutdown and Never Ending Hostility to the Welfare State
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The federal government shutdown is a fight between Trump and democrats, but it is also emblematic of the tenuous nature of the welfare state in the U.S. The duopoly parties are both committed to carrying out austerity policies on behalf of the ruling class.
The United States and Israel: The Tale of Two Rogue Settler-Colonial States United by A Commitment to White Supremacy and Barbaric State Violence
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The genocide in Gaza, the threat to Venezuela, and the targeting of Iran are not isolated crises. They are coordinated fronts in a single war effort attempting to enforce imperial dominance.
STATEMENT: The Challenge to the Colonial Powers, Delegates to the Fifth Pan-African Congress, 1945
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“Africans, as a last resort, may have to appeal to force in the effort to achieve Freedom, even if force destroys them and the world.”
The US Targets Colombians by Sanctioning Gustavo Petro
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“I do not have a dollar in the United States. There is no account to freeze for me.” – Colombian President Gustavo Petro, solidarity rally in Bogota, 10/24/2025.
Hourly, Hate America Rallies Stampede Through heads of Cruel Reich Cultists
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“Hourly, Hate America Rallies Stampede Through heads of Cruel Reich Cultists” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.
‘Leave us alone’: Scholar Jemima Pierre on ending Haiti’s foreign occupation
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
As foreign troops, private contractors, and international powers tighten their grip on Haiti, the country is facing one of the worst crises in its modern history. But who is really to blame? On UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks with scholar and activist BAR Editor and Contributor Jemima Pierre, who argues that the crisis is not home-grown but the result of two decades of United States, United Nations, and Western intervention that dismantled Haitian democracy and sovereignty.
El-Fasher’s Fall: A New Chapter in Darfur’s Ethnic Cleansing
Mosaab Baba
The world’s worst humanitarian crisis just found a new epicenter. The capture of El-Fasher signals the start of a worsening chapter in the history of Sudan.
Peru’s Executive in Crisis: The Anti-Democratic Legacy of Fujimori’s ’93 Constitution
Clau O’Brien Moscoso
Peru’s congress has perfected the art of the constitutional coup, disposing of presidents the moment their usefulness expires. The removal of Dina Boluarte continues a decades-long strategy to subvert popular will.
The Right to Resist is the Right of the People! International Organizations Launch the International People’s Tribunal for Palestine
International League of Peoples’ Struggle, International Peoples’ Front, People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty
When established institutions refuse to respond in the face of genocide, the mandate for justice falls to the people. This tribunal is a global grassroots movement taking the international law into its own hands.
Black Alliance for Peace Stands Firmly with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution
Black Alliance For Peace
We condemn U.S. lawlessness in Our Americas and call for multinational intervention to guarantee a ‘Zone of Peace’.
The US Plan To Pillage Latin America Is Becoming Clearer
Arturo Dominguez
Trump Administration officials have frequently invoked the Monroe Doctrine, explaining the aggression toward Latin America.
Palestine and the Making of a New New World
Steve Salaita
The liberation of Palestine is, above all, a world-building project.
15 million Venezuelans enlist to defend their country amid U.S. threats, says ex-diplomat Carlos Ron
Rodrigo Durão Coelho
He stresses, however, that the atmosphere is not one of panic despite the possibility of military aggression.
Cuba denounces Trump admin pressuring countries to change their vote against the 62-year US blockade
Pablo Meriguet
The Cuban foreign minister has stated that, in addition to diplomatic pressure, intimidation has been exerted on certain countries that condemn the economic blockade that Washington has maintained on Havana for over half a century.
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