Wednesday, 4 February 2026 — Black Agenda Report

Epstein Files Shows How the Elites Move
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The importance of the Epstein files cannot be underestimated. They provide a view not just of scandal and sex trafficking but of international ruling class corruption.

DOCUMENT: Resolutions Passed by the Caribbean Anti-Imperialist Conference, Georgetown, Guyana, 1972
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“…this Caribbean Anti-Imperialist Conference..resolves..to work steadfastly for a democratic, anti-imperialist Caribbean union.”

Michael Parenti: The War on Drugs Is a Cover for Imperialism and the CIA’s Own Drug Dealing
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Michael Parenti’s legacy is clarity. He taught that U.S. policies like the drug war are successful strategies for maintaining power and profit.

Minnesota 9 — now say their names: pastor, lawyer, journalists and resistance leaders
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“Minnesota 9 — now say their names: pastor, lawyer, journalists and resistance leaders” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Margaret Kimberly – The Duopoly War Dance – The Democrat/Republican Pillow Fight
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist, Garland Nixon
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist, joined Garland Nixon in a conversation about the coordination between the Democratic and Republican parties in the descent into an increasingly fascist state.

BAR Book Forum: Marisa Solomon’s Book, “The Elsewhere Is Black”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Marisa Solomon. Solomon is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her book is The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life.

The EPA’s Zero Sum Game Surfaces a Dialectical Paradox That Should Be Celebrated, Not Decried
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The debate over the EPA’s new math misses the point. The agency hasn’t changed its values, it has simply stopped pretending to account for communities it was never built to protect.

Cuba Must Not Fall! Imperialism, Resistance and the Global Stakes of Defending the Cuban Revolution
Isaac Saney
The survival of Cuba’s socialist project remains one of the most critical holdouts against hemispheric domination, making its defense a global litmus test for sovereignty.

On the Anniversary of the Declaration of a ‘Zone of Peace’, the U.S. Heightens its Murderous Assault on the Cuban People and Revolution
Black Alliance For Peace
Branding Cuba an “extraordinary threat” on the anniversary of a regional peace declaration, the U.S. has escalated an assault designed to destroy hemispheric solidarity and justify hybrid war.

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah: “Together, and only together, do we win.”
Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
After 41 years in French captivity, revolutionary militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah speaks, offering an analysis of October 7th, global fascism, and the Palestinian resistance.

Reuters’ ‘Market Story’ and the American Pole: PetroChina, Venezuelan Oil, and the Siege That Calls Itself Trade
Prince Kapone
Reuters sells custodial plunder as a pricing issue, turning blockade into “market caution.” We restore the missing record: seizures, supervision, and the re-routing of Venezuelan oil revenue through imperial hands. We reframe the contradiction as doctrine—Fortress America tightening hemispheric command as multipolar escape routes multiply. We close with a call to organize: break the information blockade, target the choke points, and build material solidarity with the besieged.

Trump, White Farmers and the War on Zimbabwe’s Sovereignty: Why Africans Must Reject this Neo-Colonial Push
Mafa Kwanisai Mafa
The push by white farmers to enlist Donald Trump in a compensation battle over Zimbabwean land is a brazen, neo-colonial plot to undo African liberation history.

Statement of Solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran Down with US Imperialism Forward with the Sovereignty and Dignity of Oppressed Nations
Communist Party Marxist – Kenya, Booker Omole
The imperial assault on Iran is punishment for the crime of sovereignty, a protracted siege that oppressed nations worldwide recognize as a weapon threatening their own future.
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