The New Dark Age

Cuba, Venezuela and Regime Change

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Regime change is possible but not inevitable. Forces claiming to be leftist and claiming to be revolutionary must actually live up to the true meaning of those words.

INTERVIEW: Cuba is Fundamental to Us, Michael Manley, 1977

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“If you can do that to Cuba because somebody doesn’t like the Cuban revolution, then how do I know that you don’t do that to me tomorrow?”

What is the ‘Left’ in the Era of Global Fascism

​​​​​​​Ajamu Baraka, BAR Editor and Columnist, Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

There is no coherent and sustained leftist movement at the very moment that U.S. led global fascism is accelerating.

The Light of Palestine Will Lead the Way to Global Liberation

​​​​​​​Ajamu Baraka, BAR Editor and Columnist

Black Agenda Report Editor and Columnist, Ajamu Baraka, recently gave a presentation at the 4th International Conference “Palestine: The Nation’s Central Cause.” The transcript of his speech, “The Light of Palestine Will Lead the Way to Global Liberation,” is provided below.

Weaponizing Oil: Ecocide, Imperialism and the Chemical Warfare Brigades of the U.S. and Israel

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

The US and Israeli war of aggression against Iran continues the ecocide committed against the people of the region.

Play, Black Girl, play! (For the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music’s girls)

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“Play, Black Girl, play! (For the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music’s girls)” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Who threatens the Arab world: Iran or the US and Israel?

Joseph Massad

It should be clear to Gulf Arab states hosting US bases that the American presence does not protect them but instead places them in danger.

‘A.I. Is African Intelligence’: The Workers Who Train A.I. Are Fighting Back

Jason Koebler

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind A.I. training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

Economic and Information War: The Manipulation of the March 13 Events in Cuba

Isaac Saney

Washington is using economic warfare to manufacture unrest in Cuba, then using that unrest to justify more aggression.

Shield of the Americas: Trump’s New Tool for Hemispheric Military Coordination

Pablo Meriguet

The agreement was signed by more than a dozen right-wing and far-right Latin American governments and ensures Washington’s dominance and leadership in the Americas.