Wednesday, 1 April 2026 — Black Agenda Report
A Weak Left Stands By as Russia Stands Up for Cuban Sovereignty
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Russia finally makes good on promises to help Cuba, but its level of commitment is unclear. The left are clearly immobilized, even as Iran demonstrates how to fight back.
ESSAY: Against Nuclear Imperialism, Kwame Nkrumah, 1960
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“We are not freeing ourselves from centuries of imperialism and colonialism only to be maimed and destroyed by nuclear weapons.”
Rwanda’s 30-Year Assault on Congo: The Crimes, the Criminals, and the Cover-up
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda’s 30-year Assault on the Democratic Republic of Congo, a new 80-page title from Baraka Books, gets straight to the essentials.
STOP Cruel Reich Cult (CRC) from reinventing the wheel
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“STOP Cruel Reich Cult (CRC) from reinventing the wheel” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.
BAR Book Forum: Zophia Edwards’ Book, “Fueling Development”
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 Zophia Edwards. Edwards is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Her book is Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago.
The Empire Has No Clothes: US Imperialism and the Hubris of White “Supremacy” Ideology
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Completely stripped of its democratic veneer, U.S. imperialism has been exposed as a system of monopoly capitalism driven by white supremacist psychopathology.
Democracy Under Siege: Popular Participation and Socialist Renewal in Cuba in a Time of Crisis
Isaac Saney, James Count Early
While Western democracies exclude working people from economic decision-making, Cuba is expanding participatory governance to navigate its deepest crisis since the Revolution.
UN Declares Transatlantic Slavery the “gravest crime against humanity”
Nicholas Mwangi
The UN has adopted a landmark declaration, introduced by Ghana, recognizing the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity,” in a move that has intensified calls for reparations from African and Caribbean countries.
UN “Experts” Fueling Washington’s Attacks on Nicaragua
John Perry
The UN panel’s reports on Nicaragua recycle claims from U.S.-backed opposition groups, serving as a propaganda arm for Washington’s regime change agenda.
The New Dark Age 
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