The New Dark Age

Building Black Self-Determination and Ending the Politics of Fear

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elections, the contradictions of Black politics are becoming more and more acute.

Bulletin on Domestic Militarism and Repression – Vol. 1 Issue #4

​​​​​​​Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist

The National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7) reveals dangerous policies that many don’t know exists. It is a domestic counterinsurgency mechanism that criminalizes anti-fascist organizing as terrorism.

INTERVIEW: How the Cuban Revolution was Made, Fidel Castro, 1979

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“In other words, people revolted against the system. But they did not know that the system was called capitalism.”

Marco Rubio Represents a Clear and Present Threat to Global Climate Liberation…So Why is the U.S. Climate “Movement” Ignoring Him?

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis caused by the U.S. denying other nations their sovereignty through imperialist violence, but the U.S. climate movement is more comfortable talking only about emissions.

Slimy green cesspool reflecting capitalist rule

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“Slimy green cesspool reflecting capitalist rule” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

NATO’s 77th Summit in Ankara, Türkiye: A Meeting of Warmongering and Endless Acronyms

Essam Elkorghli

The engraved revolvers Erdogan handed out in Ankara showed that NATO has stopped pretending to be a defensive alliance and embraced its new role as the West’s premier weapons trade fair.

Cuba’s President Responds to Marco Rubio’s War Propaganda

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

Cuba’s president, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, posted this statement in response to the State Department report on his X/Twitter account.

The Global Food Crisis

Ruben Bauer Naveira

Faced with the blockade of vital oil routes, the extreme dependence of modern agriculture on fossil fuels foreshadows not only high prices but also a food shortage capable of generating global social upheaval.

Zionist Expansionism in Latin America

Carlos Aznárez

Free trade deals, water contracts, and military training programs are quietly binding one Latin American government after another to Tel Aviv.

ICE Killings Fuel Nationwide Protests

Devin B. Martinez

Recent killings at the hands of federal agents have fueled protests across the US, including a nationwide day of action on July 18.

Trump’s Sanctions Against the ICC Are Unconstitutional, Rights Groups Say

Noah Hurowitz

The human rights groups’ suit came as the Trump administration vowed to destroy the International Criminal Court entirely.

Supreme Court targets Voting Rights Act of 1965 – denying justice and peace

John Parker

The fight for the ballot has always been tied to a wider war against Black political power, against workers, against the people paying for empire abroad and austerity at home.