Anti-Communism

Stephen Kimber
True Lies Across the Water
27 May 2026
The real story behind the so-called murder charge against former Cuban President Raúl Castro.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference, February 14, 2026
25 Feb 2026
"A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.”
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EXCERPT: The Palmer Raids, Labor Research Association, 1948
28 Jan 2026
“We forget easily in America. We have forgotten the story of the Palmer Raids.”
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Your Anti-Communism Problem—and Mine
17 Dec 2025
‘Anti-Communism Week’ is a legal blueprint for crushing dissent. By labeling social justice activism as terrorism and empowering a new national task force, the state is preparing for the most intense…
Joshua Reaves
From Refusal to Resilience: How Hurricane Katrina Birthed A Global Health Vanguard
10 Sep 2025
The US government left Black residents to die after Hurricane Katrina, refusing Cuba's offer of emergency doctors. This racist neglect exposed a truth that the US state would rather sacrifice its own…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LETTER: Thank you, Mr. Howe, Ama Ata Aidoo, 1967
07 May 2025
Ama Ata Aidoo lands a knock-out blow to white neocolonial anti-African revisionism.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
STATEMENT: Paul Robeson Before the House Un-American Activities Committee, June 12, 1956
11 Sep 2024
Revisiting Paul Robeson’s prepared statement to the House Un-American Activities Committee–during a new era of repression.
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SPEECH: A Challenge to Artists, Lorraine Hansberry, 1962
21 Feb 2024
At a rally against the House Un-American Activities Committee, insurgent playwright Lorrainne Hansberry called on artists to shake off the fear and incoherency of the world to defend the peoples’…
Tamanisha John
Exercise Tradewinds: 40 years of U.S. Counterinsurgency in the Caribbean
14 Feb 2024
Exercise Tradewinds has historically been a show of military might and a threat to other nations in the Caribbean and Latin America that the West would exert force if they dared to stray from…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor , Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
BAR Book Forum: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s Book, “Black Scare / Red Scare”
01 Nov 2023
This week’s featured author is Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her book is Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing…