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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
HISTORY: The Mutiny at Dominica, 9 April 1802
22 May 2024
As a Black army of mercenaries from Kenya, Barbados, Jamaica, and elsewhere arrives to continue the West’s colonial project in Haiti, we remember the history of the 1802 mutiny of African soldiers at…
Keston K. Perry
The Mirage of Mia Mottley’s ‘Progressive’ Politics
13 Dec 2023
Despite the praise she receives for being the “progressive” leader needed in the Caribbean, Mia Mottley and her policies in Barbados and her work within CARICOM have not veered outside the realm of…
Gerald A. Perreira
Leaders of the Americas and the Caribbean Miss Historical Opportunity to Deal Blow to US Imperialism
15 Jun 2022
The U.S. excluded Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the recent Summit of the Americas held in Los Angeles. While there was widespread condemnation against the U.S., only six heads of state had the…
Richard Drayton
Barbados: the Long Road to the Republic
07 Dec 2021
The nation of Barbados recently became a republic, severing its ties with the British crown. The road to independence began years earlier as part a wider Caribbean movement.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
TRANSCRIPT: “Will they mourn us on the front line?” Mia Mottley, PM of Barbados, speech at the Opening of the World Leaders Summit of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), November 1, 2021
03 Nov 2021
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley provided an impassioned call for global action on climate change. But what does it mean to beg for your life from the white neocolonial powers who have…