Caribbean

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: O.A.S., Roque Dalton, circa 1970
28 Oct 2026
“The President of the United States is more/ the President of my country/ than the President of my country.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Calypso as Comment, Gordon Rohlehr, 1979
21 Oct 2026
“So the calypso ceases to be entertainment on a trivial level and becomes a vehicle whereby the society is going back and searching for its soul.”
Black Alliance For Peace
The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Renewal of Neocolonial Gang Suppression Force UN Mandate in Haiti
07 Oct 2026
The UN's renewal of the Gang Suppression Force mandate is part of a wider hemispheric project to reassert military control across the Americas. Caribbean leaders cannot claim to support a Zone of…
Berthony Dupont
How the OAS Works for Imperialism in Haiti
07 Oct 2026
The armed groups in Haiti are not a spontaneous wave of banditry, but a scheme orchestrated by imperialist powers in concert with a reactionary and subservient Haitian political class. The…
Mark P. Fancher
Is It Bad News That U.S. Drones Will Be Pulled Out of Africa?
30 Sep 2026
The U.S. relocation of MQ-9 Reaper drones from Africa to Latin America is not a drawdown of imperial aggression but a strategic reallocation, with the drones likely to be used against Cuba, Venezuela…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
In the same boat?
09 Sep 2026
"In the same boat?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Black Alliance For Peace
Declaration of a Zone of Peace
26 Aug 2026
From the blockade of Cuba to the kidnapping of Venezuela's president, U.S. imperialism is recolonizing the Americas, and the only answer is a Zone of Peace built through popular struggle and anti-…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio August 14, 2026
14 Aug 2026
In this week’s segment we discuss how the U.S. controls other nations in the hemisphere such as Guyana, which become de facto US colonies and assist in imposing imperial policies in the region. But…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Guyana and the Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism
14 Aug 2026
Gerald Perreira is chairperson of the Organization for the Victory of the People in Guyana. He discusses the America’s Counter-Cartel Coalition (ACCC) known as Shield of the Americas, the latest…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Declaration of the Rights of Caribbean Peoples to Self-Determination and Self-Government, West Indies National Emergency Committee, 1940.
11 Aug 2026
“Conflicts over colonies constitute the major source of war in the modern world.”