Cuba

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: José Martí Today, Jesús Colón, 1961
29 Apr 2026
“Fidel Castro, the heir of José Martí is certainly throwing all colonial concepts and attitudes in history’s ash can.”
A. J. Horn
Cuba Beyond the One-Party Myth
29 Apr 2026
Rethinking Cuba's political system as a model of participatory democracy.
Jill Clark-Gollub
Growing Calls to End Unilateral Coercive Measures
29 Apr 2026
The United States has made economic coercive measures, sanctions, its primary foreign policy tool, committing war by other means with a comparable death toll.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The Class War in Cuba, Julio Antonio Mella, 1926
22 Apr 2026
“This pamphlet is a response to the bloody offensive by our tyrant and his master –Yankee capitalist imperialism.”
Sam E Anderson
Beyond the Algorithm: Defending the Cuban Revolution’s Record Against Ahistorical Attacks
22 Apr 2026
A critical analysis of ongoing social media warfare against Cuba and the global African response to a revolution under criminal siege.
Resumen English
All with Cuba: Stand Against the Threat of Imperialist Aggression in April
15 Apr 2026
Condemnation of the U.S. blockade against Cuba must be translated into acts of solidarity to defend the nation that has done so much for the world.
Nicholas Mwangi
A continental call from Africa: standing with Cuba against imperialist aggression
08 Apr 2026
With the economic strangulation of Cuba by the United States, African progressive organizations and movements are calling for broader continental solidarity.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Is the US Anti-Caribbean? How to overcome it then, Tim Hector, 1997
08 Apr 2026
“...it is like a knee-jerk reaction in the U.S – this consistent, insistent and persistent anti-Caribbean policy in the U.S. from 1776 to the present.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
A Weak Left Stands By as Russia Stands Up for Cuban Sovereignty
01 Apr 2026
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.
Isaac Saney , James Count Early
Democracy Under Siege: Popular Participation and Socialist Renewal in Cuba in a Time of Crisis
01 Apr 2026
While Western democracies exclude working people from economic decision-making, Cuba is expanding participatory governance to navigate its deepest crisis since the Revolution.