Fascism

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Autocracy in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Eric D. Walrond, 1923
14 Jan 2026
“[T]he United States on March 31, 1917,...acquired the three Danish West Indian isles…subsequently rechristened “the Virgin Islands of the United States.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Lifting the Veil on International Human Rights Day: How Gaza Exposed the Oxymoron of Western Values and Human Rights
10 Dec 2025
The genocide in Gaza has torn off the West’s human rights mask. This naked colonial violence demands a new path where rights are won through people's struggle, not granted by the very states that…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
DUI Hire
10 Dec 2025
"DUI Hire" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Year in Rear View: What the Lack of Principled and Pronounced Opposition Reveals About that US Left (Or, Why Oppressed People Best Watch Your Backs)
10 Dec 2025
Trump’s accelerated fascism is met with the silence of a compromised U.S. "left." Its institutions, tethered to capitalism and the Democratic Party, reveal they are part of the machine they claim to…
Jon Jeter
Everything Must Change: Roles Reversed as Western Imperialist’s Gory, Glory Days Come to an End
03 Dec 2025
Europe celebrated defeating fascism in 1945 but immediately resumed its colonial control of the Global South. Now, eighty years later, the West is bankrupt financially and morally and is discovering…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
United Nations Security Council Resolution on Gaza is a Surrender to U.S. Led Global Fascism
26 Nov 2025
By approving a U.S. "peace plan" that legitimizes genocide and ends the right to resist, the United Nations Security Council has not just failed Palestine—it has actively consolidated a new era of…
Mosaab Baba
Sudan: Africa's Regional Neo-Colonial War
05 Nov 2025
The conflict in Sudan is a neo-colonial takeover, with United States ally the UAE using a proxy force to exploit that nation for its resources and strategic position.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Fascism Born in the Colonies, Not Europe
05 Nov 2025
Europe refined fascism in its colonies long before bringing the model home.
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Peru's Executive in Crisis: The Anti-Democratic Legacy of Fujimori's '93 Constitution
29 Oct 2025
Peru's congress has perfected the art of the constitutional coup, disposing of presidents the moment their usefulness expires. The removal of Dina Boluarte continues a decades-long strategy to…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio September 26, 2025
26 Sep 2025
In this week’s segment we discuss the need for self-defense against racist, white supremacist forces. But first we hear about efforts to Build and Fight through a solidarity economy, self-…