Red Scare

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: “We Will Find You and We Will Kill You”: United States Counterterrorism Strategy, 2026
15 Jul 2026
“Americans should be safe to live their lives without the fear of terror attacks, the threat of Jihadists, the flooding of our communities with deadly drugs at the hands of foreign narcoterrorists,…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: “I was deported because I fought colour bar” Claudia Jones, 1956
08 Jul 2026
“I was deported from the U.S.A, because as a Negro woman Communist of West Indian descent, I was a thorn in their side…”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
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…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: The King Alfred Plan, Gil Scott-Heron, 1972
10 Sep 2025
“...white paranoia is here to stay/The white boy's scheming night and day/What you think about the King Alfred Plan?”
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Anatomy of a Red Scare
13 Aug 2025
As the Trump administration escalates its anti-radical crackdowns, past moments of repression offer a preview of what’s to come.
David Hundeyin
The Empire Finds An African Enemy: African Stream In The Crosshairs
25 Sep 2024
The state has put targets on the backs of left-wing independent media outlets it identifies as subversive. African Stream has been accused of being a Russian puppet in an age-old pattern of…
Jon Jeter
From Emma Goldman to Chairman Omali, the Empire’s Crackdown on Free Speech and Racial Solidarity
18 Sep 2024
The ruling class is once again in a frenzied state, seeking to crush political dissent and a growing class consciousness with an iron fist in another wave of repression.
Omali Yeshitela
The Uhuru 3 verdict is in: We work for Black people, not Russia! The U.S. government lied and lost! The Uhuru Movement told the truth and won!
18 Sep 2024
Official statement by Chairman Omali Yeshitela on behalf of the Uhuru 3, including Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel.
Black Alliance For Peace
The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns U.S. Convictions of Uhuru 3 As A Fascist Farce
18 Sep 2024
The state persecution of the Uhuru 3 is one of the most important battles of this century. It exemplifies the lengths to which the U.S. will go to delegitimize and criminalize Black radical movements…