Imperialism

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…
Pambazuka News Editors
Türkiye, UAE, and the Imperialist Chain: African Ports and War
30 Sep 2026
Imperialist competition and wars that facilitate extractivism have long shaped the use of seaports for access to resources, markets, and devalued labor. In the last decade, countries in the chain of…
Black Alliance For Peace
U.S. Hands off Mali, U.S. Hands off the AES, U.S. Out of Africa, and Shut Down AFRICOM
23 Sep 2026
The U.S. is considering drone strikes and sanctions against the Alliance of Sahel States under the guise of counterterrorism, but the real objective is to regain neo-colonial control over African…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Ultimate Betrayal of Alex Saab and the Fate of Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan People
16 Sep 2026
The United States got its hands on Alex Saab a second time in order to use him in its case against Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. succeeded in getting a guilty plea from Saab, but the current Venezuelan…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Black Radicalism and the Return of the “Subversive Negro”
16 Sep 2026
NSPM-7 and the State Department's international campaign against "far-left political terrorism" represent new and more dangerous forms of domestic repression in the 21st century, while reconstructing…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
COMMENTARY: The Shrinking American Empire, Glen Ford, 2009
16 Sep 2026
“The Iraq invasion greatly accelerated the process of U.S. imperialism’s decline.”
Gary Wilson
Germany’s war drive feeds the far right in Saxony-Anhalt
16 Sep 2026
The AfD's landslide in Saxony-Anhalt reflects real working-class anger at the war and the arms buildup, but the party redirects that anger toward migrants and leaves the capitalist system that caused…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The Midwest and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Jim Jacobs, 1972
09 Sep 2026
“To seize control of the political economy of the Midwest is to seize control over the political economy of imperialist America.”
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.
Dhoruba bin-Wahad
Guardian Foray: All That's Not Real Is Camouflage
09 Sep 2026
An Open Letter from the American "Left" allegedly on behalf of unnamed persons said to be Iranian political prisoners has provided cover for U.S. imperial aggression against Iran by refusing to…