State Repression

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.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For an ICU VA Nurse
28 Jan 2026
"For an ICU VA Nurse" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Jacqueline Luqman
Continuity of Social Control From Slave Patrols To Policing To ICE
28 Jan 2026
To understand the violence of contemporary immigration enforcement, one must trace its lineage directly to the antebellum slave patrols — a system founded on racial terror and complete state control.
Jacqueline Luqman
Effective Organizing Requires Understanding Theory. That's Not A Hypothesis
21 Jan 2026
To dismiss revolutionary theory is to choose permanent defeat, reducing the movement to a hamster wheel of reaction and co-opted rage.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Trump Declares War on the U.S.
01 Oct 2025
Donald Trump has declared war on the “enemy within” and put the military on notice that they will mete out the same treatment domestically that they dispense around the world.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
(Don’t) “Say his name!”
24 Sep 2025
"(Don’t) 'Say his name!'" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Trump and Democrats Fuel the Washington DC Crime Panic
13 Aug 2025
Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department is not merely a result of his racist and authoritarian tendencies, nor is it new. It is part and parcel of a history of…
Matteo Capasso
The Unraveling: America Against America in the Post-Liberal Moment
13 Aug 2025
Fukuyama's 'end of history' was just an excuse for empire that Wang Huning saw through back in 1991. Now, as America's broken system tears itself apart, our job isn't to save it, but to build…
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.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Denied Bail, Remanded to Prison
23 Jul 2025
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire’s arrest belies Rwanda’s pretense to liberal democracy and its pretense to self-defense in DRC.