Related Stories
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
BOOM goes tuna and swordfish stuffed brown burlap bags aboardboats blown to smithereens. Presto! Fishing is now narco-trafficking.
Imani Nile
Empire taught us what to believe about the Global South.
Logan McMillen
The Trump administration has already cut off Cuba’s access to oil.
Luciano Vasapollo
Cuba's leadership has chosen resistance over subordination as the blockade tightens, but Venezuela's sovereignty is being stripped away.
Black Alliance For Peace
From the blockade of Cuba to the kidnapping of Venezuela's president, U.S.
Luis Britto García
Venezuela is not Iran or Cuba, but those nations teach us that sovereignty is not given but is obtained through resistance.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Memories of a sovereign Venezuela collide with the reality that it is now a U.S. vassal state.
Sharon Kyle
Baba Akili and Thandiwe Abdullah returned from Havana with an eyewitness account of empty streets, failing hospitals and a people enduring the
Sara Flounders
The House Ways and Means subpoenas against peace and justice organizations, paired with the State Department's designation of Cuba as the cente
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“In other words, people revolted against the system. But they did not know that the system was called capitalism.”
More Stories
- Melissa BéralusThe U.S. mined a million tons of guano on a Haitian island without paying a cent to the Haitian authorities. Other countries have sold the product for hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Abayomi AzikiweThe late Nehanda Abiodun was an African American revolutionary who exemplified the movement to end national oppression and the criminalization of a people.
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior ColumnistCapitalist rule dictates that millions of Americans live in debt peonage. It was inevitable that Biden's student loan debt relief would be a farcical half measure.
- Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistDangerous and irrational U.S. foreign policy decisions are driven by fear of the end of white world supremacy and the determination to follow the principles of full spectrum dominance. Ajamu Baraka…
- Kahlil Wall-JohnsonThe U.S. loss of unipolar power has created liberal angst which does little to foster understanding of the new multipolar world.