The Trump administration has accelerated its attacks on leftist organizations and individuals while also justifying its genocidal siege of Cuba with the release of the document "Cuba: the Capital of 21st Century Communism." This follows Executive Order National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), which provides a rationale for state repression and the criminalization of left organizing. Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report contributing editor and Director of the North-South Project for Peoples-Centered Human Rights. He provides analysis on this newest iteration of state repression in the US.
In this week’s segment, we discuss sportswashing and the success of the call to boycott the U.S. and the recently ended World Cup. But we begin with the Trump administration’s domestic repression and…
Austin Cole is a Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) National Co-Coordinator. BAP and other organizations called on the international community to boycott the 2026 World Cup, which was held in the United…
Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elections, the contradictions of Black politics are becoming more…
The National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7) reveals dangerous policies that many don't know exist. It is a domestic counterinsurgency mechanism that criminalizes anti-fascist organizing…
“In other words, people revolted against the system. But they did not know that the system was called capitalism.”
