Caribbean

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: Cuba is Fundamental to Us, Michael Manley, 1977
18 Mar 2026
“If you can do that to Cuba because somebody doesn't like the Cuban revolution, then how do I know that you don't do that to me tomorrow?”
Pablo Meriguet
Shield of the Americas: Trump’s New Tool for Hemispheric Military Coordination
17 Mar 2026
The agreement was signed by more than a dozen right-wing and far-right Latin American governments and ensures Washington’s dominance and leadership in the Americas.
Tamanisha J. John , Kevin Edmonds
The Caribbean People’s Debt to Cuba
25 Feb 2026
Caribbean governments are betraying Cuba through silence and compliance with U.S. empire. The only way to challenge this failure of leadership is for the people to build an anti-imperialist movement.
Gerald A. Perreira
Turning Its Back on Cuba: Government of Guyana Sells Its Soul
25 Feb 2026
Cuba has provided Guyana with doctors, scholarships, and healthcare for nearly five decades. In return, Guyana's government has turned its back at the moment of Cuba's greatest need.
Horace Campbell
Cuito Cuanavale and the Break from Western Capitalist and Racist Domination: Africa’s Debt to Cuba
25 Feb 2026
Campbell explains how Cuban military and medical interventions have been decisive in the liberation of African peoples from colonial domination.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Resolutions Passed by the Caribbean Anti-Imperialist Conference, Georgetown, Guyana, 1972
04 Feb 2026
“...this Caribbean Anti-Imperialist Conference..resolves..to work steadfastly for a democratic, anti-imperialist Caribbean union.”
Isaac Saney
Cuba Must Not Fall! Imperialism, Resistance and the Global Stakes of Defending the Cuban Revolution
04 Feb 2026
The survival of Cuba's socialist project remains one of the most critical holdouts against hemispheric domination, making its defense a global litmus test for sovereignty.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Autocracy in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Eric D. Walrond, 1923
14 Jan 2026
“[T]he United States on March 31, 1917,...acquired the three Danish West Indian isles…subsequently rechristened “the Virgin Islands of the United States.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: National Liberation: Categorical Imperative for the Peoples of Our Americas, Manuel Maldonado-Denis, 1982
07 Jan 2026
“The national independence struggles of the peoples of Our America have simultaneously been anti-imperialist struggles from Tupac Amaru up through our times.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
STOP the killers!
07 Jan 2026
"STOP the killers!" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.