Grassroots Thinking·Aug 13, 2026 Cuba and the Current Red Scare: “Cuba: Capital of 21st Century Communism” and its Implications for Black Radicalism, Part I
At a conference honoring Malcolm X in 1990, the Zanzibari Marxist revolutionary Abdulrahman Babu explained that, throughout the twentieth century, when the U.S. government targeted “communism,” it was likewise (and perhaps more so) targeting national liberation struggles and self-determination in the Third World. “For instance,” he explained, “although American imperialism was supposedly fighting communism, throughout this period you’d find that American presidents—every American President—had texplained·Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
