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For the Black Alliance for Peace, 250 years of Extraction, Occupation, and Repression is Nothing to Celebrate!

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Black Alliance for Peace Calls On International Boycott of the 2026 World Cup Games in US

The Black Alliance for Peace’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights (the Project) raised the issue months ago of the fundamental inappropriateness of the 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup being hosted in the United States. The Project argued that the U.S. human rights record—including blatant actions globally that constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes, and complicity in genocide, along with the systematic abuse of the human rights of migrants, immigrants, and even U.S. citizens domestically through the unleashing of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)—renders the United States ineligible to host the games.

The Project called for the tournament to be moved from the United States, a call that was ignored. Now, with the games scheduled to begin in just a few weeks, the Black Alliance for Peace and its human rights project have no other choice but to call on the international community to withdraw all support for the games through an international boycott.

“It is outrageous and obscene that FIFA would allow the United States—a nation operating completely outside the bounds of international law and established international morality—to host the World Cup while providing material and political support for an ongoing genocide; constructing a regime of domestic terror through ICE goons who beat, murder, and disappear people into the vast detention gulags of the United States; invading and capturing a sitting president; attacking Iran; and imposing a humanitarian crisis on Cuba through criminal siege tactics perfected by Israel in Gaza,” stated Ajamu Baraka, Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

BAP is clear: as long as the United States continues its brutal assaults on the humanity and sovereignty of peoples and nations throughout the world in pursuit of full-spectrum domination, it remains an illegitimate and dangerous host for the World Cup.

But even more importantly, we believe it is a moral necessity to reject any attempt to use the World Cup as an instrument for normalizing international lawlessness, marginalizing accountability, and desecrating the memory of the tens of thousands of victims of U.S. criminality around the world.

BAP National Coordinator Erica Caines understands that this is a controversial position that may not be understood, even by people who recognize and oppose U.S. domestic and foreign policies. “We understand the excitement and pride of the nations that qualified and will compete in the World Cup. However, participation in the games while they are hosted in the United States does not uphold the Beautiful Game as it was meant to be celebrated. Instead, it risks normalizing genocide, domestic repression, militarism, and death.”

That is precisely why the Black Alliance for Peace stands firm in the  insistence that this year’s World Cup—and the United States itself—must be boycotted. Conscience and political consistency demand nothing less.

The U.S. agenda for domination is clear, and therefore our response must also be clear. We will not bend to U.S. imperialism or to any of its subordinate international institutions, including FIFA. Our resistance is politically grounded and informs our focused commitment to boycott the World Cup, boycott the United States, and advance the collective struggle for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

BAP calls on the international community to join us in the fight for authentic human rights grounded in the principles of self-determination, social justice, democracy, and radical social transformation.

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La Alianza Negra por la Paz hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional a boicotear la Copa Mundial de 2026 programada para celebrarse en Estados Unidos

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28 de mayo de 2026 — El Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos de la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) planteó hace meses la profunda improcedencia de que la Copa Mundial de la Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) 2026 sea organizada en Estados Unidos. El Proyecto argumentó que el historial de derechos humanos de Estados Unidos —incluyendo acciones flagrantes a nivel global que constituyen crímenes de lesa humanidad, crímenes de guerra y complicidad en genocidio, junto con el abuso sistemático de los derechos humanos de migrantes, inmigrantes e incluso ciudadanos estadounidenses a nivel interno mediante el despliegue de la agencia Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)— hace que Estados Unidos no sea apto para albergar los juegos.

El Proyecto hizo un llamado para que el torneo fuera trasladado fuera de Estados Unidos, un llamado que fue ignorado. Ahora, con los juegos programados para comenzar en pocas semanas, la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) y su proyecto de derechos humanos no tienen otra opción que convocar a la comunidad internacional a retirar todo apoyo a los juegos mediante un boicot internacional.

“Es indignante y obsceno que la FIFA permita que Estados Unidos —una nación que opera completamente por fuera de los límites del derecho internacional y de la moral internacional establecida— organice la Copa Mundial mientras brinda apoyo material y político a un genocidio en curso; construye un régimen de terror interno a través de matones de ICE que golpean, asesinan y desaparecen personas en los vastos gulags de detención de Estados Unidos; invade y captura a un presidente en ejercicio; ataca a Irán; e impone una crisis humanitaria sobre Cuba mediante tácticas criminales de asedio perfeccionadas por Israel en Gaza”, declaró Ajamu Baraka, Director del Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos.

BAP es claro: mientras Estados Unidos continúe sus brutales ataques contra la humanidad y la soberanía de pueblos y naciones en todo el mundo en busca de una dominación total, seguirá siendo un anfitrión ilegítimo y peligroso para la Copa Mundial.

Pero aún más importante, creemos que es una necesidad moral rechazar cualquier intento de utilizar la Copa Mundial como instrumento para normalizar la ilegalidad internacional, marginar la rendición de cuentas y profanar la memoria de las decenas de miles de víctimas de la criminalidad estadounidense alrededor del mundo.

La Coordinadora Nacional de BAP, Erica Caines, entiende que esta es una postura controversial que puede no ser comprendida, incluso por personas que reconocen y se oponen a las políticas internas y exteriores de Estados Unidos. “Entendemos la emoción y el orgullo de las naciones que clasificaron y competirán en la Copa Mundial. Sin embargo, participar en los juegos mientras son organizados en Estados Unidos no honra el Juego Bonito tal como debe celebrarse. En cambio, corre el riesgo de normalizar el genocidio, la represión interna, el militarismo y la muerte.”

Es precisamente por ello que la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) se mantiene firme en la insistencia de que la Copa Mundial de este año —y Estados Unidos mismo— deben ser boicoteados. La conciencia y la coherencia política no exigen menos.

La agenda de dominación de Estados Unidos es clara, y por lo tanto nuestra respuesta también debe ser clara. No nos doblegaremos ante el imperialismo estadounidense ni ante ninguna de sus instituciones internacionales subordinadas, incluida la FIFA. Nuestra resistencia tiene fundamentos políticos y orienta nuestro compromiso decidido de boicotear la Copa Mundial, boicotear a Estados Unidos y avanzar en la lucha colectiva por los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos.

BAP hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional para unirse a esta lucha por derechos humanos auténticos fundamentados en los principios de autodeterminación, justicia social, democracia y transformación social radical.

Apoya y únete a la Red Global para el Avance de los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos:http://bit.ly/GNPCHR

source: Black Alliance for Peace

Comprador Repression in Kenya: Kenyan government offers Red carpet for colonizers and a bloody nose for Anti-Imperialists

The Kenyan state has demonstrated a consistent and brutal willingness to deploy state terror against organized political dissent, targeting revolutionary leaders, working-class organizers, and anti-colonial voices with impunity. Past cases have laid bare the state’s methods: the violent abduction, torture, and illegal detention of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, Secretary General of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya, followed by the grotesque inversion of reality in which the victim of state torture was framed with fabricated assault charges. Today, as French President Emmanuel Macron co-hosts the France Africa  Summit, rebranded as “Africa Forward 2026” in Nairobi with President William Ruto—announcing €23 billion in “investments” while seeking a permanent French military presence—the Ruto regime has exposed its true character as a neocolonial and comprador administration acting in defence of imperialist interests against the democratic rights of the people.

The regime has chosen to criminalise anti-imperialist solidarity while rolling out the red carpet for foreign exploiters and agents of monopoly capital. Among those arrested in the ongoing crackdown are distinguished anti-imperialist and revolutionary activists, intellectuals, and organisers from across the globe. Their only crime is standing with the oppressed. Their only crime is rejecting imperialist domination. Their only crime is declaring that Africa is not for sale.

The arrest of international delegates, who were in Kenya for the Pan-African Summit Against Imperialism, a parallel counter summit,  further demonstrates the growing panic and hypocrisy within imperialist and comprador circles who on one hand claim a “Pan-African Mandate” to send  its police forces as the Black faces of white supremacy in the U.S.-led occupation of Haiti and in another, physically attack international Pan-African delegates on its own soil. The source of this contradiction? They fear the unity of revolutionary and progressive forces across continents, international solidarity against imperialism, they fear a politically conscious people. But repression has never defeated the people’s struggle. Colonial detention camps did not defeat the liberation movement. Moi’s anti-communist repression did not defeat the struggle for democratic rights. Fascist laws and police terror will not silence the masses today.

The independence of Africa is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of the continent from imperialism and neocolonialism. The Communist Party Marxist Kenya and the Black Alliance for Peace therefore demand:

1) The immediate and unconditional release of all arrested comrades

2) An end to police harassment, abductions, and repression against activists, organisers, and progressive movements

3) The immediate halt to all imperialist military, political, and economic agreements being imposed upon Kenya and Africa

4) Respect for the democratic rights of all participants attending anti-imperialist and Pan-African gatherings.

In line with the Black Alliance for Peace’s “U.S. and NATO Out of Africa” campaign, we further demand the closure of all foreign military bases on the continent, an end to AFRICOM and its proxy operations, and the full withdrawal of U.S., French, and NATO forces from African soil—from Kenya to Haiti, no more occupations under any banner. The struggle against imperialism is international, and no amount of repression shall defeat the organised masses of the people.

El gobierno keniano ofrece alfombra roja a los colonizadores y una dura reprimenda a los antiimperialistas.

El Estado keniano ha demostrado una voluntad constante y brutal de emplear el terror de Estado contra la disidencia política organizada, atacando con impunidad a líderes revolucionarios, organizadores de la clase trabajadora y voces anticoloniales. Casos anteriores han puesto al descubierto los métodos del Estado: el secuestro violento, la tortura y la detención ilegal del camarada Booker Ngesa Omole, secretario general del Partido Comunista Marxista de Kenia, seguidos de la grotesca inversión de la realidad en la que la víctima de la tortura estatal fue acusada falsamente de agresión. Hoy, mientras el presidente francés Emmanuel Macron copreside la Cumbre Francia-África, rebautizada como “África Adelante 2026”, en Nairobi con el presidente William Ruto —anunciando 23.000 millones de euros en “inversiones” y buscando una presencia militar francesa permanente—, el régimen de Ruto ha revelado su verdadera naturaleza como una administración neocolonial y compradora que actúa en defensa de los intereses imperialistas contra los derechos democráticos del pueblo.

El régimen ha optado por criminalizar la solidaridad antiimperialista mientras extiende la alfombra roja a los explotadores extranjeros y agentes del capital monopolista. Entre los arrestados en la represión actual se encuentran destacados activistas, intelectuales y organizadores antiimperialistas y revolucionarios de todo el mundo. Su único delito es solidarizarse con los oprimidos. Su único delito es rechazar la dominación imperialista. Su único delito es declarar que África no está en venta.

La detención de delegados internacionales, que se encontraban en Kenia para la Cumbre Panafricana contra el Imperialismo, una cumbre paralela, evidencia aún más el creciente pánico y la hipocresía dentro de los círculos imperialistas y compradores que, por un lado, reclaman un “mandato panafricano” para enviar a sus fuerzas policiales como la cara negra de la supremacía blanca en la ocupación de Haití liderada por Estados Unidos y, por otro, atacan físicamente a delegados panafricanos internacionales en su propio territorio. ¿Cuál es la raíz de esta contradicción? Temen la unidad de las fuerzas revolucionarias y progresistas de todos los continentes, la solidaridad internacional contra el imperialismo, temen a un pueblo políticamente consciente. Pero la represión jamás ha vencido la lucha popular. Los campos de detención coloniales no vencieron al movimiento de liberación. La represión anticomunista de Moi no venció la lucha por los derechos democráticos. Las leyes fascistas y el terror policial no silenciarán a las masas hoy.

La independencia de África carece de sentido a menos que esté vinculada a la liberación total del continente del imperialismo y el neocolonialismo. Por lo tanto, el Partido Comunista Marxista de Kenia y la Alianza Negra por la Paz exigen:

1) La liberación inmediata e incondicional de todos los compañeros detenidos.

2) Poner fin al acoso policial, los secuestros y la represión contra activistas, organizadores y movimientos progresistas.

3) El cese inmediato de todos los acuerdos militares, políticos y económicos imperialistas que se imponen a Kenia y África.

4) Respeto por los derechos democráticos de todos los participantes que asistan a encuentros antiimperialistas y panafricanistas.

En consonancia con la campaña de la Alianza Negra por la Paz “«Fuera EE. UU. y la OTAN de África”, exigimos además el cierre de todas las bases militares extranjeras en el continente, el fin de AFRICOM y sus operaciones interpuestas, y la retirada total de las fuerzas estadounidenses, francesas y de la OTAN de territorio africano, desde Kenia hasta Haití; no más ocupaciones bajo ninguna bandera. La lucha contra el imperialismo es internacional, y ninguna represión logrará doblegar a las masas organizadas del pueblo.

source: BAP

BAP & U.S. Out of Africa Network Endorse the Weekend of Action Against Zionist Presence in Africa 

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and the U.S. Out of Africa Network stand in full support of the Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa’s Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa, taking place April 24–26, 2026.

We call on all anti-imperialist, Pan-Africanist, pro-Palestine, and peace-loving organizations and individuals to use this weekend to expose and oppose the expanding Zionist and “Israeli” role on the African continent and its links to the broader architecture of U.S.-led imperialism.

The political basis for this action is clear. The Zionist entity is not an isolated state pursuing narrow regional interests. It is a colonial and imperial project that has functioned for decades as a strategic outpost of Western domination. Its genocide against the Palestinian people is inseparable from its role in Africa, where it has armed reactionary forces, deepened surveillance and repression, strengthened neocolonial regimes, extracted resources, and helped consolidate the political and military infrastructure of imperial control.

For African people, this is not an abstract question of foreign policy. It is a matter of sovereignty, self-determination, and liberation.

From military and intelligence cooperation with comprador regimes, to spyware and cyber-surveillance targeting organizers and movements, to the ideological warfare of Christian Zionism and the deepening of sectarian divisions, the Zionist entity has worked hand in glove with U.S. and European imperialism to undermine African liberation. “Israeli” penetration of Africa is one more mechanism through which the U.S./EU/NATO axis of domination seeks to maintain neocolonial control of the continent.

That is why the struggle against Zionism in Africa is inseparable from the struggle to shut down AFRICOM and defeat the broader war on African people.

The forces arming and funding genocide in Palestine are the same forces that destabilize the Sahel, occupy Haiti, surveil and repress African people in the diaspora, and militarize the African continent under the fraudulent banner of “security cooperation.” Their role extends across multiple fronts on the continent, including support for militarized arrangements and proxy dynamics in places like Sudan, the Horn of Africa, including the destabilizing implications of “Israel’s” recognition of  Somaliland, and resource-driven conflicts in the Congo. These interventions have contributed to mass displacement, mass death, and deepening humanitarian crises affecting millions. The underlying logic is consistent with what we are witnessing in Palestine and Lebanon: a system that governs through force, dispossession, and the devaluation of human life. “Israel’s” role in Africa strengthens the same imperial system that treats African land, labor, and life as disposable.

The Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa provides an important opportunity to deepen political consciousness, strengthen solidarity between African and Palestinian liberation struggles, and demand that African states sever all diplomatic, military, and intelligence ties with the Zionist entity.

We encourage organizations and communities to participate in ways that reflect their local conditions and capacities.

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and the U.S. Out of Africa Network affirm that African liberation requires opposition to all forms of imperial domination, including Zionism and its presence on the continent. Palestine and Africa share a common enemy and common objectives: true sovereignty and emancipation from the violence of Western imperialism. Our solidarity must therefore be political, strategic, and uncompromising.

No Compromise. No Retreat.

source: Black Alliance for Peace

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BAP’s 9th Anniversary: Turn Imperialist Wars into Peoples’ Wars Against Imperialism

For the past nine years, the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has sought to advance the radical Black, anti-war, pro-peace, and anti-imperialist movements through practice and uncompromising analysis grounded in our Principles of Unity and a People(s)-Centered Human Rights approach. The U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination’s imperialist brutality and lawlessness currently on display on both domestic and global fronts is intended to demobilize and destabilize us – in just the last few months, this lawlessness has enabled the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, and the bombing, invasion, and ongoing intervention in Venezuela; the heightened strangulation and attacks on Cuba; the war on Iran; continued occupation and destabilization of Haiti; and murders and occupations of U.S. cities by federal agents. However, this very brutality and lawlessness heightens the contradictions brought on by the Pan-European colonial/capitalist patriarchy and clarifies the stakes of our commitment to challenging and defeating the war against our people.

Importantly, BAP was founded on April 4, 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech that reconnected with the Black Radical Peace tradition by adding his voice of opposition to the murderous U.S. war machine unleashed on the people of Vietnam. In this, he argued that the U.S. was the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet, and that a radical revolution of values was needed to defeat “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism [i.e. capitalism], and militarism.” BAP’s work is part of Dr. King’s unfinished fight against these forces that have only intensified in the last 59 years and continue waging war on our people.

To understand the nature of such warfare is to see through the veil of imperialist global conflict and recognize it for what it fundamentally is: a continuation of class war. The United States’ recent global wars, particularly the full-throated illegalities of the post-9/11 era, represent a qualitative shift. This external aggression has a direct domestic byproduct: intense repression and the engineered splintering of the population, all while funneling working-class tax dollars into the military-industrial complex that supports imperialist violence globally.

However, within this grim reality lies a critical opening for forces like BAP and all others who struggle for a revolutionary transformation of society, such as the communal economy and governance within the Bolivarian Revolution or the development achievements through national sovereignty in Iran. The system’s brutality via imperialist domination, while intended to demobilize, must sharpen the resolve for us and all the African/Black, colonized, and oppressed working masses of the globe. What we have witnessed, particularly since the Al-Aqsa Flood and the subsequent U.S.-Israeli genocidal campaign on Gaza, is the removal of remaining liberal pretenses that thinly disguised the theft of land, labor, and life that capitalism requires to sustain itself. We must name the truth, that this process, this structure of U.S.-led imperialism, seeks only death to establish and maintain “full spectrum dominance”.

In this context, we focus on defeating this war against our people. This requires not merely exposing the contradictions of U.S.-led imperialism, but turning imperialist wars on our people into peoples’ war against imperialism. The radical, revolutionary, and progressive forces that understand this must find ways to strike strategic blows against the imperialist war machine that is intent on destroying our lives, livelihoods, environments, and the planet. For BAP and other forces in the radical African/Black movement, this can only be done effectively by engaging and supporting the masses of our people to prepare for and conduct a peoples’ war for liberation.

In our ninth year, BAP recommits to this protracted struggle through our consistent campaign frameworks that are increasingly focused on moving from simply exposing the contradictions of imperialism toward political clarity and consciousness expressed as organized, sustained activity that builds legitimate resistance to U.S. imperialism and militarism:

• No Compromise No Retreat: Defeat the War Africans/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad. Our core campaign framework, which includes emerging efforts such as the Climate, Environment, and Militarism working group.

• U.S. Out of Africa: Shut Down AFRICOM

• U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas: Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!, and

• “MOVE THE GAMES”: Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S and Israel

In the context of this protracted collective struggle, BAP continues to forge a path between analysis and action through these campaign frameworks that are the trenches in which we fight for a future beyond the logic of capital.  The decade ahead demands that we deepen this struggle, sharpen our ideological clarity, enhance our activity, and continue to build a movement capable of not only opposing the machinery of death but of building a new world in its place.

Not one drop of blood from the poor and working class to defend capitalist dictatorship!

No Compromise No Retreat!

souce: Black Alliance For Peace

In Solidarity with the Prairieland Nine: BAP Statement

(We must add a disclaimer. One of the prisoners, Meagan Morris, cooperated extensively against her co-defendants and is still being supported as a political prisoner. This should be highlighted regularly.)

The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with the Prairieland Nine following their convictions in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, and we condemn this ruling as lawfare against people’s movements. These verdicts must be understood as part of a broader escalation in the U.S. state’s war against the people and popular organization.

The prosecution of the Prairieland Nine demonstrates how the architecture of the so-called War on Terror is increasingly being turned inward. By applying terrorism frameworks to a protest connected to the Prairieland ICE detention center, the federal government is advancing a precedent meant to criminalize political dissent and suppress movements challenging the violence of the U.S. national security state.

This is the domestic byproduct of imperial decline. As the United States wages aggressive wars abroad and seeks to maintain full-spectrum dominance, repression intensifies domestically. ICE raids, expanded surveillance, political prosecutions, and the militarization of policing all function together as mechanisms to discipline the population and fracture collective resistance. Working-class tax dollars are diverted into the military-industrial complex while communities are subjected to detention, deportation, and incarceration.

The Prairieland case is an attempt to normalize the use of extreme federal charges, including “material support to terrorism,” against individuals engaged in protest activity. The objective is clear: isolate movements, intimidate communities, and establish a legal framework that can be deployed against organizers across the country.

The prosecution’s narrative rested on the weaponization of the word “Antifa,” which describes anti-fascist movements, but is now a term that has been weaponized by the far right and the national security state to manufacture a domestic enemy. By framing protest activity and even attire (such as wearing all-black clothing) through a counterterrorism lens, the state seeks to normalize extreme charges, lengthy sentences, and sweeping prosecutions that can be replicated against movements in the future, without the burden of material evidence.

Equally troubling are the irregularities surrounding the trial itself: restricted public access, heavy judicial control over jury selection, and barriers to independent observation. These conditions reinforce the reality that the outcome of this case was shaped within a broader political context designed to secure convictions and establish precedent.

But repression of this kind is not simply about punishing nine individuals. It is about sending a message to all who resist the violence of the U.S. system of detention, deportation, and border militarization. It is about intimidating movements and attempting to isolate those who challenge the legitimacy of the state’s institutions. It is about reinforcing the legal architecture that will strengthen repression and surveillance toward the aims of ‘full spectrum dominance’ on the domestic front, as well as globally.

The Black Alliance for Peace rejects this strategy of intimidation. We recognize that the expansion of repression inside the United States is inseparable from the broader crisis of the imperialist system. As the U.S. ruling class struggles to maintain global dominance, it increasingly turns to coercion at home to discipline the population and suppress opposition.

Yet history teaches us that repression also reveals weakness. When the state must rely on political prosecutions and terrorism frameworks to silence dissent, it is acknowledging the growing legitimacy of resistance, and its inability to contain it by other measures.

We extend our solidarity to the Prairieland Nine, to their families and communities, and to the networks organizing in their defense. Their case underscores the urgency of building stronger, more disciplined, and more unified movements capable of confronting the expanding national security state.

In support of the Prairieland Defendants, we share the demands put forward by Dare to Struggle:

1. Drop all federal and state charges against the Prairieland Defendants

2. Release all Prairieland Defendants from pre-trial detention

3. End ICE terror against the people of Texas and around the country

4. Donate to the collective defense and support for the Prairieland Defendants. They need more money for lawyers. GiveSendGo | Support DFW Anti-ICE Protesters

No Compromise, No Retreat!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

The Light of Palestine Will Lead the Way to Global Liberation

For those of us from the Black Alliance of Peace, we are honored to be able to participate in this gathering of fighters, of organizers on behalf of Palestine, but on behalf of the peoples of the world.

But let us provide a context and understanding of this historical moment, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the imperialist Armada holds the rain more terror on Venezuela, the ice gestapo, terrorizing citizens and non citizens in the streets of the United States of America has finally stripped away the mass of US and Western civilizational superiority revealing the rotten core of a civilization that never was.

They are and never were western values beyond their commitment to dominance, violence and plunder.

Today, for the people of the world, there is no confusion.

We are clear. This world is not governed by law but by power, not by justice, but by empire, not by the equal worth of human life, but by the permanent hierarchy of lives.

With Gaza, what we see is not the breakdown of the liberal order, but the order as it is, naked, unashamed and violent, an order built on conquest, on slavery, on genocide, an order built on theft, theft of land, theft of labor, theft of life, and now that order has spoken clearly, some lives matter, some lives do not. Some deaths are crimes, some deaths are policy.

And those who claim the right to decide are the same forces that have always ruled – the colonial powers, the settler states, the managers of global plunder, now calling themselves the guardians of civilization.

But let us be clear, fascism, which is a concern in the West, is not new, it is not a deviation. It is not an accident. Fascism is colonialism turned inward.

Fascism is capitalism where it can no longer lie. Fascism is empire without manners. It was practiced for centuries on the bodies of the colonized in Africa, in the Americas, in Asia, in Palestine.

As it did in the 1930s in Italy and in Germany, it returns back to the Metropole wearing new uniforms, waving new flags, but carrying the same logic, dominate or destroy.

And today it governs the world. It governs through bombs instead of ballots, through sanctions instead of laws, through starvation, instead of diplomacy, through fear, instead of consent, the Security Council has been captured not by chaos, but by intention, not by a project of permanent war, permanent domination, permanent Inequality, permanent death.

These are the values that have captured the Security Council, and we are told to call this order. But the peoples of the world feel it in their bones that this order is dying. This order is exhausted. This order is dangerous, and from its ruins a question arises, who will shape what comes next, not states, not empires, not corporations, not anyone, but the people themselves organize with the vision of a new world.

The peoples, the dispossessed, the exploited, the colonized, the surplus, the unwanted, those whose lives have been treated as expendable must now stand at the center of history, and that is why Palestine and Venezuela are not Just places.

Palestine is a mirror. Venezuela is a line in the sand. Both are verdicts on Western Civilization. In Palestine we see the old world clearly. It’s racism, it’s violence, it’s lies, it’s terror, it’s moral bankruptcy. And in Palestine we see the new world struggling to be born, carried by people who refuse to disappear,
the children who go to school under drones, the medics who will still run toward the bombs, the mothers who will still love in the face of annihilation, the fighters who still resist.

When the world tells them to surrender, they are not only fighting for land, they are fighting for meaning. They are fighting for dignity. They are fighting for the future. And so must we.

We must tear down the lies. We must break the silence. We must refuse the normal, we must reject the terms of this dying world order. We must build a politics, not of fear but of solidarity, not of Imperial nations, but of liberated peoples, not of profit, but of life.

And let us say, without apologies, Palestine will be free. Venezuela will maintain its self determination, not because history is kind, but the people are brave, not because power will allow it, but because resistance will force it.

Transformation of ourselves and the world will come when we face and we free ourselves from Empire, from white supremacy, from capitalism, from the long nightmare that began in 1492.

This is not a moment for neutrality. This is not a moment for comfort. This is not a moment for caution. This is a moment for alignment, a moment for courage, a moment for choosing sides. We choose life, we choose liberation, we choose the peoples, and we will not stop.

No compromise

No retreat

Palestine will be free.

Ajamu Baraka is an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. He is the Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights and serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the U.S.-based United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC).

source: Black Agenda Report

Iran and the Psychopathology of White Supremacy

The sincere belief that the sadistic brutalization of the Palestinian people would sever their connection to their land; that a sixty-year siege on Cuba would compel its people to abandon their revolution; or that assassinating Iran’s revolutionary and spiritual leadership would force the country to surrender its sovereignty to its historic tormentors in the United States and the Zionist ethno-state of Israel—these are not simply policy miscalculations. They are manifestations of what I call the psychopathology of white supremacy.

This psychopathology is not reducible to individual prejudice. It is a racialized, narcissistic cognitive disorder embedded in the ideological and institutional architecture of Western power. It centers Europe and its settler extensions as the apex of human development and renders its adherents incapable of perceiving objective reality when confronted with non-European resistance. While rooted in the historical experience of Europe and its encounters with non-European people during the expansion of European power,  it can affect anyone socialized within the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the Pan-European colonial project.

As a non-material conceptual frame, it nevertheless produces material consequences. Since the first sustained contact between emerging European powers and the non-European world, this affliction has shaped policies that devastated societies, cultures, and millions of lives. It ensures that Western decision-makers repeatedly construct strategies that are counterproductive even to their own long-term interests when dealing with non-European peoples.

The disastrous decision to attack and escalate against Iran exemplifies this dynamic. It reflects arrogance and hubris born of centuries of assumed supremacy, temporarily reinforced by episodic tactical gains elsewhere such as Venezuela. Yet this posture ignores profound global shifts in power. Western policymakers are unable—or unwilling—to recognize that the conditions that once enabled them to impose their will unilaterally no longer exist. They act as if the world remains frozen in the immediate post-Cold War moment, when U.S. hegemony appeared uncontested.

This cognitive distortion is inseparable from white supremacy itself, which operates ideologically and structurally. Ideologically, white supremacy posits that the descendants of Europe represent the highest stage of civilization, that their institutions, religions, and social systems are inherently superior. Structurally, it is expressed through global institutions and arrangements that reproduce Western dominance: the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, NATO, the global banking system, and dollar hegemony. These institutions function as material instruments for maintaining global white power.

Following the Second World War, the Nuremberg Principles and the United Nations Charter affirmed that all peoples possess the right to peace, sovereignty, and self-determination. States were not to interfere in the internal affairs of others. These commitments were framed as extensions of Enlightenment liberalism. Yet for those subjected to colonial conquest and racial capitalism, these ideals were always contradicted by practice. Liberal universalism proclaimed equality while colonial modernity imposed hierarchy. Still, the myth of Western moral superiority endured—particularly among Western elites, their colonized intermediaries, and privileged sectors of the white working classes who benefited materially from imperial plunder.

Gaza has torn away the remaining veil. The spectacle of mass destruction, rationalized and defended in the name of “civilization,” exposes the moral contradictions long embedded in Western political culture. When Western powers felt compelled to maintain the appearance of humanitarian restraint, there were at least rhetorical limits on their conduct. In the current era of openly lawless global fascism led by the United States and Israel, those self-imposed constraints have disappeared.

We must harbor no illusions about the nature of Western power or its pathological commitment to maintaining white supremacy. A commitment that has a cross-class character.  The dehumanization of non-European peoples has always provided the ideological justification for enslavement, settler conquest in the Americas, colonial consolidation in Africa and Asia, and contemporary doctrines such as American exceptionalism. The same biblical imagery invoked in Gaza echoes the language of Manifest Destiny. The logic is consistent: the lives of non-Europeans are expendable in the service of a civilizational mission atoned by a white Christian God.

The racial dimension of imperial aggression becomes particularly clear in cases such as Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba. These are not merely geopolitical rivals; they are targets marked by racialized narratives of irrationality, authoritarianism and political fanaticism. Narratives that are not just constructed by rightist forces but embraced by forces that define themselves as left, and anti-imperialist.  The resistance that emanates from global South forces challenges not only U.S. strategic interests but the myth of Western indispensability in both its left and right expressions.

Iran and Venezuela, working with BRICS partners, have developed mechanisms to circumvent sanctions through alternative trade arrangements and digital currencies. They have demonstrated that resource-rich nations can survive economic warfare. Venezuela holds the largest proven oil reserves in the world; Iran ranks among the top three. Iraq also occupies a critical position. Control over energy resources remains central to U.S. strategy, particularly in relation to China. The contest is not simply about regional influence but about preventing the emergence of a multipolar order that would weaken dollar dominance and, by extension, U.S. global leverage.

Dollar hegemony has been foundational to postwar U.S. economic growth and its capacity to sustain massive deficits. With national debt approaching unprecedented levels and annual deficits soaring, maintaining control over energy markets and reserve currency status is not optional—it is structural, and in fact, existential for Western white hegemony under the leadership of the U.S. Therefore, what is presented as a security doctrine is in fact an economic imperative.

“Full spectrum dominance,” articulated in U.S. national security strategy, calls for preventing the rise of any regional power capable of challenging U.S. supremacy. This doctrine explains the relentless pressure on Iran in West Asia and Venezuela in the Americas. It also clarifies U.S. interventions in Africa, including destabilization efforts that ensure regional powers remain subordinate.

Security-first narratives—counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, border enforcement—provide ideological cover. But beneath them lies a deeper crisis of Western capitalism. As that crisis intensifies, fascist restructuring becomes more explicit. Opposition to imperial policy is criminalized. Surveillance expands. Anti-terror and public order laws are weaponized. Domestically, Indigenous, African/Black, migrant, and labor movements are reframed as security threats. Internationally, sanctions regimes function as collective punishment, imposing siege conditions on entire populations.

The psychopathology of white supremacy fuels this process. Unable to accept limits, Western elites double down on coercion. Yet this very overreach contains its own contradiction. By misreading global realities and underestimating the resolve of targeted nations, Western powers accelerate their own strategic decline. Each failed intervention erodes legitimacy. Each sanction that pushes nations toward alternative financial systems weakens the architecture of dollar dominance.

For those engaged in social justice and radical struggle, these developments pose urgent questions. Can justice be achieved domestically without confronting imperial power internationally? Can movements ignore the racialized foundations of global capitalism while seeking reform within its structures? The consolidation of fascism abroad and repression at home are not separate phenomena; they are mutually reinforcing.

Renewed U.S. dominance, pursued through militarism and economic warfare, reshapes the terrain of struggle. It narrows democratic space, intensifies polarization, and demands clarity. There can be no effective oppositional politics that refuses to confront the ideological and material consequences of normalized white supremacy. Anti-racism detached from anti-imperialism becomes hollow. Anti-imperialism that ignores racial hierarchy is incomplete and reactionary.

The psychopathology of white supremacy, paradoxically, may be its own undoing. By distorting perception, it drives policies that hasten the decline of the “collective West.” By denying the humanity of others, it strengthens their resolve. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Palestine demonstrate that sovereignty cannot be bombed or sanctioned out of existence. Resistance exposes the limits of the Pan European colonial/capitalist white supremacist patriarchy.

The choice before radical movements is stark. Either we confront fascism—domestically and internationally—and challenge the structures that sustain it, or we drift into accommodation and become complicit in our own subordination. History suggests that empires rarely relinquish power voluntarily. They must be compelled by organized, principled resistance grounded in an unflinching analysis of power.

The era of illusions is over. What is required is clarity—and the responsibility to act.

No Compromise, No Retreat!!

Ajamu Baraka is an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. He is the Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights and serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the U.S.-based United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC).

source: Black Agenda Report

BAP Condemns Kidnapping and Torture of Kenyan Revolutionary Leader

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and the U.S. Out of Africa Network stand in revolutionary solidarity with our Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, Secretary General of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPM-K), and we demand his immediate release, access to emergency medical care, and the immediate withdrawal of all fabricated charges against him.

As of this writing, we have learned that Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole was violently abducted and tortured on the evening of February 23rd and is being held at Mlolongo Police Station. He was scheduled to appear in court on February 26th, where the state intends to charge him with assault, a grotesque and cynical inversion of reality in which the victim of state torture is accused of being the aggressor. We are monitoring the outcome of that hearing and await further reporting from our comrades on the ground in Kenya.

Comrade Omole was beaten severely. He was tortured throughout the night. His tooth was broken. His finger was cut with a pen knife. He was brutalized to near death by officers of the Kenya Police Service. To charge him with assault is a continuation of the torture by other means. It is the state attempting to give its criminal violence the veneer of legality.

The physical assaults and denial of medical care are crimes. The Kenyan state is known for its willingness to commit acts of brutality and we have no doubt that it is willing to let Comrade Omale die in custody from his injuries. The international community must act now to prevent another state murder disguised as “detention.”

Comrade Omole is being targeted because he is a leader of the organized working class. He was abducted, tortured, and now framed because he represents a threat to a neocolonial system that cannot tolerate revolutionary ideas. Because the Kenyan state, with the backing of its U.S. and European imperial masters, has decided that the price of resisting exploitation is state terror.

This is the same Kenyan state that has volunteered its police forces to serve as the Black face of white supremacy in the U.S.-led occupation of Haiti. This is the same state that receives millions in military and police aid from the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and the U.S. Department of State. The guns, the training, the ideology of repression, all of it flows from the empire to its local enforcers.

Free Booker Ngesa Omole Now!
Medical Care Now!
Drop the Bogus Charges!
U.S. Out of Africa! Shut Down AFRICOM!
No Compromise, No Retreat!

source: BAP

Brother Khalid, Presente! — BAP

The Black Alliance for Peace mourns the transition of Brother Khalid Raheem on February 14, 2026, and sends our condolences to his family and his comrades. Brother Khalid was part of many organizations and formations throughout his revolutionary life, including the Black Panther Party, National Council for Urban Peace and Justice, the New Afrikan Independence Party, the National Black Radical Political Congress, the Jericho Movement, the Gang Peace Council of Western Pennsylvania, the National Black Liberation Movement Unity Initiative, and many others. He was a revolutionary organizer, a prolific writer, and a dear comrade.

Brother Khalid joined the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1970. Involved in various campaigns and programs of the BPP, Khalid was arrested and incarcerated for over ten years. As a political prisoner, he embraced the teachings and practices of Islam, and struggled from inside to fight for the rights and liberation of all prisoners. After his release, Brother Khalid organized extensively in community in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area and continued involvement with local and national initiatives and organizations

BAP had the honor of collaborating with Brother Khalid and participating alongside him and many other revolutionary comrades at the most recent National Black Radical Political Convention in October 2025 in Philadelphia. There, Brother Khalid articulated as clear as ever the need for an independent and revolutionary Black political process based in principled unity. He was an elder who never gave up in the struggle for the liberation of oppressed peoples, and he contributed to our people’s liberation and anti-colonial struggle until his last breath. We salute Brother Khalid and embrace his example of committed, principled struggle.

Today, we celebrate his life and honor his struggle. Brother Khalid Raheem, presente!

Image: Khalid Raheem, at the front of the line, marching with the Black Panthers. Photograph: Stephen Shames/Polaris

source: BAP

The U.S. War on Cuba is a War Against Us All: BAP

The Black Alliance for Peace – New York City/New Jersey Citywide Alliance stands in unwavering solidarity with Cuba and denounces the criminal, six-decade-long economic blockade imposed by the United States government. The ongoing barbarity is a deliberate act of war meant to suffocate the Cuban Revolution and punish its people for daring to assert their national sovereignty. The recent, cruel escalation by the Trump administration—tightening sanctions and deliberately blocking vital oil shipments—is a calculated effort to inflict maximum suffering and break Cuba’s spirit through collective punishment.

For decades, the US has used its fickle definitions of “state-sanctioned terrorism” and violations of “human rights” to run cover for the suffering it inflicts on Cuba. But, we as African/Black people in the U.S. understand the truth, as it mirrors our own experiences: the Global South has no rights which this country is bound to respect, and can be justly and lawfully reduced to imperialist subjects for its benefit.

This ongoing atrocity should make everyone skeptical of what this empire considers human rights, as it is in direct conflict with the will of the Cuban masses, as well as all oppressed and colonized people globally. It is a slap in the face of the values of People(s)-Centered Human Rights, which prioritizes the right of communities and nations to self-determination, peace, and development free from imperialist aggression.

We recognize that this US siege disproportionately impacts African-descendant people in Cuba, who have been central to the nation’s culture and history of struggle. Cuba holds deep importance for African/Black people globally, serving as a symbol of resistance and resilience. It is a nation that has stood in immoveable solidarity with African liberation struggles, including those here in the US, offering internationalist support despite its own constraints. The US attack on Cuba is an attack on this legacy of dignity.

This moment demands we escalate our own organized, collective political action. We must build a region-wide wall of pressure to force the US to end the blockade against Cuba, as well as its parallel economic war and destabilization campaigns against other sovereign nations, like Venezuela. In the belly of this beast, it is our task to provide clarity and join forces with popular movements across the Americas. The only way forward is together. We will build a true Zone of Peace where the masses have the power to determine their own futures.

We must act now. Join the movement. Mobilize your communities. Struggle against the greatest international terrorist organization to ever exist.

Lift the blockade now! End the war on Cuba and the peoples of Our America!

source: Black Agenda Report

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On the Anniversary of the Declaration of a ‘Zone of Peace’, the U.S. Heightens its Murderous Assault on the Cuban People and Revolution

On January 29th, the 12-year anniversary of the declaration of Latin America & the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace by CELAC (the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) in Havana, Cuba, the U.S. dramatically escalated its economic and political war on Cuba. The U.S. issued an executive order declaring Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat,” employing a familiar propaganda strategy relentlessly tying the island nation to designated “terrorist” groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, and geopolitical adversaries like China and Russia. This rhetoric, mirroring dehumanizing narratives used against Venezuela and Iran, aims to manufacture consent for aggression by framing Cuba as a malignant actor. We condemn, in the strongest terms, this executive order and the broader war on Cuba.

To justify further U.S. lawlessness, the executive order explicitly frames Cuba’s independent foreign policy as a hostile act. The attack on Cuba is not isolated but part of a broader hybrid war targeting Venezuela and Nicaragua, aiming to dismantle any successful example of resistance or authentic regional integration, both of which Cuba has played a heroic role in advancing on behalf of the people of Our Americas. The overarching U.S. objective is the systematic destruction of the declared “Zone of Peace” in Latin America & the Caribbean through full spectrum dominance in the hemisphere. This escalation will lead directly to more economic misery in Cuba, conflict in that country and throughout the region, and destruction of any semblance of popular sovereignty within nations and non-coercive relationships between them.

The timing is critical, as this escalation occurs amidst a demonstrable lack of consensus within CELAC, highlighting how U.S. neocolonial influence actively fractures regional solidarity to enable such attacks. The recent contention over the concept of a ‘Zone of Peace’, which has until 2025 been unanimously accepted by all CELAC members in theory (if not in practice), has been a direct political and ideological gift to U.S.-led imperialism. Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister’s abdication of the concept of a Zone of Peace is a direct result of that government’s decision to serve as a neocolonial puppet in the region, being weaponized against revolutionary governments and regional integration based in sovereignty and solidarity.

2026 also marks the centennial of Fidel Castro, whose leadership was defined by the “Battle of Ideas” against imperialism. Today, we see the idea of “peace” being co-opted and corrupted by U.S.-led empire to further military domination, economic control, and political subjugation. This ideological struggle is material as well, as Cuba has long played a role in supporting true, just peace throughout the region and the world – most notably and recently in Colombia.

Fighting against U.S.-led imperialism, militarism, and genocidal acceleration means struggling ferociously to support the Cuban Revolution and the development of a Zone of Peace that links revolutionary national liberation and grassroots peoples’ struggles. Through the Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas and the accompanying U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas Network, we are attempting to support the grassroots coordination and organized resistance that is required to make this aspiration a reality.

Long Live the Cuban Revolution!

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

Black Alliance for Peace & Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

En el aniversario de la declaración de una Zona de Paz, Estados Unidos intensifica su sangriento ataque contra el pueblo cubano y su revolución 

30 de enero de 2026 – El 29 de enero, en el 12.º aniversario de la declaración de América Latina y el Caribe como Zona de Paz por parte de la CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños) en La Habana, Cuba, Estados Unidos intensificó drásticamente su guerra económica y política contra Cuba. Estados Unidos emitió un decreto ejecutivo en el que declaraba a Cuba una “amenaza inusual y extraordinaria”, empleando una conocida estrategia propagandística que vincula implacablemente a la nación insular con grupos designados como “terroristas”, como Hamás y Hezbolá, y adversarios geopolíticos como China y Rusia. Esta retórica, que refleja las narrativas deshumanizadoras utilizadas contra Venezuela e Irán, tiene como objetivo fabricar el consentimiento para la agresión al presentar a Cuba como un actor maligno. Condenamos enérgicamente esta orden ejecutiva y la guerra más amplia contra Cuba.

Para justificar una mayor ilegalidad por parte de Estados Unidos, la orden ejecutiva enmarca explícitamente la política exterior independiente de Cuba como un acto hostil. El ataque contra Cuba no es un caso aislado, sino parte de una guerra híbrida más amplia dirigida contra Venezuela y Nicaragua, con el objetivo de desmantelar cualquier ejemplo exitoso de resistencia o auténtica integración regional, en cuya promoción Cuba ha desempeñado un papel heroico en nombre de los pueblos de Nuestra América. El objetivo general de EE.UU. es la destrucción sistemática de la declarada “Zona de Paz” en América Latina y el Caribe mediante el dominio total del hemisferio. Esta escalada conducirá directamente a una mayor miseria económica en Cuba, a conflictos en ese país y en toda la región, y a la destrucción de cualquier atisbo de soberanía popular dentro de las naciones y de relaciones no coercitivas entre ellas.

El momento es crítico, ya que esta escalada se produce en medio de una evidente falta de consenso dentro de la CELAC, lo que pone de relieve cómo la influencia neocolonial de Estados Unidos fractura activamente la solidaridad regional para permitir tales ataques. La reciente controversia sobre el concepto de Zona de Paz, que hasta 2025 ha sido aceptado unánimemente por todos los miembros de la CELAC en teoría (si no en la práctica), ha sido un regalo político e ideológico directo para el imperialismo liderado por Estados Unidos. La renuncia del primer ministro de Trinidad y Tobago al concepto de Zona de Paz es el resultado directo de la decisión de ese gobierno de actuar como títere neocolonial en la región, siendo utilizado como arma contra los gobiernos revolucionarios y la integración regional basada en la soberanía y la solidaridad.

El año 2026 también marca el centenario de Fidel Castro, cuyo liderazgo se definió por la “Batalla de Ideas” contra el imperialismo. Hoy en día, vemos cómo la idea de “paz” es cooptada y corrompida por el imperio liderado por EE.UU para promover la dominación militar, el control económico y la subyugación política. Esta lucha ideológica también es material, ya que Cuba ha desempeñado durante mucho tiempo un papel en el apoyo a una paz verdadera y justa en toda la región y el mundo, sobre todo y más recientemente en Colombia.

Luchar contra el imperialismo, el militarismo y la aceleración genocida liderados por Estados Unidos significa luchar ferozmente para apoyar la Revolución Cubana y el desarrollo de una Zona de Paz que vincule la liberación nacional revolucionaria y las luchas populares de base. A través de la Campaña por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América y la red que la acompaña, La Red EE.UU/OTAN Fuera de Nuestra América, estamos tratando de apoyar la coordinación de base y la resistencia organizada que se requiere para hacer realidad esta aspiración.

¡Viva la Revolución Cubana!

¡Hagamos de Nuestra América una Zona de Paz!

Black Alliance for Peace y Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

source: BAP

BAP Condemns US Intervention in Venezuela and Stands with the Venezuelan People in Their Resistance to US Imperialist War

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) strongly condemns the international lawlessness of the neo-fascist U.S., the violent aggression and blatant attacks on the people(s)-centered human rights of Venezuelans, and violations of Venezuela’s sovereignty.

The U.S. bombed dozens of sites throughout Venezuela in the early morning of Saturday, January 3rd, under the cover of darkness to accelerate their war against Venezuela and sow terror in the country, killing civilians and destroying key infrastructure in the process. The rogue empire has also kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores and is allegedly taking them to New York to prosecute them in U.S. courts. This cowardly and blatantly illegal act reminds us all of the kidnapping of Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti in 2004, a move that kicked off the ongoing U.S.-led occupation of Haiti, as well as the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989.

In his press conference detailing the operation, U.S. President Trump claims that the U.S. will “run” the Venezuelan government to ensure a “transition” and is prepared to continue attacking the country again. Yet, we know that the U.S. is not running Venezuela at the moment, and this is part of the U.S.’s psychological war and will not be accepted by the people of Venezuela.

In the face of these attacks, the working class, revolutionary people, and popular movements of Venezuela have taken to the streets in support of the Bolivarian Revolution. Outside of Venezuela, anti-imperialist, anti-war, and pro-peace movements and organizations must continue to defend and stand alongside the brave people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

We unite with the communiqué shared by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which detailed that:

“The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela’s strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, attempting to break the Nation’s political independence by force. They will not succeed. After more than two hundred years of independence, the people and their legitimate Government remain firm in defense of sovereignty and the inalienable right to decide their own destiny. The attempt to impose a colonial war to destroy the republican form of government and force a “regime change” in alliance with the fascist oligarchy will fail, as have all previous attempts.”

We must understand that this is not a singular moment but a continuation of the decades-long war on the Bolivarian Revolution to destroy Venezuela’s sovereignty. This imperialist intervention has been made possible because of the complete abdication of any semblance of international law after over two years of genocide in Gaza, the development of methods of imperialist intervention tested on nations like Haiti that have long violated the declaration of the Americas as a Zone of Peace, the acquiescence of regional governments in the Americas to U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean and subversion throughout the hemisphere, the ongoing colonial occupation of Puerto Rico, and the bipartisan intensification of repression domestically throughout the United States.

For those in North America, we echo the calls to mobilize and coordinate resistance against this violence and subversion from within the empire. We must take to the streets, and mobilizations are taking place throughout the United States in support of the Venezuelan people. For those outside the U.S., Venezuelan movements and organizations are asking for mobilizations outside of U.S. embassies and diplomatic installations around the world.

As we mobilize, we remind everyone of publicly available resources to support education, mobilization, and resistance here:

• Hands Off Venezuela linktree: linktr.ee/handsoffvenezuela

• Black Alliance for Peace: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/defend-venezuela-2025

Beyond mobilization in the coming days, opposing U.S. imperialism requires organized resistance beyond this moment. To do this and to struggle to construct a Zone of Peace in Our Americas, we encourage all progressive, radical, and anti-imperialist forces to join the Zone of Peace campaign and U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas Network: zoneofpeace.org.

Defend Venezuela’s Sovereignty!

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

No Compromise No Retreat!

La Alianza Negra por la Paz condena la intervención estadounidense en Venezuela y apoya al pueblo venezolano en su resistencia a la guerra imperialista de Estados Unidos

3 de enero de 2026 — La Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) condena enérgicamente la ilegalidad internacional de Estados Unidos, de carácter neofascista, la agresión violenta y los ataques flagrantes contra los derechos humanos del pueblo venezolano, así como las violaciones de la soberanía de Venezuela.

Estados Unidos bombardeó decenas de sitios en toda Venezuela en la madrugada del sábado 3 de enero, amparándose en la oscuridad, para acelerar su guerra contra Venezuela y sembrar el terror en el país, asesinando a civiles y destruyendo infraestructura clave en el proceso. El imperio renegado también ha secuestrado al presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro y a la primera dama Cilia Flores, y supuestamente los está llevando a Nueva York para juzgarlos en tribunales estadounidenses. Este acto cobarde y flagrantemente ilegal nos recuerda el secuestro de Jean-Bertrand Aristide en Haití en 2004, un hecho que dio inicio a la actual ocupación de Haití liderada por Estados Unidos, así como la invasión estadounidense de Panamá en 1989.

En su conferencia de prensa, en la que detalló la operación, el presidente estadounidense Trump dijo que Estados Unidos “dirigirá” el gobierno venezolano para garantizar una “transición” y está preparado para continuar atacando el país. Sin embargo, sabemos que Estados Unidos no está gobernando Venezuela en este momento y que esto forma parte de la guerra psicológica estadounidense, que no será aceptada por el pueblo venezolano.

Ante estos ataques, la clase trabajadora, el pueblo revolucionario y los movimientos populares de Venezuela han salido a las calles en apoyo de la Revolución Bolivariana. Fuera de Venezuela, los movimientos y organizaciones antiimperialistas, pacifistas y a favor de la paz deben seguir defendiendo y apoyando al valiente pueblo de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. Nos unimos al comunicado compartido por la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, que detalla lo siguiente:

“El objetivo de este ataque no es otro que apoderarse de los recursos estratégicos de Venezuela, particularmente su petróleo y minerales, intentando quebrar por la fuerza la independencia política de la Nación. No lo lograrán. Después de más de doscientos años de independencia, el pueblo y su gobierno legítimo se mantienen firmes en defensa de la soberanía y el derecho inalienable a decidir su propio destino. El intento de imponer una guerra colonial para destruir la forma republicana de gobierno y forzar un “cambio de régimen” en alianza con la oligarquía fascista fracasará, como han fracasado todos los intentos anteriores.”

Debemos comprender que este no es un hecho aislado, sino la continuación de la guerra que se libra desde hace décadas contra la Revolución Bolivariana para destruir la soberanía de Venezuela. Esta intervención imperialista ha sido posible gracias a la completa abdicación de cualquier vestigio de derecho internacional tras más de dos años de genocidio en Gaza, el desarrollo de métodos de intervención imperialista probados en naciones como Haití, que han violado durante mucho tiempo la declaración de las Américas como Zona de Paz, la aquiescencia de los gobiernos regionales en las Américas al aumento del despliegue militar estadounidense en el Caribe y la subversión en todo el hemisferio, la continua ocupación colonial de Puerto Rico y la intensificación bipartidista de la represión interna en Estados Unidos.

Para quienes se encuentran en Norteamérica, nos hacemos eco de los llamados a movilizarse y coordinar la resistencia contra esta violencia y subversión desde dentro del imperio. Debemos salir a las calles, y se están llevando a cabo movilizaciones en todo Estados Unidos en apoyo al pueblo venezolano. Para quienes se encuentran fuera de Estados Unidos, los movimientos y organizaciones venezolanas solicitan movilizaciones frente a las embajadas e instalaciones diplomáticas estadounidenses en todo el mundo.

Mientras nos movilizamos, recordamos a todos los recursos disponibles públicamente para apoyar la educación, la movilización y la resistencia:

Enlace de ‘Hands Off Venezuela’: linktr.ee/handsoffvenezuela

Black Alliance for Peace: blackallianceforpeace.com/defend-venezuela-2025

Más allá de la movilización en los próximos días, oponerse al imperialismo estadounidense requiere una resistencia organizada que trascienda este momento. Para lograrlo y luchar por la construcción de una Zona de Paz en Nuestras Américas, animamos a todas las fuerzas progresistas, radicales y antiimperialistas a unirse a la campaña Zona de Paz y a la Red Estados Unidos/OTAN Fuera de Nuestras Américas: zoneofpeace.org.

¡Defendamos la soberanía de Venezuela!

¡Hagamos de Nuestra América una Zona de Paz!

IMAGE: People rally in support of the enlistment campaign called by the government of President Nicolas Maduro in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. Ariana Cubillos/AP

source: Black Alliance for Peace

U.S. Racist Immigration Policy Toward Haiti Reinforces Imperialism and Weakens Popular Sovereignty: BAP

U.S. immigration policy is the domestic arm of its foreign policy. The attack on Haitian migrants is a direct consequence of Washington’s ongoing war on Haiti’s sovereignty, making their defense a central anti-imperialist struggle.

On November 26th 2025, the Trump administration terminated Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti using nearly identical language to the TPS cancellations earlier this year for displaced Venezuelans and affecting upward of 353,000 Haitian migrants. In both cases, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that continued protections were “not in the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States,” affirming U.S. policy abuses redefine their “interests” at a whim.

While the U.S. has long politicized displacement from leftist states like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, casting migrants as evidence of socialism’s failure and selectively offering protections when it aligns with Washington’s broader regime-change goals, Haitian migration has been structurally and historically precarious. The 2025 TPS revocation is simply the latest chapter in a bipartisan, decades-long anti-Haitian regime, one that criminalizes the forced displacement of African/Black peoples while actively producing the conditions of displacement through coups, occupation, IMF prescriptions, Core Group dictates, and externally imposed “security” interventions that deny the Haitian masses true political sovereignty.

Moreover, Haitian migration has been criminalized longer and more intensely than any other migrant flow in the Western hemisphere. Haitians face the harshest, most racialized exclusions within the U.S. immigration system and across the Americas, in particular in the Dominican Republic where state targeting and  violence against Haitians, descendants of Haitian migrants, and AfroDominicans are routine. Haitian migrants are routinely denied political meaning, stripped of historic context, dehumanized, and subjected to abrupt TPS revocation alongside mass deportations under Republican and Democratic administrations alike, regardless of materially worsening conditions on the ground driven by U.S. imperial meddling. The recent news of Haitians, along with citizens of 18 other countries, showing up to take their oath for citizenship, getting plucked out of line and told they couldn’t proceed due to their country of origin, highlights the precarity and anti-Haitian racism that many face.

Thus, the latest TPS decision must be understood as a function of both historic  white supremacist domestic policy and ongoing imperial aggression toward Haiti itself, including the collapse of the U.S. designed Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) and the emergence of the rebranded hyper-militarized occupation, called the “Gang Suppression Force.” This is a continuation of the  denial of popular sovereignty in Haiti that forces Haitians to migrate under extremely dangerous and dire conditions must be connected to the global white supremacist, colonial, capitalist order of the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination that seeks to maintain hegemonic power in Our Americas. The crisis of Haiti, much like the broader crisis of “immigration” in the U.S., is in fact a crisis of imperialism steeped in anti-Haitian racism.

A History of Policing Haitian Migration

For over forty years, Haitians have been detained at higher rates, deported at faster speeds, and granted asylum at historically low levels (4–5%). Moreover, the U.S. has a long history of strengthening penalties to limit their asylum access. In 1981, the Reagan administration signed an agreement with the repressive pro-Western ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier regime to interdict any vessel suspected of transporting migrants from Haiti for immediate return, and between 1981-1990 the Immigration Naturalization Service approved only 11 Haitian requests for asylum with some estimates as low as 6. Rather than “refugees,” the Reagan administration characterized Haitian asylum seekers as largely “economic migrants” and “boat people” who were abandoning “one of the poorest countries in the world.”

Following the 1991 U.S.-backed military coup against the democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, thousands of Haitian asylum seekers were interdicted at sea and detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba where under the Clinton administration, the camps were expanded and Haitians were held without access to asylum protections, legal counsel and subjected to invasive mandatory HIV screening. This extraterritorial system of racialized detention reinforced the U.S.’s broader imperial strategy of punishing Haitians and pathologizing their displacement in the aftermath of U.S.-backed political destabilization.

That Haitians were later carved out of the 1997 Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act and forced to wait a year for the more restrictive Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act follows this trend. Even in moments of so-called humanitarian relief, African/Black migrants are excluded, over-scrutinized, and systematically denied the protections freely extended to others. This exclusion cannot be separated from the broader neocolonial context because just years after the 1991 coup and Aristide’s conditional reinstatement under an IMF-imposed austerity regime, Haitian displacement was criminalized rather than politically recognized, reinforcing a racialized logic of punishment for asserting sovereignty. This, as well as the infamous Clinton-orchestrated rice importation scheme that devastated the Haitian rice industry and destroyed national food sovereignty, is an example of how the centuries-long campaign of economic warfare against the Haitian people has fed into the ongoing imperialist crises of forced and coerced migration.

Maritime interdictions, Guantánamo detention camps, fast-track removals, and dehumanizing racially-coded language about “chaos,” “instability” and “boat people” have all served to justify anti-Haitian exclusion. Neither party has deviated from such anti-Black logic and state practices against Haiti and Haitians, which is predicated on a broader system of domination through white supremacist colonialism that is the method through which the U.S. maintains hegemony in the region. As such, bipartisan anti-Haitian racism is key to wider U.S. aims of full-spectrum dominance in the Western Hemisphere and fascistic social control domestically.

U.S. foreign policy creates Haitian displacement then criminalizes Haitians for fleeing

What is happening in Haiti in 2025 is not organic instability. It is the predictable outcome of years-long U.S.-backed coups, externally imposed political arrangements, IMF-engineered dependencies hollowing out of the Haitian state, loose flow of arms, and Washington’s support for un-elected leaders against popular will while enforcing foreign police interventions presented as “security reforms.”

Haitians do not flee Haiti because Haiti is a failed state. They flee because U.S.-led imperialism – with key support by Canada, the EU, NATO allies, and others – ensures Haiti is denied the sovereignty required to build a safe, sustainable environment and future. The paramilitary armed groups (so-called “gangs”) that have for years now wreaked violence against the Haitian people, destroyed neighborhoods that are the foundation of popular movements, and heightened social instability are a direct result and tool of U.S.-led imperialism’s war on Haitian sovereignty, and they are reinforced by neocolonial oligarchs and comprador political elites whose interests oppose popular sovereignty. This brings us directly to the current “security” interventions designed to fail.

The MSS occupation designed and championed by the U.S. collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. Destabilization was the strategy, so the paramilitary violence raging in the capital is not halted because it functions as justification for further occupation and a weapon against popular sovereignty. The new GSF, while presented as a fresh mandate, is simply the MSS intensified. A senior UN peace operation official Jack Christofides brings the same doctrinal and paternalistic peacekeeping framework that has historically failed in Haiti, Iraq, and elsewhere. This is not “new expertise” but continuity with a model of imperial governance that expands foreign control while eroding Haitian self-determination.

Supporting Haitian self-determination and people(s)-centered human rights means understanding the connections between U.S. “domestic” immigration policies. This means fighting to build an authentic Zone of Peace in the hemisphere, which does not fall prey to anti-Haitian racism and colonial logics with regard to migration.

Temporary Protected Status has always meant the least for Haitians because Haitians have always been held to the most punitive, white supremacist standard in the U.S. immigration system. The 2025 Trump revocation is not a break from the past, but a continuation of a bipartisan architecture that destabilizes Haiti through endless imperial intervention, criminalizes Haitian migration, and denies refuge to those fleeing crises the U.S. itself produces. Until U.S. imperialism is confronted and Haitian popular sovereignty restored, TPS revocations, mass deportations, and militarized foreign interventions will continue to operate together as the bipartisan machinery of white supremacist, anti-Haitian rule.

Instead of falling back on failed imperialist, neocolonial models that only exacerbate the root causes of forced and coerced migration, we must understand resolving challenges of migration as an integral part of fulfilling the call for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas. Struggling for this Zone of Peace requires upholding and supporting Haitian self-determination as central to the liberation of the region, through the bottom-up, mass-based, popular struggle in coordination with grassroots struggles throughout the region. Along these lines, the U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas Network is building out a structure for the masses of our peoples to successfully expel the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination from our hemisphere, and open up the space for alternative systems and institutions that can end the imperialist crises of forced and coerced migration of Haitians and all peoples of Our Americas.

Hands Off Haiti!

Shut Down ICE!

Make Our Americas A Zone of Peace!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

Don’t Believe The Simulated Coup d’État in Guinea-Bissau: BAP

It is important that African (Black) people around the world not fall for the latest amateurish attempt by the neo-colonialist puppet government in Guinea-Bissau, led by President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, to subvert the democratic will of the Bissau-Guinean people. Before completing the country’s November 23rd election process, military leaders loyal to Embaló suspended it and seized “total control” of the country, claiming to have done so to prevent election manipulation.

The Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) unite with the assessments and positions of our member organization, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), and the African Party of Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC) that holds representation on the USOAN Steering Committee:

“Upon completion of voting, official reports to the Regional Electoral Commissions (CRE) from the 10 Regions indicate that Fernando Dias da Costa won the election with a confirmed vote tally of 54%, while Embaló Sissoco, the illegitimate president seeking re-election, garnered 44% of the vote.”

This declaration was backed up by both domestic and international observers who reportedly agreed that Embaló was voted out of the presidency and that the National Electoral Commission (CNE) was about to publish the results that opposition candidate Fernando Dias won.

Embaló then claimed that he was arrested by the military, yet was still able to make the declaration in interviews with media outlets RFI, France 24 and Jeune Afrique. Meanwhile, the armed forces installed as the new head of state one of Sissoco Embaló’s own appointees, Major General Horta Inta-A. Embaló was able to leave for Dakar, Senegal, and then on to Congo Brazzaville, while his opponents were held in custody. On November 29th, armed masked men raided the headquarters of the PAIGC.

As far as BAP and USOAN are concerned, the Umaro Sissoco Embaló government was already an illegitimate one, having circumvented the 2023 electoral victory of PAIGC candidate Domingos Simões Pereira. In February of 2024, BAP mobilized a demonstration on the African Union (AU) Representational Mission to the USA in Washington, DC to protest the acquiescence of this crime by the AU and bodies such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations.

BAP is under no illusions that a people(s)-centered democratic process for Guinea-Bissau in particular and Africa in general spells the beginning of the end for Western plunder of the continent. The ex-president of Guinea-Bissau was one of five “Atlantic-facing West African” nations hosted last July by U.S. President Donald Trump’s high-level summit in Washington.  Guinea-Bissau forces have participated in the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) led training programs beginning in 2023 and signed a defense cooperation agreement with Washington that same year, providing a legal framework for training, military assistance, and so-called security collaboration.

It must be perfectly understood that the neo-colonialist repression in Guinea-Bissau emanates from the same general policy as the U.S. war on Venezuela, the zionist genocide against Palestine, or the militarized domestic repression of African and non-white communities within the bowels of the U.S settler colonialist state.

The Trump administration’s closure of Venezuela’s airspace is essentially a “no-fly zone,” a standard imperialist precursor to an outright military attack on a country. BAP and the USOAN understand that the masses must not simply be spectators of these acts. From the streets of all the major cities in the U.S. to Palestine, throughout Latin America/Caribbean, war is being waged on us! It is in the interest of imperialism to dismantle Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolutionary project, just as it is in its interest to prevent a PAIGC-led revolutionary process in Guinea-Bissau.

We demand:

1. The immediate release of Domingos Simões Pereira and all citizens who have been illegally detained;

2. The cessation of military hostility and harm to the people. HARM NO ONE!

3. That all military troops return to the barracks and cede civilian control;

4. That the electoral process be allowed to go forward with the official proclamation of the vote count and announcement of the winners of the presidential elections of 23 November 2025.

No compromise! No retreat!

BAP Africa Team & U.S. Out of Africa Network

BAP SOURCES:

• Urgent Message: Military Attempting To Stop Electoral Process In Guinea-Bissau, November 27, 2025

• Open Peoples National Assembly (ANP) in Guinea-Bissau, Monday, February 26, 2024

• Attack on Democracy in Guinea-Bissau, The House of African Independence (webinar video),  January 4, 2024

• AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #22, February 25, 2021

BAP’s U.S. Out of African Network & Africa Team co-sign the positions of our comrade, member organizations A-APRP & PAIGC

source: BAP

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=24677

#22 #africa #blackAllianceForPeace #coup #guineaBissau #imperialism

Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Presente!

To speak of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) is to speak of a life lived in courageous chapters. As the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), his voice, sharp as a scalpel and uncompromising as truth, cut through the illusions of a nation in denial. He was, as he famously declared, “a revolutionary,” and his very existence was a challenge to the violent architecture of white supremacy. His leadership was a clear call that moved from the plea for rights to the demand for power. He did so in a 1965 meeting with President Lyndon Johnson, demanding protection for voting rights workers in Selma, Alabama, while other “leaders” present were just happy to be at the white house.

His legacy, however, extends far beyond the powerful oratory of the 1960s and his written word in his autobiography, Die Nigger Die!. His transformation into Imam Jamil Al-Amin represented a deep, spiritual journey and a continuation of his revolutionary work through the disciplines of faith, community building, and moral clarity. In West Atlanta, he was not just a leader but a pillar, working to create a self-sufficient Black community grounded in Islamic principles and social justice. It was here that the full depth of his political vision matured, most critically in what he termed “the politics of education.”

Imam Jamil’s “politics of education” was a radical framework for intellectual and spiritual liberation. He invited a clear, unflinching introspection into the use of U.S. propaganda as a primary weapon to deplete and dismantle the revolutionary fervor of the Black masses. He understood that after the open brutality of fire hoses and police dogs came another insidious assault: a media and cultural narrative designed to confuse, co-opt, and corrupt our understanding of our own condition and our own power. He taught that to truly be free, we must first decolonize our minds, to see through the manufactured reality that justifies our oppression and sows internal division. This message remains a critical, urgent tool in our ongoing struggle in the battle of ideas.

It is precisely this unwavering clarity that made him a permanent target of the state. He was under COINTELPRO surveillance and was listed by name in the 1967 FBI memo which established the plan to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities” of Brown and others in the liberation movement.  His 2002 conviction for the alleged murder of a sheriff’s deputy was a vendetta realized, a judicial lynching designed to silence a voice that could not be co-opted. The facts scream of its injustice: the confession of another man; evidence that should have exonerated  him; a gag order to silence his defense; and the unprecedented, punitive measure of holding a state prisoner in a federal supermax prison, exiled from his attorneys, his family, and his community. For over twenty years, he endured the slow violence of medical neglect while incarcerated — a passive death sentence hoping nature would finish what the courts began, a state execution by another name.

His body was caged, but his spirit remained free. Rest in power, Imam Jamil Al-Amin.

Free All Political Prisoners!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=24033

#blackAllianceForPeace #blackLiberation #blackRevolution #hRapBrown #imamJamilAmin #repression #rip

A Call for Mass Struggle Against U.S.-Led War on Venezuela and the Caribbean

The U.S. empire, unable to accept the sovereignty, progress, and moral example of the Bolivarian Revolution, is escalating its aggressive attacks against Venezuela. This is by no means an isolated struggle — what started as aggression against Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution has already claimed several dozen lives of working-class people in the Caribbean and Pacific, extended to threats against Colombia and its President, been linked to the militarization of Ecuador and Panama, and re-militarized Puerto Rico. This is yet another front in the struggle against U.S. imperialism, and it is interlocked with our movements for liberation in Haiti, Palestine, throughout Our Americas, across the Global South, and within the borders of the United States.

It is the wider ongoing pattern of regional militarization and imperialist control that fundamentally violates the principles of a Zone of Peace, as the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has systematically transformed the Caribbean into a staging ground for its hegemonic projects. Puerto Rico, a colonial territory, is consistently used as a strategic site for the deployment and launch of military exercises, normalizing its status as a forward operating base, while nations like Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago are treated as subordinate “puppet states” that risk their own sovereignty to facilitate U.S. objectives. Simultaneously, Haiti has been cast as a laboratory for imperial policy, where an accelerated militarization and occupation over the last four years has provided a blueprint for intervention. The racist and cynical designation of Haitian paramilitary armed groups as “terrorists” to be eradicated by US-led occupation has done nothing to relieve impoverished, marginalized Haitians from the violence of these “gangs” — because they are a direct consequence of imperialism. And yet, the excuse and label of “terrorism” has now been directly exported to the case of Venezuela. There, the U.S. Department of War cynically compares Caribbean people in fishing boats to Al-Qaeda, a transparent tactic to manufacture a pretext for full military invasion and attack.

To oppose this militarization and violence, and expel the nefarious forces of imperialist, colonial violence from our region, we must be steadfast in guaranteeing Our Americas as a Zone of Peace. This guarantee can only be built from the bottom up, through grassroots coordination and popular struggle that elevates/focuses on/highlights anti-imperialist national sovereignty. This is why the Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas launched the U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas (UNOOAN) earlier this year. The UNOOAN is the mass organizational structure of the Zone Of Peace campaign designed to educate the public and strengthen an Americas-wide consciousness among the peoples of the region.

To move towards meeting this moment, BAP has joined with dozens of organizations calling for local actions during the week of November 15 – 23 to Defend Venezuela’s Sovereignty and connect our struggles. This week of action is a crucial beginning, but the gravity of the moment demands a coordinated and powerful response that moves from mobilization to sustained organization. Our movements must pull together our forces to expose the imperial lies that cynically label popular resistance as terrorism, broadening our analysis to expose the interlocked assaults on sovereignty across the region. And we must advance our collective consciousness beyond merely exposing these lies and toward challenging state violence and repression through popular power.

This mobilization must fuel the concrete building of national coalitions against SOUTHCOM and local self-defense networks, learning from the powerful examples of Venezuela’s communal militias and projects that embody popular democracy. The steadfastness of the Venezuelan people, who have joined these militias by the millions to defend their homeland, is not just an act of national resistance; it is a living proof that alternatives to imperial domination exist. The U.S. empire seeks to destroy the Bolivarian Revolution precisely because it shows we can fight for People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs) and for a true, just, militant peace. In unwavering solidarity with the Venezuelan people, we therefore commit to continuing this fight, organizing in solidarity with their masses and popular movements across the Americas to defend sovereignty, dignity, and the right to forge a different future.

Defend Venezuela’s Sovereignty!
U.S. & NATO Out of Our Americas!
Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=23301

#aggression #blackAllianceForPeace #colonialism #gazaSolidarity #imperialism #southAmerica #venezuela

In Honor of Comrade Abiodun Aremu: A Teacher and a Fighter for African Liberation

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network join the masses in Nigeria and across the African continent in mourning the tragic loss of our comrade and U.S. Out of Africa Network Steering Committee member, Abiodun Aremu.

Comrade Aremu was a Pan-Africanist and an internationalist in the truest sense. His profound understanding of the struggle extended beyond the borders of Nigeria, rooted in a deep commitment to the liberation of the entire African working class from the grip of imperialism. As a teacher and a steadfast general, his life was dedicated to the ideological and political work necessary for our collective emancipation, exemplified by his founding of the Amilcar Cabral Institute of Ideological Studies.

His death in a suspicious hit-and-run incident demands more than grief; it demands answers. We echo the call by the Nigeria Labour Congress for an immediate, transparent, and thorough investigation. The African working class cannot afford to lose its generals to mysterious accidents without explanation.

The greatest tribute we can pay to this fearless comrade is to intensify the work he helped lead. There is no more fitting way to honor his legacy than by throwing our full weight into the ongoing Month of Action Against AFRICOM. This campaign, central to the USOAN’s mission, embodies the anti-imperialist fight to which Comrade Abiodun Aremu dedicated his life. He understood that the struggle against U.S. militarism and imperialism is a struggle for African sovereignty.

We are all impoverished by his passing, but enriched by the ideological clarity he gifted the movement. His work continues through us.

Abiodun Aremu, Presente!

source: BAP

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=22058

#africa #blackAllianceForPeace #nigeria #rip

Two years after Al-Aqsa Flood, Palestinians Continue Their Fight for National Liberation and the Right to Exist — BAP

Today, October 7th, 2025, marks two years since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood changed the present and future of resistance not only in Palestine, but throughout the world. As we have stated previously, “the Black Alliance for Peace views the Al-Aqsa Flood as a legitimate resistance operation by the besieged Palestinians – the only party with an internationally recognized right of resistance. We support Palestinian resistance against the violent military domination by white supremacist imperialism and colonialism that began, first in the form of British colonialism, and continues in the form of zionism.” The Palestinian Resistance has given humanity the ideological clarity to understand in no uncertain terms the true nature of zionism and capitalist imperialism, and the so-called “Western civilization” that upholds them.

The Palestinian Resistance in Gaza, as well as in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, has unmasked the “Western liberal order” for what it has always been, a structure of degradation, war, and genocide – based in the exploitation and domination of the masses of the world’s people. They have shown all of humanity that while resistance comes with a cost, within this global imperialist system, it is the only path to self-determination, human dignity, and collective liberation. The Palestinian people have paid an unconscionable cost for their resistance. The people of Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, and Syria have also found themselves further engulfed in the fire caused by zionist settler-colonialism and U.S.-led imperialism.

While some would draw sharp distinctions between the Biden and Trump administrations, the former’s full-throated support for the zionist genocide in Gaza reveals to us that the entire duopoly of political elites in the United States has been spearheading support for the state of Israel’s genocidal ambitions. The Trump administration has only accelerated and further unmasked these intentions. The Trump-Netanyahu “peace plan” for Palestine provides insight into how the ruling political and corporate elites plan to divide and dominate the globe in a more advanced, straightforwardly militaristic status quo.

In Gaza, this plan would mean that Palestinians are excluded from negotiations over their own territory, forced into a “bantustan” framework under foreign supervision, and stripped of meaningful statehood while international forces oversee their administration, a return to the colonial British model of control that precipitated the 77 years of Nakba and occupation. Haiti is now being subjected to a similar model: decisions imposed by external actors, foreign forces exercising operational command, and a people’s sovereignty denied under the pretext of “security.” In both cases, imperial powers insist on “peace” and “stability” while erasing the political agency of the oppressed. As we have seen with the genocide in Gaza and accelerating settler-occupation throughout Palestine, BAP understands that the logic of U.S.-led imperialism is destruction, dismemberment, and death for all oppressed peoples.

In the face of this outrightly colonial “peace plan”, Hamas’s response further solidifies the clarity and heroism of the Palestinian Resistance. Rather than capitulate, the Resistance agreed in principle to releasing the captives, an agreement they made as early as 2023 but which was sabotaged by the zionist entity. They also agreed only to a governing structure that would be in alignment with the principles of international law and the national interest of Palestine, while leaving further terms to be worked out in negotiations. Resistance, not concessions, is what has forced this plan forward.

Whether in Gaza, the Congo, Sudan, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, or Haiti, the only “peace” that U.S.-led imperialism seeks is capitulation [or submission] to “full-spectrum dominance” and white supremacist, colonial control, which is the antithesis of self-determination for the colonized and oppressed masses of the world. This colonial control and false peace-making follows the consistent logic of domination and genocidal settler colonialism that Indigenous peoples of North America have been subjected to for over 500 years. This same colonial logic is playing out in cities across the U.S., as Black/African and Brown people and neighborhoods are occupied and terrorized by federal and local militarized “police” forces, and those who resist their brutalization and violation of human rights are punished with more brutalization. This logic is enforced through a militarization of our local environments and nations around the globe by the U.S. Department of War, which utilizes CENTCOM in Palestine and West Asia, AFRICOM on the continent, SOUTHCOM in Our Americas, INDOPACOM in the Pacific, and NORTHCOM (which oversees DHS/ICE and receives support from the National Guard) in the United States. These are not structures that can be reformed, they must be defeated.

As our dear sister, and now ancestor, Assata Shakur said, “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” While we are far from anything resembling true peace, repair, and freedom for Palestinians in Gaza, the oppressed peoples of the world understand much more clearly now that there is no hope in appealing to a liberal order that sustains itself on our dismemberment, degradation, and death. Resistance, and the development of self-determinative institutions based in popular power, must be our continued response to oppression, from Gaza to Los Angeles, from Haiti to Sudan, from Yemen to Chicago.

Long live the resistance!

No Compromise, No Retreat!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21853

#alAqsaFlood #blackAllianceForPeace #gaza #hamas #palestine #Solidarity #westAsia

In Honor and Memory of Assata Shakur

On September 25, 2025, the revolutionary Assata Shakur transitioned, leaving behind a legacy of uncompromising resistance and a blueprint for internationalist solidarity. As an anti-imperialist organization rooted in the long thread of the Black Radical Peace Tradition, we honor her with a renewed commitment to the liberation struggle to which she dedicated her life.

Sister Assata understood that we are a people at war, and the struggle against this war is not one-dimensional. It is a fight for human dignity, community survival, popular power, self-determination, and complete liberation.

The targeting, imprisonment, and torture she endured were the state’s counterinsurgent tactics to squash a movement by capturing its warriors—those who have the radical idea that African/Black people have the right to defend themselves and to be free. This repression continued for decades and across administrations, notably when the Obama administration escalated the attack by placing a $2 million bounty on her head in 2013, forcing her to curtail her public work. This moment demonstrated that the state’s war on African/Black revolutionaries is bipartisan and upheld through collaboration with compradors and misleaders.

Her escape to Cuba was not a retreat but an act of revolutionary internationalism. Sister Assata lived by the principle that the African/Black struggle in the United States is inextricably linked to the struggles of the oppressed throughout the Americas and the world. Her sanctuary was a testament to the Black Radical Peace Tradition. It is a tradition that understands, as our previous work has articulated, that true peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice, which requires defeating systems of oppression. It is the peace that comes when empires fall and when the colonized are free. She knew that her liberation from behind the walls and from the clutches of the United States was not complete. Sister Assata continued to live her life dedicated to struggling for the day when that peace is achieved.

Assata’s ideology was, at its core, a simple one—to love our people is to fight for our people. Her resistance was rooted in love, dignity, and an unwavering belief in our capacity to win. She taught us that resistance is a duty, that our enemies are not individual people but a brutal system, and that our humanity is non-negotiable.

Sister Assata has made her transition, but her legacy remains. Her journey reminds us that liberation is a borderless struggle. It is our task to continue on the path that she and our other freedom fighters paved for us.

No compromise.

No retreat.

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21591

#assataShakur #blackAllianceForPeace #blackLiberation #northAmerica #resistance #rip

U.S. Domestic Colonial Occupation Must Be Met with a Struggle for Decolonization, Not Reform

Since August, federal mandates carried out against Washington D.C. and intensified policing have been escalating with both the federal and local governments making it clear that they are waging a domestic war on African (Black) working class and migrant diaspora people. This imposition is not only in the form of increased National Guard troops. Arrests, deportations, and raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surged in Washington, D.C. as part of the federal crackdown, leading to high levels of fear in immigrant communities and has emboldened the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to harass and make more arrests, especially of Africa {Black} youth.

Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) D.C. City Wide Alliance (BAP-DC), of which PACA is a member, reaffirm that these events are all the logical endpoints of a political system that prioritizes property over people and repression over community safety. With every passing week the U.S. settler colonial state, currently presided over by the Trump administration, intensifies its naked aggression.

Mobilizations of resistance have been met with unabated policies of repression. On September 17th, the House voted to expand MPD’s powers to pursue suspects in high-speed chases, further endangering life and limb of D.C. residents. Several deaths and injuries in D.C. have occurred due to high-speed police chases. Recent legislation also mandates that D.C. judges strictly comply with mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines for youth, requires the DC attorney general to release a website with juvenile crime statistics, and lowers the age at which youth can be tried as adults to the age of 14. It should go without saying that such policies in the U.S. are inherently racist and will disproportionately impact African (Black) youth.

But PACA and BAP-DC do not reduce the problem to a Trump presidency. The Black misleadership class – a.k.a. compradors – is the primary impediment to organizing the masses of African people, a reality in all major Democratic Party-led cities targeted by the Trump administration. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. City Council recently approved a new labor agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police that includes a 13% pay raise for D.C. police officers, starting October 1st. This agreement also includes retroactive cost-of-living increases and other incentives for police officers. The council voted to extend Bowser’s expanded youth curfew into the fall, granting police the power to declare designated zones with earlier curfews. The criminalization of working-class African people by the DC city government preceded the federal imposition. These recent policies must be viewed as complementary to Trump’s takeover, rather than resistant to it.

The trend in most of the cities targeted by the federal militarization is for Black misleaders to respond to the Trump administration’s threats by expanding policing on their own. PACA and BAP-DC will not allow the squabbles among the ruling class and its political lackeys to distract us and the people. We cannot become spectators of bipartisan power struggles and infighting, while our communities remain targets of both camps.

We reject under no uncertain terms the false framing and claims that these actions are about public safety. It is a shift toward domestic lawfare – legal actions undertaken as part of a hostile campaign against the African (Black) working class and migrant diaspora. Under capitalism, law does not serve as a remedy for the people’s needs or concerns. Invariably, it is used by the rich and powerful to wage war on marginalized people. PACA and BAP-DC caution against the tendency to confine the narratives to local framing and understand that local resistance must see itself clearly as part and parcel of the anti-imperialist struggle of the global south.

The heinous U.S. attacks on Venezuelan boats in international waters under the guise of carrying out a war on drugs are a counterpart to the domestic war on the people in this country. The brazen and unmitigated genocide against Palestine is being committed by the same enemies of humanity currently targeting our communities. The military occupation of Africa in the form of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), is an affront to African (Black) people everywhere in the world and is a counterpart to militarized police occupations of our working-class communities across the U.S.

After returning the so-called Department of Defense to its original name of War Department, Donald Trump, the current president of imperialism, threatened Chicago on a social media post, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of War.” While this may be seen by some as the antics of a megalomaniac, we are clear that at the root of this is the U.S. capitalist, imperialist system desperately trying to hold on to power. This is why its lawfare is also taking aim at organized resistance. Recent rhetoric and proposals from the Trump administration target “far-left” organizations and non-profits it accuses of fomenting political violence. The Liberal tendency is to double down on expressions of allegiance to the U.S settler colonial project, a white supremacist extension of Western Europe, instead of opposing repression.

In D.C., this takes the masked form of advocating for D.C. statehood, a reform that misguides the people’s indignation toward a nonsolution, a goal that will only add another layer of state structure for compradors to occupy. Statehood has done nothing for African (Black), indigenous, and immigrant communities facing oppression and repression in cities that are part of states across the U.S. Preserving the political autonomy and independence of D.C.’s current political process is inconsequential if local leaders continue to wage an unrelenting war against the African (Black) working-class people in D.C. Long before Trump entered the scene, the D.C. local government had already pioneered a “tough on crime” agenda that included the passage of the D.C. Secure Omnibus Crime Bill, widespread criminalization of fare evasion, and approving the construction of a new D.C. jail. Further, statehood has not increased safety or improved the lives of working-class people in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, or Chicago, whose populations are subjected to relentless police occupation, widespread surveillance, increased deportations, and crackdowns against civil disobedience and resistance.

The criminalization, police occupation, surveillance, crackdowns on any resistance, and all such forms of repression are reflections of an ailing and inherently fascist U.S settler colonialism and cannot be remedied through reformism.

The only logical response of the colonized to its colonization is to organize for decolonization and liberation. The unavoidable first step is community control over public safety. As we have said, “the debate over federal takeover versus local government control is a distraction. In practice, both levels of this state have committed to deepening policing, expanding surveillance, and protecting the interests of capital over the needs of the people. The difference lies in style, not substance.”

The struggle must be to organize for power. Not reform. The people most subjected to the machinations of the system must organize against the U.S. settler colonialist system upheld by a synthesis of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. PACA and BAP-DC declare that the right to self-determination must be won through building radical political alternatives that prove poverty stems not from lack of resources but from their organized theft. And that sovereignty is never granted – it is seized.

A Statement by PACA and BAP-DC

Source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21558

#blackAllianceForPeace #blackLiberation #colonialism #us

End the Colonial Occupation of Washington D.C.: The People Demand Self-Determination and Self-Governance

President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to deploy the National Guard to Washington, DC, framed as a crackdown on crime, marks a dangerous escalation in the federal government’s militarization of one of the spaces of the Black/African internal colony. On August 11, Trump declared, “We’re taking our capital back,” while signaling an unprecedented federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department. This move, under the pretext of public safety, follows his March 2025 executive order establishing the “Safe and Beautiful” task force, led by Stephen Miller, an architect of white nationalist immigration policies. The initiative has accelerated mass surveillance, aggressive policing, and the criminalization of Black/African and working-class communities, particularly in Southeast DC.

Trump’s declaration comes on the heels of the “Secure DC” Omnibus bill, alongside decades of Democrat-backed crime bills that have devastated marginalized communities and are now being expanded further under Trump’s task force. His order promotes harsher pretrial detention, sweeps of homeless encampments, ICE raids, and relaxed concealed carry laws—measures that will inevitably target the same communities Democrats once claimed to protect. This bipartisan tradition of punitive governance reflects a shared commitment to maintaining racial and class control, differing only in rhetoric.

Moreover, historically, the National Guard has been weaponized against Black/African communities, from suppressing uprisings during Red Summer (1919) to violently attacking and then occupying the community of Cambridge, Maryland during the Black Freedom Struggle (1963) to the George Floyd uprisings during the first Trump presidency (2020).

Trump’s current deployment revives this legacy, embedding militarized force into daily governance. But this moment is not isolated—it reflects the enduring logic of settler colonialism, where state violence and deputized white civilians (from slave patrols to modern “stand your ground” vigilantes) uphold racial hierarchy. By seizing DC’s police apparatus, Trump isn’t just escalating policing; he’s testing a more blatant and centralized model of authoritarian urban control, one that could soon extend beyond the District.

It is no coincidence that the consolidation of this outright militarized domestic occupation advances as the U.S. deepens its support for the zionist perpetuation of genocide in Gaza. The barbarous collaboration in a live-streamed genocide by the U.S. and collective “West” has opened the door for open disregard for the lives and livelihoods of the masses of people across the globe, as well as the demonization of our resistance. The failure to recognize the humanity and fundamental rights of Palestinians is replicated in the escalating fascistic domestic policies of the U.S. settler-state. Just like with the zionist occupation, this acceleration of barbarous violence and militarized repression is simply an embrace of the states’ settler-colonial foundations.

The tragedy is not just Trump’s brazenness and further consolidation of neofascism, but the Democratic Party’s continued collaboration in strengthening the repressive capacities of the state through militarization, surveillance, and economic austerity. Decades of “tough-on-crime” posturing have normalized the criminalization of poverty, leaving communities vulnerable to even more extreme repression.

Now, as Trump invokes “law and order” to justify occupation, the challenge lies not only in resisting his agenda, but also in confronting the colonial/capitalist structures and oppressive class rule that made it possible. BAP is clear: self-determination and collective resistance are paramount human rights, central to the People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework that BAP is prepared to defend.

The fight ahead is not simply against Trump’s authoritarianism. It is a fight for a future where safety is not imposed by militarization but built through structures of popular democracy, peace, social justice and collective liberation. But to achieve this future it is absolutely clear that the people must fight. We will oppose the intensification of colonial occupation with popular organization and a steeled determination to defend our individual and collective rights by any means necessary.

We want peace. We work for peace but we understand the sacrifice that sometimes must be made for peace and a new world—and we stand prepared to make those sacrifices.

No Justice, No Peace,

No Compromise, No Retreat

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20846

#blackAllianceForPeace #colonialism #dc #northAmerica #repression

BAP Condemns the Zionist Brutalization and Detainment of Chris Smalls, Emblematic of the White Supremacy at the Core of Zionism

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally denounces the brutal assault and abduction of Amazon Labor Union co-founder Chris Smalls, who was detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Though he is now released, the exceptionally heinous treatment of Smalls by the Zionist state forces demonstrates the historical neurotic fear of any interconnection between Black / African resistance to white supremacy and resistance to capitalist exploitation.

As part of the 21-member international collective aboard the aid ship Handala, a flotilla that was headed to Gaza to protest and break the blockade on the Palestinian people collectively being starved to death, Smalls was the only member of the group beaten and choked by IDF agents. He was also the only Black person aboard the ship. While the IDF stopped, boarded, and abducted all the activists on board, they did not use the same level of force against the other passengers or crew that they brutally applied against Smalls.

The special brutality meted out to Smalls is another example of the racist, white supremacy at the core of Israeli settler colonialism and explains both their genocide against Palestinians and the relative silence and support for it by the West. This racist violence reflects the reality of how African Jews from various countries are viewed and treated in Israel. Even as we have seen African Jews in the IDF carrying out unconscionable violence upon Palestinians, they are subjected to the forms of racist hatred that the same IDF meted out to Smalls, and worse. The lack of response from the U.S. government regarding the treatment of Smalls also reflects the way this state views Black/ African residents in the country, and highlights the continuity of white supremacist settler colonialism across both of these violent and genocidal nations.

For some time now, Small’s example has highlighted a vital understanding that the liberation of any domestic working class is inextricably linked to the defeat of U.S.-led Western imperialist domination. This attack on a working-class, anti-imperialist leader further highlights the connection between domestic oppression and Western imperialism, where the U.S. and its allies— including Israel— act with impunity.

This lack of meaningful action against the zionist occupation and genocidal acceleration of the state of Israel, as well as the U.S.’s consistent support and own human rights violations, motivates BAP’s call to ban the United States and Israel from hosting or participating in international sporting events. While this is but one strategy, what is clear is that more efforts toward anti-imperialist multilateralism are needed, represented through movement efforts like the Friends of The Hague Group (FOTHG), state-based support by The Hague Group, and consistent solidarity with the Axis of Resistance. It is this impunity that has allowed this genocide in Gaza to continue unabated for almost two years, that has contributed to the deepening siege and theft of the West Bank, and that has permitted the brutalization of Chris Smalls to occur with little uproar from so-called progressives and liberal elites.

The capture, brutalization, and imprisonment of Smalls by the fascist and racist IDF underscores the urgent need for solidarity between African/Black and Palestinian struggles. The lack of consequences for Israel reflects not only the hypocrisy of so-called democratic nations but also the complicity of the U.S.’s own Black Misleadership Class, which too often aligns with sustaining pan-European, capitalist, patriarchal interests.

Justice for Chris Smalls!

Smash Zionism!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20651

#blackAllianceForPeace #blackLiberation #flotilla #gaza #handala #Solidarity

Exporting Repression: Haitians And Kenyans Are Both Fighting Neo-colonial Representatives of U.S.-led Imperialism — BAP

Since 2021, the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team has tracked the deepening crisis of imperialism in Haiti, in particular how imperialist forces and neocolonial puppets have worked to suppress and eliminate the organizing of popular movements and the will of the Haitian people. Over the last four years, this crisis has impacted nations around the globe, in particular Kenya.

This summer marks the one-year anniversary of Kenya’s youth-led uprising against the IMF-backed Finance Bill of 2024. Instead of reckoning with the demands of a generation that has endured skyrocketing inflation, police violence, and mass unemployment, President William Ruto has once again unleashed the full force of state repression. Live ammunition, abductions, and curfews have become routine tactics to crush dissent and left at least 50 protesters dead. As BAP’s Africa Team stated last week, these protests are not isolated and reflect a broader generational rejection of IMF-dictated austerity and repressive consolidation by neocolonial governance.

Thousands of miles away in revolutionary Haiti, Kenyan boots are still on the ground. Following the July 2021 assassination of Jovenel Moïise and installment of Ariel Henry, by the Core Group, troops were dispatched under the so-called Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission, which was renewed in October 2024 despite consistent opposition from civil society and popular movements throughout the Americas. These same violent police were sent to “restore order” in a country ravaged by decades of foreign intervention and neocolonial policies. The order that these forces represent is not one of peace, but of the continuation of imperialist domination and neocolonial subversion. The same regime that brutalizes its youth domestically claims to bring “security” to Haitians abroad.  These militarized responses do not provide security for the majority of people in Haiti or Kenya, but for the multinational corporations, imperialist bureaucrats, and neocolonial oligarchs and elites.

Neocolonialism in Haiti: Outsourcing Imperialist Occupation

The MSS has failed to curb violence, but not because it lacks force, but because it was never designed to resolve the root causes. Since the Kenya-led MSS mission was formally launched in 2024 under U.S. sponsorship, it has remained strategically vague, militarily ineffective, and politically illegitimate. As grassroots activists have recently shared, the MSS and their masters in the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) have not been publicizing their activities because the paramilitary armed groups they were dispatched to combat have only continued to gain ground in and outside of Port-au-Prince. This includes the towns of La Chapelle, Artibonite, and Lascaobas in the Centre department

This is not because the intervention isn’t strong enough, it is by design. The MSS’s presence functions as a placeholder for deeper U.S. reoccupation and a justification for the continual militarization of Haiti’s political crisis, which has been, and remains, a crisis of imperialism. The failures of the MSS showcase, not just the failure of foreign intervention to resolve the crisis in Haiti, but exposes these interventions as tools to keep Haiti trapped under a neocolonial subjugation.

Life, Culture, and Sovereignty Under Siege

Earlier this week, paramilitary armed groups set arson to Hotel Oloffson, a historic site in Port-au-Prince known for its significance to Haitian art, journalism, refuge, and resistance. This was not just an attack on infrastructure, but an assault on the cultural memory and political soul of Haiti. At the same time, government forces under the illegitimate Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) increase ‘kamikaze drone’ attacks that have already resulted in the murder of at least 300 people in poor and working class neighborhoods, under the justification of striking at “terrorist gangs”. Now with the agreement between the CPT and Erik Prince’s U.S.-backed mercenaries, the militarization and violence only promises to deepen. As violence spreads beyond Port-au-Prince, both lives and symbolic spaces of Haitian resistance are being engulfed in the imperialist-fueled violence.

However, this month has also brought signs of resistance and solidarity. On July 13, displaced residents from the neighborhood of Solino in Port-au-Prince mobilized in the streets to protest for their survival and against the oligarchs and neocolonial state that are destroying their lives and livelihoods. On July 6, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) sent a delegation to Haiti in a clear rejection of U.S.-backed intervention. The delegation, comprising representatives from Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina, denounced foreign interventionism and called for “respect for Haiti’s sovereignty, urging solutions based on mutual cooperation, not military occupation…Behind the violence, corruption, and food shortages, is the same United States imperialism that oppresses all the peoples of the Global South.”

In stark contrast to Kenya’s role as a proxy enforcer for the U.S.-led Core Group politically and SOUTHCOM militarily, ALBA’s statement reframes possible solutions to the crisis in Haiti through regional solidarity, not Western mandates. This focus on solidarity is a core function of the development of the Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas, which has as a primary objective ending military intervention into Haiti and supporting peoples-centered movements that emphasize self-determination and dignity for the Haitian masses.

As anti-imperialists in solidarity with the masses of Haitians and Kenyans, we must remain clear. Whether in Nairobi or Port-au-Prince, the playbook is the same: suppress resistance at home, legitimize occupation abroad. But today’s African youth are not confused. They see the global connections. The same forces imposing debt and repression in Kenya are funding foreign domination in Haiti. The violence is not an accident, it is the enforcement arm of a neocolonial system. As the MSS flounders in Haiti and Kenyan youth continue to rise against domestic repression, the crumbling empire behind both is in much clearer focus.

The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with those surviving and resisting both of the comprador regimes in Kenya and Haiti as they collaborate with U.S.-led Western imperialism to oppress and exploit Africans in both nations.

Hands Off Haiti!

U.S. Out of Africa!

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

References:

Fighting Words, “Kenyan Police Attack Youth-Led Demonstrations Against Brutality”

Haitian Times, “Port-au-Prince mourns Hotel Oloffson, LGBTQ+ refuge and majestic landmark, lost to criminal fire”

HaitiLibre, “Haiti – Politic : ALBA stands in solidarity with Haiti faced with foreign interference”:

TeleSUR English-Haiti, “Militant members of ALBA met with Haitian organizations to reaffirm solidarity”

Al Jazeera, ‘Kenya is not asleep anymore’: Why young protesters are not backing down

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20553

#africa #bap #blackAllianceForPeace #colonialism #haiti #imperialism #kenya #Solidarity

BAP Stands Behind Kenya’s Youth Upholding Resistance Against U.S. Puppet State Imperialism

In June 2024, Kenya was racked by youth mobilizations, referred to as the Gen Z Movement protests, as that nation’s young people rose up against the neo-liberal austerity measures enacted by the U.S. lackey president William Ruto. In typical fashion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had demanded increased taxation and funding cuts to a country whose leadership has privileged the dictates of imperialism over its own people. Kenya’s police killed 60 people during those 2024 actions but the popular struggle resulted in the plans for taxation being cancelled.

On the first anniversary of these actions, the young people rose up again in opposition to the Ruto government, which sent its troops to Haiti at the behest of the U.S. government, and which was designated a major non-NATO ally in gratitude for its posture as a vassal state. Kenya’s police state is again killing those who oppose, including journalist Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody, and more recently Boniface Kariuki, ostensibly for protesting Ojwang’s assassination.

The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the organizing arm of the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) once again stands in solidarity with the masses of Kenyans fighting against the neo-liberal austerity schemes and obedience to U.S. imperialism. Despite the fascist repression, the youth of Kenya are fearless in their resolve and persist in declaring and exposing the illegitimacy of the compradors of neo-colonialism.

The Gen-Z Movement represents the offspring or torch bearers of the unfinished revolution of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), known also as the Mau Mau, whose valiant fight paved the path toward the defeat of their British colonizers in 1960. Gen-Z are the political cubs of their predecessors: Comrades Dedan Kimathi, Mzalendo Bildad Kaggia, Wasonga Sijeyo, Pio Gama Pinto, and Mzalendo Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, true revolutionary heroes who stood firm in the fight for the genuine independence of Kenya.

BAP and the USOAN are clear that for the movement to decolonize Kenya to be complete, the running dogs of imperialism must be driven from office and the neo-colonial economic structures must be dismantled, allowing a truly sovereign Kenya to be established, untethered to the U.S.-EU-NATO Axis of Domination.

BAP remains unequivocal in the demand for U.S. imperialism to cease propping up the Ruto regime, for the unconditional and immediate release of our Kenyan family detained and jailed during these protests, and for reparations to be dispensed to the family and loved ones of those killed by the state and their goons.

Forward to expelling AFRICOM from the entire continent!

Forward to dethroning the comprador class in Africa!

Forward to one united, socialist Africa!

No Compromise!

No Retreat!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20251

#africa #blackAllianceForPeace #blackLiberation #kenya #Solidarity

Oppression Breeds Resistance, Organization Sustains It

Defeating the War on Black/African People Requires Solidarity with Immigrants and Resistance Against Our Common Enemy

As community defenders, organizers, and residents resisted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles this past weekend, the state has responded by calling in the FBI and Border Patrol SWAT units, utilizing Blackhawk helicopters to deliver munitions and military-grade equipment, and mobilizing the National Guard and Marines to quell the justified uprising. As our comrades in SoCal BAP have clearly stated, this is domestic warfare.

The connection could not be clearer between the specific kidnappings orchestrated by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Los Angeles on one hand, and the broad militarization of our cities and neighborhoods on the other. Those resisting on the ground in LA have drawn clear parallels with the struggle of the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza, the uprisings of 2020-21, the broader Black Liberation Movement, and the anti-colonial resistance against U.S. imperialism throughout the Americas. Meanwhile, some observers have encouraged Black/African people to ‘sit this one out’ because it supposedly does not involve “us”.

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally rejects this narrative that the oppression of immigrants and migrant communities, and the fascist operations of ICE/DHS, are irrelevant for Black/African people. Black/African people are already resisting and standing in solidarity in LA, just as people and communities of all backgrounds mobilized during the uprisings of 2020. Beyond this, we know that Black immigrants throughout the U.S. are disproportionately targeted for criminalization, detention, and deportation. Further, mass deportation not only dehumanizes immigrants, but it deepens the carceral and punitive hold of these state over all oppressed residents. This also extends beyond the borders of the U.S., as we continue to see Haitian immigrants and descendants in the Dominican Republic being summarily rounded up, brutalized, deported, and in some cases, killed, in what effectively amounts to an apartheid regime under President Luis Abinader.

Our resistance efforts must be directed at the imperialist structure and forces that cause this situation. What is urgently required is not only solidarity in mobilization, but coordination and organization that can sustain resistance against the physical, structural, and psychological violence of the oppressive forces of imperialism, colonialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. For this reason, BAP’s central campaign, ‘No Compromise No Retreat: Defeat the War Against Africans / Black People in the U.S. and abroad’ aims to provide a common collective direction toward true peace (i.e. liberation), interconnected anti-imperialist organizing and resistance, and the realization of dignity and self-determination through the framework of People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

A core aspect of this revamped campaign focuses on shutting down ICE and CB the root causes of forced/coerced migration, including ending the criminalization of migration and the dehumanization of migrating people, as well as defending against the violations of national sovereignty that created the conditions for forced displacement and migration in the first place. As Abraham Paulous of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration made clear in BAP’s April webinar “Migration, State Violence, and Global Displacement,” the criminalization of immigration has for decades been utilized as a justification for state violence against and control over Black, Latinx, immigrant, and marginalized communities – advancing the war against our people. This has been particularly aggressive since the passing of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act under U.S. President Bill Clinton.

These violations are the result of imperialist domination and capitalist exploitation, which similarly forced millions of Black/African people to leave the U.S. South throughout the twentieth century. While this is called ‘the Great Migration’, we know that the displacement from land, relationships, community, and livelihoods was primarily caused by white supremacist terror and economic attacks on our people. Instead of falling into nativist arguments about who Black/African people should and should not care about, we must direct our energy, our organizing, our resistance at the imperialists and the capitalists who oppress us all, and who thrive off of our disunity and confusion.

We take inspiration from the actions of resistance from those in Los Angeles County and the organizing that has emerged from the Community Self-Defense Coalition, which BAP SoCal is a part of. From Los Angeles to Santo Domingo to Khartoum to Gaza, defeating the war on Black/African people requires unity in resistance and struggle against the many forms of imperialist violence.

No Compromise, No Retreat!

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La opresión genera resistencia, la organización la mantiene

La derrota de la guerra contra las personas negras/africanas exige solidaridad con lxs inmigrantes y resistencia contra nuestro enemigo común.

Como defensores de la comunidad, organizadores y residentes resistieron al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) en Los Ángeles este fin de semana pasado, el estado ha respondido llamando al FBI y a las unidades SWAT de la Patrulla Fronteriza, utilizando helicópteros Blackhawk para entregar municiones y equipo de grado militar, y movilizando a la Guardia Nacional y a los Marines para sofocar el levantamiento justificado. Como nuestros compañeros de SoCal BAP han dicho claramente, esto es una guerra doméstica.

La conexión no podría ser más clara entre los secuestros específicos orquestados por el ICE y el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) en Los Ángeles, por un lado, y la amplia militarización de nuestras ciudades y barrios, por el otro. Los que resisten sobre el terreno en Los Ángeles han trazado claros paralelismos con la lucha de la Resistencia Palestina en Gaza, las insurrecciones de 2020-21 contra el terror racista policial, el más amplio Movimiento de Liberación Negra y la resistencia anticolonial contra el imperialismo estadounidense en todo el continente americano. Mientras tanto, algunos observadores han animado a las personas negras/africanas a “no participar” porque supuestamente no se trata de “nosotros”.

La Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) rechaza inequívocamente esta narrativa de que la opresión de lxs inmigrantes y las comunidades migrantes, y las operaciones fascistas de ICE / DHS, son irrelevantes para las personas negras/africanas. Las personas negras/africanas ya están resistiendo y solidarizándose en Los Ángeles, al igual que las personas y comunidades de todos los orígenes se movilizaron durante los levantamientos de 2020. Más allá de esto, sabemos que lxs inmigrantes negrxs en los EE.UU. son desproporcionadamente objeto de criminalización, detención y deportación. Además, la deportación masiva no sólo deshumaniza a los inmigrantes, sino que profundiza el control carcelario y punitivo de estos estados sobre todos los residentes oprimidos. Esto también se extiende más allá de las fronteras de los EE.UU., ya que seguimos viendo cómo lxs inmigrantes haitianxs y sus descendientes en la República Dominicana son sumariamente detenidos, maltratados, deportados y, en algunos casos, asesinados, en lo que efectivamente equivale a un régimen de apartheid bajo el presidente Luis Abinader.

Nuestros esfuerzos de resistencia deben dirigirse contra la estructura y las fuerzas imperialistas que provocan esta situación. Lo que se necesita urgentemente no es sólo solidaridad en la movilización, sino coordinación y organización que puedan sostener la resistencia contra la violencia física, estructural y psicológica de las fuerzas opresoras del imperialismo, el colonialismo, la supremacía blanca y el patriarcado. Por esta razón, la campaña central de BAP, “No Compromise No Retreat (Sin compromiso, Sin retirada): Derrota a la guerra contra las personas negras/africanas en EE.UU. y en el extranjero” tiene como objetivo proporcionar una dirección colectiva común hacia la paz verdadera (es decir, la liberación), la organización y la resistencia antiimperialistas interconectadas y la realización de la dignidad y la autodeterminación a través del marco de los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos.

Un aspecto central de esta campaña renovada se centra en el cierre del ICE y en la lucha contra las causas profundas de la migración forzada, lo que incluye poner fin a la criminalización de la migración y la deshumanización de las personas que migran, así como la defensa contra las violaciones de la soberanía nacional que crearon las condiciones para el desplazamiento forzado y la migración en primer lugar. Como Abraham Paulous, de la Alianza Negra por una Inmigración Justa (BAJI), dejó claro en el seminario web de BAP de abril “Migración, violencia de Estado y desplazamiento global”, la criminalización de la inmigración se ha utilizado durante décadas como justificación de la violencia de Estado contra las comunidades negras, indígenas, latinas, inmigrantes y marginadas y para controlarlas, avanzando en la guerra contra nuestro pueblo. Esto ha sido especialmente agresivo desde la aprobación de la Ley de Reforma de la Inmigración Ilegal y Responsabilidad de los Inmigrantes de 1996, bajo la presidencia de Bill Clinton.

Estas violaciones son el resultado de la dominación imperialista y la explotación capitalista, que de forma similar obligaron a millones de negrxs/africanxs a abandonar el sur de Estados Unidos a lo largo del siglo XX. Aunque a esto se le llama “la Gran Migración”, sabemos que el desplazamiento de la tierra, las relaciones, la comunidad y los medios de subsistencia fue causado principalmente por el terror supremacista blanco y los ataques económicos contra nuestro pueblo. En lugar de caer en discusiones nativistas sobre quiénes son las personas negras/africanas que deben o no deben preocuparse por nosotros, debemos dirigir nuestra energía, nuestra organización y nuestra resistencia a los imperialistas y capitalistas que nos oprimen a todos y que se aprovechan de nuestra desunión y confusión.

Nos inspiramos en las acciones de resistencia del condado de Los Ángeles y en la organización que ha surgido de la Coalición de Autodefensa Comunitaria, de la que SoCal BAP forma parte. De Los Ángeles a Santo Domingo, de Jartum a Gaza, derrotar la guerra contra las personas negras/africanas requiere unidad en la resistencia y la lucha contra las muchas formas de violencia imperialista.

No Compromise, No Retreat!

¡Sin compromiso, Sin retirada!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19596

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The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for Resistance Against the Accelerating Imperialist War on Black/African Peoples in Our Americas

The Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace condemns the increasing militarist aggression by U.S. imperialists in Our Americas that targets Africans, indigenous peoples and poor communities and calls for regional pan Africanist strategy and anti imperialist unity to defeat the war on Africans and colonized people at home and abroad. The increase of violence in the region, whether in Haiti, Ecuador or the Caribbean, through armed paramilitary groups often with ties to neo colonial puppets and the US/West, is used as a justification to expand U.S./NATO militarism, economic domination, and interventionism in the region to guarantee full spectrum dominance.

African peoples, along with indigenous communities, across Our Americas bear the brunt of U.S.-led militarism, often with deadly interactions between state forces and armed groups in poor neighborhoods leading to fatal consequences for the masses, as part of a broader effort to expand militarism in the region. This must be framed as an escalation of war on Africans, colonized and poor communities at large by US imperialist forces to maintain its hegemony over the region, particularly against what it sees as threats to its interests from Russia and China.

The State Department’s recent designation of armed paramilitary groups in Haiti as both Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists to use as the justification to continue violating the sovereignty of the Haitian people, clear out and occupy land, and operate with even more impunity. The  U.S.-orchestrated Multinational Security Service Mission (MSS) in Haiti that has only further degraded safety and violated national sovereignty has not slowed down any of this violence, in fact it has increased. Now, declaring Haitian armed paramilitary groups as terrorists will only serve as justification for further militarized assaults on the nation and its people, with little regard for their wellbeing. Amidst a three month long teachers strike, the Executive Board of National Union of Haitian Educators (UNNOH ) wrote, “in the current context of cynically manufactured chaos—orchestrated by powerful international criminals and their local collaborators—” and call for international mobilization amid a “silent genocide.”

Looking at another assault on Africans in Our Americas, on April 13 in Ecuador, Daniel Noboa declared himself president in a still contested run off election amidst heavy militarization at the polls, which the Revolución Ciudadana opposing candidate Luisa Gonzalez has publicly denounced.  Despite attempts to limit international observers , the North South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, in partnership with Movimiento Afrodescendiente Nacional Ecuatoriano and Global Black, were able to observe intentional oppressive tactics by Ecuadorian state forces leading up to and throughout the electoral process that have not subsided post-election.

Furthermore, cases like the Guayaquil Four become all too normalized as the war on poor African communities in Ecuador intensifies through US-led militarism as President Noboa changes the constitution to allow foreign military bases, along with reaching a “strategic alliance” with private mercenary Blackwater’s Erik Prince to “fight organized crime.” Prince also negotiated contracts in Haiti last month to provide attack drones and training for an anti-gang unit. The increase in violence in the region also means profits for the private mercenaries, not to actually address violence against African peoples throughout the region, including in the United States, but to use as a proxy to intervene and support their geopolitical and imperialist interests.

The expanding role of SOUTHCOM not just in Haiti, Ecuador or the Caribbean but throughout the region, particularly through joint military exercises such as Operation Tradewinds with militaries in the region under the command of the US and NATO and increased military bases, from the Panama Canal down the Pacific Coast, is not unrelated to this expanding crisis of violence throughout the region. The war on crime, war on drugs and war on terror have exposed the parallels behind the use of state violence as a trojan horse for resource extraction whether in West Asia, including the genocidal onslaught in Palestine, violence against Yemen, Lebanon and the people of Syria, or the expanding use of violence in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana or Suriname for resource extraction of fossil fuels. US imperialism is using the same playbook to justify its presence, expansion and full spectrum dominance.

While member states of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) have condemned the intervention in Haiti, they do so while also upholding the Kingston Declaration , continuing a historic trend in the region of supporting neocolonialism in Haiti led by Brazil. Whether officially sanctioned as a UN mission or not, Western interventions have never been the answer for the Haitian people. More importantly, the lack of solidarity with Haiti undermines the sovereignty of all nations as Haiti is used as a laboratory for the rest of the region. It was precisely the lack of solidarity with Haiti that Nicaragua highlighted as to why they did not sign the Tegucigalpa Declaration – “[the text must] reject the extortions against and express unequivocal solidarity with the brotherly people of Haiti without external interventions.”

BAP invites organizations and individuals to join the U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas Network as a platform to collectively develop regional Pan-Africanist strategy to oppose intervention in Haiti, a core demand of the Zone of Peace campaign, through mass based popular struggle. As Haitian Flag Day approaches on May 18th, we call for renewed and strengthened solidarity with the people of Haiti, in connection with all African peoples, oppressed peoples, and popular movements of Our Americas struggling to free our region of US military and economic dictates.

The Black Alliance for Peace asserts the right of African/Black peoples across Our Americas to self defense and organized resistance in response to this escalating imperialist war against the masses of our people, whether in Port au Prince, Guayaquil, or Los Angeles. No compromise, no retreat!

Banner photo: An image of Erik Prince meeting with Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa shared on Noboa’s official X account. Daniel Noboa/X

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19466

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Now is the Time for All Anti-Imperialists and All Justice Loving People to Stand Unequivocally in Defense of Burkina Faso

It is no surprise to the Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) that aggression is stepping up against the countries in the anti-imperialist Alliance of Sahel States. This was reflected in the flagrantly baseless accusations against Burkina Faso’s leader Ibrahim Traoré. On April 3, 2025, U.S. AFRICOM Commander Michael Langley testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee and claimed without evidence that interim President Traoré is misusing the country’s gold mineral wealth in exchange for protection. Langley provided no details on how these supposed exchanges are carried out or from what Traoré needs protection.

The imperialist modus operandi is at play here and starts with demonizing and criminalizing the leader of a country as the war propaganda pretext for more direct intervention. We have seen this script before. Commander-In-Chief of Economic Fighters League of Ghana and Steering Committee member of the USOAN, Ernesto Yeboah refutes the liberal framing meant to arrest dissent against what is at stake:

“This is not about military vs. civilian rule. This is about imperialism vs. liberation. This is about Africans standing up — finally — and saying: Hands off Africa.”

The BAP Africa Team and USOAN are heeding the call emanating across Africa to unite in defense of Burkina Faso. And we further call on all anti-imperialist forces around the world, especially Black forces, to sound the alarm and publicly denounce these designs before this all too familiar strategy takes root. In 2011, Black anti-imperialist forces were unable to effectively counter the heinous plan of the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination to destroy the revolutionary Pan-Africanist nation of Libya. BAP’s USOAN refuses to allow this fatal mistake to be repeated.

This time the complicity of silence by ECOWAS, the African Union, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the African (Black) comprador class around the world must be exposed.

This is a pivotal time for the struggle against imperialism in Africa. The emergence of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) and the revolutionary example of self-determination being set by the people of Burkina Faso represents a historic breakthrough for Pan-Africanism that the U.S. and NATO have been eager to eliminate. The U.S./EU/NATO axis is desperate to re-colonize Burkina Faso and to halt any further influence across Africa set by the example of the Alliance of Sahel States. What the U.S is angling to undermine is a popular process of decolonization.

Under President Traoré’s leadership, Burkina Faso has advanced toward food sovereignty, established a national gold refinery, and taken critical steps to reclaim its resources for the benefit of its people. The vague and opportunistic accusations issued by AFRICOM are designed to undermine these gains and set the stage for imperialist subversion. When U.S. officials speak of “strategic interests,” they mean the unfettered right to plunder Africa’s mineral wealth, dominate markets, and exploit African labor, all without the consent of African peoples. We must not allow the absurdity of the U.S. and NATO, currently complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, to pose as moral arbiters in Africa.

BAP and USOAN call on all anti-imperialist forces to join in active defense of Burkina Faso, demand the expulsion of AFRICOM from the continent, and ensure that no African nation suffers the fate that befell Libya in 2011.

The time to act is now!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18926

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BAP-NYC/NJ Condemns the Reopening of Delaney Hall

BAP-NYC/NJ Condemns the Reopening of Delaney Hall
Calls on the Masses to Oppose Imperialist Population Control in Our Americas

On Wednesday, February 26, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced plans for the “imminent reopening” of Delaney Hall, a privately owned detention center in Newark, NJ, which has the capacity to hold up to 1,000 undocumented immigrants. The over $1.2 billion agreement between ICE and the Boca Raton-based GEO Group would expand ICE’s detention capacity in the Northeast as they “pursue President Trump’s mandate to arrest, detain and remove illegal aliens from [U.S.] communities.” The Black Alliance for Peace New York City/New Jersey Citywide Alliance condemns this brazen act of ruling class collusion and calls on the African/Black masses and all anti-war, anti-imperialist, and pro-peace forces in Newark and throughout the Northeast to organize for the defense of people(s)-centered human rights in our region.

Even with the news of this agreement, BAP-NYC/NJ understands that anti-immigrant sentiments and policies are bipartisan. Despite Joe Biden’s 2020 “Strengthening America’s Commitment to Justice” campaign plan, which proclaimed that “the federal government should not use private facilities for any detention, including detention of undocumented immigrants,” two years into his term as the 46th president 9 out of 10 people held captive by ICE were detained in privately owned or operated facilities. In fact, the Biden administration’s dependence on private prisons eclipsed that of Donald Trump’s first term.

Moreover, when CoreCivic (one of the largest private prison operators in the United States) sued the State of New Jersey over the passing of AB 5207, the Biden administration sided with CoreCivic, paving the way for the company to continue its partnership with ICE at the Elizabeth Detention Center. AB 5207 is a state law prohibiting “the State, local government agencies, and private detention facilities operating in [New Jersey] from entering into, renewing, or extending immigration detention agreements.” In a statement of interest filed in July 2023, the Department of Justice under Biden deemed AB 5207 “unconstitutional” and feared that  “[i]f other States passed laws like AB 5207, there may be a near-catastrophic impact on ICE’S ability to meet its mission.” Thus, while the exorbitant contract between ICE and GEO comes in the early months of Trump’s second presidential term, it would be misguided to fall victim to the fashionable trend that places all blame at the feet of Trump and the right-wing forces of the imperial white supremacist settler-colonial project known as the United States.

As a formation dedicated to defeating the war against African/Black People in the U.S., throughout the Americas, and abroad, BAP-NYC/NJ sees global and domestic imperialist violence as integrally linked. This is why we are calling on the African/Black masses in Newark, in New Jersey, and throughout the Northeast to organize for the liberation and people(s)-centered human rights of both Haitians in Haiti and the over 1,000 Haitians captured by ICE in Newark from 2020 to 2024. This is why we are calling on the African/Black masses to organize for the liberation and people(s)-centered human rights of both Afro-Ecuadorian youth in Ecuador and the 5,581 Ecuadorians captured by ICE in Newark from 2020 to 2024. We are calling for this because we understand that it is often the subversive maneuvers of the United States that leave many of those throughout and beyond our Americas caught between an imperial rock and a hard place: victims of extraction and destabilization in their homelands while being criminalized and kettled when seeking relief in the U.S. Attributing mass deportations to the xenophobic attitudes and sound bites of overt white supremacists clouds the ways global and domestic imperialism work together to control populations. Across multiple presidential administrations, U.S. political and economic interventions throughout the Global South have manufactured these migrant crises in order to feed the bottomless hunger of the ruling class by way of the extraction of resources.

As we stated in the days immediately following the most recent election, “The anti-democratic duopoly is made up of representatives of the capitalist class and provides cover for what is, in reality, the dictatorship of capital.” Both versions of the imperial, settler-colonial base of operations known as the White (People’s) House have heavily invested in militarized police forces and the infrastructure necessary to warehouse African/Black, oppressed, poor and working class people. They have made it abundantly clear that their commitment is to white capital and holding on to what remains of their waning domination of and withering influence in the world. Thus, we not only denounce this agreement with GEO Group and the re-opening of Delaney Hall – we also denounce the longstanding white supremacist settler colonial project that made it possible!

Now is not the time to beg for crumbs and concessions from the neofascist, plutocratic Trump administration. Nor is it the time to return to the imperial DEI reformism that called for the funding of police, led the destabilization efforts in Haiti, and bankrolled the destruction of Gaza and the massacre of the Palestinian people!

Now is the time for the African/Black masses, the working class, anti-imperialist, anti-war forces in the United States to organize, coordinate, and lock arms with those same forces around the globe in the fight for peace. And as we say, “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the achievement by popular struggle and self-defense of a world liberated from the interlocking issues of global conflict, nuclear armament and proliferation, unjust war, and subversion through the defeat of global systems of oppression that include colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.”

People of Newark, where are you?

Workers, poets, singers, drivers, mechanics, professors, small business owners, where are you?

People of Brooklyn, where are you?

People of the Bronx, where are you?

People of Philly, where are you?

Now is the time!

No compromise!

No retreat!

source: Black Alliance for Peace

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17795

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