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:

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

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