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.

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source: Black Alliance for Peace

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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

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=32688 #africa #antiImperialism #blackAllianceForPeace #communistPartyOfKenya #kenya #Solidarity

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

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=31929 #africa #anticolonialism #antiimperialism #blackAllianceForPeace #protest #zionism

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

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=30883 #antiimperialism #blackAllianceForPeace #blackLiberation #northAmerica #peoplesWar

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:

Drop all federal and state charges against the Prairieland Defendants

Release all Prairieland Defendants from pre-trial detention

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

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

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=30352 #anarchism #blackAllianceForPeace #northAmerica #PoliticalPrisoners #prairielandDefense #repression

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

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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).

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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

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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

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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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