The Black Alliance for Peace launches our 5th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM, a crucial period of global education, mobilization, and resistance. This year, we sharpen our focus with the theme: “21st Century Neocolonialism: Capitalism, Compradors, and the Ongoing Scramble for Africa.”

For seventeen years, AFRICOM has served as the military-enforcement arm of this U.S. neocolonial project. But U.S. militarism does not operate in a vacuum. It is the guarantor of an economic order designed to perpetuate Africa’s exploitation, guaranteeing full access to Africa’s resources and creating a state of “security dependency” among comprador regimes.

The ongoing scramble for Africa is a war on the sovereignty and very lives of Black/African people. AFRICOM is on the front lines of that war.

The International Month of Action Against AFRICOM will kick off with an international webinar featuring voices from the African continent and diaspora expressing the need for the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops and an end to the combatant command. Following the webinar, individuals and organizations will engage in a month of autonomous and semi-autonomous actions and events designed to elevate this issue in the public consciousness around the world and encourage the continuation of the resistance against U.S. imperialism.

WE DEMAND:

• The complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Africa

• The demilitarization of the African continent

• The closure of U.S. bases throughout the world

• The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) oppose U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and conduct hearings on AFRICOM’s impact on the African continent, with the full participation of members of U.S. and African civil society.

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AFRICOM Watch Bulletin

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