The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) works to reinvigorate the Black radical movement as part of a broader struggle against U.S. militarization and military bases. BAP is naturally focused on AFRICOM and the proliferation of militarization on the continent. That focus birthed the U.S. Out of Africa Network, which is building mass opposition against AFRICOM and U.S. imperialism. To that end, BAP and the Network are working to create synergy between organizers on the continent and in the belly of the beast to build transcontinental positive action against AFRICOM.
Though there are many issues for anti-imperialists to focus on, the AFRICOM issue is an entry point with a strategic focus on the relationships that have been built and maintained between compradors and the U.S., along with other Western colonial powers. Class struggle is intensifying on the continent, and the invitations of foreign militaries by neo-colonial governments must be seen as illegitimate and against the will of the people in order to delegitimize the relationship between compradors and foreign forces.
As Abiodun Aremu of the Joint Action Front has said, there is no reason that Africa should be under any colonial command. The U.S. and any other foreign government have no authority or legitimacy. There is a need to bring together the liberation forces in the Pan-African world to present a central voice, because this is not just about the continent. It is about the Pan-African world.
Ceasefire Ends in Occupied Western Sahara After U.S.-Backed Moroccan Military Launches Operation
By Jacob Mundy – November 16, 2020
The connections between the Moroccan military and the U.S. military have grown in recent years, largely due to Morocco’s cooperation with the construction of AFRICOM.
Trump Is Said to Be Preparing to Withdraw Troops from Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia
By Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Charlie Savage and Helene Cooper – November 16, 2020
President Trump is expected to order the U.S. military to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia by the time he leaves office in January.
UNSMIL Seeks a Lame Agreement that Will Prolong the Libyan Crisis
Al Arab – November 13, 2020
UN envoy Stephanie Williams made a statement that caused many Libyans to fear that what the U.S. did in Iraq, dividing the country along sectarian and nationalist lines, is coming to Libya.
The US - Eritrea Unfiltered Story
By AbdulRasheed Abubakar – November 7, 2020
Amanuel Biedeemariam speaks about his book on U.S. - Eritrean relations, stretching from the end of WWII, when the U.S. pushed for Eritrea to be under Ethiopian control, to the present.
French Imperialism and Neo-colonialism in Mali
By K. Philippe Gendrault – November 4, 2020
France’s military budget certainly does not match that of the US military but what it may lack in funding, it makes up in experience, particularly in its extensive colonial experience in Africa.
French airstrikes kill over 50 people in Mali
AFP – November 3, 2020
The French government said that more than 50 terrorists linked to the al-Qaeda group were killed in central Mali during an operation launched by its anti-jihadist force in the region.
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