Black Alliance for Peace Stands Firmly with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution

Black Alliance for Peace Stands Firmly with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution

We condemn U.S. lawlessness in Our Americas and call for multinational intervention to guarantee a ‘Zone of Peace’

Oct 23, 2025 – U.S. lawless attacks throughout the Caribbean and Pacific, military buildup on various islands, strikes against Venezuela, antagonism against Colombia, and threats to escalate to land bombings are plunging the Americas to the brink of war. The Black Alliance for Peace condemns U.S. imperialist actions and calls on the so-called "international community” and regional/global multinational institutions – such as CELAC, CARICOM, and the UN Security Council – to intervene and end this aggression before it is too late.

Not only has the U.S./EU/NATO axis of domination bombed and extrajudicially killed fishermen in the Caribbean, they have expanded their encirclement of Venezuela to the Pacific, remilitarized Puerto Rico as a launchpad for further aggression, and anointed Trinidad & Tobago as the puppet to funnel Venezuela’s oil resources to the North in the future. This is all occurring as we near the anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983 (Oct 25), reminding us of comrade Maurice Bishop who called on the countries of the region to guarantee the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. Such a peace is impossible unless it is principled and anti-imperialist.

As BAP National Co-Coordinator Erica Caines describes, 

“BAP has been clear that the accelerated militarization and occupation that we have seen in Haiti over the last four years has violated the concept of a Zone of Peace and should have served as a warning for the rest of the region. The labeling of “gangs” as terrorist organizations in Haiti has allowed the U.S. to do the same in Venezuela, where the Department of War now compares Caribbean people in boats to Al-Qaeda, in order to justify their imperialist bloodlust. Despite these challenges the steadfast people of Venezuela have joined civilian militias in the millions to defend their homeland, to enforce peace. We applaud the Bolivarian Revolution and support the Venezuelan people’s defense of their sovereignty.” 

BAP is preparing to close out the 5th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM under the theme of  “21st Century Neocolonialism: Capitalism, Compradors, and the Ongoing Scramble for Africa”, we understand that any invasion of Venezuela – led by SOUTHCOM, AFRICOM’S counterpart in the Americas – not only has ramifications in the region, but for the continent and world. So today we urge unity in the fight against U.S.-led imperialism and we emphasize the need for a focus on building a Zone of Peace in Our Americas through popular struggle and grassroots coordination – including efforts that we are a part of, like the U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas Network. It is only the unity of our struggles and peoples that will defeat the capitalists and imperialists who seek to dominate us through never ending war. 

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

No Compromise No Retreat!

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La Alianza Negra por la Paz se mantiene firme junto a Venezuela y la Revolución Bolivariana

Condenamos la ilegalidad de Estados Unidos en Nuestra América y pedimos una intervención multinacional para garantizar una Zona de Paz

23 de octubre de 2025 – Los bombardeos marítimos ilegales de Estados Unidos en todo el Caribe y el Pacífico, el aumento de la presencia militar en varias islas, los ataques contra Venezuela, el antagonismo contra Colombia y las amenazas de intensificar los bombardeos terrestres están sumiendo a las Américas al borde de la guerra. La Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) condena las acciones imperialistas de Estados Unidos y pide a la llamada ‘comunidad internacional’ y a las instituciones multinacionales regionales y mundiales – como a CELAC, e CARICOM, el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU – que intervengan y pongan fin a esta agresión antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

El eje de dominación de Estados Unidos, la Unión Europea y la OTAN no solo ha bombardeado y asesinado extrajudicialmente a pescadores en el Caribe, sino que ha ampliado su cerco a Venezuela hasta el Pacífico, ha re-militarizado Puerto Rico como plataforma de lanzamiento para nuevas agresiones y ha consagrado a Trinidad y Tobago como títere para canalizar los recursos petroleros de Venezuela hacia el Norte en el futuro. Todo esto ocurre cuando se acerca el aniversario de la invasión estadounidense de Granada en 1983 (25 de octubre), lo que nos recuerda al camarada Maurice Bishop, quien pidió a los países de la región que garantizaran el Caribe como zona de paz. Esa paz es imposible a menos que sea basada en principios antiimperialistas.

Como describe la co-coordinadora nacional de BAP, Erica Caines,

«El BAP ha dejado claro que la acelerada militarización y ocupación que hemos visto en Haití durante los últimos cuatro años ha violado el concepto de zona de paz y debería haber servido de advertencia para el resto de la región. La calificación de las ‘bandas’ como organizaciones terroristas en Haití ha permitido a Estados Unidos hacer lo mismo en Venezuela, donde el Departamento de Guerra compara a los caribeños que viajan en barcos con Al Qaeda, con el fin de justificar su sed de sangre imperialista. A pesar de estos desafíos, el firme pueblo de Venezuela se ha unido a las milicias civiles por millones para defender su patria y hacer cumplir la paz. Aplaudimos la Revolución Bolivariana y apoyamos la defensa de la soberanía del pueblo venezolano».

BAP se prepara para cerrar el 5.º Mes Internacional de Acción contra AFRICOM que tiene el tema ‘Neocolonialismo del siglo XXI: capitalismo, compradores y la actual lucha por África’. Entendemos que cualquier invasión de Venezuela, liderada por el Comando Sur, la contraparte de AFRICOM en las Américas, no solo tiene ramificaciones en la región, sino también en el continente y el mundo. Por eso, hoy instamos a la unidad en la lucha contra el imperialismo liderado por Estados Unidos y enfatizamos la necesidad de centrarnos en la construcción de una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América a través de la lucha popular y la coordinación de base, incluyendo iniciativas de las que formamos parte, como ‘la Red E.E. UU./OTAN Fuera de Nuestra América’. Solo la unidad de nuestras luchas y nuestros pueblos derrotará a los capitalistas e imperialistas que buscan dominarnos a través de una guerra sin fin.

¡Hagamos de Nuestra América una Zona de Paz!

¡Sin compromisos, sin retrasos!

Image: Courtesy of Cristian Hernandez/AP/TT

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Establishment of Colonial Military Governance Over Haiti by UN Security Council

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Establishment of Colonial Military Governance Over Haiti by UN Security Council 

October 2, 2025 – On Tuesday Sep 30, 2025, the UN Security Council voted to adopt a resolution drafted by the U.S. and Panama that would create a so-called “Gang Suppression Force” (GSF) to invade Haiti. The resolution was adopted with 12 votes in favor and 3 abstentions (China, Russia, and Pakistan). The Black Alliance for Peace unequivocally condemns the adoption of this resolution. We see the GSF as a further step in the destruction of Haitian popular sovereignty, pushing the country into militarized, neocolonial servitude. 

The resolution for the “Gang Suppression Force” (GSF) authorizes the deployment of up to 5,550 personnel, foreign police and soldiers, with powers to “neutralize, isolate," and detain and imprison Haitian civilians – independent of the Haitian police and government. As JP, a BAP Haiti/Americas Team member, proclaimed during our Emergency Rally outside the UN on Sep 30, 2025: “In essence, this force will be granted a blank check by the so-called ‘international community,’ enabling it to execute the continued colonial capture of Haiti under the hollow guise of international legitimacy.” The GSF gives full oversight to a “Standing Group” of foreigners (which is similar to the Core Group), which will work with the established UN occupation office, BINUH – leaving Haitians as little more than symbolic partners. The GSF will also have a foreign “Force Commander.” All of this effectively creates another colonial governance model for Haiti.  

The GFS is supposed to replace the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission which was approved by the UNSC in October 2023, with police and military from Kenya and other Caribbean nations deployed in June 2024. It must be remembered, however, that the MSS was authorized through US pressure of regional actors, under the illegitimate US-installed Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, and deployed under the auspices of the nine-member “Transitional Presidential Council,” of Haiti, also installed by the US and its minions in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). 

We stress, in other words, that Haiti has no legitimate government. And as we continue to recount, Haiti has been under foreign occupation for more than twenty years, resulting in the complete collapse of its entire government structure. Both the MSS and the GSF are not only a continuation of that occupation, but are, by all standards, illegal. Indeed, we believe that the GSF is an attempt to further curtail the popular mass protests – 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022  –for Haitian self-determination. 

Moreover, it is absurd to call for foreign military invasion over gangs, especially with support from governments with their own violent internal crises – states such as Panama, Ecuador, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

While some are arguing that this new foreign military invasion in Haiti is a relief for a country besieged by gangs, we should also not forget that the crisis in Haiti is a crisis of imperialism – the rise in armed groups must be understood as a symptom of that crisis. Furthermore, the crisis continues with full complicity and participation of the so-called "international community” and compradors in the region. In 2022, for example, Haitian organizations blamed the United Nations and Core Group occupation for enabling the “gangsterization” of the country. 

BAP also condemns the role played by regional actors – including CARICOM and other OAS-aligned states – for continuing to participate in the U.S. imperial onslaught on Haiti. At the same time, we want to express our disappointment that the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation failed to use their veto power in support of Haiti despite their strong criticisms and acknowledgment of US treachery in the region. Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov himself noted that Haiti is effectively a testing ground for an ever-expanding model of U.S. military power, one with no clear mandate, no meaningful Haitian oversight, and no accountability. Yet, these members of the UNSC allowed the U.S.-led imperialist mission to advance, exposing the hollowness of the “international community’s” claim to stand with the Haitian people.

Haiti is part of the global African nation and, as such, the war on Haiti is a core aspect of the War on African/Black peoples, not just in the Americas but throughout the world. As we begin the fifth annual Month of Action against AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command), BAP understands that the confluence of militarized imperialist forces and corporate vultures that seek to crush and pick apart Haiti are also present domestically and globally, particularly on the African continent. Whether in the Congo, Sudan, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, or Haiti, the only “peace” that U.S.-led imperialism seeks is one of “full-spectrum dominance” and white supremacist, colonial control, which is the antithesis of African/Black self-determination. This same colonial logic is playing out in cities across the U.S., as Black/African and Brown people and neighborhoods are occupied and terrorized by federal and local militarized “police” forces. As the war against African/Black people intensifies globally, the occupation of Haiti, ongoing since 2004, is now reaching its logical, violent, destabilizing conclusion. 

We must oppose this “Gang Suppression Force” and any further U.S.-led militarization and domination of Haiti, for the dignity and self-determination of the people of Haiti, for the struggle toward liberation of all African peoples, and for the security and well-being of Our Americas.

We call for:

• An immediate end to the foreign military occupation of Haiti – the dissolution of the Core Group and its BINUH office as well as the recall and annulment of the resolution for the Gang Repression Force;

• The U.S. to abide by the UN arms embargo on Haiti and stop the export of military grade weapons to Haiti;

• The governments in the Caribbean and Latin America to stop participating in the US imperial onslaught on Haiti and to respect Haiti’s sovereignty and the right of its people to determine their own political future;

• Anti-imperialist regional solidarity across the Caribbean and Latin America to resist the normalization of foreign military interventions;

• The right of Haitian migrants to free movement and asylum, without xenophobia, criminalization, or bias.

Hands Off Haiti!

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

No Compromise No Retreat!

Resources:

• “The Ongoing Imperial Assault on Haiti” (Aug 2025)

• “The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for Resistance Against the Accelerating Imperialist War on Black/African Peoples in Our Americas” (28 May 2025)

• “CARICOM and Haiti: Integration or Imperialism” (17 Jan 2025)

• “MOLEGHAF: Update on Armed Attacks in Port-au-Prince” (22 Oct 2024)

• Haiti: An Anatomy of Invasion (22 May 2024)

• BAP Backgrounder: Haiti Behind the Headlines (11 March 2024)

• ““Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control” Hood Communist (28 Aug 2025)

• Map of U.S. Militarization in Our Americas (updated periodically)

• “Mass Struggle Against The Occupation of Haiti” – Pan-African Unity in Our Americas: A BAP Toolkit (updated May 2025)

• Haiti & Colonialism (Feb 2023)

• BAP Haiti Zine – The Crisis of Haiti is Crisis of Imperialism (Oct 2022)

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La Alianza Negra por la Paz condena el establecimiento de un gobierno militar colonial sobre Haití por parte del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU

2 de octubre de 2025 – El martes 30 de septiembre de 2025, el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU votó para adoptar una resolución redactada por Estados Unidos y Panamá que crearía una llamada "Fuerza de Supresión de Pandillas" (GSF, por sus siglas en inglés) para invadir Haití. La resolución fue adoptada con 12 votos a favor y 3 abstenciones (China, Rusia y Pakistán). La Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) condena inequívocamente la adopción de esta resolución. Vemos a la GSF como un paso más en la destrucción de la soberanía popular haitiana, empujando al país a una servidumbre militarizada y neocolonial.

La resolución para la "Fuerza de Supresión de Pandillas" (GSF) autoriza el despliegue de hasta 5,550 efectivos, policías y soldados extranjeros, con poderes para "neutralizar, aislar", detener y encarcelar a civiles haitianos, independientemente de la policía y el gobierno haitiano. Como proclamó JP, miembro del Equipo Haití/Américas de la BAP, durante nuestra Movilización de Emergencia frente a la ONU el 30 de septiembre de 2025: "En esencia, esta fuerza recibirá un cheque en blanco por parte de la llamada 'comunidad internacional', permitiéndole ejecutar la continua captura colonial de Haití bajo la vacua apariencia de legitimidad internacional". La GSF otorga supervisión total a un "Grupo Permanente" de extranjeros (similar al Grupo Central o “Core Group”), que trabajará con la oficina de ocupación de la ONU ya establecida, BINUH, dejando  haitianos como nada más que socios simbólicos. La GSF también tendrá un "Comandante de la Fuerza" extranjero. Todo esto crea efectivamente otro modelo de gobierno colonial para Haití.

Se supone que la GSF reemplazará a la Misión de Seguridad Multinacional (MSS) aprobada por el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU en octubre de 2023, con policías y militares de Kenia y otras naciones caribeñas desplegados en junio de 2024. Sin embargo, debe recordarse que la MSS fue autorizada mediante la presión de Estados Unidos sobre actores regionales, bajo el ilegítimo Primer Ministro impuesto por EE.UU., Ariel Henry, y desplegada bajo los auspicios del "Consejo Presidencial de Transición" de nueve miembros de Haití, también instalado por EE.UU. y sus secuaces en la Comunidad del Caribe (CARICOM).

En otras palabras, enfatizamos que Haití no tiene un gobierno legítimo. Y como seguimos relatando, Haití ha estado bajo ocupación extranjera durante más de veinte años, lo que ha provocado el colapso total de toda su estructura gubernamental. Tanto la MSS como la GSF no solo son una continuación de esa ocupación, sino que, por todos los estándares, son ilegales. De hecho, creemos que la GSF es un intento de restringir aún más las protestas masivas populares —en 2017, 2018, 2021 y 2022— por la autodeterminación haitiana.

Además, es absurdo pedir una invasión militar extranjera por causa de las pandillas, especialmente con el apoyo de gobiernos con sus propias crisis internas violentas, como Panamá, Ecuador, Jamaica, y Trinidad y Tobago.

Mientras algunos argumentan que esta nueva invasión militar extranjera en Haití es un alivio para un país asediado por pandillas, tampoco debemos olvidar que la crisis en Haití es una crisis del imperialismo: el aumento de los grupos armados debe entenderse como un síntoma de esa crisis. Además, la crisis continúa con la total complicidad y participación de la llamada "comunidad internacional" y los compradores de la región. En 2022, por ejemplo, organizaciones haitianas culparon a la ocupación de las Naciones Unidas y del Grupo Central por permitir la "pandillerización" del país.

La BAP también condena el papel desempeñado por actores regionales —incluidos la CARICOM y otros estados alineados con la OEA— por continuar participando en el asalto imperial estadounidense contra Haití. Al mismo tiempo, queremos expresar nuestra decepción porque la República Popular China y la Federación Rusa no utilizaron su poder de veto en apoyo a Haití, a pesar de sus fuertes críticas y reconocimiento de la traición de EE.UU. en la región. El mismo Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Rusia, Lavrov, señaló que Haití es efectivamente un campo de pruebas para un modelo en constante expansión del poder militar estadounidense, uno sin un mandato claro, sin una supervisión haitiana significativa y sin rendición de cuentas. Sin embargo, estos miembros del Consejo de Seguridad permitieron que avanzara la misión imperialista dirigida por EE.UU., exponiendo el vacío de la afirmación de la "comunidad internacional" de estar con el pueblo haitiano.

Haití es parte de la nación africana global y, como tal, la guerra contra Haití es un aspecto central de la Guerra contra los pueblos africanos/negros, no solo en las Américas sino en todo el mundo. Al comenzar el quinto Mes de Acción Anual contra el AFRICOM (Comando África de EE.UU), la BAP entiende que la confluencia de fuerzas imperialistas militarizadas y buitres corporativos que buscan aplastar y despedazar a Haití también está presente a nivel nacional y global, particularmente en el continente africano. Ya sea en el Congo, Sudán, el Cuerno de África, el Sahel o Haití, la única "paz" que busca el imperialismo liderado por EE.UU. es una de "dominio de espectro completo" y control colonial y supremacista blanco, que es la antítesis de la autodeterminación africana/negra. Esta misma lógica colonial se está desarrollando en ciudades de EE.UU., donde la gente y los vecindarios negros/africanos y morenos son ocupados y aterrorizados por fuerzas de "policía" militarizadas federales y locales. Mientras la guerra contra el pueblo africano/negro se intensifica globalmente, la ocupación de Haití, en curso desde 2004, está llegando ahora a su conclusión lógica, violenta y desestabilizadora.

Debemos oponernos a esta "Fuerza de Supresión de Pandillas" y a cualquier mayor militarización y dominación de Haití dirigida por EE.UU., por la dignidad y autodeterminación del pueblo de Haití, por la lucha hacia la liberación de todos los pueblos africanos, y por la seguridad y el bienestar de Nuestras Américas.

Exigimos:

• El cese inmediato de la ocupación militar extranjera de Haití: la disolución del Grupo Central y su oficina BINUH, así como la revocación y anulación de la resolución para la Fuerza de Represión de Pandillas;

• Que EE.UU. cumpla con el embargo de armas de la ONU sobre Haití y detenga la exportación de armas de grado militar a Haití;

• Que los gobiernos del Caribe y América Latina dejen de participar en el asalto imperial estadounidense contra Haití y respeten la soberanía de Haití y el derecho de su pueblo a determinar su propio futuro político;

• Solidaridad regional antiimperialista en todo el Caribe y América Latina para resistir la normalización de las intervenciones militares extranjeras;

• El derecho de los migrantes haitianos a la libre circulación y asilo, sin xenofobia, criminalización o prejuicios.

¡Fuera las manos de Haití!
¡Hagamos Nuestras Américas una Zona de Paz!
¡Sin compromisos, sin retrocesos!

Recursos:

• “La Alianza Negra por la Paz Hace un Llamado a la Resistencia Frente a la Guerra Imperialista Acelerada Contra los Pueblos Negros/Africanos en Nuestras Américas” (28 de mayo de 2025)

• “El 'Crimen', el Caballo de Troya para el Control Colonial” Hood Communist (28 de agosto de 2025)

• Zine: ‘La Crisis en Haiti es una crisis del imperialismo’ (Oct 2022)

• “The Ongoing Imperial Assault on Haiti” (Aug 2025)

• “CARICOM and Haiti: Integration or Imperialism” (17 Jan 2025)

• “MOLEGHAF: Update on Armed Attacks in Port-au-Prince” (22 Oct 2024)

• Haiti: An Anatomy of Invasion (22 May 2024)

• BAP Backgrounder: Haiti Behind the Headlines (11 March 2024)

• Map of U.S. Militarization in Our Americas (updated periodically)

• Haiti & Colonialism (Feb 2023)

Image: United Nations Security Council vote on October 1, 2025

U.S. Domestic Colonial Occupation Must Be Met with a Struggle for Decolonization, Not Reform-A PACA | BAP-DC Statement

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

A Statement by PACA and BAP-DC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Banner photo:: Trump speaking at a press conference with DC mayor Muriel Bowser behind him smiling.

The Black Alliance for Peace Announces the 2025 International Month of Action Against AFRICOM!

The Black Alliance for Peace Announces the 2025 International Month of Action Against AFRICOM!

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.”

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.

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.

This year, we will dissect the entire system—from the deadly footprint of U.S. bases to the predatory International Monetary Fund. From African leaders who act as compradors for Western powers to the multinational corporations that plunder our resources, forcing our people into inhumane conditions for profit.

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 movements across the Sahel and popular mass mobilizations in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda against governments propped up by the U.S. have shown that the struggle against the imperialist system through collective action is possible. We must seize this moment and bring that same fierce energy to our own communities to challenge the empire at its source.

This Month of Action is our unified response. We will elevate the demands that form the core of our work:

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

2. The demilitarization of the African Continent.

3. The closure of U.S. bases throughout the world; and

4. The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) oppose the 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.

This is a call to action. Endorse the month. Join the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) and host events in your communities. Let us make this October a decisive moment in the struggle for total liberation.

#shutdownAFRICOM

US out of Africa!

No Compromise.

No Retreat

From the Indo-Pacific to the Hudson: US War Games in Korea, IOF Trained NYPD & ICE Terrorism in NYC

From the Indo-Pacific to the Hudson: US War Games in Korea, IOF Trained NYPD & ICE Terrorism in NYC

On August 15th, six cities across the US marked the 80th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonialism with a national day of action for the US Out of Korea campaign, organized by Nodutdol, an organization of Korean diaspora and comrades organizing for a world free of imperialism, and for Korea’s re/unification and national liberation. The Black Alliance for Peace is a proud endorser of the campaign and partner in the struggle to oppose eighty years of US occupation – US Out of Korea!

The New Jersey / New York Citywide Alliance of the Black Alliance for Peace seeks to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperalist, and pro-peace positions of the radical Black movement. We work to oppose domestic state repression, oppose policies of de-stabilization, oppose subversion, and oppose the permanent war agenda of the U.S. state globally.

Those of us in the Black Alliance for Peace understand that unity in Africa, unity in Korea, and unity in Our Americas is–and always has been–a threat to the imperialist schemes of the US/EU/NATO axis of domination. Because it is a threat, the US Department of the Defense sat down with a map of the world and carved the planet up into 11 combatant commands.

The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command–the oldest and largest of the combatant commands was established in 1947, just before the Korean War. The US claims that the goal of this command is to enhance stability in the Asia-Pacific region. But one of the Pacific Command’s first tasks was combat operations in Korea, operations which resulted in the slaughter of millions of Korean people and the fracturing of the nation.

In 1963, the US established its Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM. As with the Indo Pacific Command, the US claims that the purpose of SOUTHCOM is to enhance stability in the Western Hemisphere. In reality, SOUTHCOM has facilitated capitalist extraction of resources like lithium from South America, subverted and DEstabilized socialist governments and anti-imperialist forces in places like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, and undermined self-determination in places like Haiti.

And if that weren’t enough, the US used the same playbook in Africa, by establishing its Africa Command or AFRICOM in 2007. The US claims that AFRICOM was established–once again–to provide security and prevent the spread of “terrorism” in the region. However, since AFRICOM has come into the picture, deaths in the Sahel have risen 2,000%.

In recent days, here in the US we’ve seen the National Guard–in coordination with the US Northern Command or NORTHCOM–deployed in LA and DC to repress dissent. Here in New York, we see the IOF-trained NYPD, which has more resources than many countries’ armies, while also supporting ICE raids and kidnappings, terrorizing and tearing apart our communities on a daily basis, like in the case of Yunseo Chung. This is not new. It extends the decades-long trend of militarization within the US. Across three decades and five US presidents, programs like the 1033 program have empowered the Department of Defense to transfer $6 billion worth of military equipment to domestic U.S. law-enforcement agencies while communities are suffering from austerity cuts. 

We must be clear. Through its combatant command structure and deepening dependence on domestic militarization, the US will continue to terrorize and extract, terrorize and extract, terrorize and extract.

But we in the Black Alliance for Peace will not be intimidated and we will not just sit back and watch this unfold.

We are calling for the end of SOUTHCOM and imperialist meddling in Haitian affairs. 

We are calling on the masses to reject US Imperialism and Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace.

We are calling for the end of AFRICOM and the complete withdrawal of all US forces from Africa.

We are calling for the end of the 1033 Program, the end of ICE, the end of Cop Cities, the end of economic warfare and increased militarization in Black communities here in the US.

As bearers of the Black Radical Peace Tradition, as anti-imperalists, and as supporters of people’s struggles for self-determination, we denounce the Indo-Pacific Command, the war games in Korea, and the tariff threats from the U.S. We demand that the U.S. removes its military bases from Korea, Africa, the Americas, and everywhere in the world. U.S. Out of Korea! U.S. Out of Our Americas! U.S. Out of Africa! U.S Out of Everywhere! 

No Compromise, No Retreat!

Banner photo: Korea Defense Blog

BAP Remarks for the “Baerbock Resign” Press Conference: September 11, 2025

BAP Remarks for the “Baerbock Resign” Press Conference: September 11, 2025

Today, September 11th, is a solemn day for many people and communities in the United States, in particular in New York City and Washington DC. It is made more so by the cynical presence of Annalena Baerbock in the presidency of the body that claims to represent the world's peoples and nations, in this city. Her appointment represents a continuation of the warmongering and imperialist domination that has claimed millions of lives. The blood of the Palestinian people that drips from Baerbock’s hands, and from the mouths of her U.S.-Israeli sponsors, is not nearly dry, yet she sits comfortably pretending to direct diplomatic debate and representation across the globe. It is a disgrace, an affront to our collective humanity.

We, in the Black Alliance for Peace, reject in the strongest terms the appointment of Annalena Baerbock as the President of the United Nations General Assembly. Her appointment is without precedent, and it clearly and intentionally makes further mockery of international institutions that were established to prevent the forms of genocidal murder and destruction that we have witnessed for almost two years in Gaza.

The Black Alliance for Peace is a People(s)-Centered Human Rights project against war and repression. We understand that the human rights that Baerbock and her colleagues in Germany, the European Union, and the Western ruling elite purport to uphold are not human rights but privileges of a white supremacist, capitalist, colonial, patriarchal system. While it was founded on honorable ideals, we must be honest today that the United Nations has never taken the humanity of the colonized, oppressed, working, poor, and racialized peoples and nations of the world seriously. Each year, the UN General Assembly decries oppressive structures and systems, like the genocidal blockade by the U.S. against Cuba, murderous sanctions, the continued existence of colonialism in direct and indirect forms, and the zionist occupation of Palestine. And each year these injustices persist because they have the full backing of U.S.-led imperialism and militarism.

Since Al-Aqsa Flood and the heroic defense of the Palestinian Resistance, the former liberal facade of European nations has been fully removed to reveal their true role in promoting and sustaining the death and destruction of much of the globe, at the hands of “western civilization”. The preponderance of repression and targeted violence in Germany, the U.S., the UK, and around the “west” is simply a reflection of the murderous imperialist violence that these countries and their capitalist class of wrought since European colonialists, genocidaires, and slavers touched the shores of West Africa and the Caribbean in the 15th Century. From Ayiti and Abya Yala to Namibia and the Congo to the Jewish ghettos of Europe to historic Palestine, the western liberal order has only ever ordered extermination and erasure for the masses of our peoples.

A true and just global governance system can only be developed once we have reckoned with and defeated the war-mongering and oppression of this current structure. True human rights must be centered in the material needs and collective self-determinative desires of our peoples. People(s)-Centered Human Rights are those non-oppressive rights that reflect the highest commitment to universal human dignity and social justice that individuals and collectives define and secure for themselves and Collective Humanity through social struggle. This is the Black Radical Peace Tradition’s approach to human rights. It is an approach that views human rights as an arena of struggle that, when grounded and informed by the needs and aspirations of the oppressed, becomes part of a unified comprehensive strategy for decolonization and radical social change.

The UN General Assembly should be a space for the debate and discussion toward such positive steps in human cooperation, sustainable development, and collective self-actualization, not a cynical facade to prop-up the perpetrators and enablers of genocide. The UN General Assembly should be fighting to make real and sustained the demands for clean water and clean air; accessible and healthy food; free quality education; healthcare and healthiness for all; housing; public transportation; family sustaining wages and socially productive employment that allow for a dignified life; ending of mass incarceration; universal free child care; opposition to war and the control and eventual elimination of the police; self-determination; and respect for democracy in all aspects of life. Anything less is further disrespect, destruction, and violence against our peoples and nations.

In response to the continued assault on our collective humanity and dignity, most especially the ongoing genocide in Gaza and occupation of Palestine, the less-publicized genocide in Sudan and unjust peace in the Congo, the continued occupation and militarization of Haiti, and the increasing encirclement and violent attacks against Venezuela, we demand that:

Annalena Baerbock must resign immediately from her post as President of the UN General Assembly

The UN Security Council and European Union impose immediate sanctions and consequences for Israel’s illegal acts, and institute an arms embargo.

The international community must expel Israel from the United Nations and condemn zionism in all its forms.

The United Nations must take immediate steps to resolve the denial of meaningful representation, governance, and enforcement from and by the majority of the world’s peoples and governments, in particular the Global South.

The ICC must indict and prosecute Israeli and U.S. officials for continued war crimes throughout West Asia, the lawlessness of genocide perpetuated against the Palestinian people, and the increasing militarization and murderous actions in this hemisphere.

In addition to this official diplomatic prosecution, we call on peoples-centered movements, human rights organizations, and all those who support justice and democracy to push for the banning of the states of Israel and the U.S. from international cultural and sporting events, including the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup and 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. We must isolate and oppose these rogue states, not condone their behavior. The people of the Americas, where these events will be hosted, and of Europe, who will send thousands of athletes, in particular must rise up against the U.S.-Israeli barbarity as well as their government’s own complicity.

History will remember the calculated genocide and wanton violence by the U.S. and Israel, as well as the barbarous domestic repression in Germany, the United Kingdom, the U.S., and throughout the “western world” as indelible and ignominious stains on so-called international “law” and cooperation, people(s)-centered human rights and the basic tenets of human dignity.

No compromise, No retreat!

Smash Zionism!

Free Palestine!

BAP Haiti/Americas Team Condemns US Government Attack on Venezuelan Sovereignty

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BAP Haiti/Americas Team Condemns US Government Attack on Venezuelan Sovereignty

US Issues $50 million Bounty while Sanctioning Venezuelan People and Starving Gaza

The Trump State Department and Department of Justice have once again increased hostility against the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, doubling its reward up to $50 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The press release states, “for over a decade, Maduro has been a leader of Cartel de los Soles, which is responsible for trafficking drugs into the United States.” Besides issuing a capricious so called bounty on the head of a democratically elected president, the US claims Maduro is the leader of a cartel responsible for trafficking drugs into the country. This coming from the country who has facilitated Israel in carrying out a livestreamed genocide against a civilian population in Gaza for almost two years and continues in the next phase of planned starvation as Israel carries out the Final Solution against Gaza. BAP condemns this reckless attack on the Venezuelan government and people and stands with the Venezuelan peoples in asserting their right to sovereignty in solidarity with all peoples of Our Americas (Nuestra América). 

These unfounded claims are not only false but also dangerous, as they lay the narrative groundwork to justify a military attack, and is the next phase of a long lawfare campaign. By linking Maduro to transnational criminal organizations, they expand the justification for the use of force and usher in the drumbeats of war. This attack on the Venezuelan people follows a long list of tactics used by US empire to subvert the Bolivarian Revolution, such as economic warfare, the theft and piracy of the oil company Citgo, pushing so-called leaders like Juan Guaido, or this type of lawfare. As BAP’s Haiti/Americas Team has written, lawfare is simply imperialist weaponization of legal systems and litigation in Our Americas. This is on top of the continued use and tightening of sanctions, which reflect an economic war on the people. The Lancet recently published a report demonstrating that sanctions do kill: “economic sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU were associated with 564,258 deaths annually from 1971 to 2021, higher than the annual number of battle-related casualties (106,000 deaths).” By sheer numbers, sanctions are deadlier than war.   

For BAP, the Black Radical Peace Tradition helps us to understand these sanctions as mirroring economic violence used in the U.S., considering African/Black communities overwhelmingly represent the poor and working masses who are economically exploited  in the United States. Economic warfare, as waged against African/Black and oppressed communities under internal colonialism and global imperialism, operates in opposition to People(s)-Centered Human Rights through systemic deprivation and exploitation, reinforcing the structural location of Blackness as a site of extraction and disposability. 

This warfare manifests in premature death, health disparities, gentrification, unemployment, the privatization of public goods, financialization, corporate profiteering, housing crises, attacks on labor, and coercive debt regimes further entrench mass poverty, ensuring economic destabilization for the global majority. These conditions are not accidental but strategic, upholding imperialist hierarchies by rendering African/Black life expendable while transforming marginalized nations and communities into endless sites of accumulation. 

No Compromise, No Retreat is not just a slogan but a strategic framework to challenge economic warfare against our people, and defend African/Black, working class and poor people, and our neighborhoods by confronting these economic attacks, including neoliberal austerity policies; privatization and expropriation of land and human needs; and capitalist exploitation of our labor, resources, and people.

That economic war in the U.S. represents a domestic counterpart to these attacks on Venezuela’s sovereignty and the sanctions waged against its people, which reflect the imperialist global aspect to this war. This arrest warrant against Nicolás Maduro, and the Venezuelan people, is another in a long list of attacks against the people of the region. Accelerating U.S.-led militarism has increased the urgency to make Our Americas a Zone of Peace, through engaging the masses of colonized, working poor communities who face the brunt of these attacks, and building a base with the popular power to defeat this imperialist war on the peoples of Our Americas. The US/NATO Out of Our Americas Network is building out a structure to be able to successfully expel these nefarious forces that deny peace. Learn more and sign up for the network at zoneofpeace.org.

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Equipo Haití/Américas de la Alianza Negra por la Paz condena ataque del gobierno estadounidense contra soberanía venezolana

EEUU ofrece recompensa de $50 millones mientras sanciona al pueblo venezolano y hambrea a Gaza

El Departamento de Estado y el Departamento de Justicia de Trump han incrementado una vez más la hostilidad contra el presidente electo de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, duplicando la recompensa hasta $50 millones por información que lleve al arresto y/o condena del presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. El comunicado de prensa afirma: 'durante más de una década, Maduro ha sido líder del Cartel de los Soles, responsable de traficar drogas hacia Estados Unidos'. Además de emitir una caprichosa llamada 'recompensa' por la cabeza de un presidente democráticamente electo, EE.UU. alega que Maduro lidera un cartel responsable del narcotráfico hacia su país. Esto viene del país que ha facilitado a Israel llevar a cabo un genocidio transmitido en vivo contra la población civil en Gaza durante casi dos años, y que continúa con la siguiente fase de hambruna planificada mientras Israel implementa la Solución Final contra Gaza. La Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) condena este ataque temerario contra el gobierno y pueblo venezolano, y se solidariza con los pueblos venezolanos en su derecho a la soberanía, en unidad con todos los pueblos de Nuestra América.

Estas acusaciones infundadas no solo son falsas sino también peligrosas, ya que establecen las bases narrativas para justificar un ataque militar, y representan la siguiente fase de una larga campaña de lawfare (guerra jurídica). Al vincular a Maduro con organizaciones criminales transnacionales, amplían la justificación para el uso de la fuerza y dan paso a los tambores de guerra. Este ataque contra el pueblo venezolano sigue una larga lista de tácticas utilizadas por el imperio estadounidense para socavar la Revolución Bolivariana, como la guerra económica, el robo y la piratería de la compañía petrolera Citgo, el impulso de supuestos líderes como Juan Guaidó, o este tipo de lawfare. Como ha escrito el Equipo Haití/Américas de BAP, el lawfare no es más que la weaponización imperialista de los sistemas legales y litigios en Nuestra América. Esto se suma al continuo uso y endurecimiento de sanciones, que reflejan una guerra económica contra el pueblo. The Lancet publicó recientemente un informe que demuestra que las sanciones sí matan: 'las sanciones económicas impuestas por EE.UU. o la UE estuvieron asociadas con 564.258 muertes anuales entre 1971 y 2021, cifra superior a las muertes anuales relacionadas con batallas (106.000)'. En términos brutos, las sanciones son más letales que la guerra.

Para la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP), la Tradición Negra Radical por la Paz nos ayuda a entender estas sanciones como un reflejo de la violencia económica utilizada en EE.UU., considerando que las comunidades africanas/negras representan abrumadoramente a las masas pobres y trabajadoras que son explotadas económicamente en Estados Unidos. La guerra económica, tal como se libra contra las comunidades africanas/negras y oprimidas bajo el colonialismo interno y el imperialismo global, opera en oposición a los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos mediante la privación sistémica y la explotación, reforzando la ubicación estructural de la negritud como sitio de extracción y desechabilidad.

Esta guerra se manifiesta en muertes prematuras, disparidades en salud, gentrificación, desempleo, privatización de bienes públicos, financiarización, lucro corporativo, crisis de vivienda, ataques a los trabajadores y regímenes de deuda coercitiva que profundizan la pobreza masiva, garantizando la desestabilización económica para la mayoría global. Estas condiciones no son accidentales sino estratégicas, sosteniendo jerarquías imperialistas al considerar la vida africana/negra como prescindible mientras transforman naciones y comunidades marginadas en sitios infinitos de acumulación.

"Sin Compromisos, Sin Retrocesos" no es solo un eslogan sino un marco estratégico para desafiar la guerra económica contra nuestro pueblo, y defender a las comunidades africanas/negras, trabajadoras y pobres, y nuestros barrios confrontando estos ataques económicos, incluyendo: políticas neoliberales de austeridad; privatización y expropiación de tierras y necesidades humanas; y la explotación capitalista de nuestro trabajo, recursos y gente.

Esta guerra económica en EE.UU. representa una contraparte doméstica de estos ataques contra la soberanía de Venezuela y las sanciones impuestas a su pueblo, que reflejan el aspecto global imperialista de esta guerra. Esta orden de arresto contra Nicolás Maduro, y contra el pueblo venezolano, es uno más en la larga lista de ataques contra los pueblos de la región.La aceleración del militarismo liderado por EE.UU. ha aumentado la urgencia de hacer de Nuestra América una Zona de Paz, movilizando a las masas de comunidades colonizadas de trabajadores pobres que enfrentan el mayor impacto de estos ataques, y construyendo una base con poder popular para derrotar esta guerra imperialista contra los pueblos de Nuestra América. La Red EE.UU./OTAN Fuera de Nuestra América está construyendo una estructura para expulsar exitosamente estas fuerzas nefastas que niegan la paz. Conoce más y únete a la red en zoneofpeace.org.

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Banner photo: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks as he presents a proposal to reform the constitution in a session of the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela on February 15, 2025. Reuters File.

Foto de cabecera: El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, habla mientras presenta una propuesta para reformar la Constitución en una sesión de la Asamblea Nacional en Caracas, Venezuela, el 15 de febrero de 2025. Archivo Reuters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No Justice, No Peace, 
No Compromise, No Retreat

Banner photo: Members of the National Guard gather outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Justice for Chris Smalls!

Smash Zionism!

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

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

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

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

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

Neocolonialism in Haiti: Outsourcing Imperialist Occupation

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

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

Life, Culture, and Sovereignty Under Siege

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

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

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

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

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

Hands Off Haiti!

U.S. Out of Africa!

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

References: 

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

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

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

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

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

Banner photo: Kenya and Haiti sign agreement on the deployment of 1,000 police officers to the Multi-National Security Support Mission in Haiti

Exportando represión: Haitianos y kenianos luchan contra los representantes neocoloniales del imperialismo liderado por EE.UU.

Desde 2021, el equipo Haití/Américas de la Alianza Negra por la Paz ha documentado la profundización de la crisis del imperialismo en Haití, en particular cómo las fuerzas imperialistas y sus títeres neocoloniales han trabajado para suprimir y eliminar la organización de los movimientos populares y la voluntad del pueblo haitiano. En los últimos cuatro años, esta crisis ha impactado a naciones de todo el mundo, especialmente a Kenia.

Este verano se cumple un año del levantamiento liderado por la juventud keniana contra la Ley Financiera de 2024, respaldada por el FMI. En lugar de atender las demandas de una generación que ha sufrido una inflación descontrolada, violencia policial y desempleo masivo, el presidente William Ruto ha desatado una vez más toda la fuerza represiva del Estado. Balas reales, secuestros y toques de queda se han convertido en tácticas rutinarias para aplastar la disidencia, dejando al menos 50 manifestantes muertos. Como señaló el equipo de África de BAP la semana pasada, estas protestas no son aisladas, sino que reflejan un rechazo generacional más amplio a la austeridad impuesta por el FMI y a la consolidación represiva de un gobierno neocolonial.

A millas de distancia, en Haití revolucionaria, las botas kenianas siguen pisando su suelo. Tras el asesinato de Jovenel Moïse en julio de 2021 y la imposición de Ariel Henry por parte del Core Group, tropas fueron desplegadas bajo la misión denominada Apoyo Multinacional de Seguridad (MSS), renovada en octubre de 2024 pese a la oposición constante de la sociedad civil y los movimientos populares en las Américas. Los mismos policías violentos que reprimen en Kenia fueron enviados a "restablecer el orden" en un país devastado por décadas de intervención extranjera y políticas neocoloniales.

El "orden" que representan estas fuerzas no es el de la paz, sino el de la continuidad de la dominación imperialista y la subversión neocolonial. El mismo régimen que brutaliza a su juventud en casa ahora pretende llevar "seguridad" a los haitianos en el extranjero. Estas respuestas militarizadas no protegen a la mayoría del pueblo en Haití o Kenia, sino a las corporaciones multinacionales, los burócratas imperialistas y las oligarquías y élites neocoloniales.

Neocolonialismo en Haití: La externalización de la ocupación imperialista

La MSS no ha logrado frenar la violencia, pero no por falta de fuerza, sino porque nunca fue diseñada para resolver las causas profundas del conflicto. Desde que la misión liderada por Kenia se lanzó formalmente en 2024 bajo el patrocinio de EE.UU., ha sido estratégicamente ambigua, militarmente ineficaz y políticamente ilegítima.

Como han denunciado recientemente activistas de base, la MSS y sus amos del Comando Sur de EE.UU. (Southcom) ocultan sus actividades, pues los grupos paramilitares que supuestamente debían combatir no han hecho más que expandir su control dentro y fuera de Puerto Príncipe. Esto incluye localidades como La Chapelle, Artibonite y Lascaobas, en el departamento del Centro.

Esto no se debe a que la intervención sea "débil", sino que está planeado así. La presencia de la MSS funciona como un escalón para una reocupación estadounidense más profunda y como excusa para militarizar aún más la crisis política de Haití, que siempre ha sido —y sigue siendo— una crisis del imperialismo.

El fracaso de la MSS no solo demuestra la inutilidad de la intervención extranjera para resolver la crisis haitiana, sino que revela su verdadero propósito: mantener a Haití bajo un yugo neocolonial.

Vida, cultura y soberanía bajo asedio

A principios de esta semana, grupos armados paramilitares incendiaron el Hotel Oloffson, un sitio histórico en Puerto Príncipe conocido por su importancia para el arte, el periodismo, el refugio y la resistencia haitianos. Esto no fue solo un ataque a la infraestructura, sino un asalto a la memoria cultural y al alma política de Haití. Al mismo tiempo, las fuerzas gubernamentales bajo el ilegítimo Consejo Presidencial de Transición (CPT) intensifican los ataques con "drones kamikaze" que ya han resultado en el asesinato de al menos 300 personas en barrios pobres y de clase trabajadora, bajo la justificación de atacar a "pandillas terroristas". Ahora, con el acuerdo entre el CPT y los mercenarios respaldados por Estados Unidos de Erik Prince, la militarización y la violencia solo prometen profundizarse. A medida que la violencia se extiende más allá de Puerto Príncipe, tanto vidas como espacios simbólicos de resistencia haitiana están siendo consumidos por la violencia alimentada por el imperialismo.

Sin embargo, este mes también ha traído signos de resistencia y solidaridad. El 13 de julio, residentes desplazados del barrio de Solino en Puerto Príncipe se movilizaron en las calles para protestar por su supervivencia y contra los oligarcas y el estado neocolonial que están destruyendo sus vidas y medios de subsistencia. El 6 de julio, la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) envió una delegación a Haití en un claro rechazo a la intervención respaldada por Estados Unidos. La delegación, compuesta por representantes de Venezuela, Brasil y Argentina, denunció el intervencionismo extranjero y pidió "respeto a la soberanía de Haití, instando a soluciones basadas en la cooperación mutua, no en la ocupación militar... Detrás de la violencia, la corrupción y la escasez de alimentos, está el mismo imperialismo de Estados Unidos que oprime a todos los pueblos del Sur Global".

En marcado contraste con el papel de Kenia como ejecutor proxy del Core Group liderado por Estados Unidos políticamente y del Comando Sur militarmente, la declaración de ALBA replantea posibles soluciones a la crisis en Haití a través de la solidaridad regional, no de mandatos occidentales. Este enfoque en la solidaridad es una función central del desarrollo de la Campaña por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América, que tiene como objetivo principal terminar con la intervención militar en Haití y apoyar movimientos centrados en los pueblos que enfatizan la autodeterminación y la dignidad para las masas haitianas.

Como antiimperialistas en solidaridad con las masas de haitianos y kenianos, debemos mantenernos claros. Ya sea en Nairobi o en Puerto Príncipe, el manual es el mismo: suprimir la resistencia en casa, legitimar la ocupación en el extranjero. Pero la juventud africana de hoy no está confundida. Ellos ven las conexiones globales. Las mismas fuerzas que imponen deuda y represión en Kenia están financiando la dominación extranjera en Haití. La violencia no es un accidente, es el brazo ejecutor de un sistema neocolonial. Mientras la MSS fracasa en Haití y la juventud keniana sigue alzándose contra la represión doméstica, el imperio en decadencia detrás de ambos está mucho más claro.

La Alianza Negra por la Paz se solidariza con aquellos que sobreviven y resisten a ambos regímenes compradores en Kenia y Haití mientras colaboran con el imperialismo occidental liderado por Estados Unidos para oprimir y explotar a los africanos en ambas naciones.

¡Fuera las manos de Haití!

¡EE.UU. fuera de África!

¡Hagamos de Nuestra América una Zona de Paz!

References: 

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

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

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

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

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

The Black Alliance for Peace Stands Unequivocally Behind Kenya’s Youth Upholding Resistance Against U.S. Puppet State Imperialism and Neo-Liberalism

The Black Alliance for Peace Stands Unequivocally Behind Kenya’s Youth Upholding Resistance Against U.S. Puppet State Imperialism and Neo-Liberalism

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forward to expelling AFRICOM from the entire continent!

Forward to dethroning the comprador class in Africa!

Forward to one united, socialist Africa!

No Compromise!

No Retreat!

Banner photo: Kenyan youths carry flags during the candle light vigil in memory of dead protesters on June 30, 2024, (courtesy. SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)