The Culprit of the Attack on the Transition Government in Mali & the AES is NATO Imperialism

The Culprit of the Attack on the Transition Government in Mali & the AES is NATO Imperialism

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) condemns the imperialist-backed terrorist and separatist attacks against the Transition Government of Mali on April 25, 2026. This was a major attack that terrorized the population in several towns, resulting in casualties, among whom the minister of defense, General Sadio Camara, his wife, and grandchildren were killed. The Black Alliance for Peace offers our condolences to the family and comrades in the Malian transition government, as well as the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). 

Consistent with our principles, BAP stands in unity with all anti-imperialist fighting forces. We therefore stand in solidarity with the transition government of Mali, as well as the AES generally, which have been at the forefront of fighting imperialist forces in Africa. In this case, imperialism in the form of its former colonizer and NATO member, France, was reportedly providing intelligence to the terrorists even four years ago. We also add its opportunistic partner, Ukraine, which admitted only two years ago to supplying heavy weaponry in the form of drones to proxy terrorist forces JNIM and FLA as a counter to Russian forces contracted by the Malian government to help them in this battle.

We will not be silent while the forces actually responsible for the symptoms of terrorism in Africa posture as the remedy for it. The prevalence of terrorism in Africa was born from NATO’s destruction of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 2011, a vile crime against humanity that unleashed and scattered the reactionary terrorist forces across the Sahel and beyond. The Western world’s continued neocolonial plunder of Africa depends on keeping the continent destabilized. Because no truly liberated people would tolerate the paternalistic, militarist, extractive relationship that is the mission of NATO and its member countries.

The transition government of Mali has forced the French out, accusing them of assisting the terrorists. We are convinced -- based on history -- that France has not totally discontinued their efforts to destabilize and balkanize Mali and the AES by proxy in order to continue its long history of colonial domination and exploitation. The numerous assassination and coup attempts against Ibrahim Traore in Burkina Faso originating from the Ivory Coast are a testament to this. Ivory Coast has been one of France’s primary proxies in Africa since the days of Houphet Boigny, who was famously called the French traveling salesman by Frantz Fanon.

BAP understands that Africa will only be sovereign and free when it is able to develop a path reflective of a People’s Centered Human Rights. This requires freeing itself from the imperialist hybrid war perpetrated by NATO, AFRICOM, IMF/World Bank forces, and their neocolonial proxies. 

For Peace in the Americas, We Must Defend Cuba Against U.S. Imperialist Warfare

For Peace in the Americas, We Must Defend Cuba Against U.S. Imperialist Warfare

The U.S. Presidential Executive Order, “Imposing Sanctions on Those Responsible for Repression in Cuba and for Threats to United States National Security and Foreign Policy,” signed on May 1, 2026, International Workers' Day, marks both an escalation of existing policy and a qualitative shift toward total economic warfare, deploying starvation as an instrument of statecraft. The timing of this escalation is not incidental. Issued amid renewed U.S. rhetoric around exerting control over Cuba, the EO signals an effort to consolidate that control in a moment of deepening crisis for U.S. imperialism. 

By broadening sanctions to target any entity or individual deemed a "material supporter" of the Cuban government, authorizing secondary sanctions against third-party financial institutions worldwide, reinforcing energy constraints on fuel procurement, and invoking dubious national security designations, the Order effectively criminalizes basic economic survival. These provisions extend U.S. economic warfare beyond its borders, coercing foreign banks, suppliers, and intermediaries to cut off even routine transactions with Cuba or risk punishment and exclusion from the dollar-dominated financial system. Weaponizing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) isolates Cuba from the global financial system entirely, collectively punishing not just the state but every Cuban citizen seeking medicine, food, or electricity. Beyond Cuba, from Haiti to Venezuela, from Nicaragua to Grenada, the U.S. utilizes political subversion, economic coercion, and military attack to enforce ‘full spectrum dominance’ in the Americas.

Cuba is under attack because its revolutionary project poses an existential threat to U.S. hegemony. For over sixty years, a small island under the most brutal economic embargo in modern history has built a society with universal healthcare, free education, and a life expectancy that rivals the Global North's, without submitting to IMF austerity, World Bank structural adjustment, or U.S. corporate domination. The Order’s provisions targeting "foreign actors" and "security concerns" function as transparent pretexts to intensify economic strangulation at a moment of vulnerability in Cuba as it recovers from pandemic-driven tourism collapse, tighten the noose on its hard-won energy independence, and preempt any deepening relationships with China, Russia, or Global South partners.

For BAP, this Executive Order must also be understood within the current geopolitical moment. It echoes and reinforces U.S. offensives against Venezuela, aiming to break the Bolivarian Revolution, and Iran, whose own targeting under maximalist pressure campaigns mirrors Cuba’s isolation. Furthermore, the Order weaponizes dollar dependence to coerce Caribbean states into continuing to abandon their historic solidarity with Cuba, punishing regional integration. In this context, the Executive Order is a unilateral bid to shatter the emerging call for a Zone of Peace in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is why ending unilateral coercive measures (i.e., imperialist sanctions), returning Guantanamo Bay to Cuba, and dismantling the U.S. Southern Command ‘Southcom’ infrastructures throughout Our Americas are fundamental requirements for peace in the region.

This escalation follows a campaign of narrative warfare of so-called “anti-Blackness in Cuba” aimed at isolating Cuba from African nations and from African/ Black people living within the U.S. The Cuban Revolution’s deepest gift is its unbroken refusal to bend. Cuba is a living demonstration that dignity, not profit, can organize a society. Those who claim the legacy of anti-imperialism cannot be silent. Now is the time to stand with the people of Cuba as fiercely as possible. The world must answer this Executive Order not with statements, but with organized resistance.

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Para Alcanzar la Paz en las Américas, Defendamos a Cuba contra los Ataques Imperialistas de Estados Unidos

La Orden Ejecutiva Presidencial de EE. UU. titulada “Imposición de sanciones a los responsables de la represión en Cuba y de amenazas a la seguridad nacional y la política exterior de Estados Unidos,” firmada el 1 de mayo de 2026, Día Internacional de los Trabajadores, supone tanto una escalada de la política existente como un giro cualitativo hacia una guerra económica total, en la que se utiliza el hambre como instrumento de política estatal. El momento en que se produce esta escalada no es casual. Emitida en medio de una renovada retórica estadounidense en torno al ejercicio del control sobre Cuba, la Orden Ejecutiva señala un esfuerzo por consolidar ese control en un momento de crisis cada vez más profunda para el imperialismo estadounidense.

Al ampliar las sanciones para apuntar a cualquier entidad o individuo considerado un “colaborador material” del gobierno cubano, autorizar sanciones secundarias contra instituciones financieras de terceros en todo el mundo, reforzar las restricciones energéticas en la adquisición de combustible e invocar designaciones dudosas de seguridad nacional, la Orden criminaliza de manera efectiva la supervivencia económica básica. Estas disposiciones extienden la guerra económica de EE. UU. más allá de sus fronteras, coaccionando a bancos, proveedores e intermediarios extranjeros para que corten incluso las transacciones rutinarias con Cuba o se arriesguen a ser sancionados y excluidos del sistema financiero dominado por el dólar. El uso de la Ley de Poderes Económicos de Emergencia Internacional (IEEPA) como arma aísla a Cuba por completo del sistema financiero global, castigando colectivamente no sólo al Estado, sino a todos los ciudadanos cubanos que buscan medicamentos, alimentos o electricidad. Más allá de Cuba, desde Haití hasta Venezuela, desde Nicaragua hasta Granada, Estados Unidos utiliza la subversión política, la coacción económica y el ataque militar para imponer el “dominio en todo el espectro” en las Américas.

Cuba está bajo ataque porque su proyecto revolucionario representa una amenaza existencial para la hegemonía estadounidense. Durante más de sesenta años, una pequeña isla sometida al embargo económico más brutal de la historia moderna ha construido una sociedad con salud universal, educación gratuita y una esperanza de vida que rivaliza con la del Norte Global, sin someterse a la austeridad del FMI, al ajuste estructural del Banco Mundial ni al dominio corporativo de Estados Unidos. Las disposiciones de la Orden dirigidas a “actores extranjeros” y “preocupaciones de seguridad” funcionan como pretextos transparentes para intensificar el estrangulamiento económico en un momento de vulnerabilidad en Cuba, mientras se recupera del colapso del turismo provocado por la pandemia, para apretar el lazo sobre su independencia energética ganada con tanto esfuerzo y para impedir cualquier profundización de las relaciones con China, Rusia o socios del Sur Global.

Para el BAP, esta Orden Ejecutiva también debe entenderse en el contexto geopolítico actual. Se hace eco y refuerza las ofensivas de EE. UU. contra Venezuela, con el objetivo de quebrantar la Revolución Bolivariana, y contra Irán, cuya propia persecución mediante campañas de presión maximalistas refleja el aislamiento de Cuba. Además, la Orden utiliza la dependencia del dólar como arma para coaccionar a los Estados del Caribe a que sigan abandonando su histórica solidaridad con Cuba, castigando así la integración regional. En este contexto, la Orden Ejecutiva es un intento unilateral de hacer añicos el llamado emergente a una Zona de Paz en América Latina y el Caribe. Por eso, poner fin a las medidas coercitivas unilaterales (es decir, las sanciones imperialistas), devolver la Bahía de Guantánamo a Cuba y desmantelar las infraestructuras del Comando Sur de EE. UU. (Southcom) en toda Nuestra América son requisitos fundamentales para la paz en la región.

Esta escalada sigue a una campaña de guerra narrativa sobre el llamado “anti-negrismo en Cuba”, destinada a aislar a Cuba de las naciones africanas y de las personas africanas y negras que viven en los Estados Unidos. El regalo más profundo de la Revolución Cubana es su inquebrantable negativa a ceder. Cuba es una demostración viva de que la dignidad, y no el lucro, puede organizar una sociedad. Quienes reivindican el legado del antiimperialismo no pueden permanecer en silencio.

Ahora es el momento de apoyar al pueblo de Cuba con toda la firmeza posible. El mundo debe responder a esta Orden Ejecutiva no con declaraciones, sino con resistencia organizada.

Not One Drop of Blood from the Working Classes for Capitalist Interests: Defend Workers of the World and Defeat U.S. Wars

Not One Drop of Blood from the Working Classes for Capitalist Interests: Defend Workers of the World and Defeat U.S. Wars 

On this International Workers' Day 2026, it is clear that the working people of the US must more substantially fight and organize to defeat U.S. wars domestically and globally. From Palestine to Haiti, from Iran to Cuba, from Venezuela to Sudan, from Lebanon the the Philippines, U.S. imperialism deploys military force, economic warfare, and political repression to discipline working peoples who resist its control. Domestically, this same system targets migrants, criminalizes dissent, murders freedom fighters, and intensifies the conditions of exploitation and disposability imposed on the working class. 

For nine years, the Black Alliance for Peace has worked to advance this clarity, linking domestic and international struggles, building anti-imperialist campaigns, and grounding our work in a People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework. This work is not separate from people’s class war; it is one of its necessary expressions in the current conjuncture.

BAP understands that the struggle against war, repression, and imperialism is a struggle against global capitalism. BAP recognizes that the African/Black working class is the main social force for any reconstituted Black liberation project that contributes to the liberation of the global working class. With the deepening capitalist crisis, escalation of full-spectrum dominance, and bipartisan policies within the United States, this moment requires us to sharpen our class analysis and understand the contours of the war on African/Black workers. 

This war has exploited African labor in the cotton fields, then disposed of those workers when the cotton economy ended. It is the war that imported Haitian labor to Brazil. Haitians displaced by the Clintons' neoliberalism, by the 2010 earthquake, and by two centuries of imperial debt extracted from a people who freed themselves from slavery before any other people in the Americas.

This class warfare clearly extends to African nations. As Kwame Nkrumah noted, imperialism sustains itself through the cultivation of an African comprador class, an intermediary layer that derives its power from foreign interests while disciplining the African masses. This class functions to maintain dependency, suppress resistance, and ensure the continued extraction of wealth from African labor and land. 

We see this same strategy in the Americas with the  ‘Black Misleadership Class’ who keep our communities exploited and oppressed as domestic colonies so they can continue to climb the corporate/political ladder. Whether within the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. In both instances, these African/Black political “leaders” trade true independence and liberation for nominal independence and representation. Their true interest is continuing the work of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, further entrenching the war on African/Black workers.

Because of the existence of these class traitors, the African working class worldwide has had to contend with a lack of labor freedom, suppressed wages, disposability and vulnerability of labor, and dependency on external aid (welfare) and political power (patronage) at the price of collective needs. As such, we must organize in ways to expose their treachery so that the African/Black working class sees these “leaders” as the misleaders they are. 

We organize in a moment where neocolonial domination and class warfare is intensifying both domestically and globally. A clear class analysis helps us navigate these treacherous waters, build the necessary unity amongst the African/Black working class, and avoid the trap of liberal opposition that leaves these capitalist institutions intact. 

On this May Day, we reaffirm that the task before us is to organize to defeat the system that dominates and exploits the working class. This requires confronting imperialism as the global structure of capitalist domination. It requires exposing the class forces that sustain that system, both internationally and within our own communities. It requires ending the environmental warfare and ecological devastation that disproportionately harms working peoples. And it requires building the organizational capacity necessary to dismantle capitalism and advance the power of the working class in its place.

Not One Drop of Blood from the Working Classes for Capitalist Interests!

No Compromise, No Retreat!

Smash Illusions: There Will Be No “Just Transition” from Fossil Fuels Without the Expropriation of Capital

Smash Illusions: There Will Be No “Just Transition” from Fossil Fuels Without the Expropriation of Capital

“The capitalist mode of production is the main cause of the growing climate crisis. The main cause of the growing climate crisis. The main environmental problems of our time are a consequence of the relations of production, circulation and disposal of goods, under the logic and domination of financial capital and large capitalist corporations.”
– Statement from People’s Summit, COP 30

April 30, 2026 – From April 24-27, The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and collaborating organizations participated in the People’s Summit for a Fossil Free Future (the “Summit”) and the Assembly of the Peoples for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels (the “Assembly”) hosted by the governments of Colombia and the Netherlands in Santa Marta, Colombia. We, the Afro-descendant delegation representing more than six nations including, but not limited to, Colombia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, the United States, and Canada,  brought our presence on the ground and during the planning process not appeal to existing power structures but to support, facilitate, and represent the demands of our global peoples and communities - the African/Black and colonized masses, the working classes, farmers and fisherfolk, and all others living under the extraction and violence of oppressive systems and structures.

BAP, along with The Chisholm Legacy Project and Terra40, took part in and influenced both the Summit and Assembly spaces, and as well as the participation of the “Afro-Descendant Sector”,  to identify barriers, solutions, and pathways forward for our peoples in the context of a “just transition,”through unified and principled struggle. We understand that these discussions related to ending fossil fuel dependency cannot be permitted to delve into technocratic decisionmaking and hand-wringing while our territories are bombed, our neighborhoods occupied, and our people poisoned. To speak of a “just transition” that is led and developed by the same institutions – who have in just the last few years aided and abetted genocides in Palestine and Sudan, the occupation of Haiti, an ongoing war on Iran, the bombing and kidnapping the head of state in Venezuela, tightening the strangulation against Cuba, and massacres in the Philippines, while many just opposed or abstained on a historical United Nations (UN) resolution that recognizes the Transatlantic Slave Trade as a major crime against humanity – is to speak of a white supremacist, colonial lie that aims to demobilize our movements and communities.

Instead of following the path of the UN and other institutional multilateral spaces, these processes must crystallize the firm anti-imperialist ecological position that supports struggles for national liberation, collective self-determination, popular sovereignty, and human dignity. As this new process continues we remain encouraged yet vigilant that the Colombian government will continue to maintain a firm commitment to the radical territorial, cultural, and economic processes of the Black, Afrodescendant, Raizal, Palenquero and all African populations of Colombia that are building sovereignty and collective self-determination. We also demand that any participation of the Dutch or other European governments come with clear and immediate resolution and reconciliation of their refusal to recognize the Transatlantic Slave Trade as a crime against humanity. 

For BAP, TCLP, Terra 40 and the larger Afro-descendant coalition, as well as the other representatives of the masses of our African/Black peoples it has been our duty to principledly support this process with our Colombian comrades while in Santa Marta, and to emphasize the need for Colombia and all progressive regional governments reaffirm and commit to the fulfillment of the Caribbean and Latin America as a Zone of Peace, including through grassroots cooperation and struggle, as part of any just transition.

Peace, a true and liberatory peace, is fundamental. The connection between increasing military operations, ecocidal violence, imperialist warfare, and the exacerbation of the increasingly deadly and disruptive climate/environmental crisis has been well established, yet liberal actors peddling false solutions continue to ignore this reality. At the same time, fascism consolidates through state violence, enhancing the power of military-industrial, technology conglomerate, and energy corporations, and deepening fossil fuel dependency. 

Accordingly, throughout the Summit and Assembly discussions, debates, and sessions to develop comprehensive and measurable solutions, we were clear that the fossil fuel economy cannot be separated from its roots in the global, racial capitalist-imperialist system that has established and maintained its grip through genocidal and colonial violence, enslavement, political and social domination, and economic coercion and subversion. This economy was built on the extraction and destruction of African/Black and Indigenous land, labor, and life. The question of who pays for and who benefits from the so-called “energy transition” is not primarily technical. It is political, defined by power, and too often, militarist force. 

African/Black peoples, communities, nations – from the Gulf South of the United States to the Niger Delta to the Colombian Pacific to the nation of Haiti – have had to endure extraction, displacement, and violence because of the richness of their lands, waterways, and cultures – insatiable desires and demands of those in power. As African/Black peoples whose ancestors were forcibly relocated and forced to work on lands brutally stolen from Indigenous peoples of “the Americas”, we affirm the unique relationship between our peoples and maintain that it remains imperative that we are in constant development of global Afro/Indigenous solidarity efforts. In particular, both Afro-Descendant and Indigenous peoples, nations, and communities face increasing militarism globally and domestically. 

We maintain it is those peoples, nations, communities who paid the price that must define the solutions for a fossil-free future – against the greenwashing and liberal reformist tendencies that too often structure and dominate these conversations. There can be no climate and environmental justice without climate and environmental liberation, and there can be no path toward liberation that is not dedicated to fighting the interlocking systems of oppression that still shackle our people: imperialism, capitalism, (neo)colonialism, patriarchy, militarism, and white supremacy. This requires political clarity, concrete action, and sustained struggle.

As one of the coalition delegation members, Jo Banner (Co-Founder of The Descendants Project) said: “We, the Global Afro-Descendant sector delegation, stand united in dismantling both historical and ongoing injustices that continue to shape global systems and harm our communities. Through systemic change and self-determination, we envision a radical restructuring of global trade, finance, and migration systems away from exploitative practices rooted in colonialism, white supremacy, and racial capitalism.”

As the “High-Level Conference” for the First Conference for the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels closed yesterday, the closing plenary and final remarks excluded any mention of Afrodescendants. The welcoming of sectors to the Second Conference in Tuvalu in 2027 also made no mention of an Afro-Descendant Sector. We condemn this omission and exclusion of African/Black peoples, which undercuts the progress made from the COP 30 and Santa Marta processes.

It is clear to BAP that while we must engage the institutions of power and decision-making ability, the only path forward from fossil fuel dependency and economy is the defeat of those interlocking systems of oppression through a unified, protracted struggle and social revolution based in People(s)-Centered Human Rights. Anything less is ultimately a false solution to the climate and ecological crises, and an abdication of our radical movement’s vision for self-determination and human dignity. The fight is here and now, and we must be ready.

No Compromise. No Retreat.

See here for an example of documents produced during this process before and during our time in Santa Marta:

• Afro-Descendants Facing the Energy Transition and Racial Justice: In context of the First Conference Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, Press Statement April 29, 2026

• Afro-Descendant Concept Paper: First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels by the Global Afro-Descendant Sector

• Summary of the proposal Afro-descendant Communities [DRAFT] elaborated during Assembly of the Peoples

• People’s Declaration for a Rapid, Equitable, and Just Transition for a Fossil-Free Future by the People’s Summit for a Fossil Free Future

• “Global movements unite in Santa Marta to launch “People’s Declaration for a Rapid, Equitable, and Just Transition for a Fossil-Free Future” ahead of historic climate conference” Press Release, 26 April 2026

• “Anti-imperialism, the energy-finance nexus, and the role of fossil fuels at the heart of geopolitical disputes”: Discussion paper by The Energy and Imperialism Working Group

More on BAP’s Climate, Environment, and Militarism work: blackallianceforpeace.com/environment

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Destruyan las ilusiones: No habrá una “transición justa” de los combustibles fósiles sin la expropiación del capital.

“El modo de producción capitalista es la principal causa de la creciente crisis climática. Los principales problemas ambientales de nuestro tiempo son consecuencia de las relaciones de producción, circulación y eliminación de bienes, bajo la lógica y el dominio del capital financiero y las grandes corporaciones capitalistas.”
– Declaración de la Cumbre de los Pueblos

30 de abril de 2026 – Del 24 al 27 de abril, la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) y las organizaciones colaboradoras participaron en la Cumbre de los Pueblos por un Futuro Libre de Combustibles Fósiles (la «Cumbre») y en la Asamblea de los Pueblos para la Primera Conferencia sobre la Transición para Abandonar los Combustibles Fósiles (la «Asamblea»), organizadas por los gobiernos de Colombia y los Países Bajos en Santa Marta, Colombia. Nosotros, la delegación afrodescendiente que representa a más de seis naciones, entre ellas, pero sin limitarse a, Colombia, Brasil, la República Dominicana, Ecuador, Estados Unidos y Canadá, hicimos presente nuestra voz tanto en el terreno como durante el proceso de planificación, no para apelar a las estructuras de poder existentes, sino para apoyar, facilitar y representar las demandas de nuestros pueblos y comunidades globales: las masas africanas/negras y colonizadas, las clases trabajadoras, los agricultores y pescadores, y todos los demás que viven bajo la explotación y la violencia de sistemas y estructuras opresivas.

BAP, junto con The Chisholm Legacy Project y Terra40, participó e influyó tanto en los espacios de la Cumbre como en los de la Asamblea, así como en la participación del «Sector Afrodescendiente», para identificar barreras, soluciones y caminos a seguir para nuestros pueblos en el contexto de una «transición justa», a través de una lucha unificada y basada en principios. Entendemos que no se puede permitir que estos debates relacionados con el fin de la dependencia de los combustibles fósiles se sumerjan en la toma de decisiones tecnocrática y en el lamento, mientras nuestros territorios son bombardeados, nuestros barrios ocupados y nuestro pueblo envenenado. Hablar de una «transición justa» liderada y desarrollada por las mismas instituciones —que en los últimos años han ayudado e incitado genocidios en Palestina y Sudán, la ocupación de Haití, una guerra en curso contra Irán, el bombardeo y secuestro del jefe de Estado en Venezuela, el endurecimiento del estrangulamiento contra Cuba y las masacres en Filipinas—, mientras muchos simplemente se opusieron o se abstuvieron en una resolución histórica de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) que reconoce la trata transatlántica de esclavos como un grave crimen contra la humanidad, es hablar de una mentira colonial y supremacista blanca que tiene como objetivo desmovilizar nuestros movimientos y comunidades.

En lugar de seguir el camino de la ONU y otros espacios institucionales multilaterales, estos procesos deben cristalizar la firme posición ecológica antiimperialista que apoya las luchas por la liberación nacional, la autodeterminación colectiva, la soberanía popular y la dignidad humana. A medida que este nuevo proceso continúa, nos mantenemos esperanzados, pero vigilantes, de que el gobierno colombiano siga manteniendo un compromiso firme con los procesos territoriales, culturales y económicos radicales de las poblaciones negras, afrodescendientes, raizales, palenqueros y todas las poblaciones africanas de Colombia que están construyendo soberanía y autodeterminación colectiva. También exigimos que cualquier participación de los gobiernos de los Países Bajos u otros gobiernos europeos vaya acompañada de una resolución clara e inmediata y de la reconciliación de su negativa a reconocer la trata transatlántica de esclavos como un crimen contra la humanidad.

Para BAP, TCLP, Terra 40 y la coalición afrodescendiente en general, así como para los demás representantes de las masas de nuestros pueblos africanos/negros, ha sido nuestro deber apoyar con principios este proceso junto a nuestros compañeros colombianos durante nuestra estancia en Santa Marta, y enfatizar la necesidad de que Colombia y todos los gobiernos regionales progresistas reafirmen y se comprometan con la consecución de que el Caribe y América Latina sean una Zona de Paz, incluso a través de la cooperación y la lucha de base, como parte de cualquier transición justa.

La paz, una paz verdadera y liberadora, es fundamental. La conexión entre el aumento de las operaciones militares, la violencia ecocida, la guerra imperialista y la exacerbación de la crisis climática y ambiental, cada vez más letal y disruptiva, ha quedado bien establecida; sin embargo, los actores liberales que promueven soluciones falsas continúan ignorando esta realidad. Al mismo tiempo, el fascismo se consolida a través de la violencia estatal, potenciando el poder de las corporaciones militares-industriales, los conglomerados tecnológicos y las empresas energéticas, y profundizando la dependencia de los combustibles fósiles.

En consecuencia, a lo largo de las discusiones, debates y sesiones de la Cumbre y la Asamblea para desarrollar soluciones integrales y medibles, dejamos claro que la economía de los combustibles fósiles no puede separarse de sus raíces en el sistema capitalista-imperialista global y racial que ha establecido y mantenido su control a través de la violencia genocida y colonial, la esclavitud, la dominación política y social, y la coacción y subversión económicas. Esta economía se construyó sobre la extracción y la destrucción de la tierra, el trabajo y la vida de los africanos/negros y los indígenas. La cuestión de quién paga y quién se beneficia de la llamada «transición energética» no es principalmente técnica. Es política, definida por el poder y, con demasiada frecuencia, por la fuerza militarista.

Los pueblos, comunidades y naciones africanos/negros —desde el sur del Golfo de los Estados Unidos hasta el delta del Níger, pasando por el Pacífico colombiano y la nación de Haití— han tenido que soportar la extracción, el desplazamiento y la violencia debido a la riqueza de sus tierras, vías fluviales y culturas —los deseos y demandas insaciables de quienes están en el poder—. Como pueblos africanos y negros cuyos antepasados fueron reubicados por la fuerza y obligados a trabajar en tierras brutalmente robadas a los pueblos indígenas de «las Américas», afirmamos la relación única entre nuestros pueblos y sostenemos que sigue siendo imperativo que desarrollemos constantemente esfuerzos de solidaridad afro-indígena a nivel global. En particular, tanto los pueblos, naciones y comunidades afrodescendientes como los indígenas enfrentan un militarismo creciente a nivel global y nacional.

Sostenemos que son esos pueblos, naciones y comunidades los que pagaron el precio y quienes deben definir las soluciones para un futuro libre de combustibles fósiles, en contra del lavado verde y las tendencias reformistas liberales que con demasiada frecuencia estructuran y dominan estas conversaciones. No puede haber justicia climática y ambiental sin liberación climática y ambiental, y no puede haber un camino hacia la liberación que no se dedique a combatir los sistemas entrelazados de opresión que aún encadenan a nuestros pueblos: el imperialismo, el capitalismo, el (neo)colonialismo, el patriarcado, el militarismo y la supremacía blanca. Esto requiere claridad política, acción concreta y lucha sostenida.

Como dijo uno de los miembros de la delegación de la coalición, Jo Banner (cofundador de The Descendants Project): «Nosotros, la delegación del sector global de afrodescendientes, nos mantenemos unidos para desmantelar las injusticias tanto históricas como actuales que siguen dando forma a los sistemas globales y perjudicando a nuestras comunidades. A través del cambio sistémico y la autodeterminación, vislumbramos una reestructuración radical de los sistemas globales de comercio, finanzas y migración, alejándonos de las prácticas de explotación arraigadas en el colonialismo, la supremacía blanca y el capitalismo racial».

Al concluir ayer la «Conferencia de Alto Nivel» de la Primera Conferencia para la Transición Fuera de los Combustibles Fósiles, ni en la sesión plenaria de clausura ni en las observaciones finales se hizo mención alguna a los afrodescendientes. La invitación a los distintos sectores a la Segunda Conferencia, que se celebrará en Tuvalu en 2027, tampoco incluyó ninguna referencia al sector afrodescendiente. Condenamos esta omisión y exclusión de los pueblos africanos/negros, que socava los avances logrados en la COP 30 y los procesos de Santa Marta.

Para BAP queda claro que, si bien debemos involucrar a las instituciones de poder y de toma de decisiones, el único camino para salir de la dependencia y la economía de los combustibles fósiles es la derrota de esos sistemas entrelazados de opresión a través de una lucha unificada y prolongada y una revolución social basada en los derechos humanos centrados en los pueblos. Cualquier cosa menos que eso es, en última instancia, una solución falsa a las crisis climática y ecológica, y una renuncia a la visión de nuestro movimiento radical de autodeterminación y dignidad humana. La lucha es aquí y ahora, y debemos estar preparados.

Sin concesiones. Sin retrocesos.

Consulte aquí un ejemplo de los documentos elaborados durante este proceso antes y durante nuestra estancia en Santa Marta:

• Afrodescendientes frente a la Transición Energética y la Justicia Racial: En el contexto de la Primera Conferencia para la Transición más allá de los combustibles fósiles, Comunicado de prensa 29 de abril de 2026

• Documento conceptual de los afrodescendientes: Primera Conferencia sobre la Transición para Abandonar los Combustibles Fósiles, por el Sector Global de Afrodescendientes

• Síntesis de la propuesta de las Comunidades Afrodescendientes [BORRADOR] elaborado durante la Asamblea de los Pueblos

• Declaración Popular por una Transición Rápida, Equitativa y Justa hacia un Futuro Libre de Combustibles Fósiles, de la Cumbre Popular por un Futuro Libre de Combustibles Fósiles

• «Movimientos globales se unen en Santa Marta para lanzar la “Declaración Popular por una Transición Rápida, Equitativa y Justa hacia un Futuro Libre de Combustibles Fósiles” antes de la histórica conferencia sobre el clima» Comunicado de prensa, 26 de abril de 2026

• «El antiimperialismo, el nexo entre energía y finanzas, y el papel de los combustibles fósiles en el centro de las disputas geopolíticas»: Documento de debate del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Energía e Imperialismo

Más información sobre el trabajo de BAP en materia de clima, medio ambiente y militarismo: blackallianceforpeace.com/environment

BAP’s Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network Endorse and Support the Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa April 24–26, 2026

BAP’s Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network Endorse and Support the Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa April 24–26, 2026

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.

Move the Games: No World Cup for Genocide, Ecocide, or State Thuggery

Move the Games: No World Cup for Genocide, Ecocide, or State Thuggery

Statement By the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition & BAP Climate, Environment and Militarism Working Group

This Earth Day the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition declares that the United States and its Zionist partner have disqualified themselves from the community of civilized nations — not only through genocide, domestic repression, and imperialist violence, but through the systematic ecological destruction of Africa and West Asia. The U.S. military is the single largest institutional polluter on the planet, leaving behind toxic bases, polluting equipment and munitions, and poisoned air and water across the globe. Beyond emissions and direct pollution, U.S.-led militarism enforces imperialist domination, as it dehumanizes and discards the colonized, working class, and “surplus” populations by contaminating our ecosystems and poisoning our bodies. All the while, the U.S. evades accountability to international law.

In Gaza, Israel has waged ecocide as a weapon of war: tens of millions of tons of rubble have contaminated the soil and water, farmland has been razed, and the freshwater aquifer is now undrinkable. Across Africa, from the extraction of Congolese diamonds that fund the Israeli military to the destabilization of the Horn of Africa and Somalia to the gold and mineral resources that drive a UAE- backed genocide in Sudan, U.S.-Zionist imperialists drive deforestation, poison rivers, and displace entire communities. This is deliberate environmental and global class warfare.

The U.S. has “americanized” the beautiful game, providing a platform that enables and normalizes  genocide and ecocide, within the U.S. and globally. The tournament itself will generate millions of tons of carbon emissions from stadium construction and air travel, while inside the United States, the policing apparatus that terrorizes Black, Brown, and migrant communities makes the country fundamentally unsafe for fans, players, and tournament personnel. Militarized ICE agents and state thugs can now routinely stop, detain, and disappear foreign nationals  under the guise of immigration enforcement as racial profiling has become the way of law. No visiting fan from Africa, West Asia, or anywhere else can be assured of safety on U.S. soil. Therefore, the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition demands: 

• FIFA immediately relocate all 2026 World Cup matches scheduled to take place in the United States.

• The international community, including teams, supporters, cultural workers, and civil society organizations, initiate a boycott of the United States as a host of international sporting events.

• International sporting institutions adopt non-selective accountability standards rooted in collective human rights and anti-colonial principles.

No whitewashing of US gangsterism and neo-fascist violence. No World Cup in a nation hostile to the People(s)-Centered Human Rights of our neighbors and family across the globe. No more poisoning our Earth. No peace under imperialist gangsterism and repression.

Before FIFA pretends this tournament is anything but a celebration of empire, we invite every anti‑fascist, every climate defender, every supporter of Palestinian and African liberation to study the true geography of U.S. control. Explore our “Map of U.S. Militarization in Our Americas” every base, every training facility, every cop city and join the peoples war against U.S gangsterism. 

blackallianceforpeace.com/us-militarization-in-our-americas

Move the Games! Boycott the U.S.! No Compromise! No Retreat!

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Statement in Solidarity With Nerdeen Kiswani

Statement in Solidarity With Nerdeen Kiswani

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the achievement by popular struggle of … the defeat of global systems of oppression that include colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.” (BAP Principle of Unity)`

The Black Alliance for Peace NYC/NJ remains in explicit solidarity with Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder of Within Our Lifetime, in her right to express opposition to, and condemnation of, Zionism and the state of “Israel”. We condemn the threats to her life and the lives of her family that were recently revealed. The moment calls for mobilization, we demand transparency in the police investigation of Alexander Heifler, of the zionist organization JDL 613, and all associated with him. Terrorism does not instill fear in our movements; it puts the necessity of defeating imperialist/zionist war into greater focus. 

We once again condemn the monstrous and cowardly actions of the racist Zionist entity, just as we condemn the attempts by its lackeys to single out and attack the members of our movement. Last week on Palestinian Land Day, the Zionist Entity instituted a new law that legalizes execution, yet only applies to the Palestinian people. This is among the more recent laws of apartheid governing the occupation. In anticipation of the vote for that legislation, the “Minister of National Security”,  Itamar Ben-Gvir, among other parliamentary members, wore gold noose pins, gleefully displaying their genocidal pathology. This too is to be condemned. The grotesque similarities between this violence, its nod to the lynchings of the Jim Crow south, and the planned attack on Kiswani are impossible to ignore. The Black Alliance for Peace recognizes this white supremacist vigilantism and deputization as a continuation of the war against African/Black, colonized, working-class, and all oppressed peoples domestically and globally. 

Furthermore, it is with the full support of the Western “international community” that adherents to zionism have been able to commit such crimes here and escape to the Zionist Entity unscathed. We remember Alex Odeh, a Palestinian activist who in 1985 was murdered in the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee offices in Santa Ana, California, when a pipe bomb exploded as he opened the door. Independent investigators have proven that Odeh’s perpetrators still live within the occupied territories without charge. Why sit idle while threats progress into action? We have no faith in the state to honestly depict its collusion with actors holding this intent. The origin of white supremacist vigilantism is always antagonism. The state apparatus has a sustained history of abandoning the Palestinian people at home and abroad.

We commend the exposing of the intent of the accused, to flee to the Zionist Entity–and urge all New Yorkers to put material support behind Nerdeen’s case against Betar. We call on journalists of integrity to publicly investigate the dealings that led to the capture of Alexander Heifler. Further, we speak directly to all Black working and oppressed peoples in calling to recognize our struggles as interconnected and to honor our revolutionary ancestors slain by imperialist/zionist violence.  Black Alliance for Peace NYC/NJ will continue to stand in solidarity with Nerdeen Kiswani and Within Our Lifetime in the fight against Zionism.

Further, the Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians facing the threat of extinction in the racist, apartheid settler state of “Israel”. We recognize the right of Palestine to exist and the right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation by any means they deem necessary. We call on African/Black people and movements to remember our long tradition of solidarity with Palestine. The moment does not call for standing down in the face of white supremacist violence as a tactic to silence our comrades.

No Compromise. No Retreat. 

The Black Alliance for Peace NYC/NJ

BAP’s 9th Anniversary: Turn Imperialist Wars into Peoples’ Wars Against Imperialism

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!

In Solidarity with the Prairieland Nine

In Solidarity with the Prairieland Nine

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:

1. Drop all federal and state charges against the Prairieland Defendants

2. Release all Prairieland Defendants from pre-trial detention

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

4. 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!

International Women’s Day 2026: Women’s Liberation Requires the Defeat of Imperialism and Patriarchy

International Women’s Day 2026: Women’s Liberation Requires the Defeat of Imperialism and Patriarchy

We commemorate International Women's Day on March 8 to remember its anti-imperialist roots and the revolutionary struggle of working-class women against exploitation. The day was born from the militancy of New York garment workers, who rose against sweatshop conditions, child labor, and political disenfranchisement. These fights were inseparable from the broader socialist and anti-colonial movements of the early twentieth century, as these women understood that the exploitation of their labor and bodies was directly tied to the imperialist domination of their nations. Their fight for “Bread and Roses”—for better pay, dignified living and working conditions, and gender equality—was therefore a fight against a global system. This legacy demands we view the struggles of women today through the same lens.

Today, U.S. imperialism, often in concert with allies like Israel, is waging war across the Global South. We see its bloody footprint from the genocidal violence in Palestine to the bombing of Nigeria, Somalia, Iran, and Venezuela. We see its bloody footprint in the economic warfare against Haiti, the destabilization of Lebanon, and the resource wars plaguing Sudan and Congo.  We see this patriarchal, white supremacist, capitalist-colonialist violence also in the kidnapping of Cilia Flores alongside her husband Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as well as in the murder of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s children, grandchildren and family members beside him in Iran. In every instance, it is women and children who disproportionately pay the price, facing displacement, starvation, and the collapse of entire communities under the weight of unilateral sanctions and military aggression.

In this context, U.S. imperialism stands as the single greatest threat to the sovereignty of nations and the welfare of the world's peoples. It is the main enemy, the engine driving the wars, the economic plunder, and the humanitarian catastrophes that rob women of their futures. The fight for "Bread and Roses" cannot be won as long as this system of plunder exists.

As US and Israeli Imperialists continue their assaults on the Women and Children of oppressed peoples we must ask “What is being done to hold them accountable?” For BAP, this accountability must come from the people’s organized resistance to imperialist-zionist impunity on the world stage. We call on all people of conscience to join two immediate calls to challenge this imperialist impunity: 

• Just as the international sporting community banned apartheid South Africa from sport, we demand FIFA and the IOC now ban the U.S and Israel from hosting or participating in international sporting events for their systematic violence against the women and children of the global south and oppressed peoples within its borders — a show of solidarity in the continued fight for bread and roses. [Public Petition | Organizational endorsement of Anti-Fascist Football Coalition]

• The people of the United States must oppose their government’s lawlessness that destroys families and livelihoods domestically and globally. Join the mobilizations against the kidnapping, detention, and kangaroo trial of Venezuelan First Combatant Cilia Flores and President Nicolas Maduro on March 26th at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center and solidarity actions throughout the world. 

The task of anti-imperialists today is clear: we must unite and build our collective struggle to defeat US imperialism. We must reject the "sanitized" neoliberal feminism that celebrates individual achievement while ignoring the collective suffering caused by empire. True solidarity means mobilizing in the heart of the empire to dismantle its war machine, supporting national liberation struggles abroad, and recognizing that our liberation is bound to the liberation of women in Palestine, Haiti, Venezuela, Iran, and everywhere they resist. Only by defeating imperialism can we clear the path for a world where all women have dignity. 

We Denounce U.S. Government Deregulation of Environmental Protections as Ecocide, Class Warfare, and a Murderous Assault on Public Health

We Denounce U.S. Government Deregulation of Environmental Protections as Ecocide, Class Warfare, and a Murderous Assault on Public Health

March 5, 2026 – The Black Alliance for Peace, and undersigned organizations, call on environmental and climate justice organizations to denounce and confront the recent and anticipated deregulatory actions against environmental protections and public health by the U.S. government. Over the last several weeks, the Trump administration has taken executive actions: to repeal scientific findings that greenhouse gases are harmful to the climate and public health (“the Endangerment Finding”); to encourage and protect the domestic production of cancer-causing glyphosate herbicides and toxic phosphorus; and to decimate environmental protections on coal production that regulated mercury and other toxic substance pollution that harm brain development and cause other debilitating health issues. Simultaneously, Congress is trying to reduce states and municipalities ability to regulate glyphosate and other toxic chemicals in food production, through the latest Farm Bill draft.

These actions represent a grave violation of the People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs) of residents of the United States by a ruling class that has completely unmasked itself. They make good on the EPA’s decision to value human life at zero dollars, and represent an intentional poisoning of the Earth and millions of people as a sacrifice at the altar of greater corporate profits, and as a foundation for extraction that would fuel the growing domination of the militarist state domestically and globally. The Trump administration and its Congressional and Judicial allies, in service to an increasingly bold and sadistic capitalist-imperialist ruling class, show that they are willing to wield their power to prioritize corporate profits and capital to the extreme over the health, safety, and welfare of the general public, especially poor, working class and colonized people.

These moves also ultimately drive forward deeper domestic militarization to serve the expansion of U.S. ‘full spectrum dominance’ globally and domestically. The endangerment findings’ elimination and associated rollback on regulating toxic pollution by power plants, cars, and petrochemical productions are themselves largely a move to open the pathway to expanding fossil fuel energy to service mass data center proliferation, which is a priority of the Department of War, and of Artificial Intelligence (AI)  corporate tech actors. These data centers are a core physical infrastructure in the capitalist-imperialist ruling class’s economic and environmental warfare on the working classes and colonized peoples, domestically and globally, including mass surveillance, ICE terrorization and detention, and tech-enabled genocide in Gaza, Sudan, and beyond. They drive up utility costs for residents; pillage water, energy, and clean air from the public; and occupy swaths of land area that should be used for local food production and the siting of renewable energy. In addition, the deregulation and promotion of glyphosate-based herbicide, which is proven to cause cancer, and phosphorus, the mining and use of which has massive public health implications, are being actioned directly through the Defense Protection Act, to clear the way for domestic production and use. In effect, the administration justifies displacement and mass poisoning of its population domestically as a matter of “National Security”. 

This should be no surprise, as the United States has never hesitated to take land or use chemical weapons like glyphosate (the main component of Agent Orange) in its military conquests or corporate ventures globally. This is not a departure from the consistent white supremacist, capitalist logic of U.S. empire, rather it is the domestic and global fronts collapsing into one another. The Trump administration has simply accelerated and deepened the neoliberal crisis of deregulation, deference to corporations, increased privatization, massive austerity, increasing the coffers and influence of the military industrial complex, and U.S. imperialism. 

However, this most recent removal of any semblance of public health support, environmental protection, and social safety nets in the U.S. should serve as an alarm bell for those most vulnerable and those disproportionately exposed to and impacted by environmental pollution and associated climate change calamities – African/Black, Indigenous, colonized peoples and the working class. These actions also signal that poor and working class white people, as well as elements of the white middle to upper middle class, are also being swept into this larger surplus population, now scheduled for poisoning and disposability. This is a population that no longer serves any purpose for the ruling class and represents an impediment to unlimited growth through unlimited resource extraction that produces unlimited externalities, specifically pollution of our air, land and water. 

We, the undersigned believe that our response to this era of mass poisoning, runaway militarization, imperial gangsterism, and deepening public health crisis must be a more interconnected class struggle rooted in a People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHR) approach — a bottom-up struggle for collective self-determination and human dignity.

In a world rendered profoundly imbalanced and unequal — conditions intensified by a white supremacist, capitalist-driven climate crisis — the pursuit of “environmental justice” or “ecological balance” within the existing order is a political illusion. Justice cannot be extracted from a system whose very logic depends on capitalist extraction, dispossession, and ecological sacrifice. What is required instead is a framework of climate and environmental liberation — one that names imperialism, racial capitalism, and colonial domination as the structural sources of ecological collapse.

As the Black Alliance for Peace North–South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights has made clear, such a framework cannot be bestowed from above, legislated into existence, or managed through technocratic fixes. It can only be achieved through concerted and collective praxis by the masses — grounded in struggle, forged through solidarity, and oriented toward liberation rather than mitigation.

This responsibility carries particular weight for peoples residing within the Global North, who occupy a contradictory position within the imperial system. Those living at the core of U.S.-led imperialism bear a specific historical and political duty: to confront empire from within, to disrupt its machinery, and to strike a decisive blow against its systemic ecocide — the organized destruction of life, livelihoods, and the planet in service of accumulation and domination.

To defend life, dignity, and the future of humanity requires nothing less than an internationalist, anti-imperialist struggle rooted in People(s)-Centered Human Rights — a struggle that recognizes that there can be no ecological survival without liberation, and no liberation without the organized power of the people.

No Compromise No Retreat! 

SIGNED,

Black Alliance for Peace
Black Lives Matter South Bend
Build & Fight Coalition
CODEPINK
Community Movement Builders
Cooperation Jackson
Lowcountry Action Committee
Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights
Pan-African Community Action (DC)
Science for the People
Youth Climate Finance Alliance

Key References

A Final Solution to The Human Surplus Problem (Or, How the End of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Also Ends the Farce of Trump “Populism”): https://www.blackagendareport.com/final-solution-human-surplus-problem-or-how-end-epas-endangerment-finding-also-ends-farce-trump

Bulletin on Domestic Militarization: Issue #3 – Black Alliance for Peace: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bulletinonusdomesticmilitarization/issue-3

“Oppose the Normalization of Genocide and International Gangsterism!” – North/South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights: https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/oppose-the-normalization-of-genocide-and-international-gangsterism/

Climate, Environment, and Militarism – Black Alliance for Peace: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/environment

“Praxis from Center to…Cabral” – Ajamu Baraka (2023): https://www.academia.edu/8830885/Praxis_from_center_to_Cabral_final

“People(s)-Centered Human Rights: Decolonizing Human Rights for Human Liberation”: https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/

100 Days From the World Cup, an International Coalition is Calling on FIFA to Move the Games From the U.S.

March 3, 2026, With the FIFA World Cup 2026 now 100 days away, an international coalition has launched a coordinated boycott campaign demanding that FIFA move matches from the United States. The Coalition warns that US thuggery is creating a humanitarian crisis, both domestic and international. International sport is not neutral. Mega-sporting events function as instruments of political legitimation. To host global sporting events is not merely a logistical privilege — it is a declaration of belonging within the international community.

“The coalition believes that with the siege of Cuba, the kidnapping of the president of Venezuela, unprovoked and illegal war on Iran, and the fact that the United States has become an increasingly unsafe and hostile environment for peoples of the world — particularly for Black, Brown, Indigenous, migrant, and non-European peoples - the U.S. has excluded itself from the community of civilized nations and should not be allowed to normalize its violence and international gangsterism,” says Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace’s North-South Project for People(s)centered human rights, one of the conveners of the coalition

In the US, violent immigration crackdowns, illegal detentions, and discriminatory travel measures  endanger communities, fans, players and tournament personnel all while the US soaks its hands in foreign blood across the globe.

Nowhere is this more evident than in West Asia and Africa. There, the US continues its violent campaigns against nations whose players and fans will soon set foot on American soil for 78 world cup matches beginning June 11th. Many will arrive as victims of US-sponsored carnage. We demand: the games cannot go forward as if these lives do not matter-whether it is in graves or cages. We refuse to let the United States hide its transgressions against sovereign peoples. The blood of women and children will not be washed away on the pitch to fertilize its grass, and its seats must remain empty for every person ICE has disappeared. 

Mireille Fanon Mendes - France, chair of the Frantz Fanon Foundation declares that “it is morally obscene and politically backward that the United States, a country that has persistently defied international law and stands implicated in grave human rights violations—including wars of aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and active support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza—should be entrusted with hosting a global event meant to celebrate dignity, collective humanity and unity like the World Cup.”

At this historical juncture, permitting the United States to host international sporting events such as the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics with the participation of Israel, represents a profound moral and political contradiction for the international community of nations. 

As we face 100 days before the World Cup, we say reject the normalization of war, repression and genocide. Demand that FIFA move the games and boycott the U.S. until it has demonstrated that it is prepared to operate in the world as a normal state committed to equality, peace and people(s)-centered human rights. 

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the U.S.-Iraeli War on Iran

The Black Alliance For Peace condemns, in the strongest terms, the recent U.S.-Israeli bombing of Tehran and other cities in Iran, which included the bombing of an all-girls school in Minab, which reportedly killed at least 50 students. This military attack is a flagrant violation of the most fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter. As articulated by Iran's Foreign Ministry and multiple international observers, it constitutes a clear act of aggression against a sovereign member state, undermining international peace and security. Such actions underscore the rogue statism of the U.S. and Israel as existential threats. Western powers, particularly the U.S., have embraced "international lawlessness" to support Israeli expansionism. In just the last two months, this lawlessness has enabled the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, and the bombing, invasion, and ongoing intervention in Venezuela; the heightened strangulation and attacks on Cuba; and now bombing and possible further attacks against Iran.

This criminal escalation serves the interests of no one but the imperialist-zionist warmongers. It flies in the face of domestic and global public opinion, which largely rejects such violence. The international community has condemned the strikes as an unprovoked act of armed aggression. When faced with such international gangsterism, we must ask: whose interests are being upheld? Certainly not those of the Iranian schoolchildren, workers, or the millions worldwide who desire peace. It is the capitalist-imperialist ruling class that rules through ever-accelerating militarism and the most extremist elements in Tel Aviv and Washington that benefit from this carnage.

Such U.S. and Israeli murderous lawlessness forces us to take coordinated action to impose consequences on these states. The international community of nations must not allow the normalization of U.S. led global fascism. This is why BAP has called for organizations and people of conscience to demand that FIFA move the World Cup out of the U.S., demand that both FIFA and the IOC ban the U.S. and Israel from hosting or participating in International Sporting Events, and to join coordinated resistance to Boycott the World Cup.  U.S. Zionist-imperialist impunity must end now! 

More immediately, we call on all people of conscience to stand with the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian people against this bombing and intervention, to mobilize where they are against the widening scope of U.S. wars, and to defend the right of peoples and nations to resist imperialist violence.

Resources and mobilization information here: 

tinyurl.com/stopuswar

linktr.ee/stopuswar

Stop U.S. War on Iran! 

Oppose U.S.-led International Gangsterism!

BAP Condemns Kidnapping and Torture of Kenyan Revolutionary Leader

BAP Condemns Kidnapping and Torture of Kenyan Revolutionary Leader

By: Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team

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!

Defense of Sovereignty in Our America

BAP National Co-Coordinator Austin Cole spoke at the February 10, 2026 Mass Meeting of Global Social Movements, convened by the Instituto Simón Bolívar and the Venezuelan Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs. Below is a transcript of his remarks.

Good morning, my name is Austin Cole and I am the national co-coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and coordinator of the BAP's Haiti/Americas team, which helped launch the collective campaign in 2023 “Our America, a Zone of Peace” together with more than a dozen organizations in our hemisphere to emphasize the need for social movements and grassroots groups in guaranteeing the zone of peace.

It is an honor to speak with you today, and thanks to the Simon Bolivar Institute, a fraternal embrace to the Venezuelan and Cuban people. I am speaking on behalf of the campaign's coordinating group and the No War Against Venezuela network. This initiative began with more than 35 organizations based in North America that launched a Week of Action in November to stop the war against Venezuela and defend the country's sovereignty. That week, more than 100 actions were taken in the United States and Canada. In recent weeks, we have held additional days of emergency mobilization following the invasion and kidnapping on January 3, as well as a Week of Resistance to disrupt the U.S. war machine from January 23 to 31, with more than 160 organizations. And on February 6, we supported the Global Day of Action to stop the genocide in Palestine and oppose all wars, with European unions.

This campaign is also connected to several local coalitions across the United States and Canada. We have consistently protested in the streets against US attacks on Venezuela and Cuba, organized informational talks in our communities, mass online rallies, strategy meetings, and much more. We have taken action against U.S. diplomatic entities and arms companies. We have published and distributed statements and testimonies from our comrades in Venezuela. Recently, organizers in New York have been continuously mobilizing at the Metropolitan Detention Center as part of the defense committee for Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, including writing letters and ensuring medical care for both.

At the Black Alliance for Peace, as an anti-imperialist organization in the tradition of radical Black peace, we have organized to support and defend the Bolivarian revolution since our founding in 2017, especially in connection with the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations ARAAC. The defense of Venezuela's sovereignty is a key element of our Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our America and the U.S./NATO Out of Our America Network. We believe that the regional integration of the peoples and movements of all of Our America and the development of a revolutionary and anti-imperialist consciousness throughout the hemisphere are necessary to realize true peace, self-determination, and dignity.

Venezuela's transition to socialism and anti-imperialist defense of sovereignty are examples for our social movements in North America.

We see that this model of transition in the Bolivarian process emphasizes the holistic and interconnected aspects of collective self-determination and popular sovereignty. We are familiar with the vision of the Golpe de Timón, we see the popular power of the Cumbes cimarrones, we are learning from the Unión Comunera, and we have observed from afar the most recent national meeting on communal economy. We see the communes as an example for us. We also understand that this is only possible if the solutions we offer attack the fundamental contradictions that cause this suffering and injustice in the first place, those of imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, militarism, ecological degradation, and others.

We, the Afro-descendant and indigenous peoples within the United States of America, know the genocide of the empire. Therefore, one of our top priorities is to defend the sovereignty of Venezuela and Cuba, and to oppose the murderous actions of the United States in Our America, in Africa, in Palestine and Iran, and imperialist militarism in general. That is why, for example,

As we move forward together, initiatives such as the Francisco de Miranda Committee can unite us even more in these efforts. Looking ahead, we suggest some possible coordinated activities:

1. Coordinated continental mobilizations and campaigns here and there that share demands, propaganda, etc., in front of U.S. diplomatic facilities and U.S. corporations such as Citibank throughout the hemisphere. We are mobilizing for the public hearing of President Maduro and Cilia Flores on March 26.

2. We call on peoples and social movements to demand that FIFA move the World Cup out of the United States, and that both FIFA and the Olympic Committee ban the United States and Israel from organizing or participating in international sporting events.

3. Narrative support. Publication of materials in English or other languages and support for deeper connections with different sectors of society (students, religious leaders, workers, etc.) to combat misinformation and US propaganda in online spaces and the media as well as in our communities.

4. Direct exchange of research and information, especially grassroots analysis, reports, photos, and videos with movements involved in the Bolivarian process, so that people in our communities can hear directly from Venezuela.

5. Exchanges with communes and other social movements to bring people from North America to Venezuela to connect around possible alternatives through the Bolivarian process, bring perspectives and skills back to their communities, and participate in material solidarity efforts to strengthen collective self-defense and community self-sufficiency.

6. Political and social education based on the alternative of the Bolivarian revolution and the basis of the social movement; to establish direct connections between our community institutions, schools, churches, local groups, etc.

We continue our mobilizations with the demands:

1. Stop the war against Venezuela!

2. No to U.S. wars for regime change!

3. Free President Maduro and Cilia Flores!

4. Defend Venezuela's sovereignty and right to resist!

5. Stop the U.S. war on migrants!

6. Stop the genocide in Palestine and defeat Zionism!

7. End ICE (the immigration police)!

8. Return Guantanamo to Cuba and end colonialism in the Americas!

Together, we believe that the peoples of Our America can defeat the domination and violence of U.S. imperialism and resist to achieve our collective liberation. Count on us.

Until victory, always. We will win!

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