The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Renewal of Neocolonial Gang Suppression Force UN Mandate in Haiti

Oct 2, 2026 – The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP)  rejects the renewal of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) mandate by the UN Security Council on September 29, 2026, and affirms that Haiti’s sovereignty cannot be renewed away. One year ago, Security Council Resolution 2793, drafted by the United States and Panama, authorized a foreign force of up to 5,500 police and soldiers to replace the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission that also proved ineffective at stemming armed violence. The GSF was to conduct operations to “neutralize, isolate, and deter” armed groups independently or alongside Haitian security forces. A foreign commander and a Standing Group of participating countries shape the mission, while Haitians have little authority over its operations. The resolution also established a United Nations support office to provide the force with logistics and operational support. The mandate was renewed by 12 votes in favor, with China, Russia, and Pakistan abstaining amid concerns that an under-resourced military approach will not resolve Haiti’s deeper crisis, calling for stronger oversight, enforced arms embargo, and a Haitian-led path forward.

However, this “technical roll over” is not a temporary arrangement, but one that extends a neocolonial foreign military grip over Haiti. The GSF’s expanded roll out has yet to quell ongoing attacks, and Haiti has no elected national government. An unelected government’s request to renew the GSF is not the Haitian people’s democratic mandate for another abusive foreign occupation force. 

The anti-democratic conditions under which Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé remains in office make that distinction clear. In January, Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council voted to remove him. Washington publicly opposed the move and Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted that the Council dissolve on schedule while emphasizing that Fils-Aimé should remain prime minister. The U.S. Embassy threatened violence for Haitian officials who supported a change in leadership, and the State Department revoked the visas of two Council members and their families. Before the Council’s mandate ended on February 7, the U.S. sent a warship off the coast of Port-au-Prince and without elections or an elected successor, Fils-Aimé remained the country’s executive authority. Washington used coercive political and military power to shape who would govern. The same administration that sought renewal of the GSF emerged from that imposed political arrangement.

Separately from the GSF, Haitian security forces have carried out explosive drone strikes with support from a U.S.-based private military company led by Blackwater founder Erik Prince. 1,243 people have been killed in these strikes between March 2025 and January 21, 2026, including 17 children. These operations show the civilian consequences of a security strategy built around an external force with little public accountability and how Haiti serves as a laboratory for imperialist violence in the Americas. The devastating consequences of this for the whole region are now even clearer, as U.S. assassinations in the Caribbean and Pacific continue unabated and U.S. moves MQ-9 Reaper drones from the African continent to the Caribbean and Latin America. 

Washington also bears responsibility for the conditions it claims foreign forces must solve. Firearms trafficked into Haiti originate in the southeastern U.S. At the same time, nearly 200,000 people were forcibly returned to Haiti in the first eight months of 2026, and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was removed for over 300,000 Haitians on July 27, despite ongoing insecurity that U.S. meddling has worsened. The attacks on Haitians through TPS termination, ICE detention, surveillance, and deportation are connected to the wider policing and carceral apparatus that oppresses all African and colonized peoples in the belly of the beast. 

Ultimately, a government that helps arm the region, restricts Haitian migrants’ right to safety, and pressures Haiti’s political leadership, cannot present another externally directed security mission as an act of solidarity.

We understand this latest GSF renewal within a wider U.S. hemispheric project to reassert military and political control across Our Americas. Washington has escalated the Monroe Doctrine, organized the Shield of the Americas/Joint-Task Force Hemisphere, threatened to use “unmatched military might,” after U.S. forces abducted Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, while intensifying the blockade and military threats against Cuba. 

At the 81st UN General Assembly, Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley called for the Caribbean to remain a Zone of Peace while supporting the full deployment and renewal of the GSF in Haiti. CARICOM’s Zone of Peace language rings hollow when Haiti is treated as an exception. 

We reaffirm the call for a true Zone of Peace of Our Americas, grounded in nonintervention, national and popular sovereignty, self-determination, and resolving disputes without external force among the Community of Latin American and Caribbean member states (CELAC). A renewed GSF mandate violates the goal of a regional Zone of Peace based in  People(s) Centered-Human Rights,and deepens the contradiction by placing Haiti under another foreign command while Haitians themselves remain excluded from decisions over their future.

The Haitian people deserve safety from armed violence and a foreign force with broad powers, and an imperialist command structure (U.S. Southern Command) subverting their democratic rights. An unaccountable Haitian political authority cannot resolve this crisis of imperialism, the flow of weapons, and decades of foreign intervention. Renewal of the GSF risks making this neocolonial, imperialist intervention permanent while offering no guarantee of collective security or self-determination.

We call on: 

• Governments to withhold personnel, funds, weapons, logistics, and operational support to a foreign GSF occupation force with no accountability to the Haitian people. 

• The United States to stop the flow of arms into Haiti and cease its interference in Haiti’s political affairs. 

• An end to the Core Group’s political tutelage and to the United Nations’ role in supervising Haiti’s political future. Haitian people and popular movements must be able to determine their own path through a truly sovereign process.

• An End to deportations across Haitian communities and the right to freedom of movement and asylum.

• Black/African organizations and communities in the United States and beyond, including the Congressional Black Caucus, to oppose the imperialist assault on Haiti and stand unequivocally with the Haitian masses in defense of popular sovereignty and self-determination.

• Social movements, civil society, trade unions, and popular organizations across the Caribbean and Latin America to engage in anti-imperialist regional solidarity in support of people-centered movements rooted in the Haitian masses, recognizing Haiti as the first independent Black republic, whose revolution materially supported liberation struggles across the Americas.

Image: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres greets soldiers from Chad at a base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Danica Coto/AP

6th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM Launch

October 3, 2026 marks 18 years since the establishment of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM). As one of 11 U.S. Department of War combatant commands, AFRICOM has worked to sustain capitalist plunder of Africa through neo-colonial domination on behalf of the U.S. and its NATO allies. Its existence undermines the human rights of African people to exercise self-determination and reclaim the use of the continent’s vast natural resources for alleviating their ongoing suffering under imperialism. 

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team is clear that AFRICOM is in no way a vehicle for the collective security of Africans, but is instead a vehicle for securing U.S. interests in Africa. As such, it is nothing more than the covert institutionalization of gunboat diplomacy in the 21st century on the African continent under the cynical mask of “African Solutions to African Problems.” We reject the United States’ fabricated narrative of fighting terrorism on the continent, and instead recognize AFRICOM’s vested interest in and documented history of destabilizing African nations. As referenced in our Principles of Unity, the Black Alliance for Peace takes a resolute anti-colonial, anti-imperialist position that links the international role of the U.S. empire – which is an empire based on war, aggression and exploitation – to the domestic war against poor and working class Black people in the United States. The link is not at all abstract when we consider initiatives like the National Guard State Partnership Program, which sends state-level U.S. National Guard regiments to Africa to do AFRICOM’s legwork when they aren’t being unleashed on civilians resisting ICE and racist police killings. 

To continue our struggle against the war on African peoples, throughout the month of October, the Black Alliance for Peace will observe the 6th annual Month of Action Against AFRICOM.  This year, we ground ourselves in the theme “Oppression Breeds Resistance: Escalations in the Perpetual War on Africa and The Struggles Against It.” We’ve seen key escalations in 2026 as compradors in Kenya increase repression against the masses, imperialists arm proxies in Niger & Mali to wage war against the anti-imperialist Alliance of Sahel States, and neocolonial forces allow AFRICOM to bomb Nigeria as they seek to encircle the Sahel region. But as we know, Africans will continue to fight back until true self-determination is achieved. Whether it is the masses in Kenya developing a Pan-Africanism Summit Against Imperialism to counter the neocolonial France-Africa Summit or the people of Mali rallying in defense of their sovereignty, Africans will continue the protracted struggle for sovereignty. This is why we say, “Oppression breeds resistance.”

Please join us this October to demand the complete withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Africa, the demilitarization of the African continent, the closure of U.S. bases throughout the world, and that the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) must oppose AFRICOM and support hearings on AFRICOM’s impact on the African continent. Participants are encouraged to use the Month of Action to educate their communities the imperialist origins of AFRICOM, its ongoing affronts to African sovereignty, and any existing connections to your state or region through the State Partnership Program. The Month of Action Against AFRICOM Toolkit is full of resources for planning direct actions, teach-ins, banner drops, and other actions for contributing to a sustained mass movement against AFRICOM.

We hope you will join us.

No Compromise, No Retreat! 

U.S. Hands off Mali, U.S. Hands off the AES, U.S. Out of Africa, and Shutdown AFRICOM

U.S. Hands off Mali, U.S. Hands off the AES, U.S. Out of Africa,
and Shut Down AFRICOM

It is with grave concern that the Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team (BAP) and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) view the latest maneuvers by the U.S. against Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, countries that form the anti-imperialist Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

Over the last three months, the Trump administration has declared they are considering a drone strike campaign in Mali to target the terrorist organization JNIM without the consent of that sovereign country. U.S. Congressman James P. McGovern has called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to impose sanctions on Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, and U.S. Congressman Jimmy Panetta has introduced the bipartisan legislation “Mali Security Partnership and Counterterrorism Act” as ostensibly “counterterrorism” measures in Mali and the AES.

Regardless of what guise U.S. policymakers drape over their interventive policies toward the AES countries, they are merely a pretext to regain neo-colonial control over those countries, seize their minerals and markets for finance capital, and dictate their political direction. The U.S. is an imperialist settler state that has utterly no regard for the lives of poor and working class people of the Global South. As a spawn of Western Europe, it only sees Africa as a host for its parasitic role in the global economy. Any attempt of the host to shrug off the parasite is deemed a threat. They are incapable of recognizing the rights to sovereignty and self-determination.

Any concerns the U.S. professes to have about terrorism in Africa are wholly without merit and must be discredited. The U.S. government is directly culpable for the spread of terrorism across Africa that it now professes to be fighting. Their 2011 destruction of the state of Libya made it possible for their proxy terrorist forces to infiltrate the armory of that country, feeding the terrorism that has extended across the Sahel.

African people in the U.S., African people around the world, and all of global humanity should beware that the latest U.S. posture and maneuvers toward Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are pretexts to eventually attack the Alliance of Sahel States. The allegiance that the Congressional Black Caucus pledges to the settler imperialist flag prohibits them from contesting the U.S. threat to Mali and the AES, a beacon of hope in Africa, and instead beholdens them to give cover for inhumane atrocities such as the Zionist genocide in Gaza, Palestine. 

The BAP Africa Team and USOAN say it is time for a sustained international people’s defense of the Alliance of Sahel States against the diabolic agenda of U.S. imperialism. We would do well to remember the international outcry in defense of Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traoré in spring 2025 after an attempted demonization by AFRICOM Commander Michael Langley as he testified to his master — the Senate Armed Services Committee.  Unfortunately, that defense of Traoré was a fleeting response limited to a highly regarded personality that couldn’t be turned into a sustained movement to embrace the entire AES.  

Next month’s 6th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM must serve as a catalyst for a protracted, encompassing movement in defense of the AES. This year’s theme is “Oppression Breeds Resistance: Escalations in the Perpetual War on Africa and The Struggles Against it.”

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network call on all forces against U.S. intervention and for the sovereignty and self-determination of African countries to remain alert to the overt and covert agenda against the AES countries. Stand ready to oppose and expose the manufacturing of consent to an attack on the AES. Demand the expulsion of AFRICOM from the continent!  Ensure that no African nation suffers the fate that befell Libya in 2011!

U.S. Imperialism Out of Africa!

RELEVANT RESOURCES:

• Now is the Time for All Anti-Imperialists and Justice Loving People to Stand Unequivocally in Defense of Burkina Faso - May 5, 2025

• Black Alliance for Peace’s U.S. Out of Africa Network Deplores Plans to Expand U.S. Drone Atrocities in West Africa - February 5, 2024

• All Africans Should Condemn the Call for an ECOWAS-led Military Invasion of Niger - August 7, 2023

Eight Months On, We Continue to Reject U.S. Imperialist Impunity in the Assault on Maduro, Flores, and Venezuelan Sovereignty

Eight Months On, We Continue to Reject U.S. Imperialist Impunity in the Assault on Maduro, Flores, and Venezuelan Sovereignty

Sep 3, 2026 – The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores from Caracas by U.S. forces on January 3, 2026 has been a watershed moment for international law and the sovereignty of the Americas. As the U.S. operates with ever-more murderous impunity throughout the region, it is important that the movement continues to demand their freedom and stand against this intervention to preserve the foundational principles of a free and sovereign Western Hemisphere. 

“We understand that a free and sovereign Venezuela, free from external coercion, is essential for the stability and self-determination of the entire Americas. The U.S. intervention, framed by officials as a response to a "narco-terrorist" regime, continues to be an act of aggression driven by strategic and economic interests,” said Tunde Osazua, National Co-Coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP). 

The U.S. desire to dismantle the current Venezuelan state is deeply intertwined with its quest for western hegemony in the region. Venezuela sits atop the world's largest proven oil reserves, and the U.S. has explicitly linked military action to a plan for its oil companies to move in and rebuild the country's energy sector for U.S. state and corporate extraction, echoing the worst excesses of 19th-century colonial plunder and over a century of U.S. imperial domination in the region. Further, this assault threatens not only Venezuela’s sovereign control over its resources, but also its organized popular forces struggling to defend and advance the Bolivarian project.

The U.S. justification for this operation is not founded in international law but in a process of lawfare designed to legitimize an illegal act. The decision to prosecute Maduro in a New York federal court on spurious drug trafficking charges, following a military abduction, reveals a kangaroo court system beholden to U.S. geopolitical interests. This lawfare – aggressive forms of which have extended to Cuba and Nicaragua, among other progressive nations –  is a critical component of the broader "Donroe Doctrine" strategy. A federal indictment in 2025 designated Maduro and his government as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" and a "drug cartel," thereby providing a veneer of legal justification for a cross-border law enforcement action.

This dangerous and illegal assault normalizes U.S. imperialism’s ability to unilaterally criminalize foreign leaders whose policies it opposes and then use military force to detain them, effectively making U.S. domestic law and use of force the supreme and unquestioned norm in the Americas. This is a direct attack on national sovereignty and a further mockery of international law, which the genocide of Gaza and the strangulation of Cuba have shown means nothing to so-called Western liberal democracies. .

Understanding this, BAP echoes the recent call by the Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas: “We condemn the military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and we firmly demand the release of the kidnapped Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, along with First Lady Cilia Flores, who were abducted by U.S. military forces.”

The importance of the campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas has never been more urgent. The U.S. operation in Venezuela, and lack of accountability by the international community, is a direct assault on this principle. The movement to free Maduro and Flores is therefore a movement to defend the Americas as a Zone of Peace itself. It is a rejection of the idea that any nation, particularly the world's sole imperialist superpower, should be allowed to use military force to exert its will and seize resources in the region. It is a fight for a region where legitimacy is built not on the whims of imperialist power but on People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs) based on observing the principles of national sovereignty, equal rights, human dignity and self-determination of peoples.

Free Maduro! Free Cilia!
Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!
No Compromise No Retreat!

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Ocho meses después, seguimos rechazando la impunidad imperialista de EE. UU. en el ataque contra Maduro, Flores y la soberanía venezolana

3 de septiembre de 2026 – El secuestro del presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro y de la Primera Combatiente Cilia Flores en Caracas por parte de las fuerzas estadounidenses el 3 de enero de 2026 ha sido un punto de inflexión para el derecho internacional y la soberanía de las Américas. A medida que EE. UU. actúa con una impunidad cada vez más sanguinaria en toda la región, es importante que el movimiento siga exigiendo su libertad y se oponga a esta intervención para preservar los principios fundamentales de un Hemisferio Occidental libre y soberano. 

“Entendemos que una Venezuela libre y soberana, libre de coacción externa, es esencial para la estabilidad y la autodeterminación de todas las Américas. La intervención de EE. UU., presentada por los funcionarios como una respuesta a un régimen “narcoterrorista”, sigue siendo un acto de agresión impulsado por intereses estratégicos y económicos”, afirmó Tunde Osazua, Co-Coordinador Nacional de la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP).

El deseo de Estados Unidos de desmantelar el actual Estado venezolano está profundamente entrelazado con su búsqueda de la hegemonía occidental en la región. Venezuela posee las mayores reservas probadas de petróleo del mundo, y Estados Unidos ha vinculado explícitamente la acción militar a un plan para que sus empresas petroleras se instalen y reconstruyan el sector energético del país con fines de extracción por parte del Estado y las corporaciones estadounidenses, repitiendo los peores excesos del saqueo colonial del siglo XIX y más de un siglo de dominación imperialista estadounidense en la región. Además, este ataque amenaza no solo el control soberano de Venezuela sobre sus recursos, sino también a sus fuerzas populares organizadas que luchan por defender y hacer avanzar el proyecto bolivariano.

La justificación de Estados Unidos para esta operación no se basa en el derecho internacional, sino en un proceso de «guerra jurídica» diseñado para legitimar un acto ilegal. La decisión de procesar a Maduro en un tribunal federal de Nueva York por cargos falsos de tráfico de drogas, tras un secuestro militar, revela un sistema judicial amañado que está al servicio de los intereses geopolíticos de Estados Unidos. Esta guerra jurídica —cuyas formas agresivas se han extendido a Cuba y Nicaragua, entre otras naciones progresistas— es un componente fundamental de la estrategia más amplia de la “Doctrina Donroe.” Una acusación federal de 2025 calificó a Maduro y a su gobierno como una “Organización Terrorista Extranjera” y un «cartel de drogas», proporcionando así una apariencia de justificación legal para una acción transfronteriza de aplicación de la ley.

Este ataque peligroso e ilegal normaliza la capacidad del imperialismo estadounidense de criminalizar unilateralmente a líderes extranjeros cuyas políticas rechaza y luego utilizar la fuerza militar para detenerlos, convirtiendo de hecho a la legislación interna de Estados Unidos y al uso de la fuerza en la norma suprema e incuestionable en las Américas.

Se trata de un ataque directo a la soberanía nacional y una burla más al derecho internacional, que —como han demostrado el genocidio de Gaza y el estrangulamiento de Cuba— no significa nada para las llamadas democracias liberales occidentales. .

Consciente de ello, el BAP se hace eco del reciente comunicado del Comité Directivo Popular por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América: “Condenamos la agresión militar a la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y exigimos firmemente la libertad del secuestrado Presidente Constitucional de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros, junto a la Primera Combatiente Cilia Flores, por parte de fuerzas militares estadounidenses.”

La importancia de la campaña por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América nunca ha sido más urgente. La operación estadounidense en Venezuela, y la falta de rendición de cuentas por parte de la comunidad internacional, constituyen un ataque directo a este principio. El movimiento para liberar a Maduro y a Flores es, por lo tanto, un movimiento para defender a las Américas como una Zona de Paz en sí misma. Es un rechazo a la idea de que se le permita a cualquier nación, en particular a la única superpotencia imperialista del mundo, utilizar la fuerza militar para imponer su voluntad y apropiarse de los recursos de la región. Es una lucha por una región donde la legitimidad no se construya sobre los caprichos del poder imperialista, sino sobre los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos (PCHRs), basados en el respeto a los principios de soberanía nacional, igualdad de derechos, dignidad humana y autodeterminación de los pueblos.

¡LosQueremosDeVuelta!
¡Hagamos en Nuestras América una Zona de Paz!
¡Sin concesiones, sin retrocesos!

The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s TPS Decision on Haiti and Syria

The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s TPS Decision on Haiti and Syria

On the July 9 National TPS Day of Action, BAP calls for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas that Confronts and Defeats US/EU/NATO Axis of Domination in the Western Hemisphere

The Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 25 decision allowing the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti and Syria. This decision clears the way for the Department of Homeland Security to begin deporting approximately 350,000 Haitian and 6,000 Syrian TPS holders while advancing the fiction that countries subjected to years of U.S.-led destabilization are now safe to return to.

Across Haitian and Syrian communities, this ruling has already created a climate of fear. Families are increasingly afraid to send their children to school, attend religious gatherings, seek medical care, go to work, or participate in public life out of fear that routine activities could expose them to detention or deportation.

However, the solution to this fear and predation cannot be running into the arms of the Democratic Party for “protection” via perpetual legal limbo. On this National TPS Day of Action, we share a reminder that what is presented as an “immigration crisis” is, in reality, what BAP has for years identified as a crisis of imperialism. The resolution of this crisis requires the defeat of U.S.-led imperialism and other structures of oppression, and the advancement of popular sovereignty based in People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

As the Haitian Popular Press Agency recently reminded the world, “TPS was not a gift from Obama to the Haitians. It was a temporary protection won amid conditions shaped by catastrophe, displacement, and decades of U.S.-led intervention.” The agency further affirmed, “the organizations that defend the rights of Haitians will continue to fight to force the racist extreme right to reconsider the TPS case.” Defending TPS is therefore not an appeal for charity from the U.S. government, but part of the ongoing struggle for Haitian and other global south people’s right to live free from violent displacement, neocolonial intervention, and imperialist domination both in the U.S. and their home countries.

Much of the armed violence concentrated in Port-au-Prince has been fueled by the trafficking of U.S.-sourced firearms, particularly through South Florida, alongside years of foreign intervention overseen by the U.S.-led Core Group, that have strengthened armed groups while undermining Haitian sovereignty.

The termination of TPS cannot be understood in isolation. It is the latest expression of a bipartisan system that first meddles in countries like Haiti and Syria through occupation, economic coercion, and foreign control, then criminalizes the very people displaced by those policies. Those contradictions are on full display as the United States hosts the FIFA World Cup while stripping humanitarian protections from Haitians, expanding deportations, and further restricting Haitian mobility. 

Even FIFA’s decision to ban Haiti’s World Cup jersey depicting the Battle of Vertières represents a long pattern in which Haitian revolutionary history is treated as something to be erased. That is why we say: Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S. The concurrent denial of dignity of Haitians in the games and in the geopolitical sphere is linked, and U.S. impunity for its crimes — global and domestic — must end.

We condemn the Supreme Court’s decision in the strongest possible terms and stand with the struggle for self-determination and a People(s) Centered Human Rights. We reaffirm our call of the necessity for popular and revolutionary forces to build a Zone of Peace in Our Americas, where sovereignty, not intervention—determines the future of its peoples.

With the Attack on Iran, the Black Alliance for Peace Calls on the Remaining Teams in the FIFA World Cup to Withdraw from the Tournament

With the Attack on Iran, the Black Alliance for Peace Calls on the Remaining Teams in the FIFA World Cup to Withdraw from the Tournament 

The United States’ cynical decision to resume active warfare against Iran while simultaneously draping itself under the guise of a gracious global host for the FIFA World Cup exposes a foreign policy defined by rank impunity and lawlessness that must be rejected by the international community.

As the Trump administration escalates strikes against Iran, the Board of Peace actively abets the region’s immolation. As the U.S./Israel coalition/alliance continues to systematically destroy Palestine through genocide and ethnic cleansing, the Trump administration supports the refusal of Israel to withdrawal from Lebanon, where they apply the same genocidal campaign as they have in Gaza. The ongoing crimes against humanity, war crimes, support for genocide and resumption of the attack on Iran means that the World Cup must not be allowed to proceed as business as usual.  

The U.S. presenting itself as the world’s welcoming host is morally obscene.

The World Cup games should not be allowed to go on as long as the U.S. is attacking Iran, Lebanon is being destroyed, and Palestine continues to be brutally assaulted from the West Bank to Gaza. While the affronts on the human dignity of football teams and players from Iran and other nations during this World Cup show the arrogance and colonial mindset of the U.S., we must focus our attention on the primary issue of U.S. war, imperialist domination, and genocide.

We must Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S.!

Image: A plume of smoke rises Monday following an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Tyre in southern Lebanon.Kawnat Haju / AFP via Getty Images

For The Black Alliance For Peace 250 years of Extraction, Occupation, and Repression is Nothing to Celebrate!

"...your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages."

-Frederick Douglass

The 250-year arc of the United States, a settler-colonial state rhetorically conceived in liberty, yet materially erected through the systematic extraction, commodification, and disposal of Black, Brown, and Indigenous flesh, has run, without interruption, on the fuel of anti-humanity.  From the Middle Passage to the auction block, from the genocidal slaughter of Indigenous nations to the convict leasing system that only rebranded chattel bondage, from the terror of Jim Crow to pipelines from schools to prisons that now warehouse millions, from the spatial violence of redlining to the state-sanctioned poisoning of Flint's children, the U.S. has never known a peace not purchased by the subjugation, immiseration, and premature death of its internal colonies. 

This domestic logic of racialized plunder that reduces African/Black life to a commodity and Indigenous life removable also sanctioned the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the ecocidal carpet-bombing of Southeast Asia, the CIA's training of Latin American death squads, the starvation-inducing sanctions and shock-and-awe bombings of Iraq, the unwavering arming of apartheid Israel as it levels Gaza to rubble, and the perpetual, extrajudicial drone campaign across Somalia and Yemen. In just the last several months, this logic has resulted in continued support of genocides in Palestine and Sudan, the deepening occupation of Haiti, an ongoing war on Iran, the bombing and kidnapping of the head of state in Venezuela, tightening the strangulation against Cuba, massacres in the Philippines, and remilitarization and repression of still-colonized Puerto Rico.

What we witness today is the maturation of a coherent architecture of war and repression. The foundation of this settler state has required a military and ideological apparatus to maintain a racial hierarchy against those it exploited and displaced. This apparatus has evolved, not dissolved. The U.S. is a national security state now fusing intelligence, policing, militarization, and ideological discipline into a single, proactive system of control. Its modern manifestation is a seamless, high-tech carceral state where the brutal logic of imperial control abroad is repatriated to govern populations deemed internal threats. It is not reactive or defensive; it is anticipatory, designed to manage populations and suppress dissent, maintaining imperial order amid systemic crisis. This crisis fuels the consolidation of what can only be named as fascism, not as a historical relic, but as the capitalist reform of the state itself, emerging from the contradictions of U.S.- led imperialism and racial capitalism to uphold the dictatorship of capital. The question is not whether this system will be used abusively because it already is. The question is whether we will name it for what it is. The United States is a repressive apparatus whose normalization renders legality irrelevant and freedom an abstract ideal rather than a practice.

The task before us, therefore, is not reform within that architecture, but confrontation, political resistance, and principled opposition with it. The U.S. has spent 250 years perfecting the art of managing contradiction through violence and subversion — domestic and foreign, physical and structural. To resist is to recognize that the architecture of repression is not broken, it is working exactly as designed. And to oppose it is to understand that freedom is not a gift to be granted by the state, but a practice to be seized in defiance of it. This means choosing a freedom based on collective self-determination, human dignity, ecological survival, and people(s)-centered human rights for African/Black and all oppressed peoples. This means organized resistance until victory over imperialist war, domestic repression, and capitalist plunder.

No Compromise No Retreat!

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Para la Alianza Negra por la Paz, 250 años de extracción, ocupación y represión no son nada que celebrar

“…su celebración es una farsa; su tan proclamada libertad, una licencia impía; su grandeza nacional, una vanidad desbordada; sus cantos de júbilo son vacíos e insensibles; su condena de los tiranos, una insolencia descarada; su grito de libertad e igualdad, una burla hueca; sus oraciones e himnos, sus sermones y acciones de gracias, junto con toda su pompa y solemnidad religiosa, no son más que grandilocuencia, fraude, engaño, impiedad e hipocresía: un delgado velo para encubrir crímenes que avergonzarían incluso a una nación de salvajes.”

— Frederick Douglass

Los 250 años de trayectoria de Estados Unidos, un Estado colonial de asentamiento concebido en el discurso como una nación de libertad, pero construido materialmente mediante la extracción sistemática, la mercantilización y el descarte de los cuerpos negros, morenos e indígenas, han transcurrido ininterrumpidamente impulsados por una lógica contraria a la humanidad. Desde el Pasaje Medio hasta la subasta de esclavos; desde el exterminio genocida de las naciones indígenas hasta el sistema de arrendamiento de convictos, que no hizo más que rebautizar la esclavitud; desde el terror de las leyes Jim Crow hasta el camino de las escuelas a las prisiones, donde hoy se hacinan millones de personas; desde la violencia espacial de la discriminación territorial hasta el envenenamiento, avalado por el Estado, de la niñez de Flint, Estados Unidos nunca ha conocido una paz que no haya sido comprada mediante la subordinación, el empobrecimiento y la muerte prematura de sus colonias internas.

Esta lógica interna de saqueo racializado, que reduce la vida africana/negra a una mercancía y considera desechable la vida indígena, también legitimó la incineración de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, los bombardeos masivos y ecocidas sobre el Sudeste Asiático, el entrenamiento por parte de la CIA de escuadrones de la muerte en América Latina, las sanciones que provocaron hambrunas y los bombardeos de "conmoción y pavor" sobre Irak, el suministro incondicional de armas al régimen de apartheid israelí mientras reduce Gaza a escombros, y la campaña permanente de ataques con drones extrajudiciales en Somalia y Yemen. Tan solo en los últimos meses, esta misma lógica ha sostenido el apoyo continuado a los genocidios en Palestina y Sudán; la profundización de la ocupación de Haití; la guerra permanente contra Irán; el bombardeo y secuestro del jefe de Estado de Venezuela; el endurecimiento del bloqueo contra Cuba; las masacres en Filipinas; y la remilitarización y represión del todavía colonizado Puerto Rico.

Lo que presenciamos hoy es la consolidación de una arquitectura coherente de guerra y represión. Desde sus orígenes, este Estado colonial de asentamiento ha requerido un aparato militar e ideológico para sostener una jerarquía racial sobre los pueblos que ha explotado y desplazado. Ese aparato no ha desaparecido: ha evolucionado. Hoy, Estados Unidos es un Estado de seguridad nacional que fusiona inteligencia, vigilancia, policía, militarización y disciplina ideológica en un único sistema preventivo de control. Su manifestación contemporánea es un sofisticado Estado carcelario de alta tecnología, donde la lógica brutal del control imperial ejercido en el exterior regresa para gobernar a las poblaciones consideradas amenazas internas. No se trata de un sistema reactivo ni defensivo, sino anticipatorio, diseñado para administrar poblaciones y sofocar la disidencia con el fin de preservar el orden imperial en medio de una crisis sistémica.

Esa crisis alimenta la consolidación de lo que solo puede nombrarse como fascismo, no como un vestigio del pasado, sino como la reformulación capitalista del propio Estado, surgida de las contradicciones del imperialismo liderado por Estados Unidos y del capitalismo racial para sostener la dictadura del capital. La cuestión no es si este sistema puede ser utilizado de manera abusiva, porque ya lo es. La verdadera cuestión es si estamos dispuestos a nombrarlo por lo que realmente es. Estados Unidos constituye un aparato represivo cuya normalización vuelve irrelevante la legalidad y convierte la libertad en un ideal abstracto, en lugar de una práctica concreta.

Nuestra tarea, por tanto, no consiste en reformar esa arquitectura, sino en confrontarla mediante la resistencia política y una oposición basada en principios. Durante 250 años, Estados Unidos ha perfeccionado el arte de administrar sus contradicciones mediante la violencia y la subversión, tanto dentro como fuera de sus fronteras, de forma física como estructural. Resistir significa comprender que la arquitectura de la represión no está averiada: funciona exactamente como fue diseñada. Y oponerse a ella implica entender que la libertad no es un regalo que concede el Estado, sino una práctica que debe conquistarse desafiándolo.

Eso significa optar por una libertad basada en la autodeterminación colectiva, la dignidad humana, la supervivencia ecológica y los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos, para los pueblos africanos y negros, así como para todos los pueblos oprimidos. Significa construir una resistencia organizada hasta derrotar la guerra imperialista, la represión interna y el saqueo capitalista.

¡Sin concesiones, ni retirada!

U.S. v Bosnia Highlights the Past Atrocity, Present Impunity, and Infrastructural Backbone of U.S.-backed Genocides and Ecological Warfare

U.S. v Bosnia Highlights the Past Atrocity, Present Impunity, and Infrastructural Backbone of U.S.-backed Genocides and Ecological Warfare

Today, July 1st at 8pm EST, the United States faces Bosnia and Herzegovina in a Round of 32 knockout match in the shadow of Silicon Valley. Bosnian supporters have filled stadiums chanting "Free Palestine" in several matches so far during the World Cup. Bosnians know genocide: the 1992–95 war claimed over 100,000 lives, culminating in Srebrenica, where 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered. For a nation that survived ethnic cleansing and genocide, cheering for Palestine evokes a shared memory. Accordingly, this match highlights the moral gap between a people motivated by shared humanity, and an imperialist host nation hell-bent on wasting human life and ecological viability in its quest for full-spectrum dominance.

U.S.-led imperialism, which aspires to this dominance and is founded in settler-colonial expansion, is the logical expression of the capitalist world-system that generates phenomenal waste – human, material, and ecological – in pursuit of profit and monopoly control. This is the anti-humanity at the heart of U.S. empire, and it is clear from the fast-paced military-driven genocide in Gaza to the slower genocide of starvation and deprivation against Cuba. The violation of our People(s)-Centered Human Rights are a key function of the system. The geopolitical architecture of extraction, militarism, and imperial domination actively accelerates environmental annihilation and human suffering while immunizing its architects (governmental, corporate, paramilitary) from accountability. 

In Gaza, the United States plays as the chief financier and military arm of the zionist state of Israel's ongoing genocide, the latest chapter in 250+ years of settler colonialism, from the Americas to West Asia. U.S. military aid, diplomatic cover, and the U.S. tech sector providing digital infrastructure sustain the genocide. Data centers are the physical backbone of the tech economy and are tools of ecocide and slaughter. Project Nimbus ($1.2 billion from Google and Amazon) supplies cloud and AI infrastructure to the Israeli military. Microsoft data centers store 13.6 petabytes of data feeding "Gospel" and "Lavender"— AI kill lists that rank Palestinians by likelihood of being militants. Cisco earns $40–50 million annually from Israeli military networking contracts. Oracle leases underground Jerusalem data centers for AI processing. Dutch activists have scaled Microsoft roofs to protest 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian audio, hundreds of millions of hours of surveillance.

Looking at the U.S. blockade of Cuba, maintained for over six decades and recently expanded, economic sanctions function as instruments of ecological warfare. The blockade hinders Cuba's acquisition of technologies needed for sustainable development, limits financial opportunities for environmental protection projects, and prevents access to international financing for initiatives such as coastal resilience programs and mangrove restoration. The denial of resources for environmental protection in a highly vulnerable island nation constitutes a direct assault on both human populations and ecological systems, a form of slow violence that unfolds over decades while remaining largely invisible to international attention. The same logic operates across the global South, where U.S. sanctions regimes systematically deny targeted populations the resources necessary for sustainable development and ecological protection, killing millions.

The U.S. imperialist military machine exemplifies this logic with brutal clarity as it increasingly integrates ecological devastation into its strategy of economic and kinetic warfare. Capital's survival depends on the continued wasting of human life and ecological sustenance, and the U.S. military serves as its primary instrument. The digital machinery that powers this structure extracts water, energy, and labor from occupied land, deepening ecocide while enabling the bombing of civilian infrastructure like water treatment, hospitals, schools. The proliferation of data centers, essential to the digital infrastructure of global capital and imperialist militarism, exemplifies how capitalist waste-making operates through the relentless consumption of energy, water, mineral, and displaced labor resources. 

Data centers, concentrated in regions with access to cheap electricity, available water for cooling, and lax land use or tax policies, generate phenomenal environmental costs that remain largely invisible to users of digital services, highlighting the connection across multiple scales of extraction – from the global to the hyperlocal. The concentration of these facilities in specific geographic locations represents a form of extractive violence that redirects essential resources from local populations to the imperatives of global capital.The same technology that powers Silicon Valley and the broader tech sector’s profits is itself a weapon of annihilation against oppressed peoples. Meanwhile, the United States and its corporate allies repeat the history of IBM supplying Nazi death camps, firms bankrolling apartheid South Africa—profit before humanity. The International Court of Justice has ruled Israel's actions a plausible genocide as we watch tonnes of toxic munitions drop on children, a documented ecocide; and yet the data centers keep humming, powered by U.S. tax dollars and Wall Street investment.

These threads tie back to Bosnia itself. Israel's Supreme Court has repeatedly blocked disclosure of defense exports to Serbia during the 1990s—weapons that found their way to Bosnian genocide perpetrators. Ratko Mladić's diary explicitly cites Israeli-Serbian ties. Fragments of Israeli mortar shells were found on Sarajevo's airfield. Israel, a state born from genocide, chose to fuel  another. Today, that same state, armed by the same empire, commits genocide with algorithms built in California, funded in New York, and housed nationwide.

This same US empire maintains a six-decade blockade on Cuba, causing blackouts, medical shortages, and quadrupling inflation. It bombs fisherpeople in Caribbean waters, terrorizes Black and brown communities through ICE kidnappings and militarized police violence, and holds Nicolás Maduro and Cillia Flores captive in New York. Amid this global gangsterism and against the wasting of human life and ecological sustenance, the Black Alliance for Peace understands that organized sustained resistance to the interlocking systems of oppression must be our response. We call for: 

• Our Americas to be a Zone of Peace—free from U.S. intervention, imperialism, militarism, and capitalist domination – so that ecologically balanced systems based in People(s)-Centered Human Rights can emerge

• The international community to Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S. The United States defiles human rights and has no place hosting the beautiful game.

• No War on Cuba! For peace in the Americas, we must defend Cuba against all forms U.S. imperialist warfare

• An End to Economic & Environmental Warfare of data center construction and resource theft

No Compromise, No Retreat!

World Cup 2026: FIFA and the U.S.’s White Supremacist Colonial Partnership is already on Full Display

World Cup 2026: FIFA and the U.S.’s White Supremacist Colonial Partnership is already on Full Display

The World Cup has begun, and we are witnesses to the contradictions of the full, bloody arc of 250 years of U.S. history, manifesting through the state’s partnership with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, FIFA.  In just the last few days leading up to kickoff, we have seen an award-winning Somali referee barred from the opportunity to officiate, Senegalese and Uzbekistani players harassed and searched by state forces, the Haitian team forced to change their jersey and denied the ability to wear a celebration of their national independence, an Ecuadorian fan brutalized by police, dozens of members of the Moroccan and Iranian delegations denied entry. Meanwhile, Iranian players are treated not as competitors but as enemies to be monitored, disciplined, and made examples of in the service of imperialist war, and incarcerated freedom fighters hunger strike for justice at Delaney Hall. The World Cup exposes the racial geography of imperialism: some bodies move freely, while others are subjected to suspicion, exclusion, humiliation, and violence. 

In its acceptance of and complicity in these acts, FIFA has reminded the world that it serves as just another colonial instrument of the global white supremacist, imperialist structure headed by the United States and the capitalist elite. The decision not to pull the games from the U.S. – while that country engages in a war of aggression against Iran, funds and aides genocides and domestic repression against non-European peoples, supports the terror unleashed in the West Bank and Gaza, and tightens its inhumane collective punishment and strangulation of Cuba – shows FIFA’s true nature, and that despite its sordid past, it has found new depths to sink to in its abdication of morality and humanity. The bloody stain upon these 2026 World Cup Games will never be clean.

We condemn FIFA as the racist colonial entity that it is. In response, we continue to call for the international community, the peoples and nations of the world, to Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S. 

Boycott is the weapon of the colonized, the sanctioned, the dispossessed, and we refuse to be spectators to our own subjugation.

No Compromise No Retreat!

BAP National Co-Coordinators

Austin, Erica, Tunde

10 Miles of Contradiction: Where the Beautiful Game Meets the Cage.

Preparations for the start of the World Cup on June 13th have begun, but while the ruling class prepares their party, the people will be on the streets. The day before the games, on June 12th, we gather at Delaney Hall to honor 50 people who tore down walls and fought for freedom. The Imperialists celebrate their war on Peoples- Centered Human Rights just a few miles away from those they crush. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group, a private prison giant that profits from detaining the very people the World Cup claims to honor. Many of those inside come from the same countries, sending their teams to play. ICE agents will be at the stadium entrances, drones in the sky, while the carceral state uses the tournament to whitewash its violence as they brutalize those who seek liberation.

BAP and the AFFC call for a boycott of the World Cup; the U.S. has disqualified itself from the community of civilized nations. You cannot cage people from across the globe and then throw a party on the same ground. You cannot replace a hunger strike with a soccer match. Join us on June 12th at 8 pm at Delaney Hall (451 Doremus Ave, Newark). Stand with the uprising and the hunger strike still happening inside. Then, on June 13th, boycott the spectacle.

Read BAP’s statement here.

Black Alliance for Peace Calls On International Community to Boycott the 2026 World Cup Games Scheduled for the United States

Black Alliance for Peace Calls On International Community to Boycott the 2026 World Cup Games Scheduled for the United States 

For Immediate Release

Contact: communications@blackallianceforpeace.com

(201) 292-4591 

May 28, 2026 — The Black Alliance for Peace’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights (the Project) raised the issue months ago of the fundamental inappropriateness of the 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup being hosted in the United States. The Project argued that the U.S. human rights record—including blatant actions globally that constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes, and complicity in genocide, along with the systematic abuse of the human rights of migrants, immigrants, and even U.S. citizens domestically through the unleashing of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)—renders the United States ineligible to host the games.

The Project called for the tournament to be moved from the United States, a call that was ignored. Now, with the games scheduled to begin in just a few weeks, the Black Alliance for Peace and its human rights project have no other choice but to call on the international community to withdraw all support for the games through an international boycott.

“It is outrageous and obscene that FIFA would allow the United States—a nation operating completely outside the bounds of international law and established international morality—to host the World Cup while providing material and political support for an ongoing genocide; constructing a regime of domestic terror through ICE goons who beat, murder, and disappear people into the vast detention gulags of the United States; invading and capturing a sitting president; attacking Iran; and imposing a humanitarian crisis on Cuba through criminal siege tactics perfected by Israel in Gaza,” stated Ajamu Baraka, Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

BAP is clear: as long as the United States continues its brutal assaults on the humanity and sovereignty of peoples and nations throughout the world in pursuit of full-spectrum domination, it remains an illegitimate and dangerous host for the World Cup.

But even more importantly, we believe it is a moral necessity to reject any attempt to use the World Cup as an instrument for normalizing international lawlessness, marginalizing accountability, and desecrating the memory of the tens of thousands of victims of U.S. criminality around the world.

BAP National Coordinator Erica Caines understands that this is a controversial position that may not be understood, even by people who recognize and oppose U.S. domestic and foreign policies. “We understand the excitement and pride of the nations that qualified and will compete in the World Cup. However, participation in the games while they are hosted in the United States does not uphold the Beautiful Game as it was meant to be celebrated. Instead, it risks normalizing genocide, domestic repression, militarism, and death.”

That is precisely why the Black Alliance for Peace stands firm in the  insistence that this year’s World Cup—and the United States itself—must be boycotted. Conscience and political consistency demand nothing less.

The U.S. agenda for domination is clear, and therefore our response must also be clear. We will not bend to U.S. imperialism or to any of its subordinate international institutions, including FIFA. Our resistance is politically grounded and informs our focused commitment to boycott the World Cup, boycott the United States, and advance the collective struggle for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

BAP calls on the international community to join us in the fight for authentic human rights grounded in the principles of self-determination, social justice, democracy, and radical social transformation.

Support and join the Global Network for the Advancement of People(s)-Centered Human Rights: bit.ly/GNPCHR 

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La Alianza Negra por la Paz hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional a boicotear la Copa Mundial de 2026 programada para celebrarse en Estados Unidos

Para publicación inmediata

Contacto: communications@blackallianceforpeace.com

(201) 292-4591

28 de mayo de 2026 — El Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos de la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) planteó hace meses la profunda improcedencia de que la Copa Mundial de la Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) 2026 sea organizada en Estados Unidos. El Proyecto argumentó que el historial de derechos humanos de Estados Unidos —incluyendo acciones flagrantes a nivel global que constituyen crímenes de lesa humanidad, crímenes de guerra y complicidad en genocidio, junto con el abuso sistemático de los derechos humanos de migrantes, inmigrantes e incluso ciudadanos estadounidenses a nivel interno mediante el despliegue de la agencia Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)— hace que Estados Unidos no sea apto para albergar los juegos.

El Proyecto hizo un llamado para que el torneo fuera trasladado fuera de Estados Unidos, un llamado que fue ignorado. Ahora, con los juegos programados para comenzar en pocas semanas, la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) y su proyecto de derechos humanos no tienen otra opción que convocar a la comunidad internacional a retirar todo apoyo a los juegos mediante un boicot internacional.

“Es indignante y obsceno que la FIFA permita que Estados Unidos —una nación que opera completamente por fuera de los límites del derecho internacional y de la moral internacional establecida— organice la Copa Mundial mientras brinda apoyo material y político a un genocidio en curso; construye un régimen de terror interno a través de matones de ICE que golpean, asesinan y desaparecen personas en los vastos gulags de detención de Estados Unidos; invade y captura a un presidente en ejercicio; ataca a Irán; e impone una crisis humanitaria sobre Cuba mediante tácticas criminales de asedio perfeccionadas por Israel en Gaza”, declaró Ajamu Baraka, Director del Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos.

BAP es claro: mientras Estados Unidos continúe sus brutales ataques contra la humanidad y la soberanía de pueblos y naciones en todo el mundo en busca de una dominación total, seguirá siendo un anfitrión ilegítimo y peligroso para la Copa Mundial.

Pero aún más importante, creemos que es una necesidad moral rechazar cualquier intento de utilizar la Copa Mundial como instrumento para normalizar la ilegalidad internacional, marginar la rendición de cuentas y profanar la memoria de las decenas de miles de víctimas de la criminalidad estadounidense alrededor del mundo.

La Coordinadora Nacional de BAP, Erica Caines, entiende que esta es una postura controversial que puede no ser comprendida, incluso por personas que reconocen y se oponen a las políticas internas y exteriores de Estados Unidos. “Entendemos la emoción y el orgullo de las naciones que clasificaron y competirán en la Copa Mundial. Sin embargo, participar en los juegos mientras son organizados en Estados Unidos no honra el Juego Bonito tal como debe celebrarse. En cambio, corre el riesgo de normalizar el genocidio, la represión interna, el militarismo y la muerte.”

Es precisamente por ello que la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) se mantiene firme en la insistencia de que la Copa Mundial de este año —y Estados Unidos mismo— deben ser boicoteados. La conciencia y la coherencia política no exigen menos.

La agenda de dominación de Estados Unidos es clara, y por lo tanto nuestra respuesta también debe ser clara. No nos doblegaremos ante el imperialismo estadounidense ni ante ninguna de sus instituciones internacionales subordinadas, incluida la FIFA. Nuestra resistencia tiene fundamentos políticos y orienta nuestro compromiso decidido de boicotear la Copa Mundial, boicotear a Estados Unidos y avanzar en la lucha colectiva por los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos.

BAP hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional para unirse a esta lucha por derechos humanos auténticos fundamentados en los principios de autodeterminación, justicia social, democracia y transformación social radical.

Apoya y únete a la Red Global para el Avance de los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos:http://bit.ly/GNPCHR

Comprador Repression in Kenya: Kenyan government offers Red carpet for colonizers and a bloody nose for Anti-Imperialists

Kenyan government offers Red carpet for colonizers and a bloody nose for Anti-Imperialists

The Kenyan state has demonstrated a consistent and brutal willingness to deploy state terror against organized political dissent, targeting revolutionary leaders, working-class organizers, and anti-colonial voices with impunity. Past cases have laid bare the state’s methods: the violent abduction, torture, and illegal detention of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, Secretary General of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya, followed by the grotesque inversion of reality in which the victim of state torture was framed with fabricated assault charges. Today, as French President Emmanuel Macron co-hosts the France Africa  Summit, rebranded as "Africa Forward 2026" in Nairobi with President William Ruto—announcing €23 billion in “investments” while seeking a permanent French military presence—the Ruto regime has exposed its true character as a neocolonial and comprador administration acting in defence of imperialist interests against the democratic rights of the people. 

The regime has chosen to criminalise anti-imperialist solidarity while rolling out the red carpet for foreign exploiters and agents of monopoly capital. Among those arrested in the ongoing crackdown are distinguished anti-imperialist and revolutionary activists, intellectuals, and organisers from across the globe. Their only crime is standing with the oppressed. Their only crime is rejecting imperialist domination. Their only crime is declaring that Africa is not for sale.

The arrest of international delegates, who were in Kenya for the Pan-African Summit Against Imperialism, a parallel counter summit,  further demonstrates the growing panic and hypocrisy within imperialist and comprador circles who on one hand claim a “Pan-African Mandate” to send  its police forces as the Black faces of white supremacy in the U.S.-led occupation of Haiti and in another, physically attack international Pan-African delegates on its own soil. The source of this contradiction? They fear the unity of revolutionary and progressive forces across continents, international solidarity against imperialism, they fear a politically conscious people. But repression has never defeated the people’s struggle. Colonial detention camps did not defeat the liberation movement. Moi’s anti-communist repression did not defeat the struggle for democratic rights. Fascist laws and police terror will not silence the masses today.

The independence of Africa is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of the continent from imperialism and neocolonialism. The Communist Party Marxist Kenya and the Black Alliance for Peace therefore demand:

1) The immediate and unconditional release of all arrested comrades

2) An end to police harassment, abductions, and repression against activists, organisers, and progressive movements

3) The immediate halt to all imperialist military, political, and economic agreements being imposed upon Kenya and Africa

4) Respect for the democratic rights of all participants attending anti-imperialist and Pan-African gatherings.

In line with the Black Alliance for Peace's "U.S. and NATO Out of Africa" campaign, we further demand the closure of all foreign military bases on the continent, an end to AFRICOM and its proxy operations, and the full withdrawal of U.S., French, and NATO forces from African soil—from Kenya to Haiti, no more occupations under any banner. The struggle against imperialism is international, and no amount of repression shall defeat the organised masses of the people.

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El gobierno keniano ofrece alfombra roja a los colonizadores y una dura reprimenda a los antiimperialistas.

El Estado keniano ha demostrado una voluntad constante y brutal de emplear el terror de Estado contra la disidencia política organizada, atacando con impunidad a líderes revolucionarios, organizadores de la clase trabajadora y voces anticoloniales. Casos anteriores han puesto al descubierto los métodos del Estado: el secuestro violento, la tortura y la detención ilegal del camarada Booker Ngesa Omole, secretario general del Partido Comunista Marxista de Kenia, seguidos de la grotesca inversión de la realidad en la que la víctima de la tortura estatal fue acusada falsamente de agresión. Hoy, mientras el presidente francés Emmanuel Macron copreside la Cumbre Francia-África, rebautizada como "África Adelante 2026", en Nairobi con el presidente William Ruto —anunciando 23.000 millones de euros en "inversiones" y buscando una presencia militar francesa permanente—, el régimen de Ruto ha revelado su verdadera naturaleza como una administración neocolonial y compradora que actúa en defensa de los intereses imperialistas contra los derechos democráticos del pueblo.

El régimen ha optado por criminalizar la solidaridad antiimperialista mientras extiende la alfombra roja a los explotadores extranjeros y agentes del capital monopolista. Entre los arrestados en la represión actual se encuentran destacados activistas, intelectuales y organizadores antiimperialistas y revolucionarios de todo el mundo. Su único delito es solidarizarse con los oprimidos. Su único delito es rechazar la dominación imperialista. Su único delito es declarar que África no está en venta.

La detención de delegados internacionales, que se encontraban en Kenia para la Cumbre Panafricana contra el Imperialismo, una cumbre paralela, evidencia aún más el creciente pánico y la hipocresía dentro de los círculos imperialistas y compradores que, por un lado, reclaman un “mandato panafricano” para enviar a sus fuerzas policiales como la cara negra de la supremacía blanca en la ocupación de Haití liderada por Estados Unidos y, por otro, atacan físicamente a delegados panafricanos internacionales en su propio territorio. ¿Cuál es la raíz de esta contradicción? Temen la unidad de las fuerzas revolucionarias y progresistas de todos los continentes, la solidaridad internacional contra el imperialismo, temen a un pueblo políticamente consciente. Pero la represión jamás ha vencido la lucha popular. Los campos de detención coloniales no vencieron al movimiento de liberación. La represión anticomunista de Moi no venció la lucha por los derechos democráticos. Las leyes fascistas y el terror policial no silenciarán a las masas hoy.

La independencia de África carece de sentido a menos que esté vinculada a la liberación total del continente del imperialismo y el neocolonialismo. Por lo tanto, el Partido Comunista Marxista de Kenia y la Alianza Negra por la Paz exigen:

1) La liberación inmediata e incondicional de todos los compañeros detenidos.

2) Poner fin al acoso policial, los secuestros y la represión contra activistas, organizadores y movimientos progresistas.

3) El cese inmediato de todos los acuerdos militares, políticos y económicos imperialistas que se imponen a Kenia y África.

4) Respeto por los derechos democráticos de todos los participantes que asistan a encuentros antiimperialistas y panafricanistas.

En consonancia con la campaña de la Alianza Negra por la Paz “«Fuera EE. UU. y la OTAN de África”, exigimos además el cierre de todas las bases militares extranjeras en el continente, el fin de AFRICOM y sus operaciones interpuestas, y la retirada total de las fuerzas estadounidenses, francesas y de la OTAN de territorio africano, desde Kenia hasta Haití; no más ocupaciones bajo ninguna bandera. La lucha contra el imperialismo es internacional, y ninguna represión logrará doblegar a las masas organizadas del pueblo.

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!