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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  2. The demilitarization of the African Continent.

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

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

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

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US out of Africa!

No Compromise.

No Retreat