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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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!

Endorse the Campaign to Move the Games from the U.S.: bit.ly/EndorseNow

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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. 

Blood in the Streets, Banners on the World Stage

U.S. officials have chosen to operate outside the bounds of law and basic morality — from supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza and illegal settlement expansion, to launching a direct military strike on Venezuela that kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, to escalating repression against migrants and racialized communities inside the U.S. that has led to murder. These are not isolated policies, but interconnected expressions of an empire that relies on illegal violence abroad and domestically to enforce dominance. Friday January 23rd was one of the largest labor mobilizations in recent U.S. history with 10s of thousands of Minnesotans taking to the street to end the tyrannical violence of ICE and its anti-immigrant operations.

One day later, ICE agents in Minnesota have murdered another person — this time a 37-year-old man. The federal government is systematically violating the most fundamental of human rights: the right to life. While federal officials run cover for their crimes, state and local officials do nothing but stand by, make statements but take no action. We must demand that these democratically elected officials act immediately to defend their constituents and combat all attempts to clean the image of this neo-fascist state.

This includes the World Cup, which should not be used to launder state violence or normalize genocide and international gangsterism. We must hold state and local authorities accountable and demand they use their power to defend the human rights and safety of the people they claim to represent. Organizations and people of conscience must demand that FIFA move the games out of the U.S. and take a stand for people-centered human rights rather than empire, repression, and impunity. Sign the petition demanding that FIFA and the IOC ban the U.S. and Israel from hosting or participating in international sporting events.

bit.ly/BANFIFA

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