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!