Oppression Breeds Resistance: Escalations in the Perpetual War on Africa and The Struggles Against It
The BAP Africa Team will host the Month of Action Against AFRICOM Kick-off webinar to engage participants in AFRICOM's history, its recent encroachments on African sovereignty, and BAP's US Out of Africa: Shut Down AFRICOM campaign demands. This webinar will provide grounding and a call to action for BAP members and all other attendees to participate in the 2026 MOA.
The purpose of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) is to use U.S. military power to serve the needs and interests of the U.S. & Western capital class. By enabling multinational corporations to exploit the continent for resources, labor, and land, and by perpetuating the conditions for endless war, AFRICOM seeks to deny the development of African sovereignty. It works in tandem with other agents and instruments of neo-colonialism (such as NATO, the IMF, ECOWAS, the comprador class, etc.) to further escalate the war of imperialism against the African continent and against African people everywhere.
Join us on Saturday, October 3rd, exactly 18 years since the official establishment of AFRICOM, to kick off our sixth annual International Month of Action to #ShutDownAFRICOM with an international webinar featuring voices from the African continent and diaspora. 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 the continued positioning of the continent as a wellspring of resources to be exploited, from the African slave trade, to the Berlin Conference, to the pillaging of the Congo today. 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 increase their presence in the Sahel region.
But as we know, Africans will continue to fight back. Whether it is the masses in Kenya developing a Pan-Africanism Summit Against Imperialism to counter the 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.” This Month of Action Against AFRICOM, join our kickoff webinar to hear about these continuing struggles, the role AFRICOM plays in them, and how we, the masses, can continue to fight U.S. imperialism.
Date: October 3, 2026
Time: 10 am PT | 1 pm ET | 6 pm WAT | 8 pm EAT