This October, the focus of the Assata Shakur Study Group is our contribution to the International Month of Action Against AFRICOM. For seventeen years, AFRICOM (the U.S. Africa Command) has operated as a key instrument of U.S. imperialism—extending the power of a settler-colonial state whose reach spans from occupied land here to the African continent.
This session will unpack the global and local dimensions of empire, connecting U.S. military operations abroad with the systems of policing, displacement, and economic exploitation that target Black working-class communities at home. Together, we’ll challenge myths that obscure how neocolonialism functions today, examine the role of collaboration and misleadership in sustaining it, and draw lessons from past anti-colonial and civil rights struggles that inform our fight for liberation now.
Join Pan-African Community Action (PACA), the Black Alliance for Peace – DC, and the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (DMV) for the October 22 Assata Shakur Study Group to deepen political clarity and strengthen a Pan-African movement to dismantle AFRICOM and all arms of empire.
THE OCTOBER 8th session of the Assata Shakur Study Group session was our first contribution to the 5th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM. For seventeen years, AFRICOM (the U.S. Africa Command) has served as the military-enforcement arm of the U.S. neocolonial domination of Africa. The interactive session deconstructed relevances between the recent deployment of the U.S. National Guard into Washington D.C. and other major cities across the U.S. and the colonizer interests driving U.S. foreign policy in Africa.
The session made clear how a Pan-Africanist decolonization agenda, from DC to Kinshasa, Congo, is necessary to build real power.