No Peace in Gaza, No Peace in the Congo, No Peace in Our Streets: The War is Here
In the midst of a cynical spectacle aimed at rehabilitating Israel’s fascist regime, we must be clear: there will be no peace in Palestine without an end to the zionist occupation. The logic of colonial domination remains unbroken. The U.S., working through its gangster enabler state, is using this moment to re-establish its regional hegemony. It will never support an authentic Palestinian state without being forced by the overwhelming coercive power of the Palestinian masses and their global allies.
From the genocide in Gaza to the ongoing attacks on Iran and Venezuela to the false peace and extraction-fueled destabilization in Sudan and the Congo, war is empire’s chosen instrument in a desperate attempt to maintain global white supremacist, capitalist imperialism.
In this context, the Black Alliance for Peace has launched our 5th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM for the month of October. The same system bombing Gaza is propping up comprador regimes in Africa through AFRICOM and militarizing police in our communities. Under the theme “21st Century Neocolonialism: Capitalism, Compradors, and the Ongoing Scramble for Africa,” we challenge this entire interlocked system, by raising the public’s awareness and strengthening the foundations for collective resistance against the militarized infrastructure of the U.S.-led imperialism.
This month of action remains critical because the violence carried out by the U.S. abroad and domestically are linked. To carry out these aggressive plans globally, the empire must first intimidate its opposition internally. This is why the federal state under Trump is moving into cities with Black political leadership and sizable African and Latino populations. The deployment of National Guard troops and ICE raids in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., is a deliberate strategy of subjugation.
We must remind ourselves that we are at war. The Trump administration, operating from the foundation of repression in tandem with fascistic neoliberal Democratic Party, has stripped away all illusions. Returning the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War was a message to Chicago and to the world, a stark reminder of the true nature of the U.S. settler project. The clarity of the militarist violence of U.S.-led imperialism will not force us into submission, it must guide us to deeper and more principled unity in our shared struggle. The Black Alliance for Peace has long understood that passivity, avoidance, and comfortable illusions around reform have never been options. It is our responsibility to accelerate the development of independent radical popular movements.
From Gaza to Chicago to the Congo, we must mount a unified defense. To shut down AFRICOM, resist the war at home, and build a world free from imperialist control, we need you.
Your support makes our struggle possible.
The BAP Miami cluster, in communication with BAP South regional coordinators, planned an outreach for the October 12, 2025 Miami Carnival/J’ouvert 2025 weekend at Miami-Dade County Fairgrounds as a site of political and Caribbean cultural resistance. On the ground, we were able to connect with a few Carnival attendees, especially folks repping Haiti with their flags. We handed out zines and had good conversations around challenges to CARICOM unity.
On August 14th BAP member organization Pan-African Community Action (PACA) led the mobilization of a rally in the heart of downtown Washington DC at Franklin Square Park as a revolutionary response to the federal occupation of D.C. by National Guard and FBI agents. The rally turned out over 200 people and 15 local organizations. The rally was to assert the position that the military mobilization into DC is in fact an escalation of the war on settler-colonized people, versus a war on crime.
On August 15, 2025, members of BAP NYC/NJ attended the Korean National Liberation Day Rally hosted by BAP Solidarity Network member organization Nodutdol. The rally commemorated Korea’s liberation from Japan in 1945, while simultaneously calling for the end of U.S. military occupation of Korea in 2025. BAP NYC/NJ participated in two key ways: First, member Josh delivered a speech, making connections between the US out of Korea Campaign and all three of BAP’s campaigns. Second, marching from Herald Square to Madison Square Park, members carried banners with messaging about shutting down AFRICOM and Africans in the Americas being a part of a global anti-colonial struggle.
On August 31, BAP-DC co-hosted Curbfest for Political Prisoners: DC, alongside co-planners of All-African People’s Revolutionary Party DMV, Books and Bouquets, Coalition to Free the Vaughn 17, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement D.C., PACA and several other community contributors.The commemoration drew over 150 neighbors in the Southeast DC area and over a dozen organizations in providing free offerings of food, books, letter writing, politicized performances, capoeira classes, and acupuncture clinics, including contributions of materials from leftwingbooks. Additional photos here and here [credits: Brandon Forester and Elise Ferrer]
On August 22, 2025, in collaboration with How Our Lives Link All Together (H.O.L.L.A), Harlem Palestine Peace Walk for Justice and Liberation (HPPWJL), and AAPRP-NYC, BAP NYC/NJ participated in a local march through Harlem in observation of Black August. Organizers marched through Harlem chanting for the release of political prisoners, Hands off Haiti, and for a Free Palestine. The march concluded in Marcus Garvey Park where a member of the NYC/NJ gave a speech outlining the War against Africans/ Black people in NYC and the ongoing counterinsurgency tactics the US government conducts domestically and internationally.
On Sunday, September 28th, PACA led The People’s March for Community Safety and Power, through the heart of Washington DC’s Ward 8, a still predominantly Black working class community of Southeast Washington DC. The march was a step in the struggle to get organized, with speeches, educational literature distributed to the people, and preceded by days of rigorous community outreach. Additional photos here [credits: Elise Ferrer]
PACA’s October 8th Assata Shakur Study Group (ASSG) session was devoted to this year’s Month of Action Against AFRICOM and analyzed critical connections between AFRICOM and the federal military occupation of Washington DC, entitled “U.S. Military Aggression From DC's Occupation to AFRICOM in Africa”. The second ASSG of this month on October 22nd, entitled “Global Impacts of U.S. Militarism in Africa & Building Resistance in D.C.”, is in collaboration with BAP-DC and the A-APRP.
BAP joined the new media collective, Sovereign Media, an anti-imperialist coalition bringing together voices from the Global South and the Global North who refuse to bow to censorship or empire. Members work together with the goal to tell the stories the mainstream buries and to give a platform to the struggles of the oppressed. Sovereign Media is not just a media project. It is a grassroots effort born from progressive movements, fighting for truth, dignity, and sovereignty.
Director of BAP’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, Ajamu Baraka joined RT News to discuss the Israel-Palestine Peace Deal.
BAP Comrade Too Black interviewed Comrades Erica Caines and Oliver Robinson of PACA on his Black Liberation Media show, Black Myths Podcast and held an incredible discussion around the myth surrounding the federal military mobilizations across the U.S. and the role of the Black misleadership class.
WPFW’s Voices WIth Vision, co-hosted/produced by Brother Craig and by BAP Coordinating Committee member Netfa Freeman, did a deep dive interview with Ajamu Baraka about the broader and less addressed international dimensions of the “peace” deal around the genocide in Gaza. The Ajamu made crystal clear the material and global interests for the genocide and why an imperialist brokered “deal” could never accomplish more for the Palestinians than this has.
October 18, 2025 | We are at war. We have been at war. Intentionally framing the continued murder, genocide, and escalating violence against Africans and all oppressed people, locally and globally, as a terrain of war clarifies the context and increases the understanding of how we engage in battle. Join BAP-Baltimore, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), as we connect the dots of our shared struggle within this war, and unite against a common enemy to fight back as collective resistance. Rooted in the Black Radical Peace Tradition, we will resist until there is peace. Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Location: Payne Memorial A.M.E Church 1714 Madison Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217 | Eastern
October 22, 2025 | Pan-African Community Action (PACA)’s next Assata Shakur Study Group session “Global Impacts of U.S. Militarism in Africa & Building Resistance in D.C.” is a collaboration with BAP-DC and the A-APRP, to deepen the understanding of how AFRICOM represents a last stage in the neo-colonization of African people everywhere. Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET. | Location: In-person at Black Workers & Wellness Center, 2500 Martin Luther King, Jr., Ave., SE, Washington, D.C. Get more info and register here.
October 25, 2025 | Join Pan-African Campus/Community Organization (PACCO), BAP Midwest, and Friends of the Congo, for Path to Liberation: Healing through Change, a teach-in on the environmental crisis happening in Congo and how it is fueling the global technology industry. The event will be held both in-person and virtually on Zoom. For in-person attendance, we will be at the Hilltop Library in Columbus, Ohio. Time: 3:30-5:30 | Registration Link
Banner photo: Participants in a protest against Israeli land theft in February, 2012 carry flag demanding release of Marwan Barghouti. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.