Building People Power Against Repression

While the outcome of this November’s historic U.S. midterm elections appears to have dealt a blow to the neofascist agenda of the Trump administration and its allies, the U.S. government’s objective in, its own words, remains full-spectrum domination. This includes the criminalization of dissent. The legal and policy architecture of this repression is codified through instruments like NSPM-7, which directs federal agencies to coordinate investigations under the banner of countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence. It draws on investigative and prosecutorial powers that successive Democratic and Republican administrations have built. 

Despite these electoral shifts, our task of building mass consciousness and developing independent organization based in popular power remains the same. Resistance against this repression and toward advancing the struggle for our People(s)-Centered Human Rights and collective liberation are not just strategic imperatives in the fight for human dignity and well-being, collective self-determination, and planetary survival. In part, this means building our own self-determined and alternative structures and relationships in the process of fighting against structures and systems of oppression and exploitation – locally, nationally, and globally. We do so with the firm understanding that no one can liberate another people. People liberate themselves.

As such, we maintain the need for African/Black people to develop an independent radical analysis built from our own socio-historical experience, and to create a unified framework for collective struggle emanating from and defined by us collectively. Such a radical African/Black analysis takes as a starting point the need for an anti-imperialist praxis rooted in grassroots class struggle, aimed at developing class consciousness and eventually revolutionary consciousness among the masses of our people. The urgency of this moment demands a militant and strategic confrontation of imperialism, capitalism, and militarism that must be based on deeper organization, not spontaneous or sporadic action. Organizationally and politically, this requires unity and coordination in our movement in order to shore up the foundation of our base from which to strike against imperialism, support our communities and organizations, and build with the masses of our people.

No Compromise No Retreat!

 
 

BAP Chicago and Guerilla Workers Party (GWP) Chicago gathered outside the 2026 Global Quantum Forum in downtown Chicago to bring attention to the Quantum Shore mega development being built in South Chicago and the connections to domestic and international oppression.

 

BAP Coordinating Committee Chair Jacqueline Luqman spoke in support of Cuba Solidarity as part of the No War On Cuba Coalition. Jaqueline reminds us to commit to supporting the Cuban revolution in their struggle for sovereignty against the US imperialist blockade.

 

BAP South – Miami hosted a Black August and Resistance Haiti Teach-In & Fundraiser at St. John Lutheran Church in Miami Shores, Florida on August 22nd, bringing together community members and organizers to learn about Haiti’s historic labor struggles, the ongoing impacts of U.S. imperialism, displacement, and workers organizing to connect struggles in Haiti with Haitian migrant communities in South Florida. They raised $300 for local organizing efforts in Haiti.

 

BAP member Ndindi organized and facilitated “The Olympics vs. The People” at the 4th Annual Left Coast Forum. BAP SoCal member Everett spoke alongside organizers from NOlympics LA, HILL Network, and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. BAPSoCal  Joan was a panelist on the Constellation Panel, the keynote of the 2nd Annual Black Autonomy Book Fair, alongside the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, Black Autonomy LA, Community Movement Builders, Cotton Root Collective and The Love We Don’t See.

 

BAP NYC/NJ is going 10 months strong outside MDC Brooklyn! On the kick off of the month of Action Against Africa Command (AFRICOM), BAP NYC/NJ comrade spoke on how the US military equipment transfers carry out the US policy of Full Spectrum Dominance across the globe.

 

BAP South - Miami attended the Week of Action to Protect Black Migrants! In solidarity with Haitian and other Black migrants. BAP South - Miami joined a candlelight vigil organized by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) outside a GEO Group detention facility in South Florida.

 

In solidarity with the Cuban people, BAP South - Miami joined the Miami Coalition to End the U.S. Blockade of Cuba for an international day of action on October 28, coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly vote on the U.S. blockade during the Global Week of Action against U.S. genocide in Cuba. The demonstration amplified the global demand to end Washington’s decades-long economic warfare against Cuba, as the overwhelming majority of countries once again voted to condemn the blockade.

 

BAP Mid-Atlantic in the streets for the March for Palestine on October 10, 2026, in Washington, D.C.

 

BAP Philadelphia spoke at the launch rally for the No Data Centers in Philly coalition in front of the Philadelphia City Council in September. BAP is part of the coalition demanding a moratorium on hyperscale data centers and defense of the People(s)-Centered Human Rights of working class Black Philadelphians.

 

BAP Atlanta, Community Movement Builders, and the All African People's Revolutionary Party held a community "flock walk" to raise awareness and educate people about the surveillance cameras being installed in the community.

 

Steph Holguin from BAP Atlanta, participated in a film screening and panel discussion along with the U.S. Hands off Cuba ATL Coalition, DSA, Resistance Cinema, and the No War on Venezuela ATL Coalition. The panelists discussed recent delegations to Cuba to share their experiences. They amplified the call to end the 67-year sanctions the U.S. has imposed on the island. Rallying the call from the US/NATO Out of Our Americas Network for the Americas as a Zone of Peace. 

BAP SoCal hosted “What Is AFRICOM? U.S. Out of Africa: A #ShutDownAFRICOM Teach-In” on Saturday, October 17, as part of the International Month of Action Against AFRICOM. The goal of the teach-in was to build a shared understanding of U.S. Africa Command and what it does on the continen

On November 1, the Venceremos Brigade, National Network on Cuba, and Hood Communist hosted a report back from the African participants of this year's Centenary of Fidel Brigade. BAP member and VB Brigadista, Imani Lawrence, participated in the panel, discussing the blockade and the Cuba solidarity movement.

In solidarity with the Cuban people, BAP South - Miami joined the Miami Coalition to End the U.S. Blockade of Cuba for an international day of action on October 28, coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly vote on the U.S. blockade during the Global Week of Action against U.S. genocide in Cuba. The demonstration amplified the global demand to end Washington’s decades-long economic warfare against Cuba, as the overwhelming majority of countries once again voted to condemn the blockade.

 
 

Garland Nixon interviewed BAP Africa Team Co-coordinator, Margaret Kimberley, on the Moatstv YouTube channel, discussing the belief that the U.S. is in decline even as it consolidates its aggression around the world. Margaret also interviewed Mwasi - Collectif Afroféministe member Annick Metefia on the youth protests in France on Black Agenda Radio.

On an episode of Black Agenda Radio, Executive Director of the Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights and BAP Coordinating Committee member Jaribu HIll joins Margaret Kimberley to discuss the upcoming Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC), Dec 10-13 in Jackson, MS.

On the episode of Black Myths, “Voting Out Fascism,” organizer Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson joins BAP Midwest Co-coordinator and show host, Too Black, for a deep dive into the recent midterm election results. Together, they unpack how tactical shifts within the U.S. political system fail to address the core realities of U.S. imperialism—from foreign policy interventions in Iran and Venezuela to global economic subsidies.

BAP Coordinating Committee Member and Director of the North/South Project for PCHRs, Ajamu Baraka, writes a response to Nov. 3 midterm results, arguing that Democratic victories are a setback for Trump and the Republican Party, but not a defeat of the forces driving fascism.

BAP National Co-Coordinators Erica Caines and Austin Cole presented the first in an ongoing political education series by the National Black Radical Organizing Conference: “NBROC Presents: Anti-imperialist praxis in a time of expanding neo-fascism,” hosted by Too Black. BAP’s NCCs also shared this written reflection on the conversation: “The Urgency of Unified Struggle.”

BAP Member and Black Agenda Report Contributing Editor Dr. Jemima Pierre writes on the expansion of the imperialist and mercenary occupation of Haiti through El Salvador’s right wing, Christian Zionist President Nayib Bukele’s sending thousands of troops to invade the nation. Dr. Pierre was also interviewed on the subject by Jamarl Thomas.

BAP Haiti/Americas Team member Joshua Reaves Charmelus writes on attending the “International Peace Forum” in Spain, demands for an end to U.S. intervention in the Caribbean and Latin America, and the connections to the campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas.

BAP National Co-Coordinator Austin Cole shares reflections on the legacies of abolitionist internationalism and anti-imperialist resistance on the 55th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion.

BAP Coordinating Committee member and Africa Team Co-Coordinator Netfa Freeman argues that African people in the U.S. must consolidate their myriad organizations into a united front.