The opening weeks of 2026 have stripped away any remaining illusions about the moment we are living in. Across the globe, and inside the United States, we are witnessing a coordinated escalation of imperialist violence, repression, and social control. The empire is not managing decline quietly. It is lashing out openly, militarizing every contradiction it can no longer contain.
ICE raids, National Guard deployments, Cop Cities, mass surveillance, political prosecutions, and profit-driven detention are not isolated abuses or policy excesses. They are interlocking components of a domestic counterinsurgency strategy emerging from imperialist crisis. What we are confronting is the consolidation of a repressive national security state, one that fuses policing, intelligence, militarization, immigration enforcement, and ideological discipline into a single architecture of control. As U.S. global dominance erodes and consent can no longer be manufactured, the ruling class turns openly to coercion.
The Black Alliance for Peace has named this trajectory for what it is and has organized accordingly. Through our North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, BAP is advancing a framework that rejects the hollow promises of liberal, state-centered “human rights” and instead grounds struggle in self-determination, collective defense, and internationalist solidarity. The Project exists to do more than analyze repression—it exists to help build the transnational political capacity necessary to defeat it, linking struggles in the imperial core to resistance across the Global South.
Repression is the strategy of a system in decline. Organization is the answer of a people determined to survive and win. The question before us is whether we are prepared to meet this moment with the seriousness it demands. Organization is the weapon.
The pages that follow document how BAP members, formations, and partners are doing exactly that: building infrastructure, sharpening political education, mobilizing communities, and organizing power toward a future beyond empire.
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On February 6, Micah from BAP Midwest, in collaboration with Derek Ford and Dani Abdullah from PSL Indianapolis, hosted a screening of Shaka Shakur's new film, "Across Enemy Lines," at the Muncie Liberation Studio in Muncie, IN. This event was created in order to heighten awareness of Shaka Shakur in the Muncie local area and raise funds for his freedom campaign.
On Jan 31st, BAP NYC/NJ organized and participated in a mass march in solidarity with Venezuela with other NYC organizations. Some of the organizations were Diaspora Palante Collective NYNJ, Bronx Anti-War Coalition, Workers World, All African People's Revolutionary Party, CODEPINK, and Venezuela Solidarity Network. The march started in Times Sq, briefly stopped in front of the former Exxon Mobil Building on Avenue of the Americas, and concluded at Central Park, in front of the Simon Bolivar statue.
BAP Atlanta participated in an ICE OUT rally during the Week of Action to Defend Venezuela's Sovereignty. BAP Atlanta members came out as a part of the Venezuela Solidarity Coalition, comprising organizations in Atlanta. They challenged the ongoing militaristic aggression by ICE, spoke with members at the rally about how this domestic aggression and imperialist aggression are connected, and discussed the necessity to Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!
On January 19, Wilmington-based BAP members supported a popular education session for MLK Day. Invited by BAP member org, Community Movement Builders Delaware, the monthly session featured readings of Prophet of Discontent and emphasized anti-war and labor organizing efforts through the life of Martin Luther King Jr. They discussed the relevance of anti-imperialist formations amid the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro and First Lady Flores, and the fight for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.
Dr. Jemima Pierre, member of the BAP Haiti/Americas Team, joined Millennials are Killing Capitalism for a conversation about US-led Imperialism's latest schemes for the people of Haiti. They discuss tactics Western imperialism has used to undermine the sovereignty of the Haitian people, current threats of war against Haiti, and the repeated UN and US-backed military invasions.
Margaret Kimberley, Africa Team Co-coordinator, joined CGTN America's "The Heat" to discuss Trump's immigration policy as a tool of state repression against the entire country. She also appeared on another CGTN program, The Point with Liu Xin, as a panelist discussing the first anniversary of the Trump administration and the precarity that people in the U.S. are subjected to.
Austin Cole, BAP National Co-Coordinator and member of the Climate, Environment & Militarism Working Group, published the piece, Data Center Boom, Corporate Extraction, and the Obfuscation of the Land Question in the U.S. In it, he writes about the data center boom, resolving the "land question", and how People(s)-Centered Human Rights must be the framework that drives organizing against corporate extraction and Big Tech overreach.
BAP National Co-coordinators, Erica Caines, Austin Cole, and Tunde Osazua, appeared on Marc Lamont Hill’s Night School to talk domestic politics and the ongoing genocide in Palestine, protests in Iran, and ICE terror. They also discussed the Week of Resistance to Disrupt the US War Machine that occurred from January 23-31, 2026.
Following the abduction of Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, Ajamu Baraka, Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, joined the WPFW Special Breaking News Report to discuss this blatant violation of the sovereign nation and what the response from the Venezuelan masses may be. Ajamu also appeared on Spotlight on Press TV to analyze the latest developments in Venezuela, how and why this illegal kidnapping took place, its repercussions, and the potentially perilous precedent it sets for the future.
February 13: Join the US Peace Council for this urgent discussion featuring Ajamu Baraka (USPC Secretariat) and Nina Farnia (Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective). This webinar will examine sanctions, hybrid warfare, Zionist expansion, and the role of propaganda and information warfare in manufacturing consent for imperialist intervention.
Register for Zoom Webinar | Time: 1:00 pm ET
February 28: For Black History Month, BAP Atlanta will host a political education event titled "The History of Black Atlanta: Myth vs. Reality." We will explore the true reality of Atlanta and debunk historical myths together. We will gather and engage in community discussions, presentations, and more that explore our shared history, resistance, and strategies for building a liberated future.
Location: Shrine of the Black Madonna - 960 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd., Atlanta, Georgia | Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
