Afrodescendants: Casting off Illusions, Preparing for Struggle

Afrodescendants: Casting off Illusions, Preparing for Struggle

The Afro-Venezuelan Organizations Network (ROA) and the Regional Articulation of Afrodescendants of Latin America and the Caribbean (ARAAC), Afrodescendant organizations born from anti-imperialist social change processes and anti-neocolonial struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century, carry the dignity and sovereignty that our African Ancestors entrusted to us as a living imprint of the self-determination of peoples.

Latin America and the Caribbean have suffered, throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, invasions, territorial dispossession, and targeted assassinations of Latin American and Afrodescendant leaders. The historical record confirms this across nearly all the countries of Our America (Abya Yala), from the seizure of Puerto Rico, Panama, and several Caribbean islands, to the tragic invasions of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Grenada, among many others.

The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, attempted through multiple avenues to invade Venezuela. He relied on internal civilian and military enemies through Operation Gedeón, as well as mercenaries neutralized by the heroic Afrodescendant community of Chuao (Aragua State). With military and paramilitary support from Colombian-Venezuelan sectors and the backing of former presidents Duque and Uribe, he attempted to provoke an invasion. Trump sought to undermine the legitimacy of our government by imposing an illegitimate president, a puppet named Juan Guaidó. He attempted to delegitimize Venezuela internationally by creating in 2017 a group of countries led by delinquent presidents, known as the Lima Group (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru). They appointed parallel ambassadors, imposed more than a thousand coercive measures that remain in effect nearly a decade later, and even stole our embassies, including the one in Washington, D.C.

In the face of these covert, open, and shameless aggressions, our sovereign people have responded with dignity, just as our cimarrón ancestors did during the colonial period, the war of independence, and the contemporary struggles that followed. The majority of the Venezuelan population lives along the Caribbean coast, from Zulia State to our border with Trinidad and Tobago, whose president Kamla Persad-Bissessar openly defends pro-imperialist positions.

THE INVASION ATTEMPT BY MR. TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES

The resident of the White House, Mr. Trump, has launched a second campaign aimed at invading our country, obsessed with seizing our oil reserves, the largest in the world, along with our gas, gold, and rare earth minerals. His motivation stems from the imminent depletion of U.S. reserves within five years and the decline of rare earth minerals necessary to sustain emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.

The deployment of United States military forces only a few kilometers from our coastline, the killing of eighty fishermen under the pretext of drug trafficking, the violation of our airspace with threats against commercial flights, the illegal sale of the oil company CITGO, and more than 1,100 coercive measures reveal a multifaceted attack. This aggression could lead to the outbreak of a third world war, with the Caribbean and Latin America as its stage. At the center of this racist and white supremacist hatred stands Secretary of State Marco Rubio, an ultraright Cuban-American figure who has made it his mission to destroy the region’s progressive governments and act as a mercenary for ExxonMobil.

In light of this situation, we call upon the noble people of the United States to halt these aggressions. We also call on sovereign governments in the Caribbean and Latin America to stop the attacks led by Donald Trump and his mafia. We call on Afrodescendant peoples, communities, and social movements to mobilize in solidarity with our people, to denounce the false U.S. narrative of a war on drug trafficking, and to stop the march toward war.

We also call upon our Afro-Venezuelan people to defend our sovereignty and independence, and to uphold our right to self-determination as a nation. We urge our people to prepare for resistance and participate actively in a prolonged popular struggle for the defense of our homeland.

Caracas, December 4, 2025

Leadership of the Afro-Venezuelan Organizations Network

Coordination of the Regional Articulation of Afrodescendants of the Americas and the Caribbean

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AFRODESCENDIENTES: DESECHANDO ILUSIONES, PREPARÁNDOSE PARA LA LUCHA

La Red de Organizaciones Afrovenezolanas (ROA) y la Articulación Regional de Afrodescendientes de América Latina y el Caribe (ARAAC), organizaciones afrodescendientes surgidas de los procesos de cambio social antiimperialista y de las luchas anticoloniales y neocoloniales en los albores del siglo XXI, portan la dignidad y soberanía que nuestros Ancestros Africanos nos encomendaron como impronta viva de la autodeterminación de los pueblos.

América Latina y el Caribe han sufrido, a lo largo de los siglos XIX, XX y XXI, invasiones, despojos territoriales y asesinatos selectivos de líderes latinoamericanos y afrodescendientes. El registro histórico lo confirma en casi todos los países de Nuestra América (Abya Yala), desde el apoderamiento de Puerto Rico, Panamá y varias islas del Caribe, hasta las trágicas invasiones a Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, República Dominicana y Granada, entre muchas otras.

El actual presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, intentó por múltiples vías invadir Venezuela. Se valió de enemigos internos civiles y militares a través de la Operación Gedeón, así como de mercenarios neutralizados por la heroica comunidad afrodescendiente de Chuao (Estado Aragua). Con apoyo militar y paramilitar de sectores colombo-venezolanos y el respaldo de los ex presidentes Duque y Uribe, intentó propiciar una invasión. Trump buscó socavar la legitimidad de nuestro gobierno imponiendo un presidente ilegítimo, un títere llamado Juan Guaidó. Pretendió deslegitimar a Venezuela en el ámbito internacional creando en 2017 un grupo de países dirigido por presidentes delincuentes, conocido como el Grupo de Lima (Argentina, Brasil, Canadá, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Paraguay, Perú). Designaron embajadores paralelos, impusieron más de mil medidas coercitivas que aún se mantienen casi una década después, e incluso robaron nuestras embajadas, incluida la de Washington D.C.

Frente a estas agresiones solapadas, abiertas y descaradas, nuestro pueblo soberano ha respondido con dignidad, al igual que lo hicieron nuestros ancestros cimarrones durante la época colonial, la guerra de independencia y las luchas contemporáneas posteriores. La mayoría de la población venezolana vive a lo largo de la costa caribeña, desde el estado Zulia hasta nuestra frontera con Trinidad y Tobago, cuyo presidente Kamla Persad-Bissessar defiende abiertamente posturas proimperialistas.

EL INTENTO DE INVASIÓN DEL SEÑOR TRUMP Y SUS ALIADOS

El residente de la Casa Blanca, el señor Trump, ha lanzado una segunda campaña dirigida a invadir nuestro país, obsesionado con apoderarse de nuestras reservas petroleras, las más grandes del mundo, junto con nuestro gas, oro y minerales de tierras raras. Su motivación proviene del inminente agotamiento de las reservas estadounidenses en cinco años y la disminución de los minerales de tierras raras necesarios para sostener las tecnologías emergentes, incluida la inteligencia artificial.

El despliegue de fuerzas militares de Estados Unidos a solo unos kilómetros de nuestra costa, el asesinato de ochenta pescadores bajo el pretexto del narcotráfico, la violación de nuestro espacio aéreo con amenazas contra vuelos comerciales, la venta ilegal de la petrolera CITGO y más de 1.100 medidas coercitivas revelan un ataque multifacético. Esta agresión podría desencadenar una tercera guerra mundial, teniendo al Caribe y a América Latina como escenario. En el centro de este odio racista y supremacista blanco se encuentra el Secretario de Estado Marco Rubio, una figura ultraderechista cubano-estadounidense que ha hecho de su misión destruir los gobiernos progresistas de la región y actuar como mercenario de ExxonMobil.

Ante esta situación, hacemos un llamado al noble pueblo de los Estados Unidos para que detenga estas agresiones. También llamamos a los gobiernos soberanos del Caribe y América Latina a que paren los ataques liderados por Donald Trump y su mafia. Convocamos a los pueblos, comunidades y movimientos sociales afrodescendientes a movilizarse en solidaridad con nuestro pueblo, a denunciar la falsa narrativa estadounidense de una guerra contra el narcotráfico y a detener la marcha hacia la guerra.

Asimismo, hacemos un llamado a nuestro pueblo afrovenezolano a defender nuestra soberanía e independencia, y a sostener nuestro derecho a la autodeterminación como nación. Exhortamos a nuestro pueblo a prepararse para la resistencia y a participar activamente en una prolongada lucha popular por la defensa de nuestra patria.

Caracas, 4 de diciembre de 2025

Dirección de la Red de Organizaciones Afrovenezolanas, Coordinación de la Articulación Regional de Afrodescendientes de las Américas y el Caribe

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AFRODESCENDANTS: ROMPRE AVEC LES ILLUSIONS, SE PRÉPARER AUX LUTTES

La Réseau des Organisations Afro-Vénézuéliennes (ROA) et l’Articulation Régionale des Afrodescendants d’Amérique Latine et de la Caraïbe (ARAAC), organisations afrodescendantes nées des processus de changement social anti-impérialistes et des luttes antinéocoloniales à l’aube du XXIᵉ siècle, portent la dignité et la souveraineté que nous ont léguées nos Ancêtres africains comme empreinte vivante de l’autodétermination des peuples.

L’Amérique latine et la Caraïbe, au XIXᵉ, XXᵉ et XXIᵉ siècle, ont subi invasions, spoliations territoriales et assassinats sélectifs de dirigeants latino-américains et afrodescendants, comme en témoignent presque tous les pays de Notre Amérique (Abya Yala) : du dépouillement de Porto Rico, du Panama et de plusieurs îles de la Caraïbe, jusqu’aux invasions meurtrières au Nicaragua, au Salvador, au Honduras, en République dominicaine, à la Grenade, parmi tant d’autres.

L’actuel président des États-Unis, Donald Trump, a tenté par plusieurs voies d’envahir le Venezuela, utilisant des ennemis civils et militaires internes à travers l’Opération Gedeón, ainsi que des mercenaires neutralisés par le glorieux peuple afrodescendant de Chuao (état d’Aragua). Il a aussi encouragé, avec l’appui militaire et paramilitaire de secteurs colombo-vénézuéliens, une tentative d’invasion soutenue par les ex-présidents Duque et Uribe. Trump a voulu nier la légitimité de notre gouvernement en imposant un président illégitime, un pantin nommé Juan Guaidó. Il a essayé de délégitimer notre pays au niveau international en créant en 2017 un groupe de pays dirigé par des présidents délinquants connu sous le nom de Groupe de Lima (Argentine, Brésil, Canada, Chili, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombie, Paraguay, Pérou). Ils ont désigné de faux ambassadeurs, imposé plus de mille mesures coercitives encore en vigueur depuis près d’une décennie, et nous ont volé nos ambassades dont celle de Washington D.C.

Face à toutes ces agressions dissimulées, ouvertes ou insolentes, notre peuple souverain a su répondre avec dignité, comme l’avaient fait nos ancêtres cimarrones et cimarronas depuis l’époque coloniale jusqu’à la guerre d’indépendance et les luttes contemporaines. La majorité du peuple vénézuélien vit sur la côte caraïbe, depuis l’état du Zulia jusqu’à notre frontière avec Trinité et Tobago avec sa présidente pro-impérialiste Kamla Persad Bissessar.

L’INVASION DE MONSIEUR TRUMP ET SES ALLIÉS

L’habitant de la Maison-Blanche, Monsieur Trump, a lancé une deuxième campagne visant à envahir notre pays, obsédé par l’idée de s’emparer de nos réserves pétrolières, les plus grandes du monde, ainsi que de notre gaz, notre or et nos terres rares. Il craint l’épuisement imminent de ses propres réserves dans cinq ans, et également le manque de minerais stratégiques nécessaires au développement des nouvelles technologies comme l’intelligence artificielle.

Le déploiement militaire des États-Unis à quelques kilomètres de nos côtes, l’assassinat de quatre-vingts pêcheurs sous prétexte de trafic de drogue, la violation de notre espace aérien accompagnée de menaces contre les vols commerciaux, la vente illégale de l’entreprise pétrolière CITGO, ainsi que plus de mille cent mesures coercitives, révèlent une attaque plurielle qui pourrait ouvrir la voie à une troisième guerre mondiale ayant pour théâtre la Caraïbe et l’Amérique latine. Le pion de la haine raciste et suprémaciste blanche est son secrétaire d’État, Marco Rubio, un ultradroitiste cubano-américain reconnu, qui s’est donné pour mission de détruire les gouvernements progressistes de la région et de servir les intérêts de ExxonMobil en véritable mercenaire.

Face à cette situation, nous appelons le peuple nord-américain, dans sa noblesse et sa conscience, à mettre fin à ces agressions. Nous appelons également les gouvernements souverains de la Caraïbe et de l’Amérique latine à freiner les attaques menées par Donald Trump et sa mafia. Nous appelons les peuples, les communautés et les mouvements sociaux afrodescendants à se mobiliser en solidarité avec notre peuple, à dénoncer le mensonge de la prétendue lutte contre le narcotrafic invoquée par les États-Unis et à stopper l’escalade vers la guerre.

Nous lançons aussi un appel à notre peuple afro-vénézuélien pour défendre notre souveraineté, notre indépendance et le respect de notre autodétermination en tant que nation. Préparons-nous à la résistance et à participer activement à une lutte populaire prolongée pour la défense de notre patrie.

Fait à Caracas, le 4 décembre 2025

Direction du Réseau des Organisations Afro-Vénézuéliennes

Coordination de l’Articulation Régionale des Afrodescendants des Amériques et de la Caraïbe

Free the Hunger Strikers in British Prisons and All Political Prisoners!

Free the Hunger Strikers in British Prisons and All Political Prisoners!

The Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network stands in absolute solidarity with the ongoing collective hunger strike in British prisons by Prisoners for Palestine. Of the 33 prisoners in Britain held without bail under the "Terrorism" Act for their direct actions against the Zionist genocide in Palestine, six are currently on hunger strike, and dozens more have threatened to join. The hunger strikers are fighting for the following demands: 

• an end to all censorship of their mail and communications; 

• immediate and unconditional release on bail; the right to a fair trial, including the disclosure of all communications between Elbit Systems, Israel, and the British state; 

• de-proscription of Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organization; 

• and the permanent closure of all Elbit facilities and subsidiaries in the country. 

In honoring the life and recent transition of Imam Jamil Al-Amin, we reemphasize the centrality of solidarity with our political prisoners, deepening our commitment to their support and freedom, by any means necessary.

Behind the walls of colonial dungeons from South Africa to Ireland, India, the United States, and within Occupied Palestine itself, hunger strikes have been used as a tactic of resistance to captivity when all other means are exhausted. We see this historic strike within the long arc of struggle against prisons mechanized as instruments of imperialist warfare and genocide, and in this case, against the West's weaponization of "terrorism" designations and statutes as a means to repress liberation struggles, both internationally and domestically. The collective West is intertwined in the ongoing collusion to enforce its hegemony in alignment with its zionist settler colonial project. At the heart of this enforcement lies a primary operational arm of western militarism – political imprisonment and mass incarceration – that the state continues to abuse to quell the voices of the masses. 

The imperialist state manufactures falsehoods and all manner of propaganda to justify its designation of who is and is not a "criminal" or "terrorist" at any given moment, proving, yet again, that its notion of “freedom” is reserved only for the oppressor. The illegitimate "terrorist" proscription of Palestine Action in Britain is directly connected to the illegitimate sanctioning by the U.S. and Canada of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. The U.S.'s phony "State Sponsors of Terrorism" list (that is, states currently resisting US-led imperialism, like Cuba, Iran, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is another example of the West's weaponization of "terrorism" rhetoric and sentencing enhancements against individuals, organizations, and states opposing the U.S.-led international system. Most recently, the U.S. has intensified its use of the "terrorism" label to re-occupy Haiti and wage war on Venezuela. These tactics constitute a repressive regime imposing the ongoing genocide in Palestine and the brutal suppression of resistance in Haiti, Congo, and Sudan. Let us not forget that the prisoners on strike were initially incarcerated for taking international law into their own hands and attempting to disarm the genocide, a responsibility for which the collective West has shown nothing but contempt.

The collective organization and resistance of British prisoners has inspired messages and actions of solidarity from across the world, including the Pendleton 2, the freed Lebanese prisoner Georges Abdallah, and current defendant Jakhi McCray. Notably, during the first hunger strike earlier this year by Teuta Hoxha, she was joined by Casey Goonan, the only political prisoner of the "student intifada" in the U.S., and Malik Muhammad, a Black-Palestinian political prisoner of the 2020 George Floyd Rebellion who has been in solitary confinement for nearly two years. 

Outside of the prison walls, repression continues to breed resistance in alignment with the hunger strikers' demands. Lift the Ban, a campaign organized under Defend Our Juries, gathered thousands of people in key U.K. cities from November 18 to 29 to escalate the demand to de-proscribe Palestine Action as a "terrorist" organization and end the U.K.'s complicity in Israel's genocide, intentionally applying pressure ahead of the organization's upcoming judicial review. At this point, over 2,350 have been arrested on "terrorism" charges for holding signs in support of Palestine Action and opposition to genocide. Lift the Ban states in its briefing document, "... the Government has overreached itself. Our groups and movements are coming together like never before, finding unity under repression. By refusing to give into fear and by standing together, we will face down this assault on us all .... the authoritarian powers are cracking, the police are struggling to enforce this absurd law, with some police forces outright refusing to make arrests."

The strike's far-reaching effects demonstrate the urgency and inevitability of internationalizing the struggle to free our political prisoners and prisoners of war, and to ground our strategy in an anti-imperialist analysis of the international war on Africans, all colonized people, and the working class.

Meet the hunger strikers' demands!

De-proscribe Palestine Action!

Free all political prisoners and prisoners of war!

Imare: Prisoners for Palestine

Don’t Believe The Simulated Coup d’État in Guinea-Bissau

Don’t Believe The Simulated Coup d’État in Guinea-Bissau

BAP’s U.S. Out of African Network & Africa Team co-sign the positions of our comrade, member organizations A-APRP & PAIGC

It is important that African (Black) people around the world not fall for the latest amateurish attempt by the neo-colonialist puppet government in Guinea-Bissau, led by President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, to subvert the democratic will of the Bissau-Guinean people. Before completing the country’s November 23rd election process, military leaders loyal to Embaló suspended it and seized “total control” of the country, claiming to have done so to prevent election manipulation.

The Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) unite with the assessments and positions of our member organization, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), and the African Party of Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC) that holds representation on the USOAN Steering Committee:

“Upon completion of voting, official reports to the Regional Electoral Commissions (CRE) from the 10 Regions indicate that Fernando Dias da Costa won the election with a confirmed vote tally of 54%, while Embaló Sissoco, the illegitimate president seeking re-election, garnered 44% of the vote.”

This declaration was backed up by both domestic and international observers who reportedly agreed that Embaló was voted out of the presidency and that the National Electoral Commission (CNE) was about to publish the results that opposition candidate Fernando Dias won.

Embaló then claimed that he was arrested by the military, yet was still able to make the declaration in interviews with media outlets RFI, France 24 and Jeune Afrique. Meanwhile, the armed forces installed as the new head of state one of Sissoco Embaló’s own appointees, Major General Horta Inta-A. Embaló was able to leave for Dakar, Senegal, and then on to Congo Brazzaville, while his opponents were held in custody. On November 29th, armed masked men raided the headquarters of the PAIGC.

As far as BAP and USOAN are concerned, the Umaro Sissoco Embaló government was already an illegitimate one, having circumvented the 2023 electoral victory of PAIGC candidate Domingos Simões Pereira. In February of 2024, BAP mobilized a demonstration on the African Union (AU) Representational Mission to the USA in Washington, DC to protest the acquiescence of this crime by the AU and bodies such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations.

BAP is under no illusions that a people(s)-centered democratic process for Guinea-Bissau in particular and Africa in general spells the beginning of the end for Western plunder of the continent. The ex-president of Guinea-Bissau was one of five “Atlantic-facing West African” nations hosted last July by U.S. President Donald Trump’s high-level summit in Washington.  Guinea-Bissau forces have participated in the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) led training programs beginning in 2023 and signed a defense cooperation agreement with Washington that same year, providing a legal framework for training, military assistance, and so-called security collaboration.

It must be perfectly understood that the neo-colonialist repression in Guinea-Bissau emanates from the same general policy as the U.S. war on Venezuela, the zionist genocide against Palestine, or the militarized domestic repression of African and non-white communities within the bowels of the U.S settler colonialist state.

The Trump administration's closure of Venezuela’s airspace is essentially a “no-fly zone," a standard imperialist precursor to an outright military attack on a country. BAP and the USOAN understand that the masses must not simply be spectators of these acts. From the streets of all the major cities in the U.S. to Palestine, throughout Latin America/Caribbean, war is being waged on us! It is in the interest of imperialism to dismantle Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolutionary project, just as it is in its interest to prevent a PAIGC-led revolutionary process in Guinea-Bissau. 

We demand:

1. The immediate release of Domingos Simões Pereira and all citizens who have been illegally detained;

2. The cessation of military hostility and harm to the people. HARM NO ONE!

3. That all military troops return to the barracks and cede civilian control;

4. That the electoral process be allowed to go forward with the official proclamation of the vote count and announcement of the winners of the presidential elections of 23 November 2025.

No compromise! No retreat!

BAP Africa Team & U.S. Out of Africa Network

BAP SOURCES:

• Urgent Message: Military Attempting To Stop Electoral Process In Guinea-Bissau, November 27, 2025

• Open Peoples National Assembly (ANP) in Guinea-Bissau, Monday, February 26, 2024

• Attack on Democracy in Guinea-Bissau, The House of African Independence (webinar video),  January 4, 2024

• AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #22, February 25, 2021

NEWS STORIES:

Guinea-Bissau: Manufactured coup or real military takeover? | The Africa Report

Pan-African Progressive Front’s commemoration of 80 years of the historic 5th Pan-African Congress | People’s Dispatch

Guinea-Bissau: A coup staged to protect the neocolonial order? | People’s Dispatch
Claiming to be under arrest, President Embaló has left the country while his opponents remain in custody after a military coup a day ahead of the announcement of the final results

Deposed Guinea-Bissau President Embaló arrives in neighboring Senegal as soldiers name junta leader | Associated Press (AP)

Image: Patrick MEINHARDT / AFP

Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Presente!

Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Presente!

To speak of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) is to speak of a life lived in courageous chapters. As the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), his voice, sharp as a scalpel and uncompromising as truth, cut through the illusions of a nation in denial. He was, as he famously declared, "a revolutionary," and his very existence was a challenge to the violent architecture of white supremacy. His leadership was a clear call that moved from the plea for rights to the demand for power. He did so in a 1965 meeting with President Lyndon Johnson, demanding protection for voting rights workers in Selma, Alabama, while other “leaders” present were just happy to be at the white house.

His legacy, however, extends far beyond the powerful oratory of the 1960s and his written word in his autobiography, Die Nigger Die!. His transformation into Imam Jamil Al-Amin represented a deep, spiritual journey and a continuation of his revolutionary work through the disciplines of faith, community building, and moral clarity. In West Atlanta, he was not just a leader but a pillar, working to create a self-sufficient Black community grounded in Islamic principles and social justice. It was here that the full depth of his political vision matured, most critically in what he termed "the politics of education."

Imam Jamil’s "politics of education" was a radical framework for intellectual and spiritual liberation. He invited a clear, unflinching introspection into the use of U.S. propaganda as a primary weapon to deplete and dismantle the revolutionary fervor of the Black masses. He understood that after the open brutality of fire hoses and police dogs came another insidious assault: a media and cultural narrative designed to confuse, co-opt, and corrupt our understanding of our own condition and our own power. He taught that to truly be free, we must first decolonize our minds, to see through the manufactured reality that justifies our oppression and sows internal division. This message remains a critical, urgent tool in our ongoing struggle in the battle of ideas.

It is precisely this unwavering clarity that made him a permanent target of the state. He was under COINTELPRO surveillance and was listed by name in the 1967 FBI memo which established the plan to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities” of Brown and others in the liberation movement.  His 2002 conviction for the alleged murder of a sheriff's deputy was a vendetta realized, a judicial lynching designed to silence a voice that could not be co-opted. The facts scream of its injustice: the confession of another man; evidence that should have exonerated  him; a gag order to silence his defense; and the unprecedented, punitive measure of holding a state prisoner in a federal supermax prison, exiled from his attorneys, his family, and his community. For over twenty years, he endured the slow violence of medical neglect while incarcerated — a passive death sentence hoping nature would finish what the courts began, a state execution by another name.

His body was caged, but his spirit remained free. Rest in power, Imam Jamil Al-Amin.

Free All Political Prisoners!

Black Alliance for Peace Questions the Relevance and Efficacy of the Conference of Parties (COP) Following its 30th Summit

Black Alliance for Peace Questions the Relevance and Efficacy of the Conference of Parties (COP) Following its 30th Summit 

COP 30 Represents the Latest Failure of Nation States and the United Nations to Effectively Address the Climate Crisis and its Root Causes

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Nov 24, 2025 - The failure of the Conference of Parties’ (COP) 30th annual climate change summit to produce an agreement and requisite interventions to address an accelerating and worsening climate crisis places those most impacted by it - oppressed and colonized people in the Global South - in a cauldron of interlinked calamities, while also raising serious questions about the legitimacy and efficacy of COP summits. 

While it’s unacceptable that a global climate summit could not even agree on language calling for a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels, it’s not surprising given the fact that over 1600 lobbyists and executives representing Big Oil cartels and their interests attended COP 30. On this front, Black Alliance for Peace member and Co-lead of our Climate, Environment, and Militarism Initiative, Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, who was in Brazil for the summit, stated: 

“The legitimacy of COP 30 was put into question from the outset by the very fact that some of the biggest culprits of climate change and the lives it has and will take were allowed to take part and influence the discussions and decisions of the summit. The ubiquitous presence of these lobbyists clearly contaminated the process in the same way their fossil fuel products are contaminating our planet and public health. And while it’s encouraging that we’re leaving Brazil with a Just Transition framework for the first time in the COP’s history, I wonder how this framework can commence if there’s no commitment to phasing out fossil fuels - what are we ‘transitioning’ from exactly…it’s kind of like aiming to play a soccer match without any balls.”  

The fact that COP 30 concluded without agreement on the phase-out of fossil fuels all but guarantees that the 1.5 and 2.0 degree Celsius thresholds set in the Paris Agreement of COP 21 will be breached in the next 20 to 100 years, respectively, if not sooner.   For this reason, equity-focused climate finance is key and must be funded by the wealthiest nations to enable Global South nations to adapt to and mitigate climate change impacts. On this point, the COP 30 agreement again fails to deliver as wealthy nations could only agree on allocating $120 billion per year in a program that won’t even commence until 2035.  

“This tawdry amount of money is a drop in the bucket and shows that Global South nations and the poor are not a priority for the COP or wealthy nations who, in many cases, intentionally underdeveloped and continue to extract from Global South nations,” noted Ajamu Barack, founder of Black Alliance for Peace and current Director of the North South Project for People’s Centered Human Rights who was also on location at COP 30.

Baraka continued, “when you consider the fact that the United States alone has spent more money on wars that increase global emissions than the global community intends to spend on adaptation due to these emissions precipitously warming the planet and exacerbating extreme weather events, it’s clear the $120 billion per year for climate adaptation is unserious. The United States sent the State of Israel more than $16 billion over the last year to fund its genocidal war machine against Palestine, another $20 billion to Argentina, and an estimated $123 billion to Ukraine for a fossil-fueled military adventure in Eastern Europe. This further demonstrates the priorities of Global North nations and why future COP summits must not ignore the issue of militarism and war in the context of climate change.”  

The Black Alliance for Peace is appalled that key goals of African peoples globally, including the demand to form a stand-alone “Afro Descendant constituency” within the UNFCCC, were rejected and jettisoned from consideration in Brazil, a nation with the most African/Black peoples in the Western Hemisphere. Instead, the phrase “people of African descent” appears only once in the entire COP 30 agreement. This, despite the United Nations’ Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner just last year declaring the beginning of the Second International Decade for People of African Descent and renewing calls for “recognition, justice, and development” for Afro Descendant peoples. Clearly, COP 30 ascribes to the same white supremacist ideology that denies the humanity and self-determination of African/Black people and is also a root cause of the climate crisis.  COP 30 can’t be a part of the solutions until it ceases to be part of the problem. 

Given the self-inflicted inadequacies of COP and the United Nations, the Black Alliance for Peace understands the specious agreement that emerged from COP 30 as an exercise in abject futility. As a result, BAP calls on all colonized and oppressed people of the Global South –as well as those residing in Global North nations, who also disproportionately shoulder and absorb the worst impacts of the environmental and climate crisis to undertake determined collective struggle to develop and implement a climate and environmental liberation framework, which that nation states, international bodies like COP and the United Nations, and even certain so-called Civil Society Organizations are not fit or willing enough to engender. 

This is why we produced our “Perspective on Climate, Environment, and Militarism and why we proudly endorsed the declaration produced by the People’s Summit, a global movement of the grassroots who understood that an alternative space to convene and strategize was a requisite intervention given the demonstrated inadequacies of COP 30. BAP salutes the People’s Summit for providing a clear juxtaposition between its people-centered, grassroots-led processes and deliberations versus those of COP 30, which were demonstrably influenced by corporations and the desire to maintain the status quo of global racial capitalism. 

The People’s Summit declaration, which, in part states, “Our worldview is guided by popular internationalism, with exchanges of knowledge and wisdom that build bonds of solidarity, struggle and cooperation among our peoples,” adroitly makes the connections between the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the U.S. military build up off the coast of Venezuela, racial capitalism, militarism, fascism and the climate crisis. It also calls on global movements of the oppressed to come together in the vein of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which once proclaimed,  “The liberation movements of the world should realize the basic international facts which govern this period of history.”

To this end, the Black Alliance for Peace calls on all oppressed and colonized peoples of the Global South to embrace the collective struggle embodied in the People’s Summit declaration, our Perspective for Climate, Environment and Militarism, and our accompanying movement offering. The confluence of our politics in this regard will represent a significant step in a larger campaign to commence a global climate and environmental liberation initiative that can then form a major intervention point at future COP summits, which is the only way the COP process will ever have any chance of containing even a modicum of relevancy and efficacy. 

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) seeks to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist, and pro-peace positions of the radical Black movement. Our emerging Climate, Environment, and Militarism work is connected to both BAP’s core campaign “No Compromise No Retreat: Defeat the War Against African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad” & the North/South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

Banner image: Rear view of several speakers facing a crowd of hundreds at a protest rally at COP 30 People’s Summit, courtesy viacampesina.org.

A Call for Mass Struggle Against U.S.-Led War on Venezuela and the Caribbean

Realizing a Zone of Peace in Our Americas Requires Defending Venezuela’s Popular Sovereignty

Nov 14, 2025 — The U.S. empire, unable to accept the sovereignty, progress, and moral example of the Bolivarian Revolution, is escalating its aggressive attacks against Venezuela. This is by no means an isolated struggle — what started as aggression against Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution has already claimed several dozen lives of working-class people in the Caribbean and Pacific, extended to threats against Colombia and its President, been linked to the militarization of Ecuador and Panama, and re-militarized Puerto Rico. This is yet another front in the struggle against U.S. imperialism, and it is interlocked with our movements for liberation in Haiti, Palestine, throughout Our Americas, across the Global South, and within the borders of the United States.

It is the wider ongoing pattern of regional militarization and imperialist control that fundamentally violates the principles of a Zone of Peace, as the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has systematically transformed the Caribbean into a staging ground for its hegemonic projects. Puerto Rico, a colonial territory, is consistently used as a strategic site for the deployment and launch of military exercises, normalizing its status as a forward operating base, while nations like Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago are treated as subordinate "puppet states" that risk their own sovereignty to facilitate U.S. objectives. Simultaneously, Haiti has been cast as a laboratory for imperial policy, where an accelerated militarization and occupation over the last four years has provided a blueprint for intervention. The racist and cynical designation of Haitian paramilitary armed groups as “terrorists” to be eradicated by US-led occupation has done nothing to relieve impoverished, marginalized Haitians from the violence of these “gangs” — because they are a direct consequence of imperialism. And yet, the excuse and label of “terrorism” has now been directly exported to the case of Venezuela. There, the U.S. Department of War cynically compares Caribbean people in fishing boats to Al-Qaeda, a transparent tactic to manufacture a pretext for full military invasion and attack. 

To oppose this militarization and violence, and expel the nefarious forces of imperialist, colonial violence from our region, we must be steadfast in guaranteeing Our Americas as a Zone of Peace. This guarantee can only be built from the bottom up, through grassroots coordination and popular struggle that elevates/focuses on/highlights anti-imperialist national sovereignty. This is why the Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas launched the U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas (UNOOAN) earlier this year. The UNOOAN is the mass organizational structure of the Zone Of Peace campaign designed to educate the public and strengthen an Americas-wide consciousness among the peoples of the region.

To move towards meeting this moment, BAP has joined with dozens of organizations calling for local actions during the week of November 15 - 23 to Defend Venezuela’s Sovereignty and connect our struggles. This week of action is a crucial beginning, but the gravity of the moment demands a coordinated and powerful response that moves from mobilization to sustained organization. Our movements must pull together our forces to expose the imperial lies that cynically label popular resistance as terrorism, broadening our analysis to expose the interlocked assaults on sovereignty across the region. And we must advance our collective consciousness beyond merely exposing these lies and toward challenging state violence and repression through popular power.

This mobilization must fuel the concrete building of national coalitions against SOUTHCOM and local self-defense networks, learning from the powerful examples of Venezuela's communal militias and projects that embody popular democracy. The steadfastness of the Venezuelan people, who have joined these militias by the millions to defend their homeland, is not just an act of national resistance; it is a living proof that alternatives to imperial domination exist. The U.S. empire seeks to destroy the Bolivarian Revolution precisely because it shows we can fight for People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs) and for a true, just, militant peace. In unwavering solidarity with the Venezuelan people, we therefore commit to continuing this fight, organizing in solidarity with their masses and popular movements across the Americas to defend sovereignty, dignity, and the right to forge a different future.

Defend Venezuela's Sovereignty!
U.S. & NATO Out of Our Americas!
Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

New members of the Bolivarian militia during a military deployment in Caracas, Venezuela. Courtesy of Gabriela Oraa (EL PAÍS) | Video: EPV

Black Alliance for Peace Stands Firmly with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution

Black Alliance for Peace Stands Firmly with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution

We condemn U.S. lawlessness in Our Americas and call for multinational intervention to guarantee a ‘Zone of Peace’

Oct 23, 2025 – U.S. lawless attacks throughout the Caribbean and Pacific, military buildup on various islands, strikes against Venezuela, antagonism against Colombia, and threats to escalate to land bombings are plunging the Americas to the brink of war. The Black Alliance for Peace condemns U.S. imperialist actions and calls on the so-called "international community” and regional/global multinational institutions – such as CELAC, CARICOM, and the UN Security Council – to intervene and end this aggression before it is too late.

Not only has the U.S./EU/NATO axis of domination bombed and extrajudicially killed fishermen in the Caribbean, they have expanded their encirclement of Venezuela to the Pacific, remilitarized Puerto Rico as a launchpad for further aggression, and anointed Trinidad & Tobago as the puppet to funnel Venezuela’s oil resources to the North in the future. This is all occurring as we near the anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983 (Oct 25), reminding us of comrade Maurice Bishop who called on the countries of the region to guarantee the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. Such a peace is impossible unless it is principled and anti-imperialist.

As BAP National Co-Coordinator Erica Caines describes, 

“BAP has been clear that the accelerated militarization and occupation that we have seen in Haiti over the last four years has violated the concept of a Zone of Peace and should have served as a warning for the rest of the region. The labeling of “gangs” as terrorist organizations in Haiti has allowed the U.S. to do the same in Venezuela, where the Department of War now compares Caribbean people in boats to Al-Qaeda, in order to justify their imperialist bloodlust. Despite these challenges the steadfast people of Venezuela have joined civilian militias in the millions to defend their homeland, to enforce peace. We applaud the Bolivarian Revolution and support the Venezuelan people’s defense of their sovereignty.” 

BAP is preparing to close out the 5th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM under the theme of  “21st Century Neocolonialism: Capitalism, Compradors, and the Ongoing Scramble for Africa”, we understand that any invasion of Venezuela – led by SOUTHCOM, AFRICOM’S counterpart in the Americas – not only has ramifications in the region, but for the continent and world. So today we urge unity in the fight against U.S.-led imperialism and we emphasize the need for a focus on building a Zone of Peace in Our Americas through popular struggle and grassroots coordination – including efforts that we are a part of, like the U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas Network. It is only the unity of our struggles and peoples that will defeat the capitalists and imperialists who seek to dominate us through never ending war. 

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

No Compromise No Retreat!

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La Alianza Negra por la Paz se mantiene firme junto a Venezuela y la Revolución Bolivariana

Condenamos la ilegalidad de Estados Unidos en Nuestra América y pedimos una intervención multinacional para garantizar una Zona de Paz

23 de octubre de 2025 – Los bombardeos marítimos ilegales de Estados Unidos en todo el Caribe y el Pacífico, el aumento de la presencia militar en varias islas, los ataques contra Venezuela, el antagonismo contra Colombia y las amenazas de intensificar los bombardeos terrestres están sumiendo a las Américas al borde de la guerra. La Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) condena las acciones imperialistas de Estados Unidos y pide a la llamada ‘comunidad internacional’ y a las instituciones multinacionales regionales y mundiales – como a CELAC, e CARICOM, el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU – que intervengan y pongan fin a esta agresión antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

El eje de dominación de Estados Unidos, la Unión Europea y la OTAN no solo ha bombardeado y asesinado extrajudicialmente a pescadores en el Caribe, sino que ha ampliado su cerco a Venezuela hasta el Pacífico, ha re-militarizado Puerto Rico como plataforma de lanzamiento para nuevas agresiones y ha consagrado a Trinidad y Tobago como títere para canalizar los recursos petroleros de Venezuela hacia el Norte en el futuro. Todo esto ocurre cuando se acerca el aniversario de la invasión estadounidense de Granada en 1983 (25 de octubre), lo que nos recuerda al camarada Maurice Bishop, quien pidió a los países de la región que garantizaran el Caribe como zona de paz. Esa paz es imposible a menos que sea basada en principios antiimperialistas.

Como describe la co-coordinadora nacional de BAP, Erica Caines,

«El BAP ha dejado claro que la acelerada militarización y ocupación que hemos visto en Haití durante los últimos cuatro años ha violado el concepto de zona de paz y debería haber servido de advertencia para el resto de la región. La calificación de las ‘bandas’ como organizaciones terroristas en Haití ha permitido a Estados Unidos hacer lo mismo en Venezuela, donde el Departamento de Guerra compara a los caribeños que viajan en barcos con Al Qaeda, con el fin de justificar su sed de sangre imperialista. A pesar de estos desafíos, el firme pueblo de Venezuela se ha unido a las milicias civiles por millones para defender su patria y hacer cumplir la paz. Aplaudimos la Revolución Bolivariana y apoyamos la defensa de la soberanía del pueblo venezolano».

BAP se prepara para cerrar el 5.º Mes Internacional de Acción contra AFRICOM que tiene el tema ‘Neocolonialismo del siglo XXI: capitalismo, compradores y la actual lucha por África’. Entendemos que cualquier invasión de Venezuela, liderada por el Comando Sur, la contraparte de AFRICOM en las Américas, no solo tiene ramificaciones en la región, sino también en el continente y el mundo. Por eso, hoy instamos a la unidad en la lucha contra el imperialismo liderado por Estados Unidos y enfatizamos la necesidad de centrarnos en la construcción de una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América a través de la lucha popular y la coordinación de base, incluyendo iniciativas de las que formamos parte, como ‘la Red E.E. UU./OTAN Fuera de Nuestra América’. Solo la unidad de nuestras luchas y nuestros pueblos derrotará a los capitalistas e imperialistas que buscan dominarnos a través de una guerra sin fin.

¡Hagamos de Nuestra América una Zona de Paz!

¡Sin compromisos, sin retrasos!

Image: Courtesy of Cristian Hernandez/AP/TT

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Establishment of Colonial Military Governance Over Haiti by UN Security Council

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Establishment of Colonial Military Governance Over Haiti by UN Security Council 

October 2, 2025 – On Tuesday Sep 30, 2025, the UN Security Council voted to adopt a resolution drafted by the U.S. and Panama that would create a so-called “Gang Suppression Force” (GSF) to invade Haiti. The resolution was adopted with 12 votes in favor and 3 abstentions (China, Russia, and Pakistan). The Black Alliance for Peace unequivocally condemns the adoption of this resolution. We see the GSF as a further step in the destruction of Haitian popular sovereignty, pushing the country into militarized, neocolonial servitude. 

The resolution for the “Gang Suppression Force” (GSF) authorizes the deployment of up to 5,550 personnel, foreign police and soldiers, with powers to “neutralize, isolate," and detain and imprison Haitian civilians – independent of the Haitian police and government. As JP, a BAP Haiti/Americas Team member, proclaimed during our Emergency Rally outside the UN on Sep 30, 2025: “In essence, this force will be granted a blank check by the so-called ‘international community,’ enabling it to execute the continued colonial capture of Haiti under the hollow guise of international legitimacy.” The GSF gives full oversight to a “Standing Group” of foreigners (which is similar to the Core Group), which will work with the established UN occupation office, BINUH – leaving Haitians as little more than symbolic partners. The GSF will also have a foreign “Force Commander.” All of this effectively creates another colonial governance model for Haiti.  

The GFS is supposed to replace the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission which was approved by the UNSC in October 2023, with police and military from Kenya and other Caribbean nations deployed in June 2024. It must be remembered, however, that the MSS was authorized through US pressure of regional actors, under the illegitimate US-installed Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, and deployed under the auspices of the nine-member “Transitional Presidential Council,” of Haiti, also installed by the US and its minions in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). 

We stress, in other words, that Haiti has no legitimate government. And as we continue to recount, Haiti has been under foreign occupation for more than twenty years, resulting in the complete collapse of its entire government structure. Both the MSS and the GSF are not only a continuation of that occupation, but are, by all standards, illegal. Indeed, we believe that the GSF is an attempt to further curtail the popular mass protests – 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022  –for Haitian self-determination. 

Moreover, it is absurd to call for foreign military invasion over gangs, especially with support from governments with their own violent internal crises – states such as Panama, Ecuador, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

While some are arguing that this new foreign military invasion in Haiti is a relief for a country besieged by gangs, we should also not forget that the crisis in Haiti is a crisis of imperialism – the rise in armed groups must be understood as a symptom of that crisis. Furthermore, the crisis continues with full complicity and participation of the so-called "international community” and compradors in the region. In 2022, for example, Haitian organizations blamed the United Nations and Core Group occupation for enabling the “gangsterization” of the country. 

BAP also condemns the role played by regional actors – including CARICOM and other OAS-aligned states – for continuing to participate in the U.S. imperial onslaught on Haiti. At the same time, we want to express our disappointment that the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation failed to use their veto power in support of Haiti despite their strong criticisms and acknowledgment of US treachery in the region. Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov himself noted that Haiti is effectively a testing ground for an ever-expanding model of U.S. military power, one with no clear mandate, no meaningful Haitian oversight, and no accountability. Yet, these members of the UNSC allowed the U.S.-led imperialist mission to advance, exposing the hollowness of the “international community’s” claim to stand with the Haitian people.

Haiti is part of the global African nation and, as such, the war on Haiti is a core aspect of the War on African/Black peoples, not just in the Americas but throughout the world. As we begin the fifth annual Month of Action against AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command), BAP understands that the confluence of militarized imperialist forces and corporate vultures that seek to crush and pick apart Haiti are also present domestically and globally, particularly on the African continent. Whether in the Congo, Sudan, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, or Haiti, the only “peace” that U.S.-led imperialism seeks is one of “full-spectrum dominance” and white supremacist, colonial control, which is the antithesis of African/Black self-determination. This same colonial logic is playing out in cities across the U.S., as Black/African and Brown people and neighborhoods are occupied and terrorized by federal and local militarized “police” forces. As the war against African/Black people intensifies globally, the occupation of Haiti, ongoing since 2004, is now reaching its logical, violent, destabilizing conclusion. 

We must oppose this “Gang Suppression Force” and any further U.S.-led militarization and domination of Haiti, for the dignity and self-determination of the people of Haiti, for the struggle toward liberation of all African peoples, and for the security and well-being of Our Americas.

We call for:

• An immediate end to the foreign military occupation of Haiti – the dissolution of the Core Group and its BINUH office as well as the recall and annulment of the resolution for the Gang Repression Force;

• The U.S. to abide by the UN arms embargo on Haiti and stop the export of military grade weapons to Haiti;

• The governments in the Caribbean and Latin America to stop participating in the US imperial onslaught on Haiti and to respect Haiti’s sovereignty and the right of its people to determine their own political future;

• Anti-imperialist regional solidarity across the Caribbean and Latin America to resist the normalization of foreign military interventions;

• The right of Haitian migrants to free movement and asylum, without xenophobia, criminalization, or bias.

Hands Off Haiti!

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

No Compromise No Retreat!

Resources:

• “The Ongoing Imperial Assault on Haiti” (Aug 2025)

• “The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for Resistance Against the Accelerating Imperialist War on Black/African Peoples in Our Americas” (28 May 2025)

• “CARICOM and Haiti: Integration or Imperialism” (17 Jan 2025)

• “MOLEGHAF: Update on Armed Attacks in Port-au-Prince” (22 Oct 2024)

• Haiti: An Anatomy of Invasion (22 May 2024)

• BAP Backgrounder: Haiti Behind the Headlines (11 March 2024)

• ““Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control” Hood Communist (28 Aug 2025)

• Map of U.S. Militarization in Our Americas (updated periodically)

• “Mass Struggle Against The Occupation of Haiti” – Pan-African Unity in Our Americas: A BAP Toolkit (updated May 2025)

• Haiti & Colonialism (Feb 2023)

• BAP Haiti Zine – The Crisis of Haiti is Crisis of Imperialism (Oct 2022)

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La Alianza Negra por la Paz condena el establecimiento de un gobierno militar colonial sobre Haití por parte del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU

2 de octubre de 2025 – El martes 30 de septiembre de 2025, el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU votó para adoptar una resolución redactada por Estados Unidos y Panamá que crearía una llamada "Fuerza de Supresión de Pandillas" (GSF, por sus siglas en inglés) para invadir Haití. La resolución fue adoptada con 12 votos a favor y 3 abstenciones (China, Rusia y Pakistán). La Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) condena inequívocamente la adopción de esta resolución. Vemos a la GSF como un paso más en la destrucción de la soberanía popular haitiana, empujando al país a una servidumbre militarizada y neocolonial.

La resolución para la "Fuerza de Supresión de Pandillas" (GSF) autoriza el despliegue de hasta 5,550 efectivos, policías y soldados extranjeros, con poderes para "neutralizar, aislar", detener y encarcelar a civiles haitianos, independientemente de la policía y el gobierno haitiano. Como proclamó JP, miembro del Equipo Haití/Américas de la BAP, durante nuestra Movilización de Emergencia frente a la ONU el 30 de septiembre de 2025: "En esencia, esta fuerza recibirá un cheque en blanco por parte de la llamada 'comunidad internacional', permitiéndole ejecutar la continua captura colonial de Haití bajo la vacua apariencia de legitimidad internacional". La GSF otorga supervisión total a un "Grupo Permanente" de extranjeros (similar al Grupo Central o “Core Group”), que trabajará con la oficina de ocupación de la ONU ya establecida, BINUH, dejando  haitianos como nada más que socios simbólicos. La GSF también tendrá un "Comandante de la Fuerza" extranjero. Todo esto crea efectivamente otro modelo de gobierno colonial para Haití.

Se supone que la GSF reemplazará a la Misión de Seguridad Multinacional (MSS) aprobada por el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU en octubre de 2023, con policías y militares de Kenia y otras naciones caribeñas desplegados en junio de 2024. Sin embargo, debe recordarse que la MSS fue autorizada mediante la presión de Estados Unidos sobre actores regionales, bajo el ilegítimo Primer Ministro impuesto por EE.UU., Ariel Henry, y desplegada bajo los auspicios del "Consejo Presidencial de Transición" de nueve miembros de Haití, también instalado por EE.UU. y sus secuaces en la Comunidad del Caribe (CARICOM).

En otras palabras, enfatizamos que Haití no tiene un gobierno legítimo. Y como seguimos relatando, Haití ha estado bajo ocupación extranjera durante más de veinte años, lo que ha provocado el colapso total de toda su estructura gubernamental. Tanto la MSS como la GSF no solo son una continuación de esa ocupación, sino que, por todos los estándares, son ilegales. De hecho, creemos que la GSF es un intento de restringir aún más las protestas masivas populares —en 2017, 2018, 2021 y 2022— por la autodeterminación haitiana.

Además, es absurdo pedir una invasión militar extranjera por causa de las pandillas, especialmente con el apoyo de gobiernos con sus propias crisis internas violentas, como Panamá, Ecuador, Jamaica, y Trinidad y Tobago.

Mientras algunos argumentan que esta nueva invasión militar extranjera en Haití es un alivio para un país asediado por pandillas, tampoco debemos olvidar que la crisis en Haití es una crisis del imperialismo: el aumento de los grupos armados debe entenderse como un síntoma de esa crisis. Además, la crisis continúa con la total complicidad y participación de la llamada "comunidad internacional" y los compradores de la región. En 2022, por ejemplo, organizaciones haitianas culparon a la ocupación de las Naciones Unidas y del Grupo Central por permitir la "pandillerización" del país.

La BAP también condena el papel desempeñado por actores regionales —incluidos la CARICOM y otros estados alineados con la OEA— por continuar participando en el asalto imperial estadounidense contra Haití. Al mismo tiempo, queremos expresar nuestra decepción porque la República Popular China y la Federación Rusa no utilizaron su poder de veto en apoyo a Haití, a pesar de sus fuertes críticas y reconocimiento de la traición de EE.UU. en la región. El mismo Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Rusia, Lavrov, señaló que Haití es efectivamente un campo de pruebas para un modelo en constante expansión del poder militar estadounidense, uno sin un mandato claro, sin una supervisión haitiana significativa y sin rendición de cuentas. Sin embargo, estos miembros del Consejo de Seguridad permitieron que avanzara la misión imperialista dirigida por EE.UU., exponiendo el vacío de la afirmación de la "comunidad internacional" de estar con el pueblo haitiano.

Haití es parte de la nación africana global y, como tal, la guerra contra Haití es un aspecto central de la Guerra contra los pueblos africanos/negros, no solo en las Américas sino en todo el mundo. Al comenzar el quinto Mes de Acción Anual contra el AFRICOM (Comando África de EE.UU), la BAP entiende que la confluencia de fuerzas imperialistas militarizadas y buitres corporativos que buscan aplastar y despedazar a Haití también está presente a nivel nacional y global, particularmente en el continente africano. Ya sea en el Congo, Sudán, el Cuerno de África, el Sahel o Haití, la única "paz" que busca el imperialismo liderado por EE.UU. es una de "dominio de espectro completo" y control colonial y supremacista blanco, que es la antítesis de la autodeterminación africana/negra. Esta misma lógica colonial se está desarrollando en ciudades de EE.UU., donde la gente y los vecindarios negros/africanos y morenos son ocupados y aterrorizados por fuerzas de "policía" militarizadas federales y locales. Mientras la guerra contra el pueblo africano/negro se intensifica globalmente, la ocupación de Haití, en curso desde 2004, está llegando ahora a su conclusión lógica, violenta y desestabilizadora.

Debemos oponernos a esta "Fuerza de Supresión de Pandillas" y a cualquier mayor militarización y dominación de Haití dirigida por EE.UU., por la dignidad y autodeterminación del pueblo de Haití, por la lucha hacia la liberación de todos los pueblos africanos, y por la seguridad y el bienestar de Nuestras Américas.

Exigimos:

• El cese inmediato de la ocupación militar extranjera de Haití: la disolución del Grupo Central y su oficina BINUH, así como la revocación y anulación de la resolución para la Fuerza de Represión de Pandillas;

• Que EE.UU. cumpla con el embargo de armas de la ONU sobre Haití y detenga la exportación de armas de grado militar a Haití;

• Que los gobiernos del Caribe y América Latina dejen de participar en el asalto imperial estadounidense contra Haití y respeten la soberanía de Haití y el derecho de su pueblo a determinar su propio futuro político;

• Solidaridad regional antiimperialista en todo el Caribe y América Latina para resistir la normalización de las intervenciones militares extranjeras;

• El derecho de los migrantes haitianos a la libre circulación y asilo, sin xenofobia, criminalización o prejuicios.

¡Fuera las manos de Haití!
¡Hagamos Nuestras Américas una Zona de Paz!
¡Sin compromisos, sin retrocesos!

Recursos:

• “La Alianza Negra por la Paz Hace un Llamado a la Resistencia Frente a la Guerra Imperialista Acelerada Contra los Pueblos Negros/Africanos en Nuestras Américas” (28 de mayo de 2025)

• “El 'Crimen', el Caballo de Troya para el Control Colonial” Hood Communist (28 de agosto de 2025)

• Zine: ‘La Crisis en Haiti es una crisis del imperialismo’ (Oct 2022)

• “The Ongoing Imperial Assault on Haiti” (Aug 2025)

• “CARICOM and Haiti: Integration or Imperialism” (17 Jan 2025)

• “MOLEGHAF: Update on Armed Attacks in Port-au-Prince” (22 Oct 2024)

• Haiti: An Anatomy of Invasion (22 May 2024)

• BAP Backgrounder: Haiti Behind the Headlines (11 March 2024)

• Map of U.S. Militarization in Our Americas (updated periodically)

• Haiti & Colonialism (Feb 2023)

Image: United Nations Security Council vote on October 1, 2025

U.S. Domestic Colonial Occupation Must Be Met with a Struggle for Decolonization, Not Reform-A PACA | BAP-DC Statement

U.S. Domestic Colonial Occupation Must Be Met with a Struggle for Decolonization, Not Reform  

A Statement by PACA and BAP-DC

Since August, federal mandates carried out against Washington D.C. and intensified policing have been escalating with both the federal and local governments making it clear that they are waging a domestic war on African (Black) working class and migrant diaspora people. This imposition is not only in the form of increased National Guard troops. Arrests, deportations, and raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surged in Washington, D.C. as part of the federal crackdown, leading to high levels of fear in immigrant communities and has emboldened the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to harass and make more arrests, especially of Africa {Black} youth.

Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) D.C. City Wide Alliance (BAP-DC), of which PACA is a member, reaffirm that these events are all the logical endpoints of a political system that prioritizes property over people and repression over community safety. With every passing week the U.S. settler colonial state, currently presided over by the Trump administration, intensifies its naked aggression.

Mobilizations of resistance have been met with unabated policies of repression. On September 17th, the House voted to expand MPD’s powers to pursue suspects in high-speed chases, further endangering life and limb of D.C. residents. Several deaths and injuries in D.C. have occurred due to high-speed police chases. Recent legislation also mandates that D.C. judges strictly comply with mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines for youth, requires the DC attorney general to release a website with juvenile crime statistics, and lowers the age at which youth can be tried as adults to the age of 14. It should go without saying that such policies in the U.S. are inherently racist and will disproportionately impact African (Black) youth.

But PACA and BAP-DC do not reduce the problem to a Trump presidency. The Black misleadership class – a.k.a. compradors – is the primary impediment to organizing the masses of African people, a reality in all major Democratic Party-led cities targeted by the Trump administration. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. City Council recently approved a new labor agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police that includes a 13% pay raise for D.C. police officers, starting October 1st. This agreement also includes retroactive cost-of-living increases and other incentives for police officers. The council voted to extend Bowser’s expanded youth curfew into the fall, granting police the power to declare designated zones with earlier curfews. The criminalization of working-class African people by the DC city government preceded the federal imposition. These recent policies must be viewed as complementary to Trump’s takeover, rather than resistant to it.

The trend in most of the cities targeted by the federal militarization is for Black misleaders to respond to the Trump administration's threats by expanding policing on their own. PACA and BAP-DC will not allow the squabbles among the ruling class and its political lackeys to distract us and the people. We cannot become spectators of bipartisan power struggles and infighting, while our communities remain targets of both camps.

We reject under no uncertain terms the false framing and claims that these actions are about public safety. It is a shift toward domestic lawfare – legal actions undertaken as part of a hostile campaign against the African (Black) working class and migrant diaspora. Under capitalism, law does not serve as a remedy for the people's needs or concerns. Invariably, it is used by the rich and powerful to wage war on marginalized people. PACA and BAP-DC caution against the tendency to confine the narratives to local framing and understand that local resistance must see itself clearly as part and parcel of the anti-imperialist struggle of the global south. 

The heinous U.S. attacks on Venezuelan boats in international waters under the guise of carrying out a war on drugs are a counterpart to the domestic war on the people in this country. The brazen and unmitigated genocide against Palestine is being committed by the same enemies of humanity currently targeting our communities. The military occupation of Africa in the form of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), is an affront to African (Black) people everywhere in the world and is a counterpart to militarized police occupations of our working-class communities across the U.S. 

After returning the so-called Department of Defense to its original name of War Department, Donald Trump, the current president of imperialism, threatened Chicago on a social media post, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of War.” While this may be seen by some as the antics of a megalomaniac, we are clear that at the root of this is the U.S. capitalist, imperialist system desperately trying to hold on to power. This is why its lawfare is also taking aim at organized resistance. Recent rhetoric and proposals from the Trump administration target "far-left" organizations and non-profits it accuses of fomenting political violence. The Liberal tendency is to double down on expressions of allegiance to the U.S settler colonial project, a white supremacist extension of Western Europe, instead of opposing repression. 

In D.C., this takes the masked form of advocating for D.C. statehood, a reform that misguides the people’s indignation toward a nonsolution, a goal that will only add another layer of state structure for compradors to occupy. Statehood has done nothing for African (Black), indigenous, and immigrant communities facing oppression and repression in cities that are part of states across the U.S. Preserving the political autonomy and independence of D.C.’s current political process is inconsequential if local leaders continue to wage an unrelenting war against the African (Black) working-class people in D.C. Long before Trump entered the scene, the D.C. local government had already pioneered a “tough on crime” agenda that included the passage of the D.C. Secure Omnibus Crime Bill, widespread criminalization of fare evasion, and approving the construction of a new D.C. jail. Further, statehood has not increased safety or improved the lives of working-class people in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, or Chicago, whose populations are subjected to relentless police occupation, widespread surveillance, increased deportations, and crackdowns against civil disobedience and resistance.

The criminalization, police occupation, surveillance, crackdowns on any resistance, and all such forms of repression are reflections of an ailing and inherently fascist U.S settler colonialism and cannot be remedied through reformism.

The only logical response of the colonized to its colonization is to organize for decolonization and liberation. The unavoidable first step is community control over public safety. As we have said, “the debate over federal takeover versus local government control is a distraction. In practice, both levels of this state have committed to deepening policing, expanding surveillance, and protecting the interests of capital over the needs of the people. The difference lies in style, not substance.”

The struggle must be to organize for power. Not reform. The people most subjected to the machinations of the system must organize against the U.S. settler colonialist system upheld by a synthesis of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. PACA and BAP-DC declare that the right to self-determination must be won through building radical political alternatives that prove poverty stems not from lack of resources but from their organized theft. And that sovereignty is never granted – it is seized.

Banner photo:: Trump speaking at a press conference with DC mayor Muriel Bowser behind him smiling.

The Black Alliance for Peace Announces the 2025 International Month of Action Against AFRICOM!

The Black Alliance for Peace Announces the 2025 International Month of Action Against AFRICOM!

The Black Alliance for Peace launches our 5th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM, a crucial period of global education, mobilization, and resistance. This year, we sharpen our focus with the theme: “21st Century Neocolonialism: Capitalism, Compradors, and the Ongoing Scramble for Africa.”

The International Month of Action Against AFRICOM will kick off with an international webinar featuring voices from the African continent and diaspora expressing the need for the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops and an end to the combatant command. Following the webinar, individuals and organizations will engage in a month of autonomous and semi-autonomous actions and events designed to elevate this issue in the public consciousness around the world and encourage the continuation of the resistance against U.S. imperialism.

For seventeen years, AFRICOM has served as the military-enforcement arm of this U.S. neocolonial project. But U.S. militarism does not operate in a vacuum. It is the guarantor of an economic order designed to perpetuate Africa’s exploitation, guaranteeing full access to Africa’s resources and creating a state of “security dependency” among comprador regimes.

This year, we will dissect the entire system—from the deadly footprint of U.S. bases to the predatory International Monetary Fund. From African leaders who act as compradors for Western powers to the multinational corporations that plunder our resources, forcing our people into inhumane conditions for profit.

The ongoing scramble for Africa is a war on the sovereignty and very lives of Black/African people. AFRICOM is on the front lines of that war. 

The movements across the Sahel and popular mass mobilizations in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda against governments propped up by the U.S. have shown that the struggle against the imperialist system through collective action is possible. We must seize this moment and bring that same fierce energy to our own communities to challenge the empire at its source.

This Month of Action is our unified response. We will elevate the demands that form the core of our work:

1. The complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Africa.

2. The demilitarization of the African Continent.

3. The closure of U.S. bases throughout the world; and

4. The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) oppose the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and conduct hearings on AFRICOM’s impact on the African continent, with the full participation of members of U.S. and African civil society.

This is a call to action. Endorse the month. Join the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) and host events in your communities. Let us make this October a decisive moment in the struggle for total liberation.

#shutdownAFRICOM

US out of Africa!

No Compromise.

No Retreat

From the Indo-Pacific to the Hudson: US War Games in Korea, IOF Trained NYPD & ICE Terrorism in NYC

From the Indo-Pacific to the Hudson: US War Games in Korea, IOF Trained NYPD & ICE Terrorism in NYC

On August 15th, six cities across the US marked the 80th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonialism with a national day of action for the US Out of Korea campaign, organized by Nodutdol, an organization of Korean diaspora and comrades organizing for a world free of imperialism, and for Korea’s re/unification and national liberation. The Black Alliance for Peace is a proud endorser of the campaign and partner in the struggle to oppose eighty years of US occupation – US Out of Korea!

The New Jersey / New York Citywide Alliance of the Black Alliance for Peace seeks to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperalist, and pro-peace positions of the radical Black movement. We work to oppose domestic state repression, oppose policies of de-stabilization, oppose subversion, and oppose the permanent war agenda of the U.S. state globally.

Those of us in the Black Alliance for Peace understand that unity in Africa, unity in Korea, and unity in Our Americas is–and always has been–a threat to the imperialist schemes of the US/EU/NATO axis of domination. Because it is a threat, the US Department of the Defense sat down with a map of the world and carved the planet up into 11 combatant commands.

The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command–the oldest and largest of the combatant commands was established in 1947, just before the Korean War. The US claims that the goal of this command is to enhance stability in the Asia-Pacific region. But one of the Pacific Command’s first tasks was combat operations in Korea, operations which resulted in the slaughter of millions of Korean people and the fracturing of the nation.

In 1963, the US established its Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM. As with the Indo Pacific Command, the US claims that the purpose of SOUTHCOM is to enhance stability in the Western Hemisphere. In reality, SOUTHCOM has facilitated capitalist extraction of resources like lithium from South America, subverted and DEstabilized socialist governments and anti-imperialist forces in places like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, and undermined self-determination in places like Haiti.

And if that weren’t enough, the US used the same playbook in Africa, by establishing its Africa Command or AFRICOM in 2007. The US claims that AFRICOM was established–once again–to provide security and prevent the spread of “terrorism” in the region. However, since AFRICOM has come into the picture, deaths in the Sahel have risen 2,000%.

In recent days, here in the US we’ve seen the National Guard–in coordination with the US Northern Command or NORTHCOM–deployed in LA and DC to repress dissent. Here in New York, we see the IOF-trained NYPD, which has more resources than many countries’ armies, while also supporting ICE raids and kidnappings, terrorizing and tearing apart our communities on a daily basis, like in the case of Yunseo Chung. This is not new. It extends the decades-long trend of militarization within the US. Across three decades and five US presidents, programs like the 1033 program have empowered the Department of Defense to transfer $6 billion worth of military equipment to domestic U.S. law-enforcement agencies while communities are suffering from austerity cuts. 

We must be clear. Through its combatant command structure and deepening dependence on domestic militarization, the US will continue to terrorize and extract, terrorize and extract, terrorize and extract.

But we in the Black Alliance for Peace will not be intimidated and we will not just sit back and watch this unfold.

We are calling for the end of SOUTHCOM and imperialist meddling in Haitian affairs. 

We are calling on the masses to reject US Imperialism and Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace.

We are calling for the end of AFRICOM and the complete withdrawal of all US forces from Africa.

We are calling for the end of the 1033 Program, the end of ICE, the end of Cop Cities, the end of economic warfare and increased militarization in Black communities here in the US.

As bearers of the Black Radical Peace Tradition, as anti-imperalists, and as supporters of people’s struggles for self-determination, we denounce the Indo-Pacific Command, the war games in Korea, and the tariff threats from the U.S. We demand that the U.S. removes its military bases from Korea, Africa, the Americas, and everywhere in the world. U.S. Out of Korea! U.S. Out of Our Americas! U.S. Out of Africa! U.S Out of Everywhere! 

No Compromise, No Retreat!

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