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  •  | BAP demonstration in Washington DC gathered outside the Embassy of Burkina Faso in defense of the Alliance for Sahel States October 2024 | MR Online

    Now is the time for all anti-imperialists and all justice loving people to stand unequivocally in defense of Burkina Faso

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on May 5, 2025 by Black Alliance for Peace Staff (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    BAP and USOAN call on all anti-imperialist forces to join in active defense of Burkina Faso, demand the expulsion of AFRICOM from the continent, and ensure that no African nation suffers the fate that befell Libya in 2011.

  •  | Trump told Zelensky that he was gambling with World War III | MR Online

    The Eurocentric U.S. “Left” carries water for neoliberal Right, again: Response to the Ukraine Solidarity Network

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on March 3, 2025 by Black Alliance for Peace Staff (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Mar 11, 2025)

    The supporters of the Ukraine Solidarity Network (USN) inhabit the same contradictory moral and political space as the European leaders who met with Volodymyr Zelensky, their frontman from Ukraine, to reaffirm their collective commitment to the proxy war in Ukraine.

  •  | We Call for the Respect of Haitian Popular Sovereignty and an End to Western Imperialist Intervention | MR Online

    ‘We call for the respect of Haitian popular sovereignty and an end to Western imperialist intervention’

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on March 19, 2024 by Black Alliance for Peace (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Mar 21, 2024)

    After months of the U.S., Core Group, and other imperialist collaborators working to execute an armed intervention into Haiti that they are now calling a “Multinational Security Service,” ex-de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned from his illegitimately-held position.

  •  | Another assault on the African Black Youth | MR Online

    ‘Another assault on the African (Black) youth’; BAP-Baltimore and Ujima People’s Progress Party denounce Maryland’s unjust juvenile justice bill

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on March 16, 2024 by Black Alliance for Peace - Baltimore (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Mar 20, 2024)

    The Black Alliance For Peace Baltimore Citywide Alliance and The Ujima People’s Progress Party of Maryland strongly condemns Maryland House of Delegates for advancing House Bill 814.

  •  | Haitian Times Morning News Roundup   Feb 6 | MR Online

    BAP Backgrounder: Haiti behind the headlines

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on March 11, 2024 by Black Alliance for Peace Staff (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Mar 13, 2024)

    Haiti is in the headlines again and, as usual, the headlines on Haiti are mostly negative.

  •  | Police officers patrol a street in the Haitian capital of Port au Prince courtesy Marvens CompèreHaitian Times | MR Online

    In Haiti, Kenya chooses imperialist servitude over Pan-African solidarity

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on August 3, 2023 by Black Alliance for Peace Staff (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2023)

    The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) condemns in the strongest possible terms Kenya’s proposal to lead what amounts to a foreign armed intervention in Haiti. 

  •  | Courtesy of Alex WongGetty ImagesBlack Alliance for Peace | MR Online

    Indictment of African People’s Socialist Party is a racist assault on the Black Liberation Movement

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on April 19, 2023 by BAP Coordinating Committee (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Apr 25, 2023)

    The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals. 

  •  | Stop Cop City Photo Saul Foster | MR Online

    Black Alliance for Peace supports National Day of Action Against Police Terror

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on March 6, 2023 by Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) Editors (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Mar 08, 2023)

    Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) member organization Community Movement Builders (CMB) is calling all organizations, organizers and community members to a National Day of Action Against Police Terror on March 9, 2023.

  •  | A protester taunts police officers during Jean Jacques Dessalines Day in Port au Prince Haiti October 17 2022 courtesy AFP | MR Online

    The Black Alliance for Peace welcomes delayed Security Council vote on Western invasion of Haiti

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on October 28, 2022 by Black Alliance for Peace (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Oct 22, 2022)

    October 18, 2022–One day after the Black Alliance for Peace—and other individuals and groups from Haiti and the Haitian diaspora—requested that Russia and China oppose the Biden Administration’s UN Security Council resolution providing cover for another Western invasion of Haiti, the Security Council delayed consideration of the vote.

  •  | Black Alliance for Peace Condemns FBI Attack on the African Peoples Socialist Party | MR Online

    Black Alliance for Peace condemns FBI attack on the African People’s Socialist Party

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on July 30, 2022 by Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2022)

    The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the latest domestic U.S. state repression and intimidation tactics currently being leveled against the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP).

  •  | Riot police cordon off area after people crossed fences separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco Javier BernardoAP | MR Online

    Black Alliance for Peace condemns massacre of African migrants by U.S.- backed Moroccan armed forces

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on July 5, 2022 by Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Jul 08, 2022)

    Video images captured the horrific actions of Moroccan security forces armed and trained by the United States through the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and working on behalf of the Spanish government, systematically beating and slaughtering African migrants on June 24, 2022.

  •  | Pres Biden and Cong Meeks confer close up httpstwittercomRepGregoryMeeks | MR Online

    On African Liberation Day Biden’s troop deployment to Somalia confirms Africa is not free

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on May 25, 2022 by Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted May 27, 2022)

    The Biden Administration’s recent decision to return  U.S. troops to Somalia represents another effort on the part of the U.S. to deny agency and independence to African people. On the 59th commemoration of African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace expresses its unequivocal opposition to this redeployment.

  •  | African students trying to get out of Ukraine have faced racism at the border Theyve been prevented from getting on buses being told that Ukrainians come first | MR Online

    For African and Colonized Peoples, to understand Ukraine: De-center Europe and focus on imperialism

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on March 1, 2022 by Black Alliance for Peace (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Mar 02, 2022)

    The Black Alliance for Peace emphatically declares that the conflict in the Ukraine emerges from the ceaseless and single-minded drive of the U.S., NATO, and the European Union for global economic and political dominance.

  •  | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi along with Rep Richard Neal D MA and Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson D TX speaking about the America COMPETES Act in the US Capitol on Feb 4 The Act continues the United States policy of militarism first and poor and working class people last DREW ANGERERGETTY | MR Online

    The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the “America COMPETES Act” passed in House of Representatives

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on February 7, 2022 by Black Alliance for Peace (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2022)

    On Friday evening, February 4th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act of 2022 (H.R. 4521). The stated intent of the legislation is to strengthen “America’s national and economic security and the financial security of families, and advance our leadership in the world.”

  •  | Demonstrators marched in Port au Prince on February 14 2021 | MR Online

    Why Human Rights in China and Tigray, But Not in Haiti, Palestine or Colombia?

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on July 12, 2021 (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Jul 16, 2021)

    Over eight days, from June 25-30, Haiti had been subjected to increasing state-sponsored, imperial and gang violence. Massacres killed almost 60 people in Port au Prince, including in Cité Soleil, Delmas and Pétionville, as well as on on Rue Magloire Ambroise.

  •  | People walk from a rural area towards the town of Agula in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia where the Relief Society of Tigray was distributing food Ben CurtisAP | MR Online

    Don’t allow another U.S.-NATO Libya in the Horn of Africa

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on June 24, 2021 (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2021)

    Paternalistic U.S. government political posturing toward Africa has a history of turning into fatal consequences for the masses of African peoples.

  •  | Official White House Photo by David Lienemann via Creative Commons | MR Online

    How do the dead celebrate? The bipartisan culture of death

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on November 15, 2020 (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Nov 23, 2020)

    Like most political formations in the United States, Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) members and supporters represent different tendencies.

  •  | The Contours of Resistance Beyond the Election | MR Online

    The contours of resistance beyond the election

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on November 2, 2020 (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Nov 09, 2020)

    No matter which party wins the White House on November 3, one thing is certain: The objective crisis of the system will force the winning political party to be guided by a logic that concludes domestic repression and warmongering abroad are necessary.

  •  | Where is Resistance to Structural Violence of Capitalism Photo Spencer PlattGetty Images | MR Online

    Where is resistance to structural violence of capitalism?

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on August 10, 2020 (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Aug 14, 2020)

    The reality in the United States has come to this: 160,000 dead in four months, thousands hospitalized, and many thousands sick or afraid to be sick because they have no sick days and no health insurance.

  •  | Ruth Marion Baruch available at UC Santa Cruz Archives | MR Online

    Black August and Black liberation: “study, fast, train, fight.”

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on August 3, 2020 (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2020)

    The struggle for African/Black freedom in the United States began with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to this territory in 1619.

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