[News] Black Alliance for Peace Condemns FBI Attack on African People’s Socialist Party.

Mon Aug 1 12:54:28 EDT 2022

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*Black Alliance for Peace Condemns FBI Attack on the African People’s 
Socialist Party*

*For Immediate Release *

*Media Contact*
communications at blackallianceforpeace.com
(202) 643-1136

AUGUST 01, 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).

On Friday, July 29, 2022, the FBI executed multiple raids against APSP’s 
Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida and their Uhuru Solidarity Center 
in St. Louis, Missouri and the private residence of APSP Chairman Omali 
Yeshitela also in St. Louis. The FBI employed flashbang grenades and 
handcuffed Yeshitela and his wife while their house was raided. The FBI 
claims that the raids are connected to the federal indictment of a 
Russian national, Aleksandr Ionov, alleging that he has been working to 
spread "Russian propaganda" in the United States.

BAP believes that these raids continue the history of state repression 
directed against Black people in the U.S. This repression now occurs 
under the guise of opposing “adversary” nations but regardless of how 
these actions are characterized, Black people still bear the brunt of 
surveillance and police violence. The APSP has the right to freely 
associate with people around the world, to hold any political beliefs it 
may choose, and to express them without fear of intimidation, 
persecution, or prosecution.

We believe this repression to be a hysterical response to the United 
States’ loss of legitimacy in the context of the deepening crisis of 
capitalism and U.S. global hegemony. The unleashing of policing and 
counterintelligence forces domestically and increased militarism and 
warmongering abroad in the name of national security are the only 
avenues left to the U.S. ruling class that is engulfed in an 
irreversible economic crisis. They represent the hallmarks of a naked 
fascism that the U.S. ruling class appears to be increasingly committed 
to in order to maintain the rule of capital.

BAP reminds the public that the war against working class people 
generally, and Black, Brown, and Indigenous workers particularly, is 
ongoing. The masses must acknowledge and resist this reality. While it 
is APSP today, it will ultimately be the rest of us tomorrow. Resistance 
is our only option.

Given our steadfast commitment to rebuilding the broader anti-war, 
anti-imperialist peace movement, BAP is not intimidated and will not 
retreat. We are guided by the position articulated by the Black is Back 
Coalition, of which BAP is a proud member, that "Now is the time to 
throw off all hesitation, open up new forms of struggle and to launch 
every protest, demonstration, and anti-imperialist action - from the 
ballot box to the barricades - as an act to deepen the crisis of 
imperialism."

The treatment of the APSP is reminiscent of McCarthyist witch hunts that 
targeted and criminalized workers, immigrants, and colonized people who 
organized domestically and internationally against capitalist 
imperialism. Likewise, the FBI’s actions represent COINTELPRO-like 
tactics employed to crush organizations and individuals fighting to 
protect and expand the rights of oppressed people in general, and 
Africans in particular.

These tactics came back forcefully in response to the 2014 uprisings in 
Ferguson, Missouri. FBI agents tracked the movements and monitored the 
individuals tied to the protests. In 2016, when the murder of Freddie 
Gray ignited protests in Baltimore, the FBI admitted to providing an 
aircraft for surveillance in the weeks following the unrest. In 2017, 
the FBI created the designation “Black Identity Extremist” to monitor 
Black movement organizers. The term was updated to “Racially Motivated 
Violent Extremism” in 2018. FBI surveillance was rampant going into the 
summer 2020 rebellions, with FBI agents attempting to infiltrate 
protests in Portland.

The Black population in the United States has historically stood at the 
forefront of resistance and condemnations of war and state repression. 
In this spirit, the Black Alliance for Peace reiterates the critical, 
moral stance against such government aggression and stands in resolute 
solidarity with the APSP.

By comprehensively linking the issue of state violence and militarism, 
BAP will continue to concentrate its efforts on not only opposing the 
U.S. war agenda globally but the war and repression being waged on Black 
and Brown communities within U.S. borders.

In this charge, The Black Alliance for Peace says there will be "No 
Compromise and No Retreat!”

BAP Coordinating Committee

*Link to online version: 
*https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/bapsolidaritywithapsp 
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