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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).<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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." <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
In this charge, The
Black Alliance for Peace
says there will be "No
Compromise and No
Retreat!”<br>
<br>
BAP Coordinating
Committee</p>
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