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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Indictment of African People's Socialist
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<h3><strong>Indictment of African People's Socialist Party Is a Racist Assault on the Black Liberation Movement</strong></h3><p>April 19, 2023</p><p>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. </p><p>The unsealed
indictment states that on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, a federal grand jury
in Tampa, Florida, levied charges of “conspiring to covertly sow discord
in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in
U.S. elections.” While no evidence of conspiracy, propagandizing, or
interference has been presented, the APSP and its members have the
right, as all U.S. citizens do, to freely criticize U.S. domestic and
foreign policy. </p><p>Not since the Palmer Raids of the early 20th
century, nor since the indictment of W.E.B DuBois in 1951, or the
confiscation of Paul Robeson’s U.S. passport during the anti-communist
“McCarthyist” era, has there been such a hysterical response to African
people asserting their rights and freedom of speech in the United
States. This renewed attack against anti-imperialist Africans, framed
within the absurd notion of “Russian influence,” comes as capitalism
decays and U.S. global hegemony loses its hold on the world. The attacks
on the APSP and the Uhuru Movement are part of a historical tendency to
align African political activists with U.S. “adversary” states to
marginalize African internationalism (including solidarity with Cuba and
Palestine, for example) and to suppress Black radicalism. </p><p>It is
also an assault on the efforts of Africans organizing against the
violence and murders suffered at the hands of the U.S. state. Indeed,
Africans do not need Russia to tell them they are suffering the brunt of
violence in the heart of the U.S. empire! </p><p>BAP demands the indictment be dismissed, and Uhuru must be free!</p><p>For further reading on this case, please read BAP’s <a href="https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/bapsolidaritywithapsp"><span>July 30 statement</span></a> that commented on the initial FBI raid of the APSP’s properties.</p><p>BAP Coordinating Committee</p><p><strong><em>Banner photo:</em></strong><em> Courtesy of Alex Wong/Getty Images</em></p>
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