Introduction
The strategy is clear, as well as the desperation. Domestic repression in the U.S. colonial/capitalist core is imperative to support the aggressive militarism abroad, the periphery, in the form of wars of aggression, political subversion, economic sanctions, and genocide that have become the consciously and intentionally chosen tools of a rapacious U.S. based global ruling class—a ruling class that is unable to rule in the old way. Yet, it’s more than willing to blow up the world and sacrifice millions of people to maintain the predatory material basis for its white supremacist class rule.
The irreconcilable contradictions of the neoliberal order that produced the dramatic swing to the right represented by the warmongering of the Obama administration and later succeeded by Donald Trump and Joe Biden, confirmed for the Black Alliance for Peace that its analysis that predicted an inevitable dependency on force and violence by the U.S. rulers domestically and globally was essentially correct.
This analysis was the basis for the launching of Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) in 2017 and in 2025, is the basis for this bulletin. The Black Alliance for Peace’s bulletin will be committed to monitoring and documenting the various modalities of repression that the U.S. ruling class deploys to drive the general population into passive acceptance and support, and any political opposition into non-oppositional silence.
For the capitalist oligarchy working with and through the duopoly, the mantra is dominate or annihilate because they do not have the ethical or moral values to choose life. Theirs is a death wish emanating from a morally bankrupt culture of death.
Their strategy is clear but ours must be even clearer and, more importantly, more effective. Because after Gaza, the people of the world are starting to understand with unambiguous clarity that either we defeat this criminal elite, or collective humanity will not survive.
Resistance to degradation and dehumanization is an individual and collective human right and is why this bulletin has been incorporated into BAP’s new North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights. Starting modestly with a bi-monthly publishing schedule, it is hoped that the bulletin will be another resource for activists who are not intimidated and have taken up the fight for humanity and a new world.
Ajamu Baraka
Director, North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
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