THE BLACK ALLIANCE FOR PEACE

 

Fear of a rising China has gripped the supposedly “global elites” of the world. G7 member states agreed on Saturday that all wifi connections be dismantled around the room they convened in because they worried China would eavesdrop, part of a years-long narrative that China’s private tech companies are conducting surveillance on its behalf.

At the meeting, U.S. President Joe Biden pitched to G7 member states an alternative project to contend with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an 8-year-old program involving the construction of railways, ports, and roads, along with cultural exchange. Already, dozens of countries have signed onto it.

But G7 leaders didn’t seem enthused as talks ended Saturday. Countries like Germany and Italy are heavily invested in the Chinese supply chain. In fact, Volkswagen and BMW cars are top sellers in China. Even though Italy pulled out of the BRI, its officials remember China's generosity when it provided personal protective equipment and medical professionals during the height of Italy's COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. The rift within the Pan-European colonial-capitalist project is obvious. 

But the white-supremacist hold remains as the United States continues funding the Zionist state of Israel, which perpetuates a deadly apartheid system on occupied Palestinians.

When U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) tweeted last week, comparing the United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban, senior Democrats released a statement disparaging her. However, their statement said the United States and Israel are “governed by the rule of law.” We at the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) finds that laughable since the United States and Israel continue to operate outside the rule of law as rogue states, breaking treaties and violating international laws with impunity. Therefore, it is not clear why Omar felt compelled to backtrack from her original comments.  

Operating squarely within the Black Radical Internationalist Tradition, BAP minces no words and makes no distinctions between states that commit terror and non-state actors that do the same. We also do not align ourselves with what the pan-European colonial-capitalist powers tell us about countries like China or Russia. We understand relying on the goodwill of supposed “democracies” is a losing game. Black and colonized peoples from the United States to Colombia and across the Atlantic Ocean in Africa has seen what these so-called “civilized” states have done to our people and to other colonized peoples over the course of 529 years. And so we assert our right to draw our own conclusions based on a framework of People(s)-Centered Human Rights, which comes out of the tradition that produced Black radical organizers like Malcolm X and Fannie Lou Hamer. We say “time out” for waiting for a solution from the white-supremacist colonial-capitalist patriarchy. The people of the world are just a decade away from irreversible climate change as well as increasing militarized force to repress us as capitalism devolves. We must come up with our own solutions. The Black Alliance for Peace is designed to be a step in that direction.