African Liberation Day: A militant spirit of anti-colonial resistance to the US war machine

On the 62nd Africa Liberation Day, the Resist US-Led War Movement joins the people of every African country in the militant spirit of anti-colonial resistance to the US war machine and its militarist and fascist puppet states waging unrelenting attacks on the people. Emerging from the 1958 Conference of Independent States held in Accra, African Liberation Day unmasked the fiction of postcolonial freedom, tracing how imperialists replaced flags with financial domination—a system now enforced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), and warlords extracting Congo’s cobalt, Sudan’s gold, and Niger’s uranium. The struggle for liberation of all countries in the entire continent of Africa is a necessity in the long struggle for just and lasting peace in the entire world.
Imperialist powers, especially the US, continue to use Africa as a launching ground for their wars of aggression around the world. Meanwhile, foreign intervention in internal conflicts, such as those in Libya, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, have intensified instability and prolonged suffering, as imperial powers and competing forces vie for control over resources and strategic influence.
African Liberation Day comes on the heels of African Lion, AFRICOM's largest annual military exercise, hosted across Morocco, Ghana, Senegal, and Tunisia. The drills involve more than 10,000 troops, including NATO contingents, and feature field exercises that disrupt local economies and harm the environment. Complicit puppet regimes across the continent enable this destruction, furthering the exploitation of their people for personal and political gain. In alignment with U.S. military strategy, reactionary African governments have even welcomed Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) to participate in tunnel warfare training during the exercises — a tactic currently used in the brutal campaign against the Palestinian resistance.
The US-backed Ruto regime in Kenya is using protest bans, unwarranted arrests and imprisonment, disappearances of activists, and extrajudicial killings of hundreds of people in an attempt to crack down on widespread dissent against the crushing taxes on basic necessities being imposed on the people due to debt from World Bank and International Monetary Fund loans. Extrajudicial killings are endemic around US bases at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, and Magagoni Airfield in Kenya, as well as widespread military backed displacement and drug war operations inside the capital's urban poor informal settlements. This repression is directly enabled by U.S. and UK security aid, which funds and trains the very units, like the The General Service Unit (GSU) a paramilitary wing in the Kenya Police Service and Kenya Defence Forces, that Ruto’s regime deploys to crush dissent. As millions take the street to protest the economic reforms they also demand a comprehensive overhaul of of the system of exploitation upheld by the Ruto regime and US imperialist profit.
In Sudan, warring militarized factions have plunged the country into prolonged genocidal war that has already claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people. In May 2025, a deadly airstrike on a civilian neighborhood in Khartoum sparked renewed protests and armed defiance across the country. With backing from the U.S., UAE, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and others, rival factions weaponize the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in a brutal struggle for control of the country’s resources and geopolitical leverage. While empires carve up Sudan for its gold, oil, and strategic ports, South Sudanese are being criminally killed—trapped between warring proxies, collapsed aid systems, and scorched-earth raids. Alongside the strife, a new type of resistance grows. From neighborhood resistance committees, women-led unions, and radical youth organizations to the revolutionary movement that toppled the regime of Omar al-Bashir seven years ago, the people of Sudan continue on their revolutionary task of fulfilling their democratic aspirations that can only be won after an end to the foreign military and economic stronghold in the country.
In the past year alone, over 6,000 Haitians have been killed by paramilitary death squads aligned with sectors of Haiti’s elite while over one million people have been driven from their homes. Close to half the population is suffering from acute hunger, with many on the brink of starvation. The vast majority of the high-powered weapons used by these death squads have been smuggled in from the US. The US goal is to maintain a pro-U.S. government in power that will sell off Haiti’s mineral resources, open up the country to more foreign investment and garment sweatshops, and help solidify U.S. control over the Caribbean. Since the 2004 coup against Haiti’s elected government, the U.S.-led Core Group (France, Canada, UN, OAS) has weaponized "aid" and "peacekeeping" to crush democracy, privatize Haiti’s economy, and justify military occupation. In the midst of the chaos created by foreign powers, Haitian revolutionaries still resist this neocolonial stranglehold.
Imperialist plunder of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and its rich natural resources has subjected the country to abject poverty and bloody war for generations. Multinational corporations and foreign states exploit mineral resources, funding armed groups including US-backed Rwandan and Ugandan mercenaries to maintain control and prolong violence for imperialist gain. DRC’s liberation will not come from those who's only interest is to exploit the people and land of country. The mass organizations and their demands for a just and lasting peace, free from imperialist domination, are growing and being inspired anti imperialist wins across the region.
In the fight for liberation and peace across the continent, we extend international solidarity to the Alliance of Sahel States (AES); the sovereign coalition of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The alliance has already dealt serious blows to western imperialism and militarism - kicking out French and US troops and bases, taking back natural resources once controlled by foreign powers and braking off with unequal economic agreements set by puppet officials. The alliance of Sahel States and their actions are the embodiment of people's anti imperialist demands against the exploitation of their land, resources and livelihood, goals deeply aligned with the Resist US-Led War Movement's call for building just and lasting peace.
On this African Liberation Day, let these struggles and many others stand as a beacon of courage and inspiration to the struggles against US-led war and militarism the world over. Together, the people will win and just and lasting peace throughout all of Africa and the entire world!