Build on the Legacy of African Liberation Day: Destroy U.S. Imperialism and Militarism in Africa and Take Back the People’s Land and Sovereignty.

On African Liberation Day, May 25, 2026, we commemorate the unbroken spirit of revolution and liberation of all African nations, first ignited in 1958 by Kwame Nkrumah and the Conference of Independent African States, and formalized on May 25, 1963, with the founding of the Organization of African Unity.

Africa remains one of the richest continents on Earth in land and natural resources, yet its people are the poorest. The region is home to roughly 70 percent of the world’s poor. Since the 17th century, Western powers have looted Africa’s wealth. Given centuries of colonial invasion, the current division of land amongst imperialist spheres is founded on the 1884 Berlin Conference’s carving of the continent, and the subsequent neocolonial relations that granted formal political independence while keeping peoples and governments dependent on imperialist-led financial institutions like the World Bank, IMF and USAID.

U.S. imperialism remains the number one enemy of peace and the self-determination of peoples across the world, and in Africa it is no different. While the U.S. bombs Yemen, arms the Zionist entity, surrounds Iran with carrier strike groups, and criminalizes the Bolivarian Revolution it is also propping up puppet regimes across Africa, stealing its minerals, militarizing its land, and weaponizing humanitarian aid as a tool of neocolonial control.

The U.S. ruling class, caught between a deepening structural crisis of its own making and the rise of new economic and industrial powers, is ever more desperate to subjugate the people's and land of Africa to its multinational corporations and financial capital. The ongoing war on Iran has only intensified the scramble for Africa’s energy corridors and strategic ports, as Western powers lash out at any trade axis beyond their control. At the same time, France is making desperate attempts to reverse its fading influence in the Sahel, where the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) encompassing Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, has expelled French bases and troops in recent years. Meanwhile, U.S. trade leverage weakens in the face of Chinese infrastructure projects. Confronted with this crisis of legitimacy, the Europeans and Americans respond with destabilization, proxy terror, and increasing violence characteristic of dying empires.

Imperialism in strategic decline destabilizes African nations in a failing attempt to save itself.
Across the African continent, it is the toiling masses who bear the brunt of this desperate scramble. As US imperialism enters a phase of strategic decline, it unleashes escalating militarism and predatory measures against the people, clawing for whatever remains or attempting to regain fading hegemony.

The most outright presence of U.S. militarism on the continent happens through AFRICOM. After the overthrow of European colonial regimes by African independence struggles, the U.S. established AFRICOM in 2007 as the most recent geographic combatant command of the Pentagon. The U.S. has since used it to wage the "war on terror" and impose U.S. control on African people, land, and resources. As Europe's current neo-colonial relations are weakened, the U.S. uses AFRICOM for counter-revolutionary control and violence on the continent to try to repress the peoples' struggles for liberation, while it tries to compete with Russian influence and Chinese development investments, to hold onto the U.S.'s foothold on the continent. Despite its claim of a “light footprint,” AFRICOM is the U.S.'s 2nd fastest growing military command, with 46 various forms of U.S. bases as well as military-to-military relations between 53 out of the 54 African countries and the United States. U.S. Special Forces troops now operate in more than a dozen African nations. AFRICOM is responsible for devastating covert operations in Nigeria, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Mali, and many other countries, and directs huge multi-country exercises like African Lion that expand drone warfare capabilities. Beyond its direct intervention, AFRICOM has armed and trained local warlords and has even helped some come to power, where they have brutalized their own people for personal interests.

In Kenya, the recent French “Africa Forward” Summit in Nairobi repackaged neocolonial capital and “green energy” carbon offsets as partnership, passing mineral deals worth €170 million centering private investments and corporate driven “innovation” that reinforces the dominance of institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund whose policies have historically deepened food insecurity, climate vulnerability, land grabbing and exploitation. All while puppet president William Ruto of Kenya, recently designated a Major Non-NATO Ally, opens the countries land to 800 additional French troops and carbon-trading schemes that benefit the French ruling class. Concurrently, Ruto is dispatching Kenyan police to occupy Haiti on the U.S.'s behalf, sending his own people to commit crimes against the people of Haiti and the Americas.

The paramilitary M23, trained, armed, and backed by Rwanda, has captured the DRC city of Goma, and recently summarily executing over 50 civilians attempting to flee toward safety in the city of Uvira. Repeated massacres have been committed by the ADF against civilians with political arrangements. The DRC is now considering unconstitutional constitutional changes under the cover of security partnerships or regional deals, in order to serve foreign interests. Even though highly risky and often deadly, the masses in the DRC are still struggling for international and internal accountability for all those killed and pursuing protection of their countrymen.

In Sudan, a four-year proxy war framed as a civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is in fact a foreign engineered and funded catastrophe to create crisis so that imperialists and their allies in the Gulf monarchies gain easy access to the country’s natural resources, especially gold. Both sides commit killings, torture, shelling, drone attacks, and rape as a weapon of war, displacing 14 million people and leaving 65 percent of the population in need of relief. Tens of thousands of bodies lie in unmarked graves in Khartoum state alone.

Tanzania is still demanding justice for the victims of the massacres which have taken the lives of over 500, including 20 children, following the October 2025 election fraud and protests. So often those resisting corruption and oppression are killed, surveilled or harassed and criminalized in order to to justify exploitation. Especially rural workers in Tanzania (farmers and pastoralists), those in artisanal mining areas, as well as hawkers and street vendors face chronic land grabbing by multinationals and domestic oppressors, and expulsion from rural areas into overcrowded cities without real promise of livelihood.

Beyond Africa’s shores, the U.S. uses its puppet troops from Chad and Kenya and deploys them to the Caribbean, extending U.S. neocolonial projection into the region. Threats on Cuba intensify as part of a broader strategy to encircle anti-imperialist nations. Military base expansion in Puerto Rico and Colombia secures logistical strongholds for intervention across Africa and the Americas, criminalizing Black and Indigenous farmers and rural populations fighting back for their land.

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 U.S. The U.S. 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, while deploying a U.S.-backed Gang Suppression Force that has only further destabilized the country.

As imperialism falls, the African people are fighting back for their land, resources, and livelihood.

The African people have always fought back, and the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century paved the way for today's fights for national liberation that are continuing the project of a sovereign and liberated Africa. In Burkina Faso, the revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, fought to break the grip of neocolonial debt, land dispossession, and patriarchal oppression, until he was assassinated in 1987 by forces backed by former colonial powers. In Angola, the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA), with the support of Cuban internationalist fighters, defeated the apartheid South African army, a turning point in the liberation of Namibia and the fall of apartheid. In Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde, the armed struggles led by Amílcar Cabral provided a material analysis of the role of colonization in the African nations as well as national liberation process led by peasants and working masses that serves as inspiration to African fighters to this day. In Algeria, the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN)'s eight-year war of independence (1954–1962) expelled French colonialism through urban and rural insurrection, inspiring anti-colonial movements across the Global South. In Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah's call for not just sham independence predicated on the dictates of international financial institutions but the total economic and political liberation of the continent set the compass for the solidarity amongst African Nations. These martyrs and revolutionaries embodied the ideals of just peace: true sovereignty, land to the tillers, and resources for the people. The African fighters of today are set to continue and liberate their nations from the shackles of imperialism that are still causing extensive destruction to their land and people.

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) composed Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, with nationalist governments born from the overthrow of puppet leaders, stand as living testament that the colonial footprints of military bases can be ejected. They have expelled French troops, closed U.S. military bases, built West Africa’s first state-owned gold refinery in Mali (seizing the Loulo-Gounkoto mine from Canadian firm Barrick), and broken the uranium monopoly that kept Nigeriens in darkness while fueling France’s electrical grid. Despite a coordinated imperialist counter-offensive of 12,000 jihadist and separatist fighters on April 25, 2026, including Western-backed Tuareg elements striking six AES cities, the AES continues to defend its nationalist project.

In Kenya, the colonial France–Africa Summit, now rebranded as "Africa Forward, "was met with popular resistance. In response, a counter-summit called the Pan-Africanist Summit Against Imperialism (PASAI) was organized, alongside street protests led by revolutionary parties and people’s movements from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Global North. Through chants and direct confrontation with puppet state forced the people denounced the false solutions presented by local ruling class forces acting in collusion with French imperialists, including French President Emmanuel Macron, who shamelessly declared, "We are the real Pan-Africanists."

In the DRC, the communities fight for genuine peace against foreign-backed terror groups. Despite M23’s massacres, collapse of foreign assistance, and the extraction and sham peace deals that do not take the toiling masses into account, the people of eastern Congo are organizing local defense, rejecting the false choice between Rwandan-backed occupation and Western-backed plunder.

In Sudan the people resist through grassroots mutual aid, neighborhood committees, and underground networks, fighting back against the destabilization that the U.S. cultivates to then offer neoliberal extraction as the false solution.

On this African Liberation Day, the Resist U.S. Led War Movement uplifts the rising forces of resistance for national independence and social liberation across the continent and beyond and joins the call and fight for a Africa free from military occupation, an end to the plunder of labor and land, no green capitalism’s false solutions, the break up of finance capital’s debt traps, and building of internationalist solidarity with all oppressed peoples. 

U.S. and France Out of Africa!
Shut down AFRICOM!
Our struggle is one!

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