The Black Alliance for Peace faces many challenges and attacks because of its principled stance of opposition to US imperialism. But some people may be surprised to learn that the BAP has recently come under attack from people on the left who call themselves socialists. One of the leaders of Black Alliance for Peace, Ajamu Baraka, was specifically targeted when he was a featured speaker at the annual Left Forum in New York City.
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America and the International Socialist Organization openly lent credibility to the lies and demonizations of other countries that the US uses to justify its military interventions and bloody wars across the globe. They accused Baraka of being an “Assadist”– a meaningless term borrowed from the U.S. State Department which is used to slander those who demand that the United States military withdraw from Syria. Socialists should be protesting actual enemies like the military industrial complex, not radical black leaders like Ajamu Baraka.
Quest Riggs of New Orleans’ Students and Workers Against Racism and Militarism (SWARM) writes, “we stand in solidarity with Ajamu Baraka and the Black Alliance for Peace. We know that these attacks will do nothing to deter them from their committed struggle against US imperialism.”
Learn more about the Black Alliance for Peace at www.blackallianceforpeace.com