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Revolutionary Left Radio

Against AFRICOM: US Imperialism in Africa

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Nicholas Richard-Thompson and Tunde Osazua from the Black Alliance for Peace join Breht to discuss AFRICOM, or The United States Africa Command - responsible for U.S. military operations on the continent. Together they discuss BAP's month of action against AFRICOM, the strategic role that AFRICOM plays in the maintenance of US empire, the importance of proletarian internationalism in the fight against capitalism-imperialism, neocolonialism and comprador regimes, the consequences of 14 years of AFRICOM, and much more.
Learn more and support Black Alliance for Peace here: https://linktr.ee/blackallianceforpeace
Follow Nicholas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nicholasseanrt
Follow Tunde on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TundeOsazua
BAP Chicago's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bap_chicago

Outro music "I'm a African" by Dead Prez


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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

0:08.7

On today's episode, I have on Tune Day and Nicholas from the Black Alliance for Peace

0:13.8

to talk about Africom.

0:15.8

The Black Alliance for Peace recently in October did their monthly shutdown, Africom

0:20.2

movement where they put a lot of energy and time and resources into trying to educate

0:25.2

people about what Africom is, what its consequences are, not only for the African continent,

0:29.9

but for the world and for US imperialism and US hegemony more broadly.

0:34.8

This is a really important and really essential conversation and people I don't think understand

0:40.4

it quite enough.

0:41.4

I don't think a lot of people have a grasp on what exactly Africom is and how it operates

0:46.4

and what its actual goals are as differentiated from its purported goals.

0:51.4

Of course, US Empire will always present itself rhetorically in one way while its actual

0:56.0

interests are hidden from public view and its our job as Marxist and anti-imperialist

1:01.2

to peel back those layers and show people what these things actually are and whose interests

1:05.7

they actually serve.

1:08.1

These are two really principled, wonderful comrades from a great organization here to educate

1:13.2

all of us on Africom and lay the political educational foundational framework for more

1:21.2

robust resistance to it and things like it.

1:24.4

Without further ado, here's my interview with Tunde and Nicolas from Black Alliance for

1:28.0

Peace on Africom.

1:31.4

Hello, my name is Nicolas Assar Thompson.

1:42.2

I am the Midwest Regional Organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace and my name is Tunde

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