World Cup

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist , Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The White Supremacist Imperative on Violence: A Black Radical Perspective on the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
15 Jul 2026
The U.S.-EU-NATO axis remains intact, and its commitment to militarism represents an existential threat to the world.
Black Alliance For Peace
The Anti Fascist Football Coalition Joins the Call for the Remaining Teams in the World Cup to Withdraw and Urges People of Conscience to Fight Back Against U.S. Fascism
15 Jul 2026
FIFA allowed a nation that commits genocide and runs detention gulags to host the World Cup, and the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition says staying in the tournament is no longer an option.
Djibo Sobukwe
FIFA, World Cup 2026, Sports and the Contradictions of US/EU Colonial Hegemony
15 Jul 2026
Haiti qualified for the World Cup on the anniversary of its revolution, the DRC brought the spirit of Lumumba to the pitch, and Iran wore pins for children killed by U.S. bombs, proving that football…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
“Don’t Worry Be Happy”: The World Cup as an International Psy-Op
17 Jun 2026
FIFA uses the World Cup to present the United States as a legitimate nation, but the U.S. is a rogue state committing crimes against humanity. The call for a boycott is a call to decolonize football…
Black Alliance For Peace
World Cup 2026: FIFA and the U.S.’s White Supremacist Colonial Partnership is already on Full Display
17 Jun 2026
FIFA has shown itself to be a colonial instrument that serves white supremacy and U.S. imperialism. Referees, players, and fans from non-white nations are being harassed, denied entry, and brutalized…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: All the World’s a Ball, Eduardo Galeano, 1998
10 Jun 2026
“Professional soccer does everything to [destroy] that energy of happiness, but it survives in spite of all the spites.”
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Beautiful Game Can’t Hide the Ugly
10 Jun 2026
The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its leaders ignored international demands to host the matches…
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Calls On International Community to Boycott the 2026 World Cup Games Scheduled for the United States
03 Jun 2026
The World Cup is meant to be a celebration of global unity, not a propaganda shield for a superpower waging genocide abroad and running detention gulags on its own soil.
Black Alliance For Peace
Move the Games: No World Cup for Genocide, Ecocide, or State Thuggery
29 Apr 2026
A celebration of the most popular sport in the world can't be held in a country that commits genocide, ecocide, and daily state violence. The World Cup must not be held in the U.S.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist , Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
White Power, White Decedance, White Denial: A Dialog with Ajamu Baraka
22 Apr 2026
Ajamu Baraka and Margaret Kimberley discuss how the assault on Iran exposed the pathological nature of white power, the cynical games of the duopoly, and a new campaign to move the World Cup out of…