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Black Alliance for Peace Calls On International Community to Boycott the 2026 World Cup Games Scheduled for the United States
Black Alliance For Peace
03 Jun 2026
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Anti-ICE protest for the World Cup
Protesters in Washington demonstrate in December 2025 against the involvement of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel in the World Cup. Francis Chung/POLITICO

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.

Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace.

The Black Alliance for Peace’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights (the Project) raised the issue months ago of the fundamental inappropriateness of the 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup being hosted in the United States. The Project argued that the U.S. human rights record—including blatant actions globally that constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes, and complicity in genocide, along with the systematic abuse of the human rights of migrants, immigrants, and even U.S. citizens domestically through the unleashing of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)—renders the United States ineligible to host the games.

The Project called for the tournament to be moved from the United States, a call that was ignored. Now, with the games scheduled to begin in just a few weeks, the Black Alliance for Peace and its human rights project have no other choice but to call on the international community to withdraw all support for the games through an international boycott.

“It is outrageous and obscene that FIFA would allow the United States—a nation operating completely outside the bounds of international law and established international morality—to host the World Cup while providing material and political support for an ongoing genocide; constructing a regime of domestic terror through ICE goons who beat, murder, and disappear people into the vast detention gulags of the United States; invading and capturing a sitting president; attacking Iran; and imposing a humanitarian crisis on Cuba through criminal siege tactics perfected by Israel in Gaza,” stated Ajamu Baraka, Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

BAP is clear: as long as the United States continues its brutal assaults on the humanity and sovereignty of peoples and nations throughout the world in pursuit of full-spectrum domination, it remains an illegitimate and dangerous host for the World Cup.

But even more importantly, we believe it is a moral necessity to reject any attempt to use the World Cup as an instrument for normalizing international lawlessness, marginalizing accountability, and desecrating the memory of the tens of thousands of victims of U.S. criminality around the world.

BAP National Coordinator Erica Caines understands that this is a controversial position that may not be understood, even by people who recognize and oppose U.S. domestic and foreign policies. “We understand the excitement and pride of the nations that qualified and will compete in the World Cup. However, participation in the games while they are hosted in the United States does not uphold the Beautiful Game as it was meant to be celebrated. Instead, it risks normalizing genocide, domestic repression, militarism, and death.”

That is precisely why the Black Alliance for Peace stands firm in the  insistence that this year’s World Cup—and the United States itself—must be boycotted. Conscience and political consistency demand nothing less.

The U.S. agenda for domination is clear, and therefore our response must also be clear. We will not bend to U.S. imperialism or to any of its subordinate international institutions, including FIFA. Our resistance is politically grounded and informs our focused commitment to boycott the World Cup, boycott the United States, and advance the collective struggle for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

BAP calls on the international community to join us in the fight for authentic human rights grounded in the principles of self-determination, social justice, democracy, and radical social transformation.

Support and join the Global Network for the Advancement of People(s)-Centered Human Rights: bit.ly/GNPCHR  
 



La Alianza Negra por la Paz hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional a boicotear la Copa Mundial de 2026 programada para celebrarse en Estados Unidos


El Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos de la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) planteó hace meses la profunda improcedencia de que la Copa Mundial de la Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) 2026 sea organizada en Estados Unidos. El Proyecto argumentó que el historial de derechos humanos de Estados Unidos —incluyendo acciones flagrantes a nivel global que constituyen crímenes de lesa humanidad, crímenes de guerra y complicidad en genocidio, junto con el abuso sistemático de los derechos humanos de migrantes, inmigrantes e incluso ciudadanos estadounidenses a nivel interno mediante el despliegue de la agencia Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)— hace que Estados Unidos no sea apto para albergar los juegos.

El Proyecto hizo un llamado para que el torneo fuera trasladado fuera de Estados Unidos, un llamado que fue ignorado. Ahora, con los juegos programados para comenzar en pocas semanas, la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) y su proyecto de derechos humanos no tienen otra opción que convocar a la comunidad internacional a retirar todo apoyo a los juegos mediante un boicot internacional.

“Es indignante y obsceno que la FIFA permita que Estados Unidos —una nación que opera completamente por fuera de los límites del derecho internacional y de la moral internacional establecida— organice la Copa Mundial mientras brinda apoyo material y político a un genocidio en curso; construye un régimen de terror interno a través de matones de ICE que golpean, asesinan y desaparecen personas en los vastos gulags de detención de Estados Unidos; invade y captura a un presidente en ejercicio; ataca a Irán; e impone una crisis humanitaria sobre Cuba mediante tácticas criminales de asedio perfeccionadas por Israel en Gaza”, declaró Ajamu Baraka, Director del Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos.

BAP es claro: mientras Estados Unidos continúe sus brutales ataques contra la humanidad y la soberanía de pueblos y naciones en todo el mundo en busca de una dominación total, seguirá siendo un anfitrión ilegítimo y peligroso para la Copa Mundial.

Pero aún más importante, creemos que es una necesidad moral rechazar cualquier intento de utilizar la Copa Mundial como instrumento para normalizar la ilegalidad internacional, marginar la rendición de cuentas y profanar la memoria de las decenas de miles de víctimas de la criminalidad estadounidense alrededor del mundo.

La Coordinadora Nacional de BAP, Erica Caines, entiende que esta es una postura controversial que puede no ser comprendida, incluso por personas que reconocen y se oponen a las políticas internas y exteriores de Estados Unidos. “Entendemos la emoción y el orgullo de las naciones que clasificaron y competirán en la Copa Mundial. Sin embargo, participar en los juegos mientras son organizados en Estados Unidos no honra el Juego Bonito tal como debe celebrarse. En cambio, corre el riesgo de normalizar el genocidio, la represión interna, el militarismo y la muerte.”

Es precisamente por ello que la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) se mantiene firme en la insistencia de que la Copa Mundial de este año —y Estados Unidos mismo— deben ser boicoteados. La conciencia y la coherencia política no exigen menos.

La agenda de dominación de Estados Unidos es clara, y por lo tanto nuestra respuesta también debe ser clara. No nos doblegaremos ante el imperialismo estadounidense ni ante ninguna de sus instituciones internacionales subordinadas, incluida la FIFA. Nuestra resistencia tiene fundamentos políticos y orienta nuestro compromiso decidido de boicotear la Copa Mundial, boicotear a Estados Unidos y avanzar en la lucha colectiva por los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos.

BAP hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional para unirse a esta lucha por derechos humanos auténticos fundamentados en los principios de autodeterminación, justicia social, democracia y transformación social radical.

Apoya y únete a la Red Global para el Avance de los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos:http://bit.ly/GNPCHR

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