About Bronx Anti-War Coalition

We are a Lënapehòkink (Bronx) based working-class, BIPOC-led, anti-imperialist, direct-action coalition resisting state violence while advancing decolonization.

Mission

Through a revolutionary decolonial framework, we aim to build people's power outside of capitalist-imperialist institutions while materially supporting national liberation for all oppressed people, including prisoners.

Points of Unity

Anti-Imperialism/Decolonization: We staunchly oppose US/EU/Western imperialism, viewing it as the primary threat to global peace and stability. We see the US and its vassals as the ongoing institutional expression of settler-colonialism and are committed to LAND BACK and reparations for all Indigenous peoples in a genuine process of decolonization. We link the international role of the US empire to the domestic war against poor and working-class BIPOC in the US.

Proletarian Internationalism/Defend People’s Revolutions: As revolutionaries in the imperial core, our primary duty is to get US imperialism off the backs of global south nations so they can focus less on defending themselves and more on socialist development. We must frustrate all attempts by US imperialism to interfere in their economic, political, and social development. Until the aggression and war provocations let up, global south nations will continue to be forced into compromises and concessions within a capitalist-dominated world. We support all peoples and nations resisting US imperialism and struggling for self-determination, independence, and sovereignty.

Anti-Capitalism: We assert that capitalism as a mode of production is inherently exploitative and cannot be reformed. We advocate for decommodifying human needs, viewing them as human rights (including but not limited to healthcare/hygiene supplies, education, housing, nutritious food, clothing, and transportation). We identify the ruling class's theft, hoarding, and withholding of resources as the root causes of poverty, violence, and crime.

Self-Determination/National Liberation: We express unconditional solidarity with oppressed people in their struggle for self-determination and national liberation. We believe that the fight against imperialism is key to eliminating the stratification, chauvinism, and backwardness that capitalism relies upon to divide the working class.

Opposition to US/NATO Imperialist Wars: We oppose US/NATO war provocations, invasions, regime change operations, military occupation, economic warfare (sanctions and debt traps), and US dollar hegemony. We fight against the military-industrial complex, the poverty draft, and the presence of predatory military, police, and prison guard recruiters in our schools and communities.

Anti-racism: We reject white supremacy in all its forms, including anti-Blackness, zionism, anti-immigration policies, individual racism, interpersonal racism, institutional racism, structural racism, and systemic racism. As anti-racists, our mission is to raise the consciousness of ourselves and others about race and racism and take action when we see white supremacist power inequities in everyday life at the micro and macro levels. We are committed to doing the necessary work to decolonize our minds and the minds of our people, which means we don’t shy away from confronting anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity in our own communities. 

Anti-zionism & Anti-normalization: We stand firmly against the normalization of the genocidal ideology of zionism and its physical manifestation in the settler colony known as “israel.” We support the abolition of the zionist entity and LAND BACK: a single Palestinian state with the right of return for Palestinian refugees. We view the Palestinian Resistance and the Axis of Resistance as the only realistic path toward achieving liberation for Palestine.

Right to Resist: We subscribe to the Black Alliance for Peace’s definition of peace* and support the right to resist colonial imperialism by any means necessary, including armed struggle. We are not a pacifist movement and believe there can be no peace without justice.

*Peace is not the absence of conflict but rather the achievement by popular struggle and self-defense of a world liberated from the interlocking issues of global conflict, nuclear armament and proliferation, unjust war, and subversion through the defeat of global systems of oppression that include colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.

Abolition/Prisoner Solidarity: We oppose collaboration with police and “law enforcement,” who are violent, militarized, fascist soldiers whose purpose is to quell people’s uprisings and revolutionary organizing. We support the movements to free US/EU/Western-held prisoners. We fight for a world without cops and prisons and are committed to working against all forms of state-sanctioned surveillance and repression.

Anti-Gentrification: We view gentrification as another manifestation of settler-colonialism targeting poor and working-class BIPOC communities. Gentrification, like settler-colonialism, is a zero-sum game that relies on brute force by occupying militarized police who regulate space, whether through housing evictions or restrictions placed on public space. The forces of gentrification are rooted in white supremacy because the end goal is the criminalization and displacement of Afro-Indigenous diasporic communities.

Reject Electoralism: We view institutional routes of change such as political elections and legislative campaigns as state-sanctioned controlled opposition that does not meaningfully threaten the status quo. We view both Democrats and Republicans as fascist, imperialist parties and all US politicians as pawns of the ruling class. We do not aspire to assimilate into the empire but instead work to dismantle it. Attempting to work within the capitalist/imperialist system legitimizes illegitimate systems. We instead support mass, direct action, community organizing, and long-term struggle. We support direct aid to neighbors and oppose the opportunist NGO/non-profit industrial complex.

Solidarity with All Oppressed Peoples: We believe that poor, working, and oppressed people should never turn against one another. We support the LGBTQIA+ and migrant struggles, understanding that refugees are fleeing violence and instability created by US imperialism in their nations. We also recognize how refugees in the imperial core are criminalized and scapegoated by the ruling class as part of their “divide and conquer” strategy. We welcome people of every age, religion, nationality, sexuality, gender, and ability. 

Working-Class Leadership: We believe that only the oppressed can lead the oppressed and that all our struggles are interconnected. We identify the Black, Indigenous, Femme, Queer, Nonbinary, and Transgender working class as the primary social force of any liberation project. We remain committed to being an organization led by working-class members of oppressed and internally colonized communities.

Freedom of Speech, Expression, Assembly: We uphold the fundamental right to assemble in public spaces and oppose corporate media and state censorship, shadowbanning, and repression. We expose mainstream imperialist narratives and build and support revolutionary, independent media. Like Amilcar Cabral before us, we adhere to the principle of "hiding nothing from the masses of the people, telling no lies, exposing lies whenever they are told, masking no difficulties, mistakes, or failures, and claiming no easy victories."
Political Education: There can be no revolution without organization, and there can be no revolution without political education. Both are mandatory. Political education sharpens our swords against imperialism and is essential for growth and development. Without political education, we fall victim to imperialist propaganda, cooptation, and state deception.