White solidarity with the African anti-colonial struggle— Reparations now!
The African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) and our mass organization the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) condemn the January 7, 2026 murder by U.S. federal agents of 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The murder took place just blocks from where local police brutally murdered George Floyd in May of 2020.
Good was reported to have been participating as a legal observer in the community response that is fighting back against the vicious intensification of colonial terror being waged on African and Indigenous communities in the Twin Cities metro area since early December.
We salute the stand of Renee Good, as a white person who, like Aaron Bushnell, embodied a profound stand of solidarity with the African and colonized peoples of the world. Renee Good and Aaron Bushnell represent the growing number of white people who have been influenced by the African People’s Socialist Party’s call to join the rest of humanity and refuse to be complicit in the colonial genocide being carried out in our name.
It is our commitment as the Uhuru Solidarity Movement to recruit massively among the white community in 2026, to reach all of the Renee Goods and Aaron Bushnells of the world, to join the organization of white solidarity with Black Power, under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party.
“Operation Metro Surge” intensifies colonial terror in Twin Cities: January 7 marked the 4th day of an escalated effort, coined “Operation Metro Surge,” with U.S. secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem and U.S. border patrol chief goon Gregory Bovino on the ground to oversee deployment of an additional 2,000 I.C.E. deportation agents in the Twin Cities. The surge is expected to last at least 30 days.
The cold-blooded nature of Renee Good’s murder, captured on video by other protesters, even led Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey to demand during a press conference that ICE “Get the f*** out of Minneapolis.” His sharp message and tone made him sound almost like some kind of radical anti-police brutality activist, but we have not forgotten the police murders of African people including George Floyd, Winston Smith, Laneal Frazier and Amir Locke that have happened during his time as mayor.
APSC and USM stand in solidarity with the African community in Minneapolis. We denounce the latest wave of attacks that have relentlessly targeted African people from Somalia, who are part of the African nation, dispersed around the world as a result of slavery and colonialism.
U.S. president Donald John Trump and his administration have intensified these attacks recently using fraud as the latest excuse to send the surge of I.C.E. troops, and giving the green light to his MAGA minions to harass Somali-run businesses.
But attacks on African people from Somalia predate Trump and include FBI intimidation and entrapment.
We call for white people to stand up—against these attacks and for reparations. We must go beyond fighting racism and what some characterize as a new era of fascism.
It’s not just Trump, it’s the whole damn system: As African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela has helped us understand, it’s not just Trump—the whole colonial system must go. We are not fighting racism. We have to overturn the colonial mode of production that rests on the pedestal of the enslavement of African people, stolen Indigenous land, and the ongoing exploitation of African, Indigenous and colonized people in the U.S. and around the world. This is a colonial system that is maintained through brutal violence by arms of the colonial State every single day.
The U.S. bombing of Nigeria on Christmas day, the January 3 invasion of Venezuela, I.C.E. terror in African and Mexican/Indigenous communities in the U.S.—these are all manifestations of the colonial mode of production.
As African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela summed up in a presentation to InPDUM’s Black Community Rally on January 4 in St. Louis about the U.S. attack on Venezuela that included kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, our social system “is in a state of decline and is trying stop history. It’s trying to reverse history…trying to take back the past, trying to take back everything that’s been lost by the imperial power.”
The democratic party can’t lead us out of this. And the so-called progressive Left, including the Democratic Socialists of America, does not have solutions that get to the root of the problem.
But African and colonized people are resisting, building organization and leading the anti-colonial struggle. The African People’s Socialist Party has developed the political theory of African Internationalism that shows the way forward. They, and those of us in the white community who support the struggle for African freedom, will never allow the world to return to “the good old days” of white power. This is what Renee Good was expressing when she joined others in the community to defend colonized people in Minneapolis from I.C.E. attacks.
Go beyond protest – what you can do: Since 1972, the African People’s Socialist Party has been leading the struggle to complete the Black Revolution of the 1960s, building political and economic power through over 50 organizations and institutions, including the Black Power Blueprint in St. Louis, MO which has been on the front lines of anti-colonial struggle since the police murder of Mike Brown.
Now is the time to get organized under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party.
If you are disturbed and upset by the brutal I.C.E. attacks in Minneapolis and elsewhere, don’t despair. Become a member of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement to contribute to African people building political and economic power in their own hands.
In his recent Address to the African Nation about the attack on Venezuela, Chairman Omali Yeshitela called on those watching:
“Instead of only protesting the world as it is, we have to be involved in building the world that we want…We have to double down and build the economic development programs that negate the power of the colonizer in our own community. If we have our own capacity to feed, clothe and house ourselves, it impacts on all of the industries that make themselves rich by having crippled us and our capacity to do that. The whole social system requires the appearance of dependency of African people.”
Join in principled solidarity with the anti-colonial struggle!
Visit UhuruSolidarity.org and APSCUhuru.org to join the movement of white people in solidarity with the African liberation struggle. If you are in the Twin Cities, email mpls@uhurusolidarity.org to get involved and attend our next Reparations Study Group on Saturday, January 17 at 11am CT.
Learn more about and contribute to the Black Power Blueprint at BlackPowerBlueprint.org.
Get news and analysis from the perspective of the Black working class around the world. Read The Burning Spear newspaper at TheBurningSpear.com and follow The Burning Spear TV YouTube Channel
Come to St. Louis for the 2026 International Plenary of the African People’s Socialist Party – April 17-19. Visit APSPPlenary.org
About APSC: The African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) is a constituent organization of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP). The Party formed APSC in 1976 as the organization for white people who are committed to standing for justice and liberation of African and all colonized peoples. Our mission is to build the movement for white reparations to African people and for white solidarity with the worldwide African Revolution. Learn more about APSC’s 50 years of building white solidarity with Black Power and how you can get involved at APSCUhuru.org.
About USM: As the mass organization of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement’s mission is to extend the struggle for African freedom and justice into the white population, recruiting millions of white people to reject our historic allegiance to the white ruling class and the system of white power imperialism and instead to take a stand in principled unity with Africans, Mexicans, Indigenous, Arab and colonized, exploited peoples around the globe. Learn more at UhuruSolidarity.org.