[Opinion] The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for a Boycott of the World Cup

“Don’t Worry Be Happy”: The World Cup as an International Psy-Op

​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka Black Agenda Report 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 and to reject FIFA’s role as a broker for sportswashing. The world watched in horror. Day after day, people around the world were bombarded with images of a level of brutality rarely witnessed in real time: hu…

The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for a Boycott of the World Cup

The Black Alliance for Peace and other organizations have called for a boycott of the 2026 World Cup being held in the United States. Before any matches were played, the U.S. banned players, fans, and officials, and even forced the Iranian team to stay in Mexico and fly to their U.S. matches. Austin Cole, who is one of three co-coordinators of the Black Alliance for Peace, explains why a boycott of the World Cup and the U.S. is necessary.