Plenary to address shifting world order, repression and resistance
WHAT: African People’s Socialist Party International Plenary
WHEN: April 17-19, 2026
WHERE: Center for Divine Love, 3617 Wyoming, St. Louis, MO (also broadcast live online)
CONTACT: info@apspplenary.org
From April 17 – 19, 2026, the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) will hold a 3-day Plenary conference to assess the state of its work to unify and liberate the African Nation and to prepare its members and supporters for the final offensive towards victory in the anti-colonial struggle. This year’s Plenary is themed, “This Time ‘Til it’s Won! Power in Our Own Hands! It’s not just Trump, it’s the whole damn system!”
Since its formation in 1972, the APSP has declared its intention to govern, adopting an enduring Platform and pursuing a strategy to overturn the colonial mode of production by rebuilding the capacity of the African working class to feed, clothe, house, educate, heal and otherwise fend for itself. It has held seven Congresses where major initiatives have been adopted in a democratic process by the Party’s entire membership, with annual Plenary conferences in between Congresses to evaluate the implementation of those initiatives and correct course as needed.
The annual convening of the APSP’s Plenary was delayed after the 2022 FBI raids and subsequent federal trial of the Uhuru 3 on bogus charges of being Russian agents. APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela and two leaders of the Party’s solidarity wing, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, were threatened with 15 years in prison and $250,000 fines each. They succeeded in defeating the U.S. government’s attempts to imprison and fine them by building a 2.5-year intensive public campaign that won support from across the political spectrum for the right to anti-colonial free speech.
In his call for participation in the APSP’s April Plenary, Chairman Omali Yeshitela declared, “We are coming into this new period in a victorious mode and I think it bodes well for things moving forward both for the African People’s Socialist Party and for all those throughout the world who are fighting for national liberation, self determination, socialism and peace on a foundation of social justice.”
While freedom-loving people throughout the world are courageously speaking out and putting their lives on the line in opposition to the unfettered genocidal frenzy of U.S. international and domestic military aggression, the APSP calls on freedom-loving people to, at the same time, go beyond protest and build the liberated economy to negate the colonial mode of production.
Chairman Omali describes the significance of the APSP’s upcoming Plenary. “The African People’s Socialist Party April 2026 International Plenary is the planning forum we use to deepen our organization, enhance our organizing and lead the African working class beyond spontaneous protest and social media militancy to the capture of actual contending dual power designed to negate the colonial domination of our people and the oppressed peoples of the world.”
The APSP’s April 17-19 Plenary will include presentations, workshops and training sessions on:
- Building a dual and contending economy and creating liberated territory. Review of the “Black Power Blueprint” in St. Louis where the Uhuru Movement has acquired scores of dilapidated properties, building a community farm, bakery cafe, community center, farmers market, outdoor events venue and basketball court, with a women’s health center and radio station in the works.
- Using the electoral process to seize political terrain. Featuring candidates and former elected officials New York Assemblyman and NYC Councilman Charles Barron, St. Louis Alderman Jesse Todd, candidates Akile Anai, Jesse Nevel and more.
- Security and self-defense for the community and the movement. Know your rights when the FBI knocks or you get stopped in the street. With a special presentation from Union del Barrio, the Mexican liberation organization respected for its recent success in community mobilization and protection against ICE raids in southern California.
- Campaign to repeal the Foreign Agent and Conspiracy laws used for political repression. Initiated by the Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! Campaign in 2025. Presentation of tactics and strategy to affect change in the law.
- Dred Scott Sanctuary City Resolution. How to expand traditional Sanctuary City protections to include non-cooperation with the spectrum of federal political raids in and against the Black and other colonized communities.
- Unifying the African Nation for total liberation. On-the-ground reports from the African Socialist International’s practical programs in South Africa, Sierra Leone and Europe.
- Independent Black-owned media. How to get involved in The Burning Spear newspaper production and distribution, Black Power Radio FM stations and the APSP’s Living History Archiving Project to preserve Black history.
- Science, engineering, agriculture, education and healthcare in the service of African liberation. Organizers share expertise from their international work in Ebola prevention, disaster relief, rain water harvesting and free tele-med and education services during the COVID pandemic.
- African women are equal makers and shapers of history. Reports on work to stop “Child Protective Services” kidnapping of Black children, organizing the annual “Black Mothers March on the White House” and building a revolutionary home for African women.
- Unity through reparations. The APSP broke ground with its 1976 establishment of a constituent organization – the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) – bound to its leadership, designed to provide a vehicle for white people to stand in accountable solidarity with African liberation. APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel report on reparations work.
Chairman Omali promises the upcoming Plenary will provide the ideological and practical leadership needed in this period: “In the 53 years of our Party’s existence, our leaders and institutions have survived police beatings, imprisonment, firebombings, FBI raids, armed assassination attempts, economic sanctions and other attempts to crush us. We have been able to thrive and grow because our theory of African Internationalism has been tested and proven correct in our practice, building genuine self-determination and creating liberated territory. Join us in our victorious struggle. This time ‘til it’s won, power in our own hands!”
Registration and information can be found at https://apspplenary.org/
