From June 11 to July 18, the U.S., Mexico and Canada will co-host the World Cup, the most watched sport event in the world.
Thousands of people will break their savings or incur debt to come to Canada, Mexico and the U.S. to attend and watch these matches.
Millions of colonized people around the world—who can’t travel either because of U.S. visa restrictions, or imposed poverty that makes it impossible to travel to the U.S.—will watch it on TV or online.
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) World Cup is a racket. The first World Cup was held in 1930, when most African countries and black people were under direct colonial rule. It was not conceived for the African working class.
The Sun, the most virulent colonial tabloid newspaper in the UK, captured the FIFA world cup racket with this headline: “How much? ‘Looks like I’ll be fasting’-Fans are stunned by ‘criminal’ food and drink price at Seattle’s world cup stadium.”
Another June 9 article of The Sun says, “The local Michelob Ultra or Budweiser will be $15.95 (£11.88) a U.S. pint on June 17 when England take on Croatia.
“Fan fury spiralled further last night as they realized a U.S. pint is 17 percent smaller than a UK Imperial measure—so we’ll get even less beer for their bucks at games.”
The high cost today that excludes the near totality of African people reflects the colonial relationship that exists between the oppressed African Nation and the oppressor white nation.
According to a December 14, 2025 article on myjoyonline.com, “African football fans will pay between $140 and $2,355 to watch their teams at the FIFA World Cup.” The article contrasts this with the fact that the minimum wage is $278 per month in South Africa.
The ticket of the match between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Portugal cost $ 2,475, and the minimum wage in Congo is about $200 per month.
Visa restrictions
Donald Trump’s blocking the entry of African referee Omar Artan reminds us that without our own power, the world cup is meaningless.
Omar Artan’s inability to travel to the U.S. is a statement of raw white colonial power imposed on the African Nation.
The main beneficiaries of this competition will be the colonial bourgeoisie, both old and new ones, such as Adidas, Aramco, Coca-Cola, Hyundai-Kia, Lenovo, Qatar Airways, Visa and more. FIFA with its boss, Gianni Infantino, is at the service of these colonial corporations.
It is predicted that over five billion people will see all matches for the duration of the tournament; this is an average of about 128.1 million per day for 39 days.
This is a huge market for parasitic sponsors to rack in billions of dollars when workers and peasants are daily killed in places like Palestine, Lebanon, DRC and Sudan to feed the voracious appetite of the same colonial sponsors.
Africans should never forget that sponsors of the World Cup are the same ones creating wars in Africa, the Middle East and threatening Cuba with invasion.
They are the same forces who keep Indigenous populations in concentration camps euphemistically labelled as reservations. They are the same ones who have locked up millions of Africans in U.S. prisons as part of population control to maintain the colonial mode of production.
That is why we remind everyone reading this article that the freedom struggle cuts through everything we do. There is no ceasefire between the colonizers and the colonized peoples.
Creating safe conditions for white people to enjoy all the colonial loot from Africa and around the world is what “law and order” or the rule of law is all about.
Win African footballers for Black Power
The role of our Party is to arm the people with a clear vision of the future. We have to centralize the question of African self-determination everywhere in the world to help African and other colonized players to articulate the Africa question in the most effective way.
Africa must be free, united and under the leadership of the African working class. We need our own power and economy.
Colonialism as the mode of production must be destroyed so Africans do not have to come to play in the colonial U.S. or Europe primarily to entertain the colonial white population and confuse impoverished masses of Africans on what success means.
We want the right to have our own games for our own total emancipation, well-being and happiness in a united Africa.
Smash Opportunism!
Build One Africa! One Nation!
