The world watches as U.S. President Trump 2.0 rapidly escalates armed military expulsions of Mexican, Indigenous, and other peoples crossing the U.S. borders to access their stolen land.
Trump demands the removal of Palestinian people from their land and, according to The New York Times, is “defying laws” in an “escalating executive power grab,” extending U.S. presidential power reach with the complicity of the Democratic Party.
With the second Trump administration, many white people invoke “fascism,” reacting with fear and demoralization.
“Fascism,” explains Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader of the African People’s Socialist Party-USA (APSP USA), “is when white people experience a taste of the violence and oppression of colonialism that African people face every day.”
“Fascism is a form of the state,” says Chairman Yeshitela. “The state is this entity of organized coercion, a capacity for violence that protects the interests of the existing social system.”
“The purpose of the state is coercion. There’s no such thing as a ‘nice’ state that’s not about coercion. The question is, what social force is the state working for and what social force is the state working against?”
Clearly, we live in a time when struggle and fightback is a necessity. The question is: how do we struggle, and to what end?
Chairman Yeshitela states:
“White people want to know how to fight against this system? Come and ask us. Get under the leadership of the Black Revolution and we will lead you to freedom.”
“Fascism is when colonial-capitalism reveals itself to the colonizers in a similar fashion to how it reveals itself to us [African people]—inside the U.S. and around the world all the time.”
“Colonialism, by definition,” the Chairman explains, “is ruled by a foreign and alien power. All of the political and economic activity in the world happens within the context of a colonial mode of production.
“You can have a democratic colonialism. You can have a fascist colonialism. Colonialism is colonialism is colonialism. We live under colonial domination. That’s what we need to understand.”
Chairman Yeshitela cites Amilcar Cabral, the African revolutionary who led Guinea Bissau’s struggle against Portuguese colonial rule in the 1980s when Portugal was under fascism.
“The Portuguese Left told the comrades in Guinea that if you fight against fascism, colonialism will end.”
Cabral responded, “I don’t know about that, but I do know this: if we defeat colonialism, fascism will fall.” And that is what happened. They beat the Portuguese in Africa, and as a consequence, Portugal became freed from fascism.
The undeniable historical fact is that the U.S. and capitalism were born from the assault on Africa—the kidnapping of African people, their stolen labor, the genocide and stolen land of Indigenous people, and the domination and exploitation of oppressed peoples worldwide. This remains true today as it was 100 years ago.
This is the pedestal that all white people sit on, Chairman Yeshitela demonstrates.
Colonialism is not merely a policy or passing phase—it is embedded in the DNA of the social system we live in. The Chairman calls this “the colonial mode of production.”
Marx defines a “mode of production” as “everything that goes into the production of the necessities of life,” including the “productive forces” (labor, instruments, and raw materials) and the “relations of production” (the social structures that regulate the relation between humans in the production of goods).
For white people, the production of the necessities of life has historically relied on war, plunder, suffering, and oppression of the vast majority of humanity for their benefit.
The experience of fascism is an aberration, but for African and colonized peoples, the conditions of colonialism are the norm—a condition taken for granted by the colonizers.
African people are waging this anti-colonial struggle every day. The Chairman invites us to join the African Revolution, which will lead not only to socialism and social justice but to power in the hands of the people and a world without war, violence, or systems of oppression.
Join the winning side!
Join the African People’s Solidarity Committee and Uhuru Solidarity Movement, working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party.
Register for White Solidarity with Black Power, the national convention of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement on March 15-16, 2025, in St. Louis, MO, and online by going to uhurusolidarity.org/register.
Join the growing movement of solidarity with African and colonized peoples!
