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The Beautiful Game Can’t Hide The Ugly

June 13, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
“Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn’t matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.” - Pele’ This week the United States, along with Canada and Mexico, will host the first matches of the 2026 World Cup (Copa Mundial). The U.S. acting as one of the tournament’s hosts has been met with a mix of concern and outrage. For instance, earlier this year when President Trump insisted that the nation of Greenland should be annexed as a U.S. territory, members of the German soccer federation’s executive committee suggested a boycott of the World Cup.

End Sportswashing Of US Crimes And Elite Capture Of The People’s Games

June 8, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , , ,
The 2026 World Cup, taking place in North America, begins on June 11. In the United States, the games will be played in 11 cities from coast to coast with 'security' being provided by federal agencies, including ICE, which have been terrorizing communities, detaining travelers, residents, and citizens in inhumane conditions, and committing violence with impunity. The Anti Fascist Football Coalition opposed holding the games in the US to avoid legitimizing a country that supports genocide in Palestine and is waging illegal wars, and is now calling for a boycott. Clearing the FOG speaks with Maria Hernandez, an organizer with UNITE HERE Local 11 in Los Angeles, where stadium workers are still fighting for a contract and assurances of their safety in a space where ICE agents are present, and Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace, who explains the boycott and why we must take the games back from the billionaire class.

Boycott The 2026 World Cup Games Scheduled For The United States

June 1, 2026 Black Alliance for Peace. , , ,
The Black Alliance for Peace’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights (the Project) raised the issue months ago of the fundamental inappropriateness of the 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup being hosted in the United States. The Project argued that the U.S. human rights record—including blatant actions globally that constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes, and complicity in genocide, along with the systematic abuse of the human rights of migrants, immigrants, and even U.S. citizens domestically through the unleashing of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)—renders the United States ineligible to host the games.

Black Alliance For Peace Calls For Boycott Of 2026 World Cup Games

May 28, 2026 Black Alliance for Peace, Popular Resistance. , , ,
The Black Alliance for Peace’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights (the Project) raised the issue months ago of the fundamental inappropriateness of the 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup being hosted in the United States. The Project argued that the U.S. human rights record—including blatant actions globally that constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes, and complicity in genocide, along with the systematic abuse of the human rights of migrants, immigrants, and even U.S. citizens domestically through the unleashing of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)—renders the United States ineligible to host the games.

REI Union Workers Launch Boycott Over Dispute With Co-op

May 23, 2026 Miles Hadfield, Coop News. , , ,
On May 15, REI Union workers launched a boycott against the co-op, which sells outdoor leisure gear, in protest against its “bad faith bargaining”. Timed to disrupt REI Co-op’s anniversary sale, which takes place through May 25, the boycott follows recent negotiations that ended on 30 April, in Chicago. The union claims that REI “failed to offer a single proposal until the final day of bargaining, and failed to send its own vice president of labor relations, or any key decision-maker, to the table”. Campaigners hit out at “outlandish, bad faith proposals” from the co-op, including a moratorium on the REI Union’s organising activity, which would prevent it from supporting workers at other REI stores hoping to unionise for the duration of the contract.

Eurovision 2026: Artists Repeat Boycott Call As Israel Takes Stage

May 18, 2026 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Thousands of people across Europe joined demonstrations and counter-events in the days leading to the final night of the Eurovision Song Contest, protesting Israel’s participation. “For the third consecutive year, they’ll find Israel celebrated onstage despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza,” over 2,000 cultural workers warned in an open letter published by the platform No Music for Genocide. The call brought together dozens of local artists and globally known names such as Roger Waters and Massive Attack, who called for performers, broadcasters, and fans to boycott Eurovision until Israel is excluded.

On Nakba Anniversary, Health Workers Call For Boycott Of Israeli Medical Association

May 16, 2026 People's Health Movement, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Seventy-eight years after the Nakba, Palestinians continue to resist occupation, displacement, and the systematic destruction of their health system. In this context, health workers are advancing the struggle with a campaign to boycott the Israeli Medical Association (IMA). The new campaign initiated by Doctors for Gaza (Netherlands), Global Health BDS (UK), Health Workers for Palestine (Spain) and the People’s Health Movement (PHM) is fighting to hold the IMA accountable for neglecting medical ethics, including violations of the World Medical Association (WMA) Declarations of Geneva and Tokyo.

FIFA In The Sun, Soccer In The Shadow

April 26, 2026 Rick Majumdar, Fight Back! News. , , , , ,
Soccer is globally celebrated. It is the most consumed sport in the world. At least a billion people tune in to watch the World Cup every four years. Soccer reflects both international and working-class characteristics. Soccer is a reflection of greater contradictions of the world playing out on a football pitch. Most importantly, the primary contradiction that has grasped the world tightly; the contradiction between the countries that dominate by imperialism and those that are subjected to this domination. Yet fans, being fans, have historically risked it all for a brief moment of exuberance. In 2014, Brazilian fans bicycled through the Amazon region to watch the games in the Manaus. In 2022, Argentinian fans sold their houses to go watch Messi play his last tournament in Qatar.

International Coalition Calls On FIFA To Move Games From The US

March 12, 2026 Black Alliance For Peace, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
With the FIFA World Cup 2026 now 100 days away, an international coalition has launched a coordinated boycott campaign demanding that FIFA move matches from the United States. The Coalition warns that US thuggery is creating a humanitarian crisis, both domestic and international. International sport is not neutral. Mega-sporting events function as instruments of political legitimation. To host global sporting events is not merely a logistical privilege — it is a declaration of belonging within the international community.

China Labels Israeli-Occupied Lands As ‘High Risk Area’

February 8, 2026 Press TV, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
A Chinese investment fund has revealed that the Beijing government has imposed a ban on all new investment in Israeli-occupied lands due to the regime’s brutal aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip. The news emerged in Israeli media outlets amid a lawsuit filed by members of Kibbutz Hanita against Ballet Vision, a Chinese-controlled fund that holds an 80% stake in Hanita Lenses, an intraocular lens manufacturing plant located in the northern part of the occupied lands near the Lebanese border. Israeli settlers from the kibbutz have filed a lawsuit against the fund, which controls 80 percent of an intraocular lens plant located in the northern settlement.

Connecticut Tenants Union Launches Boycott Of Real Estate Giant

February 3, 2026 Louis Henry, People's World. , , , , ,
East Lyme, Conn.—The Connecticut Tenants Union and its working-class allies have launched a boycott of Alpha Capital. In a petition to support the boycott, the Tenants Union is calling on all people to refuse to engage in business with Alpha Capital.  Refuse to rent apartments, refuse to buy condos, refuse to sell or buy properties with this horrible landlord, they say.  Over the last year, tenant unions in Southeast Connecticut have gone public, demanding that their landlord, Alpha Capital Funds, come to the table to negotiate fair leases and address tenant needs.  In response, Alpha is trying to bust organized, multi-racial, and multi-generational communities.

Target Boycott Enters New Stage: Opposing ICE

January 27, 2026 Jamal Rich, People's World. , , ,
One year ago, a group of local activists, including Nekima Levy Armstrong and Monique Cullars Doty, gathered in front of a Target store in Minneapolis calling for an indefinite boycott of Target until the retailer restored its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Under outgoing CEO Brian Cornell’s leadership, five-years prior Target had become a champion among large corporations when it came to supporting Black-owned businesses. It invested $2.1 billion in such initiatives after the brutal police murder of George Floyd and the global uprising that followed shortly after.

Risk Level Four: Do Not Travel To The United States

January 25, 2026 CODEPINK, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
We are issuing a Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory for the United States ahead of the World Cup. Before FIFA has people traveling from all over the world to come to the U.S. to watch soccer, the truth needs to be made known. The World Cup is supposed to bring people together. But in June 2026, FIFA plans to host matches in the United States, a country where travel from other nations is no longer safe. The conditions now present in the U.S., including a high risk of arbitrary detention, political violence, lack of due process, and state coercion, meet the very criteria used to warn its own citizens about travel to other countries. That is why we are issuing our own travel advisory.

Want To Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators

January 12, 2026 Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany, Labor Politics. , , ,
Renee Nicole Good’s murder by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has left millions of Americans wondering how we can stop ICE from terrorizing our communities any further. There are many well-known ICE-fighting tactics that we can and should use, like protests, know-your-rights trainings, and neighborhood watches. But two recent victories show a promising, relatively underutilized path forward—one that deserves to be pursued further: we can target businesses to break from ICE. ICE relies heavily on the private sector to help carry out its Gestapo-like crusade against immigrants and their allies.

Israeli State Literary Body Excluded From Bologna Fair

January 9, 2026 Middle East Monitor. , , , ,
The organisers of a major international children’s book fair in Italy have barred an Israeli state-backed literary body from participating, in what is being seen as another indication of the growing cultural boycott of Israel, a state now almost universally accused by human rights experts and legal scholars of committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Haaretz reported that the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the world’s largest and longest-running event dedicated exclusively to children’s literature, barred the Israeli Institute for Hebrew Literature from participating in this year’s fair, which is expected to attract tens of thousands of visitors from across the global publishing industry.
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