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Africans in Nova Scotia Consider Joining the African Union
While the African Union is a highly problematic institution of the African bourgeoisie this still an important moment in the building of an African national consciousness for African people at home and abroad. Also, as a quick blogger’ note, the author of this article from the Media Co-Op (Ted Rutland) claims that “the effort to create a political organization representing all African people is unprecedented” which is most definitely untrue. One only has to look at the example of Garvey’s United Negro Improvement League, which had millions of members across the world in a period long before the internet, or the current efforts of the African Socialist International (see links to the right), which includes members in the Americas, Europe and Africa.
“I’m a black man from a hostile environment,” says David Horne.
Horne is an international facilitator with the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC), and he was in Halifax recently to address a town hall meeting at Africville Park. Along with the other organizers of the event, Horne was hoping to gauge the interest of the African Nova Scotian community in becoming part of the SRDC – and, indeed, becoming leading members of it. Around 150 people attended the town hall, trekking through a major, day-long downpour to discuss their collective future under the ceiling of a event-sized tent. Read the rest of this entry
Africans Around the World Meet in Venezuela
A report from International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement President Diop Olugbala of the 4th International Meeting of Afro-Descendents and Revolutionary Transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The meeting was held in Caracas, Venezuela and was attended by African delegates from around the world, including the African Socialist International.
CARACAS—From June 19 through the 22, 2011, a contingent of organizers from the North American and South American Regions of the African Socialist International (ASI) attended the “4th International Meeting of Afro-Descendents and Revolutionary Transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean” held at the historic Hotel ALBA in Caracas, Venezuela. Read the rest of this entry
A Defining Moment for Africa: North Atlantic Terrorists Will Be Defeated in Libya
The article is by Gerald A. Perreira. Gerald is a founding member of the Guyanese organizations, Joint Initiative for Human Advancement and Dignity and Black Consciousness Movement Guyana (BCMG). He lived in Libya for many years, served in the Green March, an international battalion for the defense of the Libyan revolution and was an executive member of the World Mathaba based in Tripoli.
Please note that the posting this article does not imply complete endorsement of it and its author’s analysis. I post for it out of interest and for discussion in light of the continuing attack by imperialist white power on Libya and the whole of the African continent. Read the rest of this entry
Occupied Azania: African National Congress Leader Mandela Turns 93
Yesterday was African Nation Congress (ANC) patriarch Nelson Mandela’s 93rd birthday. In response there was the usual flurry of pro-Mandela, pro-ANC, pro-Triparite Alliance posts from leftists on this side of the Atlantic and in Europe as well. To them Mandela is a hero of the anti-colonial struggle – the father of the modern South African “rainbow” nation who was forced by pressure to give into neoliberal development projects.
What this of course misses is that this was par for the course for the ANC and Mandela. Mandela and the ANC were always neocolonial compradors representing the Azanian petty bourgeoisie. People have to realize this. Read the rest of this entry
Israel’s Meddling in the Sudan Conflict
The following is some food for thought about the conflict in Sudan between the north and south, and between the north and the Darfur region. Most recently this conflict has resulted in the formal flag independence of south Sudan.
This quote comes to us from former Israeli Interior Security Minister Avi Dichter and speaks to the role of imperialist white power in driving the conflict. It speaks frankly and openly to Israel’s recognition of the threat to its existence as a white power settler state by a united Arab and African world.
“We had to weaken Sudan and deprive it of the initiative to build a strong and united state. That is necessary for bolstering and strengthening Israel’s national security. We produced and escalated the Darfur crisis to prevent Sudan from developing its capabilities.”
NAPO/MXGM Statement on the Passing of Comrade Geronimo ji Jaga
The New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement salute the life of our brother and comrade Geronimo ji Jaga. The life of Geronimo, or “G” as he was affectionately known, represents a freedom fighter that sacrificed and loved Afrikan people and humanity.
Geronimo was given the name Elmer Gerard Pratt at birth on September 13, 1947, in Morgan City, Louisiana. He was born into a loving family that would nurture him and provide support throughout his life. He grew up in a community where he and other youth had to fight white supremacists from the “other side of the tracks.” Read the rest of this entry
Marcus and Malcolm Speak: In Honour of African Liberation Day
A little bit of Marcus and Malcolm in honour of African Liberation Day
USM to Hold Anti-Imperialist Convention in Philadelphia, June 4-5
The Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) will be holding its National Convention in Philadelphia, PA on June 4-5, 2011 at the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St.(June 4) and at the Uhuru Solidarity Center at 3733 Lancaster Ave. (June 5). “Resistance is the Future” is the title for this year’s National Convention in recognition of the massive resistance of oppressed people throughout the world who are demanding their right to control their own land and resources. The USM Convention is a forum through which the Euro-American or white community can take a stand to support African and oppressed people’s right to resist.
The USM Convention will feature as its keynote speaker Omali Yeshitela, leader of the Uhuru Movement and Chairman of the African Socialist International. Other presenters include Diop Olugbala, President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement; Glen Ford, Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report and member of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations (BiB); Nellie Bailey, Director of the Harlem Tenants Council and member of the BiB; Pam Africa, representing MOVE and the International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; and Penny Hess, Chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and author of “Overturning the Culture of Violence”. Read the rest of this entry
Tunisia: The People Want Another Revolution!
From A World to Win News Service
The kind of popular anger that drove out the hated tyrant Ben Ali on 14 January and brought down two successor governments has erupted again in Tunisia.
Since 7 May an overnight curfew has been in force in the capital city and its working class suburbs and three cities in the country’s interior after the most violent confrontations since January. The first protests broke out on 5 May following a televised interview in which the recently fired Interior Minister, Farhat Rajhi, a so-called “Mister Clean” whom President Foued Mebazzaa supposedly brought into the government to clear out former regime elements from the security forces, said that he was kicked out for trying to do just that and proclaimed that the president’s words were not to be trusted. Most explosively, he warned that the president and armed forces head General Rachid Ammar were discussing the possibility of a military coup if the Constituent Assembly elections scheduled for July do not turn out to their liking. Read the rest of this entry
White Power – United States, Britain, France and NATO – Hands off Libya! And Out of Africa!
The African Socialist International (ASI) condemns the present and historical barbaric assault on Libya, Africa from imperialist powers who are driven by the profit motive inherent in capitalism, pure and simple.
We condemn the United Nations (UN) as a tool of imperialism being used to ensure and protect neocolonialism in Africa.
It was the United Nations that provided the legal and political cover for the attack on Libya.
It is NATO, under U.S. leadership that is formally carrying out the mission.
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was formed during the era of colonial supremacy for the purpose of contending with the then-Soviet Union.
The fact that this North Atlantic treaty group has come together to attack Africa helps to expose the fact the the crisis of imperialism is generated in large part by the growing threat to colonial assets traditionally in the hands of white power. Read the rest of this entry
African Liberation Day and August 20 – Oppose Wars on Africa and African People
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Among the outstanding resolutions adopted at the historical Conference on the Other Wars conducted by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations (BIBC) in this city on March 26 was one calling for Africans to conduct African Liberation Day (ALD) on May 21 this year as an event to oppose imperialist wars in Africa and against African people worldwide.
The resolution also called for an International Day of Action by Africans worldwide in opposition to the imperialist wars in Africa and in every community around the world to which the African nation has been forcibly dispersed.
The Black is Back Coalition is an organization that is comprised of Africans from almost the entire spectrum of anti-imperialist expressions — in North America, the Bahamas and England. It is an organization of organizations and personalities that came together urgently in 2009, after the selection of Barack Hussein Obama as the black face of imperialist America. Read the rest of this entry
Africans United in Defense of Libya! U.S.-Led White Imperialism Out of Africa!
From Luwezi Kinshasa, Secretary-General of the African Socialist International.
A new world has been trying to come into being since before the imperialists’ so-called first world war.
It is the rise of the colonized and oppressed peoples’ struggles, and we can see its trajectory with the Garvey Movement, which organized more than 11 million Africans around the world (1914-1924), the largest anti-colonial international organization in the world to date.
We see its rise in the failed Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and in the Russian revolution of 1917.
Though the Russians did not belong to the camp of colonized nations as did the Africans, Mexicans, Arabs, Chinese and others, their socialist revolution still gave U.S.-led white power seven decades’ worth of justification to attack the colonized peoples’ struggles for national liberation, under the disguise of fighting communism. Read the rest of this entry
Achieving State Power & The Question of Land: A Discussion on the New Afrikan Nation Hypothesis
At the 5th Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) there was a panel discussion on the topic of “Achieving State Power & the Question of Land.” It was moderated by Oronde Takuma, leader of the African People’s Socialist Party NYC, with a small intervention by Chairman Omali Yeshitela in order to clarify some points on their line, and featured Chokwe Lumumba, Chairman of New Afrikan People’s Organization and member of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Malik Zulu Shabazz, Chairman of New Black Panther Party, and Saladin Muhammad, representing Black Workers for Justice.
It dealt with, as the title of the panel implies, the question of land for the oppressed and colonized African nation in the revolutionary nationalist struggle. Specifically it deals with the thesis, advanced by many forces, both African and settler, the so-called “Black Belt South” nation, which has also at times been called the Negro Nation and the New Afrikan Nation. Most of the panel members support some form of the New Afrikan nation thesis (whether they choose to call it that or not), while the Uhuru Movement presents a dissenting view. Read the rest of this entry
