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Message of Solidarity From the PDG-RDA

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Solidarity Message from the PDG-RDA on the occasion of the 62nd Anniversary of African Liberation Day

Pan-Africanism

The fight waged by the African Peoples to gain their full sovereignty and their total emancipation is far from being spontaneous. The Revolutionary People of Guinea gave the liberation struggle a sense of purpose, presenting the militant action for the People successively in terms of political independence, economic development, and social progress. However, the question of the United States of Africa is still topical after the heroic efforts made by the founding fathers for the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which later became African Unity (AU). It is a challenge for the next generation to make the United States of Africa a fact of life, a reality.

A.    Sanctions on CUBA:

The Cuban question, without any doubt, continues to weigh down the relations between the United States of America and Latin America. The continuation of the paranoiac policies adopted for nearly sixty (60) years seems unavoidable. Barack Obama had already liberated the financial flows between the two countries, and granted Cuban exiles the possibility of getting to the island more easily; a new step had been taken, but not all is settled so far, as the new tenant of the White House is unpredictable, and the image portrayed of Cuba is implausible; socialism is lambasted by the reactionary press. The proud Cuban People fight, and will continue to fight for a complete socio-economic rehabilitation.

B.    Sanctions on VENEZUELA:

Sanctions imposed on Venezuelan oil and exports up to this last political crisis have destabilised the Venezuelan economy. It is up to each People to undertake viable measures for their own development. We have confidence in our brothers in Venezuela, despite the fact that these sanctions have led to the systematic importation of basic products, which have stifled the development of modern agriculture and the growth of SMEs. Because Venezuela remains dependent on its oil revenues. All these deficiencies are all the more glaring as the world food crisis hit the country today, as a consequence of the sanctions. If the new American administration had plans to ease its relations with Venezuela, these have already been scuppered by the current political situation with comrade President Nicolas MADURO, who is holding on in the face of attempts at economic destabilisation. However, “Chavism” is still a victim of imperialism.

C.    Sanctions on Zimbabwe:

Zimbabwe has been hounded for decades. The land reform by and for the People and against white farmers, initiated by the Mugabe government, provoked the merciless reaction from the exploiting powers. The seizing of agricultural land by the government conditioned the currency devaluation and the rampant inflation of a currency fully dollarised since 2009. The country was slowly sinking into crisis while food was lacking, and schools, hospitals and all public services were falling apart; its opposition seemed to expect more from Western powers than from African neighbours. A hero of independence and a great slayer of neo-colonialism, the thunderous Robert Mugabe impressed so many people. We hope that the current President, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa, will do better.

It has to be recognised that all sanctions must be lifted, as all Peoples are sovereign on their own territory, and no People have the right to impose their domination on another, because men are born and remain free and equal in law.

Whether it be Cuba, Venezuela or Zimbabwe, no power has the right to prevent these Peoples from enjoying their wealth, because all the exploits made before the independence of these States were illegal and foreign, and therefore hostile to the development of the Peoples of these countries. Now that everyone knows their rights, the great powers must negotiate economic and political treaties that promote respect, dignity and freedom for the Cuban, Venezuelan, and Zimbabwean Peoples. This is the only way that is compatible with international peace and security.

Long live the friendship between Peoples!

A French translation of this presentation is available.

International Republican Socialist Network ALD 2020 Solidarity Message

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My name is Peter Urban, of the International Republican Socialist Network, and for 37 years it has been my honor to convey greetings of solidarity from the revolutionary forces in Ireland to the revolutionary people of Africa throughout the world. I am pleased to do so this year once again and it with profound feelings of comradeship and friendship that I speak today to the sisters and brothers of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, who are hosting this celebration of African Liberation Day. The A-APRP have been the most dedicated of allies and the most sincere of friends.

Some of you viewing this video could be forgiven for wondering what the people of Ireland know of the problems, challenges, and oppression confronted by the African people. Let’s face it, the Irish people are white. In fact, if you have seen someone whiter than the Irish, I’d be inclined to think you might have seen a ghost, but that is really not the issue. As Kwame Ture so often reminded us, the Irish understand these issues very well.

That is because, before the settler colonial incursions occurred in Jamestown and Capetown, the Irish people experienced the Plantation of Ulster. When Africans were loaded onto coffin ships to be exploited as slaves in the Americas, Cromwell rounded up the men of Ireland and shipped them, as chattel slaves, to cut cane in the fields of Barbados; something commemorated today by the Irish harp on the national seal of Barbados. The Irish lost their language, their land, their culture, and their rights. In the 20th century, long before neo-colonialism wreaked its damage on the newly independent nations of Africa—so aptly critiqued by Kwame Nkrumah–the Irish people had their national liberation struggle usurped by neo-colonialism. A neo-colonial regime in Dublin rules 26 Irish counties to this day and allows Britain to rule the remaining six counties.

In short, Ireland has been the testing ground for every development in colonialism and imperialism throughout its history. From this long history of shared oppression and struggle, a deep solidarity has been born between the Irish and African peoples.

I have the great honor today of having been asked by the Irish Republican Socialist Party to convey their renewed greetings of solidarity to the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and to all the struggling people of Africa throughout the world. The IRSP support all the struggles of the African people for liberation. The Irish Republican Socialist Party join with the A-APRP in demanding IMPERIALIST HANDS OFF OF CUBA, VENEZUELA, AND ZIMBABWE. The IRSP oppose imperialism throughout the globe and are committed to opposing it wherever it raises its head.

LONG LIVE THE IRISH AND AFRICAN REVOLUTIONS!

UNITY AND SOCIALISM FOR BOTH IRELAND AND AFRICA!

LONG LIVE THE SOLIDARITY BETWEEN THE IRISH AND AFRICAN PEOPLE!

FORWARD EVER, BACKWARD NEVER!

Polisario Youth League UJSARIO ALD 2020 Solidarity Message

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Hello Dear comrades.

My name is Hamdi Omar.  I am in charge of external relations of the Sahrawi – Polisario Youth League (UJSARIO).  Polisario Youth League UJSARIO sends its strongest solidarity and support to All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and highly praise it for the annual commemoration of the African Liberation Day.  The liberation of Africa is still unfinished and we’re reminding comrades as long as the people of Western Sahara are under illegal military occupation by France prodigy in power in Africa the kingdom of Morocco.

The liberation of Africa will remain incomplete as long as many African countries and leaders are still receiving orders and directives from their former colonizers against their own people’s interests.  Within the same context, UJSARIO strongly and firmly support the legitimate rights of Zimbabwe, Cuba, and Venezuela, to freedom, for independence and civility.  We strongly condemn the illegal, immoral, and injust sanctions imposed on these countries and we consider that these sanctions are not only blatant violations of the international law and immoral interference in internal affairs and a criminal economic embargo that threatens the people’s rights and beliefs but also an ongoing crime against all nations and against humanity.

The Sahrawi Youth believes in the need for rigorous respect of the international legality. Rigorous respect for the United Nations’ general assembly resolutions that call for the lifting of the embargoes imposed on these countries and also rigorous respect of the African unions’ decisions and calls for the defeating of this illegal sanctions.

Long live African solidarity, long live All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, long live Cuba, long live Zimbabwe, long live Venezuela!

Thank you very much, the best comrades in the world.

Thank you.

Revolutionary Socialist League (Kenya) ALD 2020 Solidarity Message

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Hello Comrades.

My name is Lewis Maghanga from the Revolutionary Socialist League. The RSL is a Socialist organisation based in Kenya, committed to a Socialist Revolution and the Liberation of the people of Africa.

The RSL is organising the African Liberation Day in conjunction with comrades from the All African People’s Revolutionary Party as well as other organizations. For this year, the theme is ‘African Liberation and Unity for the defeat of Imperialist Sanctions and the COVID-19 pandemic’. For the ALD commemoration, we are organising a zoom webinar, through which we shall engage the participants in the event. The webinar will also be broadcasted live on Facebook to increase our outreach. This will be done in addition to the online campaigns scheduled for before and after the 25th of May.

To the comrades of the AAPRP, receive our greetings of solidarity and friendship. Forward to a United Socialist Africa!

Umoja na Uhuru!

Regards,

Revolutionary Socialist League (Kenya).

Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party ALD 2020 Solidarity Message

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Revolutionary and Pan-African Greetings.  We are the Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party.  We’d like to begin by first thanking the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party for their many years of consistent, revolutionary work and struggle on behalf of all African people, those at home and those abroad.  A-APRP has been vigilant in preparing our people for the African Revolution, teaching them that we’re all African people no matter where we’re born in the world, that our enemy is capitalism no matter how it chooses to manifest itself.  That our objective is Pan-Africanism, a unified, socialist Africa.  That our strategy is organization and that our tactics at this time is political education that ultimately leads to armed struggle.

We are also thankful to A-APRP for its efforts to forge links with revolutionary Pan-African organizations around the world.  We, in the Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party, have been fortunate to work together with A-APRP on many projects including our Africa Must Unite Podcasts; our 2020 Calendar – “Revolutionary Pan-African Socialist Organizations:  Those at Home and Those Abroad!”; and our paper presented at the 60th Anniversary of the All-African People’s Conference in Ghana in December 2018, entitled “Heed the Call: The Necessity for an All-African Committee for Political Co-Ordination”.

Today, we are here to commend the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party for the focus of this year’s African Liberation Day.  Sanctions are war, for we know that the results of sanctions are the same as if the capitalists put its entire armed force in the middle of Zimbabwe, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran or any other country.  We are not, and never will be, fooled by the capitalists’ tactics and we must shout our vehement disapproval of them, and our plans to destroy them, as often as we can.  Kwame Nkrumah wrote the following in a letter to Reba Lewis on April 13th, 1969:  “The imperialists and neo-colonialists must know that we are not asleep.  We know they are our enemies and we must prepare to face them anyhow, in whatever way we choose.  The important thing is that we must make them know that we know them.  Know the enemy, and prepare to confront him.”

This is why our Party says that Corona is the Virus; capitalism is the Pandemic.

Forward ever to the struggling masses of the world.  Forward ever to exploited and oppressed Africans wherever they live in the world.  Forward ever to Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Iran, and all other countries experiencing imperialist sanctions.  Forward ever to A-APRP and all other revolutionary Pan-African socialist organizations.

A unified, socialist Africa is not only possible, it’s on the horizon.

Message De Solidarite Du PDG-RDA

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Le combat que menaient les Peuples africains pour accéder à leur entière souveraineté et à leur totale émancipation est loin d’être un fait spontané, le Peuple révolutionnaire de Guinée a donné à la lutte de libération son sens d’efficacité en posant comme termes successifs à l’action militante des Peuples : l’indépendance politique, le développement économique et le progrès social. Cependant, la question des Etats-Unis d’Afrique reste d’actualité après les efforts héroïques fournis par les pères fondateurs pour la création de l’organisation de l’Unité Africaine (O.U.A) qui est devenue l’Unité Africaine (U.A.) la Génération montante a pour défi de faire des Etats-Unis d’Afrique un fait concret, une réalité.

A. Les sanctions sur le CUBA:

La question cubaine continue de plomber, sans aucun doute les relations entre les Etats-Unis d’Amérique et l’Amérique Latine. Une évolution des politiques paranoïaques pratiquées depuis près de soixante (60) ans parait inéluctable. Barack Obama avait déjà libéré les flux financiers entre les deux pays et accordé aux exilés cubains la possibilité de se rendre plus facilement dans l’île ; un nouveau pas avait été franchi, tout n’est pas réglé pour autant, le nouveau locataire de la Maison Blanche est imprévisible, l’image qu’on donne du Cuba est invraisemblable ; le socialisme est fustigé par la presse réactionnaire. Le Peuple cubain fier, lutte et luttera pour une parfaite réhabilitation socioéconomique.

B. Les Sanction sur le VENEZUELA:

Les sanctions faites sur le pétrole et les exportations vénézuéliennes jusqu’à cette dernière crise politique ont déséquilibré l’économie vénézuélienne. Il appartient à chaque peuple d’entreprendre des mesures viables de développement. Nous avons confiance au Peuple frère du Venezuela, malgré que ces sanctions ont conduit à l’importation systématique des produits de base et qui ont freiné le développement d’une agriculture moderne et l’essor des PME. Car le Venezuela reste tributaire de sa rente pétrolière. Toutes ces carences d’autant plus criardes que la crise alimentaire mondiale frappe aujourd’hui le pays, conséquence des sanctions. Si la nouvelle administration américaine avait des velléités d’apaiser ses relations avec le Venezuela, celles-ci sont d’ores et déjà sabordées par la situation politique actuelle avec le camarade Président Nicolas MADURO qui tient bon, face aux tentatives de déstabilisation économique. Mais le Chavisme est toujours une victime de l’impérialisme.

C. Les sanctions sur le Zimbabwe:

Le Zimbabwe est acculé depuis des décennies. La réforme agraire par et pour le Peuple et contre les fermiers blancs, entamée par le Gouvernement Mugabe provoquera la réaction sans merci des puissances exploitatrices. L’accaparement des terres agricoles par le gouvernement a conditionné la dévaluation monétaire et  l’inflation galopante  d’une monnaie totalement dollarisée depuis 2009. Le Pays s’enfonçait lentement dans la crise pendant que la nourriture manquait,  les écoles, les hôpitaux et tous les services publics tombaient en déliquescence ; son opposition semble attendre plus des puissances occidentales que des voisins Africains. Héros d’indépendance et grand pourfendeur du néocolonialisme, le tonitruant Robert Mugabe impressionnait autant de personnes. Nous espérons  que l’actuel Président Monsieur Emmerson Mnangagwa fera mieux.

Forces est de reconnaître que toutes les sanctions doivent être levées parce que chaque Peuple est souverain sur son territoire, et aucun Peuple n’a le droit d’imposer sa domination sur un autre car les hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droit.

Que ça soit le Cuba, le Venezuela ou le Zimbabwe aucune puissance n’a le droit d’empêcher ces Peuples de jouir de leur richesse car toutes les exploitations faites avant l’indépendance de ces Etats étaient illégales et étrangères donc hostiles à l’épanouissement des Peuples de ces pays. Maintenant que chacun connait son droit les grandes puissances doivent négocier des traités économiques et politiques allant dans le sens du respect, de la dignité et de la liberté des Peuples cubain, Vénézuélien et Zimbabwéen. C’est la seule voie compatible avec la paix et la sécurité internationale.

Vive l’amitié entre les Peuples!

Traduction en anglais disponible.