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Spooks and Grunts and Pigs! Oh My! A Revolutionary Call to Smash the Industrial, Police-Military, Intelligence Complex (IPIC)

2021-05-21 by A-APRP Editor Leave a Comment

The capitalist/imperialist system is driven by a world view that is colonialist, racist, sexist and Zionist. It is an enemy that operates through governments, institutions and agencies that do its bidding. More particularly, a worldwide network of military, intelligence and police agencies protect the capitalist system with interconnected assets that operate locally, nationally, regionally, and internationally. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party calls this network the Industrial, Police/Military, Intelligence Complex (IPIC).

IPIC Countries

Who makes up IPIC? It’s a collection of spooks, grunts and pigs. Spooks are the spies who staff intelligence agencies, and who direct military forces to the world’s natural resources. Grunts are soldiers enlisted in imperialist military forces who secure the resources identified by the spooks. The pigs are the so-called law enforcement forces that protect the property and resources of the capitalists.

IPIC is an economically motivated espionage-military-prison-police force controlled by a global empire supported by international, monopoly, finance capital. IPIC’s role is to repress popular discontent, secure resources, protect property, defend wealth, and pursue the vital interests of capitalism and imperialism. It is a vast criminal web that includes but is not limited to a global network of governments, corporations/financial institutions, intelligence agencies, military organizations, private armed militias, and local, regional, national, transnational police, and security forces. They are the world’s biggest gang.

Spies, soldiers and cops are the frontline forces in the enemy’s global assault on African people. They are the goons who facilitate the theft of the African World’s resources and the exploitation of our labor, inside and outside of Africa. They are the armed police thugs that occupy our communities. They are the military conquerors who bomb, invade, and plunder our nations. They are police officers trained by Zionists to smother dissent and rule through military occupation. They are African generals with allegiance to Washington or Paris. They are Haitian presidents managing by murder. They are international spies that infiltrate our organizations, destroy revolutionary governments, and assassinate our people-centered political leaders.

Capitalist countries and their partners (Transnational Corporations and international Institutions) employ these spies, soldiers, and police to protect their wealth and crush the People’s resistance to oppression and exploitation. The entire repressive apparatus is directed by super-secret spy agencies such as the CIA (USA), Mossad (Israel), and MI6 (Britain).

Grunts (soldiers) and Their Dirty Work

IPIC’s job is to identify resources such as oil, coltan, gold etc. and develop means of securing this wealth and delivering it into the greedy hands of international capital. To find IPIC at work, find the locations of valuable resources. When capitalism locates resources, it uses military forces to secure them. The invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Syria, are examples of how this happens. Also consider the establishment of 50 U.S. military bases in Africa (AFRICOM), and the 800 U.S. military installations in 80 countries around the world. The mission of these forces is to overthrow progressive and revolutionary governments, kill progressive leaders, infiltrate, destabilize and destroy revolutionary organizations, and suppress mass uprisings. They have blockaded Cuba and Venezuela, and murdered protesters in Uganda, Haiti, and Nigeria. They put knees on our necks and shoot us down in the streets of urban areas around the world.

IPIC employs sophisticated surveillance technologies, dirty tricks, invasion, mass murder, political assassination, extra-judicial police killings, mass incarceration, lies, bribery, mass kidnapping, disinformation campaigns, environmental terrorism, chemical warfare, drones, smart bombs, tactical teams, raw brutality, and plunder. Anywhere on the planet Earth where African people stand up courageously to fight for our freedom, we will be met with the coordinated force of IPIC.

Corporate Criminals

Resources, once controlled by grunts, are not handed over to governments that the spies and grunts work for. Instead, they are delivered to international corporations and financial institutions that control the world’s resources. They sell everything on Wall Street. They want everything, everywhere to be owned and controlled by the Gangster Banks, corporations, and international financial agencies Everything, from Baltimore’s dilapidated housing stock to South Africa’s gold and diamond mines, Nigerian Oil fields, Costa Rican mango farms, South American rainforests and Congolese coltan mines are all owned and/or controlled by the transnational corporations, banks, and financial institutions. All of this to accumulate wealth for the capitalist ruling elite, which represents 1/10th of 1% of the world’s population,

Control of a nation’s resources can sometimes be secured through diplomatic or economic means. Bribery, aid, trade agreements, arms sales, contracts, and diplomatic pressure are the not-so-subtle means used to coerce governments to comply with capitalist/imperialist pressures and demands. When these means fail, military force is considered.

A Coordinated Mission

The spooks come first. They identify, collect, and analyze data, collect assets, define targets, and coordinate missions. The grunts carry these missions out. These operations are very expensive and siphon away resources that could be used to address critical needs of people in need. In 2020-2021 the U.S. government alone spent 706 billion dollars on the military (grunts). This is more than half of the government’s annual discretionary spending. U.S. state and local governments annually spend over 115 billion dollars (about $350 per person in the U.S.) on police (pigs) and prisons. An additional secret budget of billions of dollars is set aside each year for the domestic and international intelligence services.

Countries that resist surrender of their resources are subject to sanctions, blockades, espionage, and regime change. Leaders who resist are often assassinated (Gadhafi, Sankara, Lumumba, Malcolm X are examples). The spooks lay the groundwork for invasions, coup d’états, drone strikes, mercenary conflicts, genocide, famine, sabotage, terrorism, and war. Soldiers and police fight wars directed by spies. Grunts and pigs fight under the direction of spooks!

Who are the Spooks?

Numerous intelligence agencies or departments serve the interests of imperialism. They include, among others: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Department of Military Intelligence, and Homeland Security. Israeli Intelligence includes Mossad, Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security). In Britain there is MI5, MI6, Secret Intelligence Services (SIS), Defense Intelligence (DI) and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and in France there is the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE), General Directorate for Internal Security (DGIS) and the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DRM). These are just a few of the spy agencies and departments of capitalist states set up to defend capitalist interests around the world and to ensure the continuation of the capitalist/imperialist enterprise. The intelligence community is the head of the imperialist snake.

Each of these capitalist/imperialist states has both an internal and external intelligence service. The internal agency combats dissent within by repressing progressive and revolutionary organizations and suppressing active opposition to the capitalist system.

The external intelligence agencies work to maintain control of the world’s economy by establishing monopoly control of natural resources, markets, and labor power. They protect corporate wealth and the capitalist elite.

The external intelligence services of all capitalist states are in cahoots and operate in conjunction with international institutions like the United Nations, financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and Wall Street, and regional institutions like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organization of American States (OAS) and the African Union (AU)

The intelligence agencies of different capitalist countries are intimately connected by a common elitist ideology. They are led by The United States and Israel. Britain and France are two of many willing junior partners. The CIA, MI5 and Mossad are financed by nation states, but always they serve monopoly capital, the global master. Money rules, profit dictates and cash is king! In the end spies, soldiers, and cops work for the banks, and the owners of capital.

Pigs Wallow in Capitalist Filth

It’s all the same

National, state, and local police forces protect business interests, private property and maintain control of populations through extra-judicial killings, mass incarceration, crowd control and other anti-insurgency methods, harassment, and violence. Communities around the world are occupied by police forces loyal to capital. Many of these police forces, patrolling the streets of the world’s cities are trained by the Zionists, using methods perfected in the occupation of Palestinian land the suppression of Palestinian people. Lagos, Port of Spain, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Monrovia, and Port of Prince are policed by officers trained by Zionists, they are not alone.

We have found the enemy, and it is IPIC

Frantz Fanon

Spooks, grunts and pigs (IPIC) are the Enemies of African people and all humanity! The A-APRP understands that, to defeat capitalism and imperialism (to be free, united, and socialist) we must defeat IPIC. We long ago called for a coalition to Smash IPIC, especially the FBI and CIA. Our struggle is for the organization and political education of the people and against capitalism and its Industrial Police-Military Intelligence Complex. Failure to identify these enemies and unite in a fight against them can only result in continued exploitation and oppression of African people and the defeat of our movement to change the world for future generations.

Filed Under: ALD Tabloid 2021 Tagged With: #AfricanLiberationDay, #AfricanLiberationDay2021, A#ALD, ALD, ALD2021, All-African People's Revolutionary Party, Capitalism, Imperialism, Industrial, Intelligence Complex (IPIC)., Police/Military

World-Wide Pan-African Unity will Lead to the Liberation of the Sahrawi

2021-05-21 by A-APRP Editor Leave a Comment

Freedom Fighters

Forty-five years ago, the people of Western Sahara in northern Africa declared their independence, notwithstanding claims to the region by Morocco. The people’s struggle for their right to be recognized globally as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic has, over many decades, faced numerous challenges.

The Sahrawi march toward self-determination did not begin with the Moroccan aggression. As far back as 1957, the Sahrawi people fought to expel Spanish colonizers from Western Sahara. In 1972, U.N. Resolution 2983 affirmed the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination.  Nevertheless, Spain ceded its colonial occupation of Western Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania in 1976.

The United States and Saudi Arabia played a role in the 1975 “Green March” where Morocco’s military led a 350,000 Moroccan settler invasion force that carried Moroccan, U.S. and Saudi flags in a colonial assault on Western Sahara and the Sahrawi people. Morocco brutally and mercilessly drove more than 40,000 Sahrawi people to the interior where the Moroccan Air Force bombed them with napalm and phosphorus. But the Sahrawi resistance stood firm and forced Mauritania to pull out in 1979.

From 1976 until 1991 the Sahrawi’s “Polisario Front” guerilla force fought against great odds to push back the Moroccan military. This led to a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in 1991 and a call for a referendum vote by the people of Sahrawi in 1992. Unfortunately, the referendum was never conducted, and the 29-year-old ceasefire between the Sahrawi Republic and Morocco was severely threatened on November 13, 2020 when the U.S.-trained and supplied Moroccan military moved in to crush Sahrawi protesters at the border crossing in Western Sahara’s “demilitarized zone,” a highway that connects Morocco to Mauritania, built in violation of international law.

This Moroccan military provocation was followed by diplomatic provocation by the United States. Efforts were made to declare Western Sahara as Moroccan territory in exchange for Morocco’s restoration of full ties with Zionist Israel. This unholy alliance between Morocco, the United States and Zionist Israel is not new.  The United States has supported Morocco since the Cold War, and now trains Moroccan officers in the U.S. and the Moroccan military forces in Morocco.

Morocco signed a new 10-year military pact with the U.S. and spent 10 billion dollars on U.S. weapons. The U.S. recognition of Moroccan colonial claims to Western Sahara is not only an attempt to legitimize the crimes of Israel, but it is also an attempt to hide the United States’ and the European Union’s participation in Morocco’s theft of the Sahrawi people’s oil, fish, phosphates and other resources.

Zionist Israel has a long covert relationship with Morocco. The Mossad (Israel’s intelligence agency) helped assassinate Morocco’s famed opposition leader and African internationalist Mehdi Ben Barka. The Moroccan government also used many of Israel’s tactics during the Green March invasion. Morocco waged a war of terror against Sahrawi men, women and children, and built illegal settlements in territory invaded and occupied in 1975. Like the Palestinian population in occupied Israel large numbers of Sahrawi were driven out. An estimated 200,000 live in refugee camps in Algeria. Morocco built a wall littered with Moroccan landmines called the “Berm” to separate Moroccan settlers from the Sahrawi people. The Sahrawi occupy only 20 percent of their land in Western Sahara and have been reduced to a third of the population.

Aziza Brahim – The Sahrawi songbird beats the drums for freedom. An artist, raised in refugee camps and received scholarships to attend school in Cuba, who uses her music to spread the word about the plight of her people and their Saharawi homeland.

Ultimately, it is African unity that will ensure the victory of the Sahrawi. To date, such unity has eluded this struggle. When the Organization of African Unity (OAU) gave its support to the Sahrawi in 1964, Morocco left the OAU in protest. Although support provided by Algeria and Libya was a critical factor leading to the ceasefire in 1991, after 29 years there has been very little progress. Since 1991 United Nations peacekeepers have stood by and allowed the Moroccan government to expand its settler population to 500,000, while also allowing the continued rape of the Western Sahara of its mineral and agricultural wealth. The U.N. Security Council members have taken very little action. The African Union (successor to the OAU) allowed Morocco to return to the African Union without any resolution of the Western Sahara issue. President Brahim Gali has expressed his frustration with the U.N. and reserved Polisario’s right to resume armed struggle.  The world-wide Pan-African movement must stand with the Sahrawi people in Western Sahara (Africa’s last colony) and support the call for an immediate solution to occupation by whatever means they deem necessary. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party stands committed to the struggle of the Sahrawi people.

Brahim Ghali, the elected president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, was chosen as the recipient of the 2020 Kwame Ture Black Star of Labor Award.

Filed Under: ALD Tabloid 2021 Tagged With: #AfricanLiberationDay, #AfricanLiberationDay2021, A#ALD, ALD, ALD2021, Morocco, Polisario Front

World-Wide Pan-African Unity Holds the Key to the Defeat of Imperialism

2021-05-21 by A-APRP Editor Leave a Comment

African Delegation in Venezuela During Recent December 2020 Assembly Elections

“We can’t ignore the fact that the same imperialist forces which exploit and subvert our independent states and which oppress our people in the remaining colonial enclaves in Africa, are the same forces which breed armed conflicts, civil strife and economic impoverishment on other continents.” Kwame Nkrumah

Wherever Africans live, they suffer. Wherever Africans live, the cause of their suffering and oppression is the same. Africans throughout the world must therefore unite in struggle, not only with Africans everywhere, but also with all oppressed peoples whose suffering is caused by a shared enemy.

Who or what is this enemy that causes so much pain for so many? It is a process of empire-building whereby capitalists extend their reach beyond their own national borders and dominate, steal and otherwise exploit the natural resources and labor of others. This is commonly referred to as “imperialism” and the culprits that drive it include, among others, the United States, the United Kingdom, so-called Israel, France, the European Union, together with feudal partners in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and all their neo-colonial junior partners that cooperate with imperialism in Africa, the Americas and Asia.

Imperialism dominates oppressed regions with an iron hand. It coordinates military force with NATO, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), and SOUTHCOM in Latin America and the Caribbean. These forces work with Zionist Israel to dominate the military training and security agencies of neo-colonial countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. They strategically control drone bases, airstrips, and staging areas while maintaining military personnel throughout these areas under the guise of counterterrorism. Yet it is these forces that have inflicted terror by dropping 40,000 tons of bombs in Libya alone, and with drone strikes in Sudan and Somalia. There have been countless invasions of Cuba, Haiti, Grenada, Panama, and numerous assassinations and coups targeting a series of African heroes from Patrice Lumumba to Muammar Gadhafi.

Imperialism does not rely only on military force. U.S. Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden have all used blockades and economic sanctions. The U.S. and E.U. have sanctions on 39 countries across the globe. They have nine in Africa alone against Sudan, Burundi, Congo, Mali, Libya, Zimbabwe, Somalia, South Sudan and the Central African Republic. Sanctions kill by causing the devaluation of currency, and an inability to get access to medicines, food, fuel and other much needed necessities for the prevention of death, disability and starvation.

The challenge may be daunting, but imperialism can be defeated with unity. Current efforts to establish unity have been underway for decades. The Transcontinental Conference of 1966 assembled anti-colonial forces from Africa, Asia and Latin America. In more recent years, global resistance to imperialism has been evident in the continuing development of relationships among the former colonized countries of the world, particularly in meetings between Africa and Venezuela that were initiated by Hugo Chavez, as well as the bi-annual Africa – Cuba Summits.

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) includes Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela and the African Descendants Movement. It is organizing African, indigenous, and working-class peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Finally, the recent elections in Venezuela and Bolivia have strengthened anti-imperialism not only in the Americas, but also around the globe. The superiority of this socialist unity against capitalist imperialism is evident in the fight against Covid 19. In the leading imperialist nations, there are Covid-related deaths in the hundreds of thousands. Not only have socialist countries like China and Cuba had substantially fewer deaths, but they have also provided aid to other countries in the fight against Covid 19.

The call for Pan-African unity is an African-specific response to imperialism, and it is clear about not only what it is against but also about what it is for – the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism. Pan-Africanism calls for anti-imperialism, the right to self-determination of oppressed nations, socialist economics and humanism, environmental justice, and the end of all exploitation of humans by nation, class, and gender etc. Pan-Africanism stands for: the rights of those who labor, the reclamation of land and resources from settler and foreign control, people’s participatory democracy based on collective ownership and equitable use of national resources.

Our Land, Out DignityWorld-wide Pan-African Unity can be achieved with world-wide revolutionary organization. Kwame Nkrumah’s Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare makes the case for the organization of Pan-African revolutionary forces in Africa and around the globe. He was clear about the need for an All-African People’s Committee for Political Coordination (A-APCP) that can bring together Pan-African Parties in power and other parties still struggling for liberation. This A-ACPC is still needed to take World-Wide Pan-African Unity to the next level. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party is working hard to make Nkrumah’s vision a reality. We invite you to join us in this struggle that is so vital to the liberation of Africans everywhere.

 

 

Filed Under: ALD Tabloid 2021 Tagged With: #AfricanLiberationDay, #AfricanLiberationDay2021, A#ALD, ALD, ALD2021, Imperialism, Pan-African Unity, Venezuela

Africa Needs Unity Now — Time is Running Out, It’s a Choice Between Life and Death

2021-05-21 by A-APRP Editor Leave a Comment

Comrade Mafa Kwanisai Mafa

Written by Comrade Mafa Kwanisai Mafa – founder and Chairman of the Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists which is affiliated to the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party through the Worldwide Pan-African Movement (WWPAM), Provincial Chairman of Zimbabwe Cuba Friendship Association, Chairman of the Chimurenga Vanguard, District Secretary of Administration of ZANU PF. cdemafa@gmail.com and whatsapp +263777334750

As we commemorate African Liberation Day on 25 May, it is a stark reminder to Africa that instead of celebrating the day, it is a day of mourning as Africa is still a far cry from being liberated. Africa is bleeding from neo colonialism, endless wars and grinding poverty. Africa has become the Fanonian “wretched of the earth”. The economic system of capitalism is deeply entrenched and it is perpetuating oppression and exploitation of the motherland.

There are countries in Africa such as Rwanda and Namibia which are being celebrated as good economic models for Africa with impeccable GDP’s according to World Bank and IMF reports. There had been reports that Africa is on the rise but the question is, whose interest is being served? The gap between the poor and the rich is yawning. African natural resources are being rapaciously plundered by multinational corporations for the benefit of their nations. China has joined the bandwagon of this exploitative crusade at the invitation and with permission from African governments.

The biggest question is why Africans are so poor when Africa is rich in world’s strategic minerals? Africa can reverse this situation by uniting. African unity has been elusive since the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). Ghana became independent in 1957 under the guidance of our Pan Africanist luminary Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, and he said Ghana’s independence is meaningless until the rest of Africa is liberated. Nkrumah fought very hard and supported most liberation movements in Africa politically and militarily. He spearheaded the formation of OAU and in the early 1960s most African countries started to gain their political independence.

This independence was cosmetic, however, and all levers of the means of production remained in the hands of our erstwhile colonisers. Nation-state independence rendered most of African countries vulnerable to imperialist aggression and onslaught. One by one radical African leaders who stood in the way of imperial interests were deposed or assassinated.  Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah became one of the victims of CIA inspired coup de tats. He was pushing for a United States of Africa under one command, with one army, and one currency. Sadly other leaders, like the late Julius Kambarage Nyerere, opposed this unity. He later apologised and expressed regret.

It’s now 10 years since another great African leader Muammar Gaddafi was murdered, joining a long list of African revolutionaries martyred by the West for pushing and advancing the agenda of continental independence, unity and liberation. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s crime was that he was spearheading attempts to unite Africa and he was committing his Libyan oil wealth to make this dream a reality. This agenda sent shockwaves as African unity would jeopardise western interests. The other factor of concern to the West is the rise of China which now threatens Western monopoly over export markets and investment finance. African unity and the rise of China threatened Western domination of Africa as never before.

To counter this, the West makes sure that Africa remains in a perpetual state of war. Africa is now a battleground and some countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo have not witnessed peace since independence in the 1960s.

One great son of Africa who was emphatic about African unity and security was Amilcar Cabral who taught us that, “We are for African unity, on a regional or continental scale in as far as it is necessary for the progress of the African peoples, and in order to guarantee their security and the continuity of this progress.“ He also warned us that, “The enemies of the African people are powerful and cunning and can always count on a few faithful lackeys in our country, since quislings are not a European privilege.”

Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah in his iconic speech at the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), in front of 31 African heads of state in Addis Ababa on 24 May 1963, President Nkrumah appealed, cajoled and did everything in perhaps his greatest speech ever to convince his comrades to create a strong continental union., Sadly they decided otherwise. Part of his speech read,

“On this continent, it has not taken us long to discover that the struggle against colonialism does not end with the attainment of national independence. Independence is only the prelude to a new and more involved struggle for the right to conduct our own economic and social affairs, to construct our society according to our aspirations, unhampered by crushing and humiliating neo-colonialist control and interference.”

Nkrumah went on to say that, ″…the unity of our continent, no less than our separate independence, will be delayed if indeed we do not lose it, by hobnobbing with colonialism. Africa unity is above all, a political kingdom which can only be gained by political means. The social and economic development of Africa will come only within the political kingdom, not the other way round.″ He implored the leaders that we must unite now or perish. We must work to ensure that his words were not in vain.

To this day, the CIA and other western intelligence organisations have funded and trained terrorist organisations to spread terror across Africa with groups such as Boko Haram, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, ISIS, Mali’s Ansar Dine, and literally dozens of others. There have been numerous terror attacks including those in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameron, Central African Republic, Chad, and Cote d,Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Tunisia. The private military groups are active in several conflict zones on African soil. Northern Mozambique is the latest case because of the presence of oil and a potential military outpost.

The USA funded ISIS to topple Gaddafi, they funded Shiites to topple Saddam Hussein, and they fund Shiites in Afghanistan for the control of oil and the desire for military bases in those countries. In Zimbabwe they have built the biggest embassy in Africa just because vast oil reserves were discovered in an area of Zimbabwe called Muzarabani. Muzarabani is said to potentially hold some of the largest inland deposits of gas and oil outside the Taoudai Basin. That is the reason why they are imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe, they want the ZANU-PF led government replaced and a more pliant government to take over. Also, at a place where Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique geographically meet, there is a small area called Kanyemba where vast uranium deposits were discovered, this is another target of the West.

According to an online newsletter, The Conservation, it is reported that “currently, the US has 7000 military personnel on rotational deployments in Africa. These troops carry out joint operations with African forces against extremists or jihadists. They are hosted in military outposts across the continent including Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia , Niger, Gabon, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and the DRC.

“In addition, 2000 American soldiers are involved in training missions in 40 African countries. America Special Forces operate across east Africa so called forward operations locations in Kenya and Somalia.”

In Africa we still have colonial military outposts in Western Sahara, the Comoros and Diego Garcia. This shows that the task of Pan African liberation is far from complete. The biggest threat to African unity now is the US Africa Command or AFRICOM, which many Africans see as another attempt to recolonise Africa. Netfa Freeman, a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Coordinating Committee, concurs to this view when he posited that, “Today, US bases as well as military to military relations between 53 out of the 54 African countries and the United States characterise the aggressive strategy of the US to preserve the interests of the Pan European, white supremacist colonial/capitalist project on the African continent. Africans must wake up and rise up against the militarisation of Africa by the US, colonial state.” We must forge a powerful Pan African resistance with support from anti-imperialists everywhere.

In Sudan and Chad, the Chinese have discovered vast amounts of oil but the region continues to face instability and coups caused by the US and France. On Africa’s eastern coast in Kenya and Somalia, Al Shabab is terrorising the region yet each of these countries have US bases that can’t seem to end terrorism.  Africans don’t seem to learn that this is from the same playbook. You first deploy US trained/sponsored Islamic extremists then after a series of atrocities send in the US military. The US military is a gangster in the service of capitalism.

Several of our African governments are hosting foreign military bases notwithstanding the concerns of the African Union about the increased proliferation of foreign military bases on the continent. Led by the US and France, approximately 13 foreign powers have a substantial military presence on the continent.

Why is the Mozambique government inviting US military advisers to support its own armed forces in fighting terrorists? What is the role of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the AU in resolving this? By inviting the US military are we not repeating the mistakes of the past as when Patrice Lumumba invited United Nations peace keeping forces to enforce law and order which ultimately led to his murder under their watch? The United Nations colluded with western countries to kill Patrice Lumumba.

Zimbabwe has suffered for two decades without any practical support from any African nation. There is no African unity, the support is only rhetoric. It was only recently when SADC declared a date for member states to march against sanctions in Zimbabwe. Sadly most of our Pan African comrades and friends are buying into foreign media propaganda. They now believe that the issue of sanctions is an overplayed CD and it only targets the ruling elite. That’s why it is important that as Pan Africanists we must have our own media outlets that tell our own stories. The global reactionary cooperate media is misleading people on the Zimbabwe question. South African media which is mainly controlled by Europeans is on a crusade to demonise and vilify Zimbabwe, this happens because such critical institutions and means of production are still under agents of Apartheid. Up to this day, notwithstanding the reformist agenda post-Mugabe, Zimbabwe is still subjected to a barrage of disinformation, propaganda and isolation. Zimbabwe is enacting the new Patriotic Act to punish those who collude and connive with foreign hostile governments to destabilise, destroy and tarnish our national image.

The US foreign policy has not moved an inch, as they continue to renew their sanctions on Zimbabwe every year. Zimbabwe has tried to make some concessions to appease western imperialism but nothing has changed. Western imperialism is not relenting in its efforts to subvert the constitutionally elected government of Zimbabwe. Most Africans fail to realise that the sanctions are meant to collectively punish the 16 million Zimbabweans for upsetting white economic interests. If sanctions succeed in Zimbabwe, it will be a heavy blow to African liberation in as far as land expropriation is concerned; and without land, Africans will continue to wallow in poverty. The Zimbabwe land revolution inspired most people in the underdeveloped countries and demands for land repatriation got amplified in South Africa and Namibia. This torch which Zimbabwe ignited is slowly but surely being extinguished. That’s why African unity call and action must be an urgent priority before we perish. South Africa and other SADC nations (capitalists) are actually benefiting from sanctions on Zimbabwe because they under pay cheap migrant labourers , they subject them to precarious labour conditions, and Zimbabwe is forced to import most of its foodstuffs from these countries because most multinational corporations migrated to other Southern African countries.

White capital monopoly in South Africa deliberately misleads South Africans that “foreigners “are taking their jobs and fan afro-phobia where Africans turn against each other maiming and killing one another. South Africa is sadly becoming Africa’s problem child; it is South Africa which voted for the invasion of Libya leading to the murder of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.  South Africa’s hostile imperialist dominated media was awash with news that Zimbabwe has become a hotspot in Africa for COVID – 19, yet Zimbabwe even up to this day has the lowest statistics compared to its regional counterparts. Zimbabwe was the first country to undertake a voluntary vaccination programme using vaccines from China, India and Russia. Zimbabwe will also be one of the first countries which will receive vaccines from the revolutionary socialist country of Cuba. It seems that South Africa is being used as a front to delay African liberation. Maybe that is the reason why it does not have 25 May as a public holiday for African Liberation Day. The white community is even arrogant to the levels of burning police cars with impunity , white South Africans are untouchables but when black South Africans do their picketing they are brutally dealt with by the police. The Marikana shootings is but one example where brute force was unleashed on innocent workers to protect white capital monopoly interests. South Africa needs to decolonise the instruments of state from agents of apartheid.

There are many factors that deter African unity and lead to the lack of support from other African countries for Zimbabwe in its fight against sanctions. Most African countries are propped up by neo-colonial forces, which mean that that he who pays the piper calls the tune. Most African economies are indebted to the World Bank and IMF, which is why the most pliant countries benefit from debt forgiveness while others do not. Zimbabwe had not been getting financial support from World Bank and IMF for the past two decades. These financial institutions play a carrot and stick tactic to African governments. This is why it is important that Africa must fund its development through its own resources and create its own strong and robust financial institutions. Zimbabwe must start to focus on building internal capacity and its leaders should look at cross investment with friendly countries to build its economy and production base.

Many African countries have bilateral trade agreements whereby they depend on the oppressors for trade and if they are sanctioned they suffer greatly. There is little trade amongst African nations — and especially with Zimbabwe. There is hope that the coming of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is going to make trade easier amongst countries, this is a critical objective. Zimbabwe could benefit from intra-Africa trade, and it could assist in busting imperialist sanctions.

Many African leaders loot public money and stash it in foreign banks and then get threatened with exposure and seizures or the freezing of funds. Therefore, they would rather pay lip service in defence of Zimbabwe than provide real and practical support.

According to Rutendo Matinyarare a vocal Zimbabwean activist in the fight against economic sanctions, “in creating these coercive economic measures we saw the very esteemed US congress converge to create a specific law for a small insignificant country called Zimbabwe that was threatening the colonial world order by taking back colonised (stolen) factors of production (land, resources, labour and economy) from the white settlers to put them back into the hands of their rightful dispossessed black owners. Rutendo in his latest article aptly pointed out the origins of what made the government of Zimbabwe capitulate to western pressure through their puppet opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Zimbabwe is compensating the white farmers for the developments made on the farms and returning land which was protected by bilateral agreements with other western countries. MDC partnered with foreign governments to collectively punish innocent Zimbabweans by sanctions, in an attempt to force them to vote for the party. MDC and its acolytes conspired to influence and shape Zimbabwe laws in a manner that facilitates forced regime change, for their western masters.

Rutendo went further to say, in 2009, the Elders (Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, Gracia Machel etc.) threatened Zimbabwe with imminent western intervention, unless ZANU PF agreed to a government of national unity with MDC and the immediate creation of a Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) to draft the new Zimbabwean constitution. COPAC was formed with the heavy influence of the UN, other western NGOs, the EU, UK, South African constitutional experts, and the United States. As a result, the constitution, written under western coercion, established institutions designed to weaken ZANU PF influence on policy, land reform, media freedoms, human rights and electoral reforms.

Through the process, the US and her allies were able to enshrine, the compensation of white farmers for developments — a form of reparations for ending colonialism to create precedence and legal custom for future Southern African land reform.

This vindicates our departed revolutionary luminaries who repeatedly taught us that without African unity western imperialism will take us one by one. Zimbabwe is being punished alone, but if all the African countries had simultaneously embarked on a land revolution, it would not be easy for western imperialism to punish the whole Africa or SADC.

Only when Africa unites as one political entity, will it be able compete economically with the advanced industrialised countries of the world. Without genuine African unity, our continent will remain at the mercy of imperialist domination and exploitation.

 

Filed Under: ALD Tabloid 2021 Tagged With: #AfricanLiberationDay, #AfricanLiberationDay2021, African Liberation Day, ALD, ALD2021, Pan-AfricanismAfrican Liberation Day, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists

Irish Republican Socialist Movement ALD 2021 Solidarity Message

2021-05-21 by A-APRP Editor Leave a Comment

A chairde, comrades, sisters, and brothers:

For the past 38 years it has been my honor and pleasure to convey solidarity greetings from the Irish Republican Socialist Movement to the celebrants of African Liberation Day and the comrades of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party around the world.

The legacy of colonialism, slavery, imperialism, and neo-colonialism has resulted in an African diaspora that spans the globe. These same forces have created a worldwide Irish diaspora as well.

The shared experience of oppression and diaspora make the theme of this year’s African Liberation Day resonate all the more with the Irish people. This share experience makes it easy for the Irish to relate to Africans around the world fighting for social justice for themselves and for the liberation of Africa and the creation of a united, socialist Africa. Africans, wherever you are, know that when you rise in struggle for liberation, you will have the solidarity of Irish republican socialists.

We can wait no longer; we must put an end to imperialism around the globe. Both Africa and Ireland must be united, socialist, and free. Our struggles are one; your victory is our victory. As we move forward to liberation, the Irish Republican Socialist Movement reiterates its sincere and profound solidarity with you all, on this African Liberation Day 2021.

Because of the current crisis in Palestine, allow me to add, Irish voices and African voices together, in saying, FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE MUST BE FREE and this Zionist, fascist violence must end.

Thank you.

Filed Under: Solidarity Statements 2021 Tagged With: #AfricanLiberationDay, #AfricanLiberationDay2021, African Liberation Day, ALD, International Republican Socialist Network, Irish Republican Socialist Movement

ALD in US Virgin Islands Kicks Off

2021-05-21 by A-APRP Editor Leave a Comment

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS – May 2021

1. Friday, May 21st: 7-9:30pm online (ATTEND LIVE on Zoom/Online) – PASG & Caribbean Groups
2. Saturday, 22nd, Monday, 24th and Tuesday, 25th- 7pm until at the Nyahbinghi Center, AyAy St. Croix
St. Croix ALD Nyahbinghi Ises hosted by The Theocracy Reign of the Ancient Divine Order of the Nyahbinghi
3. Saturday, May 22nd: 2-4pm ”On Air University” ALD Special Radio Program on WSTA 1340 AM (LISTEN LIVE on http://www.wsta.com)
4. Monday, May 24th: 7-pm Pan African Support Group ALD Radio Program on WSTA 1340 AM (LISTEN LIVE on http://www.wsta.com)
5. Tuesday, May 25th: 10am in the Capitol Building, St. Thomas (WATCH LIVE on Legislature Facebook Page – http://www.Facebook.com/LegislatureUSVI)
6. Sunday, May 30th: 10am at the Bordeaux Farmers’ Market (ATTEND in person on St. Thomas) WGFI, PASG, Home School collective & the Rastafarian collective

***July 3rd: Emancipation Day Celebration at the Emancipation Garden, St. Thomas

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