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

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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.

Revolution – Now! Now!

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Big businesses use the term “revolution” to claim that everything from soap to cars to pancakes are better than their competition. Not just a little better but extremely, drastically better. This is all an effort to get people to buy more stuff – the stuff that makes more money for big businesses. The claims are largely lies.

There are also many people who call themselves revolutionaries and who struggle with all of their might to make a drastic improvement in society. They want a social revolution that brings about and end to capitalism because it is capitalism that gave us slavery, the slave trade exploitation of indigenous people from the Americas to Australia, colonialism in Africa, apartheid, and today neo-colonialism in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Capitalism is based on a handful of people (less than one percent of the population) owning and controlling the world’s wealth. This inequality in wealth ownership has led to billions of people living in poverty and suffering hunger, disease and insecurity.

In South Africa, many people emphasize extremes. Something that is very big is called “Big Big.” When a mother wants to do something right now, she says: “Now Now!”

Because the capitalists control the world’s wealth and use this wealth to maintain power, revolutionary organizations seek to drastically change things as soon as possible – NOW, NOW!

Revolutionaries cannot operate as individuals. They must work to build revolutionary organizations and bring revolutionary organizations and individuals together through activism. This means working as hard as possible to bring capitalism to an end. This is why the capitalist media work so hard to paint a negative picture of revolutionaries. It is a confused picture of revolution. It proclaims people like Steve Jobs as revolutionary and Apple products from iPads to iPhones as revolutionary. However, true social revolutionaries like Malcolm X and Kwame Ture are characterized as dangerous and disruptive. These contradictions and lies are published because capitalism truly fears dedicated social revolutionaries.

Today, the world is faced with big problems of oppression – BIG, BIG problems. Apartheid has ended, but South Africa today has the highest level of inequality in the world. Two families (Oppenheimers and Ruperts) own more than the poorest half of the country. Globally technology advances bring more corporate profit, but come with reductions in jobs. The people suffer. USA and NATO efforts at regime changes in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Cuba bring global instability. The people suffer. The capitalist sponsored Zionist USA Congress votes to give Israel 37 billion dollars in military aid over ten years. Israeli aggression in Gaza and the West Bank kills hundreds and destroys the homes and livelihood of millions. The people suffer.

During the colonial era, Ghana was controlled by Britain, Senegal by France, Angola by Portugal and South Africa by apartheid. With the end of colonialism, the majority of people live in countries where the government is no longer decided by the elite minority of Europe. Today, most governments are elected by the people. However, the options presented to the people rarely represent their interests. Leadership and governments sponsored by capitalists dominate the landscape. After elections this neo-colonial leadership is obligated to do the bidding of their sponsors. They do not serve the interests of the people.

Most are aware of the world’s suffering, but many are confused about the cause and uncertain about what to do about it. The task of revolutionaries is to address these questions and concerns and to organize to end suffering NOW, NOW. People everywhere have a duty to make revolution. African people have a duty to make revolution in Africa.

All people of African descent are African and owe allegiance to Africa. Some people believe only people who live on the African continent are Africans. For example there are some who suggest that so-called black people in the Americas are “Americans.” This implies the slave trade, slavery and Jim Crow oppression somehow transformed Africans stolen from their home continent into a new type of human being. This is not only ahistorical but also defeatist. The borders that divided Africa into over 54 nation-states could not divide African culture. The more than 100 languages spoken by Africans are not representative of different cultures, but they reflect the diversity and richness of a single African culture.

The people of the world will win the war against capitalism, imperialism, zionism and neo-colonialism if they all do their part. When Africans succeed in liberating Africa and uniting it under a single socialist government, it will be an advance for struggling people all over the world. It will cause extraordinary positive changes for Africans living outside of Africa.

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Organize, Organize, Organize!!!

A Global People Can Destroy a Global System of Oppression and Exploitation

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Fannie Lou Hamer, the legendary freedom fighter who struggled for justice in Mississippi, was also a member of a special 1964 Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) delegation to Guinea. It was her first opportunity to travel to Africa and she was awe-struck by the people. She was moved to tell Kwame Ture: “they stand and talk just like we do Stokely!” Many Africans see the similarities and historical connections between African foods, dances, forms of spiritual worship, superstitions, wisdom, logic, etc., as clear evidence that we are one people – a global people.

Whether in Accra, Ghana; Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; London, England; Toronto, Canada; or Los Angeles, California if two African women who share a mutual fondness and respect encounter each other after a long separation, the nature of the emotional exchange will be familiar to Africans everywhere whether the women speak Twi, Kiswahili, French, or English. If one enters a nightclub in any country, the mannerisms, non-verbal communications, etc. of Africans’ social encounters will be similar. You are just as likely to hear Cardi B and Beyonce in Africa as you are in the U.S. because their cultural expressions resonate among Africans everywhere. The experiences of riding on a trotro in Ghana and a Rapid Transit Bus in L.A. are very similar. In fact, the average African from the U.S. who goes to Africa, or the average African from the Caribbean who goes to Europe, will be approached by Africans who assume the visitor is a local. There is nevertheless an organic connection even after the visitor’s actual place of residence is disclosed.

We make the irrefutable point that Africans born and living in over 120 countries worldwide, are one people, regardless of different languages, geographical locations, challenges, conflicts, etc.

As Kwame Ture pointed out, Africans are the only people on Earth who wear clothes, sing songs, etc. representing our common connection to Africa. You are not likely to see a cake in the shape of Europe or Asia, but we have all seen cakes shaped like Africa because on a conscious and unconscious level, our people recognize our common thread and connection to Africa as a vehicle that leads to our complete liberation as a people.

Even the enemies of African liberation have been conscious enough to exploit the clear and objective Pan-African reality that exists among us. During the imperialist efforts to steal back the Congo after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, in conjunction with British M16 Intelligence and French and Belgian intelligence, engaged in concerted efforts to sabotage efforts by Lumumba’s National Congolese Movement to gain liberation for that country. One of the confirmed strategies imperialism utilized to attempt to accomplish this was to import Africans from outside the Congo e.g. Africans from the U.S., so-called Cuban exiles, etc., into the Congo to pose as Congolese fighting against national liberation. This tactic was implemented to attempt to create the illusion of Congolese opposition to liberation within their country.

Several of the mercenaries in the Congo were exposed once they were captured and it was quickly discovered that these people didn’t speak Lingala, Ki-Swahili, etc. They only spoke English or Spanish which would be impossible if they were Congolese. What if instead, these Africans were fighting for Africa’s liberation? The achievement of Pan-Africanism (one unified socialist Africa) creates the potential for an international fighting force of African people who are organized and committed to waging a relentless nation, class, and gender struggle against capitalism and imperialism everywhere in the world to liberate Africa as our base of operations.

Africans’ problems didn’t start in the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Honduras, Canada, or the U.S. They started when Africa was exploited and Africa’s people were enslaved and forced into exile throughout the world. It is therefore likely that Africans in the U.S. have family members in Somalia, Canada, Puerto Rico, etc. So, this reality makes it absurd to suggest we are not the same people. It is equally absurd to suggest that we should remain divided and powerless. What we need is continued comprehensive political education that prioritizes a shared understanding that our futures are directly tied to Africa’s future. The only homeland African people have any legitimate right to claim is Africa. Why fight for Africa’s liberation? Africa is the richest material land base on Earth, yet African people are among the poorest people on the planet. This is not an accident, but it is a direct consequence of the domination and exploitation of Africa. Saying it differently, capitalism in blackface e.g. Barack Obama in the U.S. or Paul Kagame in Rwanda, is not the solution. The solution is Pan-Africanism: The total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism.