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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.

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

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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.

 

 

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.

African Puppets of Imperialism Must Go!

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The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) thanks you for your participation in the 2019 commemorations of African Liberation Day (ALD).This special day of work, study and organizing has become an institution across not only the length and breadth of Africa, but in all corners of the world where Africans have been dispersed, enslaved and oppressed.

African Liberation Day is an important element of “revolutionary Pan-Africanism.” That may be a term that is unfamiliar to some, but the essential meaning resonates with all Africans who have experienced or observed police terrorism, war, theft of natural resources, widespread poverty and illness, racial discrimination, inadequate education, and many other problems. These challenges are not limited to Africans found in only one part of the world. Africans everywhere are engaged in a desperate fight for survival – and far too many are losing. Victory requires more than positions in local government, or ownership of small businesses, or membership on corporate boards of directors, or even the support of well-meaning non-governmental organizations.

Genuine African liberation requires power. Power does not mean money. Power does not mean fame. Power does not mean close association with those who have power. When Africans gain real power, Africa and Africa’s people worldwide will have the ability to determine and pursue their own destiny without anyone having the capacity to stop them.

Revolutionary Pan-Africanism is the time-tested strategy for achieving power. It is a strategy implemented by African people organizing globally to achieve one primary objective: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism.

Total Liberation

The total liberation of Africa is a critical element of Pan-Africanism. African countries may have African presidents, prime ministers and parliaments, but most of these countries are not under African control. Africa is largely controlled by western governments and foreign corporations. European countries understood back in the 19th Century that Africa possesses enormous natural resources of inestimable value. This one continent has gold, oil, coltan, chromium, bauxite, diamonds and numerous other valuable minerals.

By 1885, European countries had resolved to colonize and dominate African countries in order to gain full access to the continent’s wealth. African resistance to colonialism was protracted and fierce. By the end of the 20th Century this resistance had succeeded in driving European governments out of Africa and leaving African countries nominally independent. However this independence was illusory. Unwilling to surrender access to the valuable natural resources of Africa, imperialists devised a new form of colonialism that to all appearances was not colonialism at all. This new form of colonialism – or “neo-colonialism” relies heavily on the betrayal of Africa’s people by Africans who by one means or another control the reins of African governments.

African puppets of neo-colonialism

Some of these African neo-colonial heads of state are vicious dictators like Mobutu Sese Seko of Congo, who during his tyrannical tenure stole much of the country’s treasury and had innumerable people killed. The U.S. and Western Europe turned a blind eye to his crimes for many years because he allowed foreign interests to steal and exploit Congo’s resources. There are still other African neo-colonial government officials who mean well, but they are constrained and directed by a well-organized system of imperialism (i.e., domination of a territory by external forces). Even these well-meaning government officials are bound to carry out the agenda of their puppet-masters in the U.S. and Europe.

Imperialist control of Africa is by force. If an African leader attempts to steer an independent course even after experiencing threats and coercion, intelligence agencies of the western governments will engineer a coup, or in some cases an assassination. In other cases where an African leader not only attempts to act independently but establishes effective defenses to subversion, imperialists may resort to economic warfare. This happened in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s governing party, the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front, initiated a program for the return of land occupied by European settlers to Africans. In response, the U.S., England and other western countries commenced and maintained an economic embargo against Zimbabwe for many years that caused substantial economic decline and consequent social and political instability.

Imperialism is also not reluctant to use armed force against those who do not cooperate with the neo-colonial agenda. This was made easier by the creation of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). The purpose of AFRICOM is to dominate Africa militarily without appearing to dominate Africa militarily. The way it works is U.S. military forces serve as behind the scenes “advisors” to the armies of African countries. These African armies are directed to carry out missions that advance imperialist interests. One example is AFRICOM’s leadership in the overthrow and vicious murder of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. AFRICOM armed reactionary and racist forces whose campaign of terror allowed the U.S. and France to gain control of Libyan oil fields and end Gadhafi’s plans for an independent gold-backed Pan-African currency. AFRICOM now has operations in almost all of the African countries.

Pan-Africanism requires Africa to be totally liberated from all of these foreign forces and interests so that Africa can not only genuinely govern itself but also control its own natural wealth for the benefit of its own people in Africa and in other parts of the world.

Unification

“Divide and conquer” is a very old strategy used by oppressors. Africa is extremely divided, and it is for that reason that Pan-Africanism can be achieved only if Africa is united. How did Africa become divided in the first place? As the year 1884 was coming to a close, the major European powers who lusted after Africa’s wealth concluded that it made no sense for them to fight each other because there was enough in Africa for everyone to exploit. Representatives of the various European countries came together in Berlin and cut up and distributed portions of a map of Africa in much the same way one would divide a birthday cake. Each European country proceeded to colonize the African territory assigned to them.

When dividing the African continent, Europe paid no heed to existing communities and nation states. Borders and boundaries were established for European convenience, and in the process, Africans with political and social differences were forced into relationships with those they did not necessarily want in their communities. Language differences and other factors created tension and division within the colonies, and these territories were much easier to dominate.

Notwithstanding the intra-African conflicts in the colonies, resistance to colonialism began nevertheless. As these movements gained momentum, conditions became ripe during World War II for African countries to begin to win at least nominal independence. With its attention and resources consumed by the war, Europe lacked the capacity to maintain direct control of its colonies. Independence ushered in a new era of struggle.

Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, became a vocal proponent of Pan-Africanism. Other heads of state like Sekou Toure of Guinea and Patrice Lumumba of Congo echoed these calls much to the chagrin of the United States and Western Europe. The continuing interest in the exploitation of Africa made these African revolutionaries a threat to efforts to establish a new form of colonialism, or neo-colonialism. Consequently, Nkrumah was overthrown by a plot devised by the CIA. Toure was repeatedly attacked and harassed by the French. Lumumba was assassinated by African stooges of the CIA. Other African revolutionaries were also targeted by imperialist forces in the years that followed.

The attacks on African revolutionaries and revolutionary forces have historically been made easier by disunity in Africa. For example, one country that has thrown off imperialist control and is traveling a revolutionary path may be regarded as a “liberated zone.” However, a country on its border may still be a “zone under enemy control” that still bears the burden of western domination. Such a country may be used as a convenient staging ground for attacks and invasions of the neighboring liberated country. Such a strategy could not be pursued if Africa were united in its opposition to neo-colonialism.

There is a yet larger and more important benefit of a united Africa. To understand it, imagine the state of New York in the U.S. as an independent, sovereign country. Even the fact that it has one of the largest, most cosmopolitan cities in the world would not give it very much power or influence on the world stage. It would be overwhelmed economically, diplomatically and militarily by not only the world’s superpowers, but also by many smaller countries. However, if you join New York with 49 other states that together call themselves the United States of America, then New York along with these other states becomes a force to be reckoned with. The more than 50 little countries in Africa are no different. Alone, they have no more power than would a “country” called New York. However, if all of these countries come together to form the United States of Africa, there will be no other country on the planet with as much economic, diplomatic or military power. That can mean only good things for Africans worldwide.

Scientific Socialism

When Africa unites to achieve Pan-Africanism, scientific socialism must guide and govern the continent’s economics. Many Africans not only fail to include scientific socialism as part of their agenda, they also don’t even know what it is. It’s really not as complicated as it sounds.

Any country is always faced with a basic question: “How are we going to deal with the nation’s money and resources?” If those answering the question believe in a capitalist approach to economics, they will say: “Let’s put the wealth of the nation in the hands of a small elite group. This group can determine whether the broad masses of people will share in this wealth, and if so, to what extent.” Africa has already had many years of experience with capitalism, and the results have not been good. Among other things, capitalism gave Africa the slave trade, colonialism, widespread poverty, environmental disasters, wars, foreign theft and exploitation of natural resources, corruption and disease. There is another path that Africa must follow. It is the socialist path.

A socialist will say: “Let’s put the wealth of the nation in the hands of everyone. This will ensure that decisions about what to do with it will always be in the best interests of the broad masses of the people. The people themselves will never purposely make decisions that will hurt themselves.” Why, for example would the people ever decide to allow foreign corporations to come into Africa to steal their oil and most valuable minerals? Socialism just makes good sense. It is a scientific approach to economics because it is based on concrete, practical considerations rather than romantic, theoretical notions about how money and resources should be handled.

What Must You Do?

Africans, like all peoples, have a role to play in the war against neo-colonialism. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party knows that the best contribution Africans can make is to liberate Africa from the control of the African puppet leaders, large corporations and foreign military forces that have locked down Africa’s oil, valuable minerals and other natural resources for capitalist exploitation. When that has been accomplished, capitalism in Africa must be replaced by a socialist government and economy that integrates the entire continent into a single country. Socialism is essential because, unlike capitalism, which allows wealth and power to be concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority, socialism places all wealth and power in the hands of everyone. Those resources can then be available to struggling people around the world. The total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism is known as Pan-Africanism, and it is the overriding objective of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party.

Pan-Africanism cannot be accomplished by an individual. The capitalist’s propaganda about individualism drives myths about super heroic feats of individuals, when in fact no individual accomplishes anything of significance alone. These individualist ideas are absorbed by osmosis even by many of those who are oppressed, and they wait in vain for a “leader” who will rescue them from their misery. This mortal messiah will never come because it is not possible for an individual – even a well-meaning one – to liberate a people. On the other hand, when individuals work together they have the capacity to overcome even the fiercest opposition of oppressive forces. Organization is the stuff of which revolutions are made. Organization contemplates a steadfast and abiding commitment that involves both work and study. The member of the organization engages in a consistent collective process of self-education in order to ensure that any work done on behalf of the organization is fully informed and effective.

Join An Organization!

You must join an organization. Africa needs you! Africa’s people scattered around the world need you! Struggling people in neo-colonies need you! The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) needs you! In the A-APRP you will have the opportunity to not only work for your people, but to also learn things universities don’t teach, and to otherwise gain knowledge that will make you the most effective organizer you can be. Enlist in the A-APRP’s work and study program today!