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Volume 24, Number 11 • April-July 2006 

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Founding President of Namibia endorses 

the International Reparations Tribunal! 

“The SWAPO party will fully support this movement 

because crime and genocide has been committed 

against the people of Africa.” 

— Sam Nujoma, Founding President of Namibia and SWAPO, the revolutionary 

organization that led the independence struggle of the 1970s 

Inside: 

Iran defiant in face of U.S. 

pressure to end its nuclear 

development 

(page 3) 

Anti-imperialist block of power 

is consolidating in South America 

(page 3) 

See Story 

Page 4 

Chernoh Alpha M. Bah ends tour, 

builds Sierra Leone Support 

Committee 

(page 9) 

Voir la page 15 por la 14 plate-forme de point des Gens Africains’ 

les Parti socialiste en Francais 

Con La Plataforma del Partido Socialista del Pueblo Africano En 

Espanol — P.19 

Puppet government of Guinea an 

example of failed neocolonialism 

(page 14)

2 THE BURNING SPEAR April-July 2006 

WE ARE THE 

AFRICAN PEOPLE’S 

SOCIALIST PARTY 

Basic Line of the 

AFRICAN PEOPLE’S 

SOCIALIST PARTY 

“All our work is guided by our understanding that 

our struggle for national liberation within U.S. 

borders is an integral part of the whole African 

Liberation Movement; that the African Liberation 

Movement itself is a part of the great contest 

between the ever-emerging forces of international 

socialism and the dying, but not yet dead forces of 

imperialism; that the particular character of the 

African Liberation Movement within the U.S. is a 

struggle against U.S. domestic colonialism; that 

the destruction of colonialism, led by a conscious 

black revolutionary socialist party, will constitute 

the critical blow in the struggle for socialism within 

U.S. borders.” 

— Chairman Omali Yeshitela 

RULES OF PARTY DISCIPLINE 

At the June 2, 1974 Central Committee meeting the following 

rules were drafted so that Party members would have a guide to 

develop and strengthen our discipline. 

ANY PARTY MEMBER WHO: 

1. Does not consciously strive to elevate his or her political 

understanding has broken Party discipline; 

2. Does not strive to unite our Party with the masses has broken 

Party discipline; 

3. Reveals Party business without authorization has broken 


4. Discusses a Party member negatively to non-Party members 

has broken Party discipline; 

5. Exploits or oppresses African women through action or 

statement has broken Party discipline; 

6. Exploits or oppresses African people through action or 

statement has broken Party discipline; 

7. Fails to initiate constructive criticism or self-criticism has 

broken Party discipline; 

8. Uses words or actions to divide the Party has broken Party 

discipline; 

9. Refuses to recognize and follow Party leadership through 

words or actions has broken Party discipline; 

10 Discards or weakens Party leadership as opposed to 

strengthening Party leadership has broken Party discipline; 

11. Helps to divide and circumvent international African unity 

through words or actions has broken Party discipline; 

12. Uses criticism to divide and not unite the Party has broken 


13. Uses criticism or self-criticism on a personal level and not 

Huey P. Newton (l), co-founder of the Black Panther Party, and Omali 

Yeshitela, chairman and founder of the African People’s Socialist Party 

a political level has broken Party discipline; 

14. Uses criticism or self-criticism to hide her or his own shortcomings 


15. Does not carry himself worthy of emulation by the masses 


16. Displays arrogance through actions or words has broken 


17. Displays negativism and reluctance in carrying out Party 

tasks has broken Party discipline; 

18. Does not strive to bring more Africans into the Party or 

Party organizations has broken Party discipline; 

19. Engages in adventurous and individualistic acts has broken 


20. Fails to carry out Party policy as manifested by the Party 

constitution, Party documents, and the Central Committee 

has broken Party discipline. 

— From the Central Office 

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April-July 2006 THE BURNING SPEAR 3 

Imperialism in crisis 

across the globe 

As has been reported in The 

Burning Spear, there has been within 

the international African community a 

sector of forces engaged in a dynamic 

process of uniting and building the 

African Socialist International to 

defend the interests and resources of 

African people worldwide. This is part 

of an international trend in which colonized 

people are making significant 

moves to break the chokehold the U.S. 

and other imperialist powers have had 

over us for centuries. Often our victories 

come from grassroots organizations 

in defiance of neocolonial governments. 

In some cases, heads of 

oppressed nations themselves are 

defying imperialism’s flagrant 

attempts to control the resources of 

their struggling nations. 

Iran 

One such nation has been Iran. In 

recent weeks, a showdown between 

the governments of the U.S. and Iran 

over the issue of nuclear energy has 

made headlines in imperialist media. 

On January 11, 2006, Iranian 

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 

announced his country was on the 

verge of achieving the capacity to produce 

nuclear energy. 

It has enraged the U.S. government 

and much of its white citizenry to 

think that any non-white nation might 

possess the ability to develop nuclear 

weaponry. The ideology of white 

power, which drives U.S. imperialism, 

demands a monopoly on violence or 

the ability to commit acts of violence. 

It also compounds the imperialists’ 

anger that, under the leadership of 

President Ahmadinejad, the Iranian 

government is one of the few established 

governments in the world that 

openly condemns the existence of the 

colonial settler State of Israel. 

In public rallies of hundreds of thousands 

of people, Ahmadinejad has 

ridiculed the premise that the Jewish 

persecution under the Germans during 

the Second Imperialist War justifies 

the existence of Israel and its 

atrocities against the Palestinian people 

and other Arab nations. He publicly 

argues that if such a crime occurred by 

Germans and other European 

nations, then the State of Israel should 

be established on European soil. 

It should also be noted that on May 

8, 2006, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 

wrote an open letter to George Bush 

that among other things, criticized 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 

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U.S. imperialism in Africa. It states, 

“The people of Africa are hardworking, 

creative and talented… Don’t they 

have the right to ask why their enormous 

wealth – including minerals – is 

being looted, despite the fact that they 

need it more than others?” 

Even in the face of open threats of 

sanctions and the underlying threat of 

invasion, Iran has been steadfast. 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali 

Khamenei warned the U.S. against 

attacking Iran saying that the U.S. and 

its allies won’t be able to provide security 

for oil shipments crossing the 

Hormuz Strait near Iran. 

Khamenei said, “That a country has 

no right to achieve proficiency in 

nuclear technology means it has to 

beg a few Western and European 

countries for energy in the next 20 

years. Which honest leader is ready to 

accept this?” 

He said, “We have not threatened 

any neighbor. Unlike the U.S., we 

have no claim to dominate the world.” 

Iraq 

Meanwhile in Iraq, the U.S. is 

receiving the political education prescribed 

by Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam 

decades ago when the Vietnamese 

were sending increasing amounts of 

U.S. troops home in body bags. The 

Pentagon reported on March 30, one 

year since Dick Cheney boasted that 

the insurgency was in its “final throes,” 

that the frequency of insurgent attacks 

against U.S. troops and civilians is at 

its highest level since American commanders 

began tracking such figures 

two years ago. 

In its quarterly update to Congress, 

the Pentagon reported that from 

February 11 to May 12, as the socalled 

“Iraqi unity government” was 

being established, insurgents staged 

an average of more than 600 attacks 

per week nationwide. From August 

2005 to early February, when Iraqis 

elected a parliament, insurgent 

attacks averaged about 550 per week; 

at its lowest point, before the United 

States handed over sovereignty in the 

spring of 2004, the attacks averaged 

about 400 per week. 

In the political arena, U.S. efforts 

look equally dismal. Efforts to install a 

puppet government that could hold 

any credibility among the Iraqi masses 

while being friendly to U.S. colonial 

interests has been impossible. For its 

survival, the fledgling Iraqi government 

created by the U.S. is forced 

to criticize the murderous terror 

tactics of the U.S. military, such as 

the November 2005 incident in 

Haditha. 

In this Iraqi city, a group of 

marines went on a killing spree, 

slaughtering two dozen Iraqi 

men, women and children after 

one soldier was killed by a roadside 

bomb. 

In a hopeless attempt to maintain 

a face of legitimacy, the U.S. 

government is attempting to 

explain particular incidents of 

murder and terror by its military as isolated 

events. However, U.S. imperialism 

is not only exposed as illegitimate, 

but also as beatable. 

Afghanistan 

A simmering insurgency threatens 

to boil over in Afghanistan as well. 

Recently, a U.S. military vehicle barreled 

into a crowded intersection in 

Kabul and killed eight people. 

Immediately after the attack, hundreds 

of Afghans crowded onto the 

scene chanting, “death to America” 

and “death to Karzai,” who is the U.S. 

puppet installed to govern the region. 

Uprisings ensued for several days in 

Kabul and other cities. 

We have not 

threatened any 

neighbor. 

Unlike the 

U.S., we have 

no claim to 

dominate the 

world. 

Palestine 

Instability also intensifies for the 

U.S. and its colonial ally Israel in occupied 

Palestine. In January 2006, 

HAMAS, the Palestinian political party 

that represents the popular armed 

resistance against Israeli occupation, 

won popular elections. HAMAS now 

occupies 74 of 132 seats and is now 

the majority party of the Palestinian 

Legislative Council. Like the Iranian 

government 

under 

Ahmadinejad, HAMAS is 

unflinching in its position 

that Israel is a State that has 

no right to exist. 

This severely undermined 

the U.S/Israeli neocolonial 

strategy that uses 

the docile Palestinian 

Authority to isolate HAMAS, 

which the U.S. characterizes 

as a “Terrorist Group.” 

To punish the Palestinian 

people and destabilize the 

HAMAS victory, the U.S. 

government and Israel 

attempt to starve out the 

Palestinian people by denying 

the pittance of resources 

it calls aid. These resources, which 

are stolen from Palestine and other 

places anyway, come to the 

Palestinian people only as a consequence 

of political submission to 

Israel and the U.S. However, the 

HAMAS party has refused to compromise 

the integrity of its political position 

and continues to enjoy the popular 

support of the Palestinian masses. 

Venezuela 

Across the world in Latin America, 

the U.S. faces a similar crisis in its 

attempt to maintain dominance over 

the governments, resources and people 

there. 

Under President Hugo Chavez, 

Venezuela has provided leadership 

throughout Latin America for the 

masses to defend their land and 

resources from exploitation of the 

U.S. since sweeping the 1998 presidential 

elections with the largest margin 

of victory in Venezuelan history. 

Chavez has publicly declared his 

intention to use Venezuela’s oil wealth 

to not only lift the masses of workers 

and peasants out of poverty, but to 

also challenge the economic and 

political stranglehold which U.S. 

imperialism holds over South 

America. 

In the following years, Chavez’s 

government initiated unprecedented 

reforms. He introduced a massive 

land reform bill. He cracked down on 

corruption. 

He doubled investment in education 

and schooled over 1 million children 

for the first time as he tripled literacy 

courses. He reduced official 

unemployment from 18 percent to 13 

percent. 

He introduced a large-scale microcredit 

program for the poor and for 

women. He cut down on tax evasion 

by the rich. He lowered the infant mortality 

from 21 percent to 17 percent. 

In a manner similar to his Middle 

Eastern counterparts, Chavez has 

been unflinching in his criticism of U.S. 

imperialism, particularly of the current 

Bush regime. He has characterized 

the Bush regime as an “imperialist, 

war-mongering government.” He said 

it is “eroding the possibility of peace 

and life” on earth. 

see World, page 22 

Bolivian President Evo Morales, Cuban 

President Fidel Castro and Venezuelan 

President Hugo Chavez represent a consolidating 

block of anti-imperialist forces in power 

throughout South America. 

African People’s Socialist Party


Chairman Omali’s ASI Tour electrifies 

South Africa, Namibia, Ghana and France 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaks to a crowd at the University of Namibia. 

The “winds of change” are sweeping 

the African world. They are coming 

from the whirlwind that Marcus Garvey 

foretold of as being the advent of his 

return. The name of this whirlwind is 

African Internationalism and it is being 

eagerly embraced by Africans everywhere. 

From April 22 through June 5, 

APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela traveled 

throughout Africa and to Paris to 

organize Africans into the African 

Socialist International, the organization 

necessary to unite and lead the 

revolutionary struggle to liberate and 

unify Africa and African people and to 

build for the world tribunal on reparations 

for African people, scheduled for 

June 2007 in Berlin. 

The Chairman’s tour began on April 

22 with a trip to Azania, called South 

Africa, as a guest of the Pan African 

Youth Congress (PAYCO), the youth 

organization of the Pan Africanist 

Congress of Azania (PAC). 

Throughout much of the 1970s and 

1980s our Party had a strong relationship 

with PAC, primarily through its 

exiled forces in the U.S. 

However, with the negotiated settlement 

that allowed the exiles to 

return to South Africa, we lost contact 

until 2000 when a young PAC leader 

accepted our invitation to participate in 

an ASI conference in London. 

The trip in April was the second trip 

that our Party had made as a guest of 

PAYCO, an organization struggling to 

raise PAC up from its current status as 

a minor factor in the political life of 

Azania. This is especially important, 

because along with the ANC ruling 

party, PAC was recognized as a legitimate 

liberation force in that country 

and, in the eyes of many, the critical 

force leading up to the crisis that forced 

the settler-colonial South African government 

to enter into negotiations with 

the ANC in order to shortcut the 

process that would have overturned 

the entire system. 

This trip that occurred under the 

leadership of PAYCO President 

Sbusiso Xaba would prove the most 

important of all the trips and resulted in 

an intense speaking tour of universities, 

meetings with important political 

forces and working agreements 


between our Party and PAYCO, which 

has already agreed to participate in 

building the ASI. 

During his stay in Azania, the 

Chairman was living in Soweto but the 

first leg of the tour took him to the 

University of Pretoria, Memelodi 

Campus, on April 26 where he spoke 

at an outdoor rally with enthusiastic 

and thoughtful students, some of 

whom had challenging questions and 

offered serious critiques of the 

Chairman’s presentation. 

Chairman Omali spent May Day at 

a Workers’ Day rally held in the Free 

State by the National Council of Trade 

Unions (NACTU), a trade union movement 

close to the PAC. While calling 

on the workers to support the effort to 

build a united and liberated Africa, the 

Chairman also called on them to unite 

with the efforts of undocumented, 

mostly South American workers who 

were on strike in the U.S. in opposition 

to the threat of new immigration laws 

that would criminalize undocumented 

entry into the U.S. 

An important part of the tour was 

the interactions with a number of political 

organizations that had been organized 

for our Party by PAYCO. These 

included meetings in Johannesburg 

with leaders of the Azanian People’s 

Organization (AZAPO) and SOPA, 

the Socialist Party of Azania. Both of 

these organizations have their origin 

in the Black Consciousness 

Movement of the martyred Steve Biko. 

The meetings revolved around the 

need for unity within the broad 

Africanist tendency that includes the 

Party, PAYCO, AZAPO and SOPA. 

There was also discussion about participation 

in the African Socialist 

International and the upcoming world 

tribunal on reparations for African people 

scheduled for Berlin next year. 

These meetings were very fruitful 

and resulted in an exchange of views 

on a number of subjects as well as an 

exchange of literature and a commitment 

by SOPA and AZAPO to investigate 

their ability to participate in the 

Berlin Tribunal. 

Similar meetings occurred with 

members of the Pan Africanist Student 

Movement of Azania (PASMA), the 

student organization of PAC; veterans 

of the Azanian People’s Liberation 

Army (APLA), the armed wing of PAC 

during the liberation struggle; and the 

GAC Azania chapter, an organization 

of the Global Afrikan Congress comprised 

mostly of young African artists 

and cultural workers in Azania.On 

April 29, Chairman Omali participated 

in an economic emancipation conference 

held by PAYCO and attended by 

its members from throughout the 

provinces. Also attending were members 

of the Ngwane National 

Liberatory Congress (NNLC) of 

Swaziland. 

Here PAYCO wrestled with serious 

issues of economic development 

within the current neocolonial situation 

in Azania and challenged various traditional 

economic models and criticized 

the BEE or Black Economic 

Empowerment scheme of the ANC 

government that allows a handful of 

ANC officers and other petty bourgeois 

individuals to enrich themselves 

[I]ncreasingly, 

throughout the 

African world the 

unifying slogans 

brought by the 

Chairman on this tour 

can be heard 

throughout the world 

as African people, 

passionate in our 

determination to 

liberate and unite 

ourselves, cry out: 

“Uhuru!”, “One 

Africa! One Nation!”, 

“Izwe Lethu I 

Afrika!”, and “Touch 

One, Touch All!” 

at the expense of the masses of 

African workers and poor people. 

The highlights of the economic conference 

were the Party’s introduction 

to the struggle in Swaziland and the 

relationship being developed with the 

NNLC, and the practical areas of 

agreement reached between the 

Party and PAYCO. These areas of 

agreement revolved around the 

Party’s production and distribution of 

information, especially in the form of 

revolutionary DVDs, The Burning 

Spear newspaper and 

UhuruRadio.com, our recently 

launched internet radio station. 

Chairman Omali builds ties for 

the ASI process in Namibia 

On Friday, May 5th, Chairman 

Omali was off to Windhoek, the capital 

of Namibia, known as South West 

Africa when it was a German and then 

South African colony. 

Upon his arrival in Windhoek, 

Chairman Omali was met by B.F. 

Bankie — a tireless Africanist who considers 

himself a “foot soldier” in the 

struggle for a united and liberated 

Africa — and Naville Andre-Itope. 

From the airport, Yeshitela was 

taken directly to the Namibian 

Broadcasting Corporation, the state 

run television station. This would be 

the first of the many appearances of 

the Chairman on Namibian national 

television. In fact, the Chairman would 

appear on Namibian TV several times 

a day every day of his seven-day stay 

in the country. 

Again, the Chairman’s tour would 

be intense. He would speak at the 

University of Namibia, the 

International University of 

Management and the Polytech of 

Namibia. There were also smaller 

meetings with youth and student leaders. 

The themes of his university and 

campus presentations revolved 

around the question of Pan- 

Africanism and its relevance today. 

While the Chairman and the APSP 

are not Pan-Africanists, the Chairman 

recognized that many people incorrectly 

lump Garvey in with what is often 

defined as Pan-Africanism, and in 

Namibia the UNIA, led by Marcus 

Garvey, had a strong history. 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela and forces from the Pan Africanist Youth Congress 

who sponsored the Chairman’s tour in Occupied Azania (South Africa). 

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Chairman Omali and Herero Paramount Chief Kauima Riruako hold the uniting 

document for the June 2007 International Reparations Tribunal. 

Therefore, the Chairman was able to 

address the issue by tying his philosophical 

grounding to Marcus Garvey 

and deliver an African Internationalist 

analysis of the world situation and 

Africa’s place in the world. 

Chairman Omali called for the 

building of the ASI before extremely 

enthusiastic students and won support 

for the Berlin tribunal on reparations 

for African people. 

The Chairman was also able to 

meet with Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s 

founding president and current leader 

of the South West African People’s 

Organization (SWAPO), the ruling 

party of Namibia. He also met with 

Prime Minister Nahas Angula, the 

Deputy Minister of Education and 

Chairman Johanes Tjitjo of the Pan 

Afrikan Centre of Namibia. 

In addition to winning an endorsement 

of the reparations tribunal from 

President Nujoma, the Chairman also 

got an endorsement from the 

Paramount Chief of the Hereros, an 

ethnic group that suffered the brunt of 

the German genocide in South West 

Africa in 1904. Paramount Chief 

Kauima Riruako has spearheaded the 

drive for reparations from Germany for 

this genocide and has agreed to testify 

at the Berlin tribunal. 

The Chairman was also able to 

acquire one of the first copies of the 

book reflecting the proceedings of the 

17th All Africa Student’s Conference 

that took place in Namibia in May of 

2005. Entitled Pan Africanism: 

Strengthening the Unity of Africa and 

its Diaspora, the book was fresh off the 

press and can be acquired from 

elmarie@bookden.com.na. 

Chairman Omali raises up 

Nkrumah and electrifies Ghana 

After leaving Namibia on May 12, 

Chairman Omali spent a few days in 

Florida, attending a press conference 

and public meeting before heading for 

Ghana where he would spend the next 

nine days in a whirlwind tour, speaking 

in Tema, Takoradi, Accra and Cape 

Chairman Omali had the opportunity to meet with 

forces from the Ngwane National Liberatory 

Congress (NNLC) of Swaziland. 


The Chairman also 

got an endorsement 

from the Paramount 

Chief of the Hereros, 

an ethnic group that 

suffered the brunt of 

the German genocide 

in South West Africa 

in 1904. 

Coast. 

The Ghana tour was sponsored by 

Jubilee Afrika Campaign, an organization 

initially created to get the imperialist 

countries to forgive the so-called 

debt that strangles Africa. However, 

the organization today criticizes the 

very concept of African debt to imperialists 

and demands reparations as 

payment of the real debt owed to Africa 

by imperialism. 

These meetings were of great significance, 

partially because they 

occurred in Ghana, the home of 

Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, the great 

African visionary who lived his life 

attempting to implement Garvey’s 

dream of a free, united Africa. 

Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966 

under the leadership of the U.S. government, 

and every effort has been 

subsequently made to erase him from 

memory. However, the legacy of 

Nkrumah continues to haunt imperialism 

and its neocolonial stooges even 

as it inspires genuine African patriots 

committed to Nkrumah’s vision. 

In addition to these public meetings, 

Chairman Omali appeared on 

several radio talk shows with sisters 

from Angola and the UK as well as with 

Sister Affiong from Nigeria and other 

leaders of Jubilee Afrika Campaign. 

Before departing Ghana on June 1 

for Paris, Chairman Omali also met 

with members of the influential Ghana 

Socialist Forum, where 

discussions were held to 

determine means of carrying 

out united efforts 

and about participation 

in the ASI and the 

upcoming reparations 

tribunal in Berlin. 

When the Chairman 

left for Paris,, the sense 

of sadness from leaving 

home was alleviated by 

the great success of the 

tour. What was obvious 

was that there is a strong determination 

among our people in Africa — the 

workers and poor, the progressive and 

revolutionary intellectuals and militants 

of every stripe — to achieve a free 

and united Africa and African people. 

The idea of the African Socialist 

International was met with great 

enthusiasm in nearly every arena. The 

African nation, forcibly dispersed 

around the world and separated from 

itself with artificially created borders, 

longs for consolidation. And, increasingly, 

throughout the African world the 

unifying slogans brought by the 

Chairman on this tour can be heard 

throughout the world as African people, 

passionate in our determination to 

liberate and unite ourselves, cry out: 

“Uhuru!”, “One Africa! One Nation!”, 

“Izwe Lethu I Afrika!”, and “Touch One, 

Touch All!” 

Paris meeting further 

consolidates international 

reparations tribunal 

The final leg of the trip was to Paris. 

This was the site of one of the preparatory 

meetings to build the world tribunal 

on reparations for African people 

scheduled for Berlin, Germany in 

2007. 

Some comrades were unable to 

make the meeting because of the 

perennial contradiction of visa 

approval that we are constantly confronted 

with when crossing the various 

imperialist-created borders to be with 

each other. At least three comrades 

from the Democratic Republic of 

Congo were prevented from attending 

because of visa problems. Other comrades 

were impacted by 

money problems, especially 

since the airlines 

industry is spiking prices, 

using the rising cost of 

fuel as its basis. 

Nevertheless, there 

were 20 representatives 

of various different organizations 

from the U.S., 

Europe, the Caribbean 

and Africa who were able 

to make the meeting and 

it proved to be one of the 

most productive of all the 

meetings up to date. 

For one thing, the 

group gave itself a name, 

the International Tribunal 

on Reparations for 

Afrikan People (ITRAP). 

The tasks were better 

defined for building the 

tribunal, and regional 

committees were verified 

for North America, 

Europe and West and 

Central Africa. 

Also, likely regional 

representatives were 

identified for North and 

southern Africa. It was 

also established that 

work to build regional 

committees is advancing 

in the Caribbean and 

South America. The next 

phase of the work was 

determined to be the task 

of bringing Africans of 

Asia and Oceania into 

the process. 

Carole Crawford of 

France is busy building 

the communications 

capacity of ITRAP and, 

together with her committee, 

put out a press conference 

announcing the success of the meeting 

and announcing the next meeting 

scheduled for Berlin in August. 

The Paris group had done an excellent 

job in preparing for the meeting 

that was chaired by Chairman Omali. 

The trip to France was an excellent 

reminder that the contradictions faced 

by Africans are not restricted to Africa, 

but that they have followed us abroad 

in virtually every location to which we 

have been forcibly dispersed. 

Paris is still experiencing political 

and social anxiety from weeks of ongoing 

uprisings by African and Arab 

young people. On his last day in Paris, 

the Chairman was able to witness the 

police attack on a group of young 

African militants who are charged with 

being anti-Semitic because of their 

criticism of actions by paramilitary 

Jewish thugs in the African community. 

One thing is certain: the struggle for 

African liberation and unification has 

taken a new leap. Those who choose 

to see Africa as a charity case unable 

to identify and struggle in its own interests 

do so at their own peril. 

Those who would see Our Africa 

and Our people through the lens of 

neocolonial stooges put in place by the 

imperialists to guard their interests 

should remember the words of 

Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah: neocolonialism 

is the last stage of imperialism. 

They should also know that there is a 

new generation of Africans prepared 

to fight to the last breath to give truth 

and meaning to the words of Marcus 

Garvey that Africa is for the Africans, 

those at home and those abroad. 

Chairman Omali met with Namibia’s Deputy 

Minister of Education, Becky Ndjoze-Ojo (top). 

was featured on several television and radio programs 

(center), and met with the Global Afrikan 

Congress Azania organization. 



Namibia’s Founding President endorses 2007 Tribunal 

Omali Yeshitela’s discussion with Samuel Nujoma, Founding President of Namibia 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela and Sam Nujoma, founding president of Namibia 

and president of the South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) 

During his speaking tour in Namibia in 

May 2006, Chairman Omali Yeshitela met 

on Namibian national television with 

Samuel Nujoma, the Founding President 

of Namibia and the founder and current 

president of the South West African 

People’s Organization (SWAPO), the revolutionary 

organization that led the 

struggle for independence in the 1970s. 

Chairman Yeshitela and President 

Nujoma spoke about the conditions in 

Africa and the need for African unity to 

overturn these conditions. Chairman 

Yeshitela spoke with the Founding 

President about support from SWAPO for 

the International Tribunal on 

Reparations for African People to be 

held in Berlin, Germany in June 2007. 

President Nujoma readily expressed the 

support of SWAPO for the tribunal. 


President Nujoma: Welcome to 

Namibia, Brother, your second home. 

Chairman Omali: My first 

home! 

President Nujoma: Yes, your 

first home, you are correct. It gives us 

pleasure and strength to meet you 

and hear you on our media. We would 

like to discuss with you some matters 

of common interest and see how we 

can best serve the African people 

here and those in the diaspora. I 

believe that the strengthening of the 

African people on the Continent and 

those in the diaspora will come about 

if we work together with a clear purpose 

of ensuring that Africa and its 

people will never again be colonized 

or be enslaved by any nation. 

We are here to defend our rights, 

our properties and our Continent and 

to insure that our people will not be the 

poorest on earth. This continent is 

very rich in minerals and in agriculture. 

Africa could feed the world if it could be 

developed to the extent of, say, 

Switzerland, where every inch of the 

soil is utilized. Even the mountains are 

cultivated. They put soil there and they 

grow vegetables and fruits, which they 

consume from the bounty. 

We have this huge continent that is 

practically too empty. Take the size of 

Namibia. Namibia is the size of 

Germany, France and some British 

Isles put together, but with only a population 

of 1.8 million people. We have 

minerals. We are sitting in poverty on 

top of the richest minerals, ranging 

from uranium, diamonds, gold, copper 

and zinc, and we have agriculture 

production. Talk about fish and fish 

products! All of these are now 

exploited in raw form. Our idea now is 

to manufacture and develop our products. 

We want to sell our products in 

ready-to-use form, and put an end to 

the exploitation by foreigners that 

continues up to this very moment. 

We are looking to improve education 

and technological knowledge 

[T]he SWAPO party 

will fully support 

this movement 

because crime and 

genocide has been 

committed against 

the people of Africa, 

those on the 

Continent and those 

in the diaspora. 

especially in the fields of engineering, 

geology, marine biology and agricultural. 

Once we have people trained in 

these fields we will be able to utilize the 

resources that we have here, and to 

share them with our neighbors in other 

regions, with the African continent as 

a whole and with our brothers and sisters 

in the diaspora. 

People don’t respect weak people. 

If we are weak certainly nobody will 

respect us, so we have to make sure 

that we acquire strength. Our strength 

can only come through unity of purpose 

and action. 

Once again we welcome you to the 

Republic of Namibia. 

Chairman Omali: I would like to 

offer my profound thanks to you, 

Comrade President. The Central 

Committee of our Party extends 

its best wishes to you and also 

has a tremendous respect for 

your accomplishments. Although 

it has been said that the most difficult 

period of struggle is after 

independence, we recognize your 

tremendous work in winning the 

independence for our Namibia. 

We respect that tremendously. 

When we come here and have an 

opportunity to speak to you we do 

so with great humility. As a Party 

and as a Movement we express 

our humility, our great respect 

and our tremendous love for you, 

for what you have done for our 

Namibia. 

Comrade President, I want to 

agree with you about the need for 

a practicing unity among African 

people around the world. The primary 

work of our Party for the 

past few years has been to build 

an international organization of 

African people to create that unity 

and to drive with that unity. Our 

experiences and our investigation 

reveal to us that the African 

Revolution has run into severe 

limitations when it is fought 

within the borders that have been 

imposed on us as a people. 

We believe tremendously in the 

need for unity. I want to tell you 

about a project in which we are 

involved. We were part of a meeting 

in London in March that consolidated 

a process to initiate a 

World Tribunal on Reparations for 

African People worldwide. It currently 

involves Africans who are 

from the U.S., England, France, 

Germany, Holland, Israel, as well 

as from the Democratic Republic 

of Congo and from about eight 

West African states. We have a 

meeting in Paris next month 

where we will enlarge that effort 

to include Africans from around 

the world. We now have commitments 

from Africans from South 

Africa, for example, and there will 

be more. 

Comrade President, the objective 

of this tribunal is to put imperialism 

on trial for the crimes 

against African people around the 

world. We want to attempt to use 

this tribunal to actually quantify 

the amount of value that has been 

stolen from Africa and African 

people. We think that this tribunal 

can help to create a common consciousness 

and trajectory among 

Africans from around the world. 

We will bring experts in many 

fields, historians, economists, 

jurists, etc. to this tribunal. It will 

be held in Berlin and we call it 

“returning to the scene of the 

crime,” referring to the 1884-85 

Berlin Conference that divided 

Africa as it is currently divided. 

We think that these experts can 

help us to demonstrate that reparations 

are due to African people. 

We can show that Europe itself 

was built off slavery and colonialism. 

We can demonstrate that 

Africans need not be in the position 

of going to Europe hat in 

hand, begging for resources that 

actually belong to us. 

We believe that this can help to 

recreate the sense of solidarity 

that existed when SWAPO had to 

take up arms here, and when 

there were many other liberation 

forces and tremendously significant 

movements of African people 

here and around the world. 

That seems to be one of the 

things that’s missing today. We 

seem to lack a commonness of 

purpose among Africans worldwide, 

even though I think we’re 

moving in that direction again. 

I wanted to inform you of that 

project so that that you could be 

aware of it and know some of the 

things that are happening to try to 

bring about the unity of which 

you’ve just spoken. 

President Nujoma: Yes, the 

SWAPO party will fully support this 

movement because crime and genocide 

has been committed against the 

people of Africa—those on the 

Continent and those in the diaspora. If 

we don’t write our own history, if we 

don’t struggle, of course, nobody will 

do it for us. 

Chairman Omali: Comrade 

President, we would hope that 

you would consider and even 

inform us, perhaps at some later 

date, if it is possible for you to 

consider doing a tour of the 

United States at least and perhaps 

of England as well. We think 

that African people would draw a 

great inspiration from your presence 

and from the wisdom that 

you could impart to us. 

President Nujoma: Yes, I would 

be delighted to do so, when time 

allows me as the president of 

SWAPO. I can always find time to 

attend some of these very important 

events. Also, we would like to host this 

kind of event, in a big way, on the liberated 

soil of Namibia. Definitely 

SWAPO can facilitate something like 

this. It could go on all week, going from 

one region to another to inform the 

Namibian people what went wrong, 

how the imperialists colonized us, 

how they shipped our people across 

the ocean, how many of our people 

were killed. 

We could show the movie Roots, 

for example. I showed it to my family, 

my wife and my children. They just 

started crying, when they watched 

Roots. These are things we need to do 

now because we see aggression taking 

place all over the world. If we don’t 

prepare to defend ourselves and our 

rights, nobody will do it for us. 

Chairman Omali: Comrade 

President, in our movement we 

see the work that we do in the 

U.S. as representing the U.S. front 

of the African Revolution. A 

moment ago you talked about 

some of the expertise that is necessary 

for development here and 

in other places in Africa. I think 

that expertise is there. It’s within 

the African world. The thing that 

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“Through PACON, I think we should be 

able to create a way to work together.” 

Chairman Omali meets with Namibian Prime Minister Nahas Angula 

Chairman Omali met with Nahas Angula, 

Prime Minister of Namibia during his May, 

2006 speaking tour of that country. 

Chairman Omali spoke with Angula about 

the work to build the African Socialist 

International and requested support for 

the efforts to build the International 

Tribunal on Reparations for African 

People to be held in Berlin, Germany in 

June 2007. 

Chairman Omali: Right now we 

are bringing more and more 

Africans from throughout the 

world into the process of building 

the International Tribunal on 

Reparations for African People 

which will be held in Berlin next 

year. We want you to be informed 

of this and would like to see if you, 

your office or SWAPO as an organization 

might be able to intervene, 

should you so desire. My 

objective is to win your sympathy 

for the project and give you an 

opportunity, should you desire, to 

say how you might intervene in 

this process. 

Nahas Angula: Thank you very 

much. I think we are coming back to 

where we started when we were confronting 

colonialism in first place. You 

are talking about Berlin. You are talking 

about Paris. You are talking about 

London. That reminds me of the old 

Pan African Congresses that were 

held in some of these places. That was 

when Africa was in the thick of colonial 

occupation. 

These congresses were started by 

a few people, but the awareness they 

created fired by the imagination of 

young African nationalists. Through 

struggle Ghana became independent, 

then everybody said, “Oh, it’s 

possible.” I’m quite sure the same 

thing you are doing by raising the 

awareness, the consciousness of the 

world will catch the imagination of 

many Africans. 

Here in Namibia we are one of the 

countries that suffered from colonial 

genocide. We do have people here 

who are making a case against the 

German government. I am quite sure 

your young colleague will be able to 

introduce you to some of these people 

and to listen to their case. As a government 

we have not yet made up our 

mind on that one, but as individuals, 

we put on different hats. One of the 

organizations that we established 

here because of this whole issue of 

being conscious about African history 

and the African condition, is the Pan 

African Center of Namibia, PACON. 

I happen to be one of the people 

behind that center. You can work 

around PACON to bring this idea the 

attention for our people. And we can 

use PACON as the contact point for 

this kind of activity. I think you will be 

meeting with the people from PACON. 

Through PACON, I think we should be 

able to create a way to work together. 

The idea is good. It’s not only to talk 

about reparations. It also can talk 

about the condition of Africa in the present 

geopolitical set up. Even in terms 

So we have to 

struggle by 

reminding 

ourselves of the 

debt the world 

owes us, especially 

those who came 

here to take slaves 

and gold. 

of trade, the situation is so out of symmetry, 

even now with our nominal flags 

and our constitutions and presidents 

and prime ministers, we are on the 

receiving end. We are still not there as 

yet. So we have to struggle by reminding 

ourselves of the debt the world 

owes us, especially those who came 

here to take slaves and gold. For 

something like six centuries they were 

living on this, before they found that it 

was no more tenable. 

The post colonialist period then 

took another century before we able to 

get rid of it. So we have to remind ourselves 

of that and now it comes in a different 

form, through things like globalization. 

We are still on the receiving 

end, so we should not give up the 

struggle. We should continue. We 

have to raise the consciousness and 

the awareness of the young people 

that Africa and the diaspora needs to 

take a place around the global family 

as equals. 

Chairman Omali: It seems to 

me that the truth of Garvey and 

Nkrumah is bearing itself out in 

this world. It is very difficult for 

Africa to move forward as these 

separate entities. 

Prime Minister Angula: Yes. 

Unity is key. As soon as we realize that, 

the better for us. I hope that we can 

push the African Union really to make 

meaningful positions, not just political 

statements, but common positions. 

Chairman Omali: We will see 

whether the African Union is capable 

of doing that. 

Prime Minister Angula: 

Everything needs leadership, leadership 

skills. We need to find leaders who 

can push the thing politically. The 

organization is there. We need leaders 

to raise issues, serious ones. 

Chairman Omali: I appreciate 

your being willing to give us this 

opportunity to share this with you. 

Prime Minister Angula: Thank 

you so much, Brother. Feel at home. 

Chairman Omali: I am at home! 

Thank you for the hospitality, not 

only your own but of the people 

here in Namibia. 

“Welcome Comrade Omali Yeshitela, 

welcome the African way!” 

BY COMRADE JOHANES P.S.K. 

TJITJO, CHAIRPERSON OF THE 

PAN AFRIKAN CENTRE OF 

NAMIBIA (PACON) 

The following statement was made by 

Comrade Johanes P. S. K. Tjitjo, 

Chairman of the Pan Afrikan Centre of 

Namibia (PACON) on May 9, 2006 at 

PACON House, Windhoek, Namibia. 

I consider it a pleasure and an 

honor indeed to have had the opportunity 

of meeting one of the sons of the 

African soil in the person of Comrade 

Omali Yeshitela. On behalf of myself, 

the Board of Directors of the Pan 

Afrikan Centre of Namibia, and indeed 

the all the patriots of the African 

Revolution in the Republic of Namibia, 

I welcome you to Namibia and 

Windhoek in general, and to PACON in 

particular. 

Your courtesy visit to PACON 

today should forever serve as a Pan 

Afrikanistic bond between our progressive 

organizations, whose primary 

mission is to help Africa and the 

Africans to stand tall among the 

nations of the world, and to reject in 


totality any liberal or imperialistic 

notion that Africa is inferior. 

Comrade Yeshitela, I consider you 

a brother, an African brother, a comrade, 

an African patriot, who has taken 

upon yourself the great responsibility 

of uniting all Africans wherever they 

find themselves. Yes, we are Africans, 

and Africans we shall die. 

It is important for all Africans to sit 

back and reflect on the conscious 

schemes, policies and systemic laws 

of the colonizers that made us second 

class citizens in the countries of our 

birth, and made us strangers in our 

own mother continent. Such reflections 

should make us even more vigilant, 

and forge our unity of purpose in 

all our endeavors, as in unity we find 

strength. 

In the words of the poet David Diop, 

we should not say “yes to the sjambok 

(whip) of noon.” We should not create 

conditions which will allow the forces of 

greed and avarice to penetrate our 

houses, our villages, our organizations, 

our institutions, our countries 

and indeed our beautiful continent of 

Africa. It is a shame and an insult to 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela with Comrade Johanes P. S. K. Tjitjo 

Mother Africa, and more so to those on a daily basis, turning themselves 

gallant African brothers and sisters into Europeans! We are Africans, we 

who perished at the hands of the imperialists 

and apartheid colonizers, that 

have to remain Africans and fight our 

there are some Africans who are busy 

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The imperialist grip on West Africa must be broken 

Chernoh Alpha M. Bah speaks on diamond wars and Charles Taylor 

The following presentation was made by 

Comrade Chernoh Alpha M. Bah at the 

final event of his U.S. tour at the Uhuru 

House, April 19, 2006. 

On behalf of the Africanist 

Movement and my brothers and sisters 

in West Africa, whom I represent 

here today, I want to express our 

appreciation to the African People’s 

Socialist Party for organizing this tour. 

Since the formation of the Africanist 

Movement four or five years ago, we 

have been struggling to establish contact 

with our African brothers and sisters 

all around the world. We believe 

that the struggle and the conditions 

that we face in Sierra Leone are no different 

from the conditions of Africans 

here in St. Petersburg, Florida or any 

other place that we Africans find ourselves. 

I want to salute the chairman of the 

African People’s Socialist Party, 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela. We in the 

Africanist Movement believe that the 

theory of the Chairman and his leadership 

are an inspiration for those of us 

who are struggling on the Continent to 

overturn the conditions that we face as 

Africans. 

We consider this relationship with 

the African People’s Socialist Party 

very important. We have been in this 

situation for far too long, and without 


and the leadership of the Chairman, it 

would have been impossible for any 

member of the Africanist Movement to 

stand in front of you to explain the conditions 

we face not only in Sierra 

Leone, but in West Africa or any part of 

Africa that we find ourselves. 

There is no way that I can really 

express our gratitude to the African 

People’s Socialist Party. As soon as 

the Party sent delegates to Sierra 

Leone to our last conference in 

December, the strength of our movement 

increased and our numbers continue 

to increase on a daily basis on all 

fronts where we have our forces. That 

includes Sierra Leone, Guinea and all 

the other areas we are located. 

African Liberation Movement 

entering into new historical 

period 

We believe that this is a new period 

in the history of our struggle for the liberation 

and unification for Africa and 

African people worldwide. The fact 

that we are here today is a clear indication 

that we are entering a new era, and 

that this is a period that when we are 

Charles Taylor, former U.S. puppet president of 

Liberia 


beginning to defeat the forces responsible 

for our misery. 

Since I have been here, I see no difference 

between Africans in Sierra 

Leone in Africa, and the Africans I have 

met in London or throughout the U.S. 

We are the same people. We have the 

same sense of humor. We are part of 

one family, one people. [Applause] 

We experience the same conditions 

as Africans wherever we find ourselves. 

We know fully well the significance 

of the strength of the unity that 

we have established with our brothers 

and sisters outside of Africa. We know 

the circumstances that led to our separation, 

and we have been separated 

for far too long now. I believe that this is 

the period when we should unite to 

overcome the difficulties that we continue 

to face as African people 

throughout the world. 

Sierra Leone’s resources are 

being looted by imperialism 

On this tour, I have had the opportunity 

to share with the people I have met 

the conditions that we continue to face 

in Sierra Leone. Some of the people 

here tonight have heard the stories 

that I have been telling about the conditions 

we face in Sierra Leone and 

throughout West Africa. These are 

conditions that Africans equally face 

even here and in any other part of the 

world that we happen to find ourselves. 

Sierra Leone is known for its diamonds. 

The country has the best diamonds 

in the world. Diamond mining 

goes back to the 1930s in Sierra 

Leone. Even though Sierra Leone has 

produced the second largest diamond 

in the world, most of us from Sierra 

Leone have never seen a diamond. 

The reality is that we are people 

who have been deprived of access to 

our own resources. The fact is that we 

are forced to experience misery 

because of the scramble among the 

various imperialist nations — by this I 

mean the United States, Britain, 

Belgium their various corporations — 

for access to our own resources. 

Since 1930 until this period, the diamond 

mines in Sierra Leone, which 

produce the richest diamonds in the 

world, are controlled by various corporations 

from Belgium and the United 

States and other parts of Europe. The 

Africans who own this land and these 

diamonds have no access to them. 

There are millions of Africans, like 

myself, who have had their future 

taken away as a consequence of the 

struggle among this group 

of nations to deprive us of 

access to our resources. 

The struggle for diamonds 

and control of various 

resources that you find 

in Sierra Leone and other 

parts of West Africa have 

led and are still leading to 

the deaths of thousands, 

maybe millions of our 

brothers and sisters — 

your brothers and sisters. 

So many of us are currently 

facing the attacks by devious 

companies and corporations 

from the United 

States, Britain, Belgium 

The APSP-sponsored tour of Chernoh Alpha M. Bah sent him throughout the 

U.S. to win support and resources for the work on the West Africa Front. 

Those of us from 

the impoverished 

areas in Africa 

struggle to have a 

meal a day. The 

reason why there is 

an abundance of 

resources here is 

that we are being 

deprived of access to 

our own resources in 

Africa. 

and other European nations. 

In Sierra Leone we have a total of 

about 90 multi-national corporations 

that we know of, owned by the United 

States, Britain, Belgium and the various 

European countries. Among 

these corporations is a notorious 

British diamond company called 

Branch Energy. This company sponsored 

an invasion of Sierra Leone in 

1997 to re-impose a government on us 

that would represent their interests. 

The British government has used a 

mercenary firm called Sandline 

International to send arms and ammunition 

to the rebel movement called the 

Civil Defense Forces. That shipment 

of arms and ammunition enabled the 

British, the United States and various 

corporations to carry out a military 

invasion that lead to the deaths of over 

seven thousand people within a week. 

Branch Energy wanted to have 

absolute control over the diamonds 

and various resources that we have in 

Sierra Leone. As part of that agreement, 

the company was given twothirds 

of the country. Today, Branch 

Energy is in control of the mines of 

Kono, where the richest diamond 

mines in West African region are 

located. According to municipal 

records, Branch Energy mines about 

120,000 carats a year. One carat is 

worth $60,000. Multiply $60,000 by 

120,000 and you will begin to understand 

the amount of resources that 

these corporations have taken out of 

Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa. 

The reality is that Branch Energy is 

just one of 90 multi-national corporations, 

and the activities of these corporations 

have left our people homeless 

in Kono. There is nothing like good 

roads, no water supply, no electricity. 

There is basically nothing like any 

socioeconomic facilities set aside for 

the people. We are experiencing misery 

as a consequence of this struggle. 

The struggle for the diamonds has 

led to the deaths of two hundred thousand 

people in Sierra Leone and over a 

million people in Liberia and other 

parts of Africa. 

The sad thing is that, while these 

corporations continue to amass millions 

of dollars on a regular basis, our 

people in Kono, Sierra Leone, and in 

other parts of West Africa live below 

the poverty line, if that is an appropriate 

term to use. We cannot even describe 

the actual conditions that we continue 

to face because of the activities of 

these corporations. 

Stolen resources of Sierra Leone 

belong to all Africans 

The thing I want you to realize is that 

the resources that are being stolen 

from Africa are your own resources, 

because they are Africa’s resources. 

As long as we are black, we are 

Africans. We share the same problems. 

The people that are currently 

being killed by these corporations and 

their governments in order for them to 

loot our resources, are killing their own 

people as well. We have to stand up as 

a one single organization in order to 

fight against these devious corporations 

and their governments who are 

responsible for our misery. 

If you go to a place like Sierra 

Leone, you will find that there are people 

who go days without food. You 

have people in the United States and in 

the various imperialist centers, who 

have more than enough to eat. They 

are even confused about what to eat 

because there is an abundance of 

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Chernoh Alpha M. Bah ends successful U.S. tour 

APSP builds support committee for Sierra Leone Front 

The APSP-sponsored tour of Africanist Movement Director Chernoh Alpha M. Bah took him through 16 cities throughout 

the U.S. winning support for the work of the Africanist Movement and ending its political isolation. 

The 2006 Freedom Tour built by the 

African People’s Socialist Party was a 

momentous success. The tour 

exceeded its goals to end the isolation 

of the Africanist Movement, and build 

material and political solidarity for the 

work on the ground in West Africa. As a 

result of this tour, the Africanist 

Movement is no longer confined to the 

borders in West Africa, but rather recognized 

and supported by the African 

World at large. This accomplishment 

is an extremely significant leap forward 

in the realization of a united 

Africa. 

Furthermore, Chernoh’s presence 

and powerful testimony enkindled a 

fire inside people throughout the US 

and UK to struggle to bring an end to 

the suffering that has been imposed on 

Africans by a small group of imperialist 

nations. This was reflected in the large 

number of people who attended the 

events and stepped forward to join the 

organization, serve as volunteers, 

make financial donations, and support 

the work in West Africa. 

This tour effectively raised the 

questions that expose the viciousness 

of imperialism and its parasitic plot to 

loot the resources of Africa. In fact, 

many people who did not know or 

understand anything about the 

Diamond Wars in Africa were made 

aware of the reality of the situation and 

the true culprit who is behind it. 

It was as a result of this tour exposing 

that all diamonds are blood diamonds, 

that a significant number of 

North Americans (White People) contributed 

diamonds in the call to return 

the diamonds that belong to Africans. 

The analysis provided by the African 

People’s Socialist Party influenced 

hundreds of people to volunteer their 

political and material support for the 

work being done in Sierra Leone & 

West Africa. Consequently, we now 

have forces who have stepped forward 

to volunteer their skills to 

build electrification, water purification, 

and prosthetics projects 

in order to transform the conditions 

created by the crisis. Now 

we are calling on all of you who 

signed up to support the work in 

Sierra Leone and West Africa to 

step forward and join the Sierra 

Leone Support Committee. 

Join the Sierra Leone 

Support Committee 

Today in Sierra Leone, 

Africans live in the most miserable 

conditions. Where the life 

expectancy of an African man is 

less than 37 years of age and the infant 

mortality rate is one of the highest in 

the world. In Freetown, Sierra Leone, 

the capital city, there are no such 

amenities as electricity or running 

water. In the mines of Kono, Sierra 

Leone miners are paid 30 cents a day 

to excavate some of the richest diamonds 

in the world. conditions that 

Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and the 

Freedom Tour has exposed. If you 

were moved by the testimony of 

Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and want to be 

a part of a process that will bring an end 

to the suffering in Sierra Leone, then 

the Sierra Leone Support Committee 

is the place for you. This committee 

works in solidarity with the Africanist 

Movement to provide material and 

political support for the work that the 

movement is doing. 

This committee will primarily function 

as a fundraising apparatus, organizing 

resources, skills, and projects 

needed to transform the living conditions 

in Sierra Leone. We are currently 

developing electrification, water purification, 

and prosthetics projects to 

function on the ground in Sierra Leone. 

We have also initiated a process to 

contribute to the development of the 

University of Business and 

Technology that was built by the 

Africanist Movement. These are just a 

few of the projects being initiated by 

the African People’s Socialist Party to 

transform the lives of the people in 

Sierra Leone. 

It is important to understand that 

this project is a part of a strategy to liberate 

African people. In addition, this 

Support Committee will not be limited 

to Sierra Leone but will grow as an 

institution designed to equip and 

empower African people world-wide. 

Joining this support committee is an 

opportunity of a lifetime, and we need 

you to take a stand in support of a 

Movement dedicated to bringing an 

end to the misery and suffering of 

African people. 

The Africanist Movement’s Institution of Business and Technology is one of only two 

universities in Sierra Leone and is the only one that serves a revolutionary strategy. 

Chernoh Bah 

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food. 

Those of us from the impoverished 

areas in Africa struggle to have a meal 

a day. The reason why there is an 

abundance of resources here is that 

we are being deprived of access to our 

own resources in Africa. The reason 

why we have no access to our 

resources is because of this group of 

nations that are depriving us of access 

to our land, to our resources, and our 

right to a decent living. 

We in the Africanist Movement are 

tired of explaining to people about the 

conditions we continue to face. If you 

just look around you see that the conditions 

I am talking about in Sierra Leone 

are the same conditions you are facing. 

The enemy we are faced with in 

Africa is the same enemy that we face 

here and in all the various places that 

we happen to find ourselves. We are 

so close to the enemy here that it 

should be easy for us to organize and 

destroy the enemy [Applause]. 

Charles Taylor is a U.S. 

government-created monster 

I want to say something about 

Liberia. For the past few days, we have 

been able to see evidence of Charles 

Taylor, the former president of Liberia 

— some people call him the War Lord. 

We have seen the news about Taylor 

and his extradition to Sierra Leone to 

face trial for what has been described 

as crimes against humanity or genocide. 

The reality is that when we talk 

about Charles Taylor, we are talking 

about U.S. imperialism. Taylor 

became a War Lord because the 

United States made him a War Lord. 

Taylor is a monster as a consequence 

of the fact that the United States government 

made him a monster. 

I am saying this because Taylor 

was a member of the government of 

Liberia during the 1980’s. The United 

States government created a situation 

in Liberia that gives the U.S. absolute 

We are not trying to 

say that [Charles] 

Taylor... should not be 

tried. What we are 

saying is that the 

United States 

government... should 

equally be tried for 

the genocide that 

they committed 

against our people, 

against us. 

control over our rubber plantations 

and the various other resources that 

you happen to find in Liberia, including 

iron ore. There is a certain company 

called the Liberian-American Mining 

Company that has been mining the ore 

in Liberia since even before my father 

was born. 

This company is still in Liberia, still 

looting the resources of our people. 

The Africans in Liberia have no access 

to these resources. The Africans who 

work for this company live in huts while 

the white people live in mansions bungalows. 

They have all the luxuries that 

they need. They are living off the blood 

of our people in Liberia. 

Taylor embezzled funds from the 

government of the previous president 

Samuel Doe. When Doe came to 

power, the relationship between 

Liberia and the United States was 

affected. It was no longer cordial. The 

U.S. has always regarded Liberia as 

an outpost for the CIA. Over the years 

the U.S. has been able to carry out its 

devious activities in Africa through 

Liberia. So Doe’s arrival in power 

affected the relationship between U.S. 

see Chernoh Bah, page 18 




DRUM AND 

SPEAR 

Letters to 

the Editor 

The ASI consolidating the African Revolution in Azania! 

BY HULISANI MMBARA 

The recent visit, as with all past, by 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela to Azania 

served one of the most important purposes 

in our struggle to liberate the 

people of African-hood at home and 

abroad. This purpose is that of uniting 

and welding into one the voice and 

efforts of African people to free themselves 

from the shackles of capitalism, 

imperialism and neocolonialism. 

We, the Pan Africanist Youth 

Congress (PAYCO), concur with 

Chairman Omali in tandem with the 

principles of the African People s’ 

Socialist Party (APSP) and the African 

Socialist International (ASI), that crucial 

to this revolutionary process is that 

the leadership of the revolution be 

placed in the hands of the African 

working class and the poor masses 

themselves. 

As was the case in the beginning of 

the systemic onslaught against 

African people, the forces responsible 

for our oppression and exploitation, as 

exemplified by the 1884-85 Berlin 

Conference, that facilitated the formalization 

of the scramble for Africa, 

always had a global character. Hence 

its antithetical force, Pan Africanism. 

To this systemic onslaught I must 

also add the American Slave Trade, 

which represents the earliest, most 

Thank you for the opportunity of 

reporting on the visit of Chairman 

Omali Yeshitela to Namibia, which 

took place May 5 to 12, 2006. 

I would like to contextualize the visit 

of Chairman Omali Yeshitela. The 

Nama/Herero genocide took place in 

the territory then called South West 

Africa, now called Namibia, in 1904. 

The Marcus Garvey movement, The 

Universal Negro Improvement 

Association (UNIA) opened an office in 

Luderitz on the coast of South West 

Africa in 1921. A year later an office 

was opened in Windhoek, the present 

day capital of Namibia. 

brutal massive dispersal and utter 

exploitation of Africa’s human 

resources. Our erstwhile colonial 

slave masters are obliged in law and 

morality to pay reparation for the 

destruction they have caused to Africa 

and its resources. 

History shows that Africans and 

their resources are the most brutally 

exploited in the world. However we are 

not the only victims, hence the need for 

internationalism, which calls for unity 

of action between African people and 

other oppressed people of the world. 

This unity of action may take different 

forms, for example we may decide 

to trade with China, Arabia, India, 

Caribbean Island and Latin America 

and shun exploitative trade with the 

U.S. and Europe. In that way we can 

weaken and finally defeat the common 

enemy who thrives on our divisions 

and depend solely on our resources for 

their survival. 

The importance of the work that 

Chairman Omali is doing in fulfilling the 

ASI vision is clearly self-evident and 

cannot be over-emphasized. Without 

the coming together of the oppressed 

forces on a Pan African and international 

basis, we run the probable risk of 

being isolated and quashed one by 

one by a global coalition of capitalism. 

The ASI must serve as a collective 

The membership 

of the 

South West 

Africa Branch 

of the UNIA in 

1921-22 reads 

like a roll call of 

distinguished 

N a m i b i a n 

nationalists. 

These were the 

persons who 

took a stand 

a g a i n s t 

German colon 

i a l i s m . 

Garveyism 

united the different 

ethnic 

groups in the 

area for the first 

time in a common 

struggle 

against European colonialism. 

One of those inspired by Garveyism 

was Sam S. Nujoma, Founding 

President of Namibia, who remains as 

President of the ruling party in Namibia 

– The South West Africa Peoples 

Organisation (SWAPO). 

Since 1999, there have been a 

number of distinguished Pan 

Africanists who have visited Namibia. 

One of the first of these was Runoko 

Rashidi. 

The visit of Omali Yeshitela to 

Namibia was intensive with speaking 

engagements at the University of 

Namibia (UNAM), at the International 

union and embodiment of African people, 

outside and away from the African 

bourgeois institutions such as the 

‘African Union’ (AU) and the ‘Pan 

African Parliament’ (PAP). 

It must be said that as these structures 

stand, they are far away from 

what Marcus Garvey, Kwame 

Nkrumah, Robert Sobukwe and other 

founding fathers of Pan Africanism 

envisaged. Just as we ended up with 

the OAU when Nkrumah had called for 

a single continental government, the 

AU is yet again another self-defeating 

compromise move, far away from 

what Colonel Khaddafi had in mind. 

Unfortunately, reactionary forces 

have for many years now managed to 

frustrate all efforts towards a complete 

political, economic and social reintegration 

of the African people. It is the 

duty of the ASI to fulfill this historic task 

because these dummy institutions 

have not either the will, spirit or political 

courage to change the status quo. 

These ‘heads of State’ and ‘representatives’ 

are the same people who 

have opted for conformity with the 

structural foundations and legacy of 

colonialism and settler colonialism. 

Hence, the inevitable state of neocolonialism 

characterizes the nationstates. 

The supposed independent States 

University of Management (IUM) and 

at the Polytechnic of Namibia. He also 

spoke to two smaller groups at the 

offices of the National Youth Council 

(NYC) and at the Polytechnic of 

Namibia. 

In addition, Chairman Omali 

Yeshitela had meetings with the 

Founding President of Namibia, Sam 

S. Nujoma, with the Prime Minister, the 

Rt. Honorable Nahas Angula, and with 

the Deputy Minister of Education, Dr 

Becky Ndjoze-Ojo. 

The three topics addressed at the 

tertiary education institutions were: the 

relevance of Pan Africanism in a modern 

society; the importance of Pan 

Africanism; and the importance of 

African identity for higher education 

institutions. 

At the meeting of the smaller group, 

at the Polytechnic, Omali Yeshitela 

spoke to the “role of education in 

achieving economic emancipation in 

Africa.” 

At the private meetings Chairman 

Omali briefed leaders in Namibia on 

the forthcoming International Tribunal 

scheduled for Berlin, Germany. In this 

connection, Omali Yeshitela met with 

the Paramount Chief of the Hereros, 

of postcolonial Africa continue to manage 

and administer the States to serve 

as markets, source of cheap labor and 

raw materials, which benefit the ruling 

class of the imperialist countries. As a 

matter of fact, the only change is that 

instead of colonial governors or minority 

settler rulers, you now have black 

faces in government offices and as 

Nkrumah alluded, these neocolonial 

regimes are more dangerous than the 

erstwhile colonial governments. In the 

past, the enemy was easily perceivable 

and identifiable. 

It is in this context that our work with 

the APSP and within the ASI becomes 

of paramount importance. We are also 

delighted that the ASI community is 

growing day by day with the Africanist 

Movement in Sierra Leone and the 

Ngwane National Liberatory 

Congress (NNLC) of Swaziland also 

on board. 

The interaction between the ASI 

and different organizations including 

ourselves, Socialist Party of Azania 

(SOPA), Azanian People’s 

Organization (AZAPO), Pan Africanist 

Students Movement of Azania 

(PASMA), National Council of Trade 

Unions (NACTU), Global African 

Congress (GAC, Azania Chapter), 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela’s mission to Namibia was timely! 

Comrade B. F. Bankie pictured with Chairman Omali holding 

a copy of Pan Africanism: Strengthening the Unity of Africa 

and its Diaspora 

see Azania, page 20 

Chief Kauima Riruako, who has spearheaded 

the campaign for reparations 

for the 1904 Genocide. Chief Riruako 

expressed an intention to participate in 

the Berlin International Tribunal for 

Reparations. 

Chairman Omali also obtained one 

of the first copies available of the book 

entitled “Pan Africanism 

Strengthening the Unity of Africa and 

its Diaspora.” Contained in this book 

are the proceedings of the 17th All 

Africa Students’ Conference, which 

took place at the University of Namibia 

in May 2005. It is available from 

elmarie@bookden.com.na. 

The visit of The Chairman to 

Namibia was significant as it acted as a 

Pan African bridge uniting Africa with 

the North American Diaspora. It is 

important to increase the volume of 

these interactions, which should be on 

a two-way basis. 

The Pan African movement in 

Namibia is young and fragile, with an 

uncertain future. It needs to be carefully 

nurtured. Bearing that in mind, 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela’s mission 

to Namibia was timely and moved 

towards the development of the 

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Africans converge on London to lay plans 

for 2007 Berlin Tribunal on Reparations 

On March 11, 2006 Africans converged 

in London to work out a plan for 

the building of the African World tribunal 

to put white power on trial in 

Berlin, Germany. 

Africans came from Holland, 

Germany, France, Belgium, Israel, 

Sierra Leone, U.S and Britain. There 

are Africans who send messages of 

their desire to attend the next meeting 

in Paris; and those who could not participate, 

sent suggestions to help build 

the conference, or proposals to be 

read at the conference itself. 

Omali Yeshitela, the Chairman of 

the African People’s Socialist Party, 

explained that Berlin was the chosen 

location for the Tribunal because it is 

the scene of the crime, where Otto 

Von Bismarck, the German 

Chancellor host the Kongokonferenz, 

or Congo conference, where 14 

European states: Austria–Hungary, 

Belgium, Denmark, France, Great 

Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, 

Portugal, Russia, Spain, 

Sweden–Norway (United until 1905 ) 

and Germany carved out Africa for 

themselves. This conference also 

served to save greedy European 

nations from fighting one another over 

Africa’s land and resources. 

The basis of participation was unity 

with the proposal written by Omali 

Yeshitela as the Point Leading Person 

(PLP). This task to write this proposal 

was assigned to him at the Berlin conference 

held in October 2005. As 

usual, in order to bring the dispersed 

African nation together on an issue 

that unites us completely and profoundly 

— the return and repossession 

of our stolen resources for our 

own benefit and happiness — 

Chairman Omali went to task with 

dedication and love for African people. 

He completed his task on time, 

and circulated a draft as early as 

January 2006, for this March conference 

in London. 

The leadership of the African 

People’s Socialist Party (APSP) did 

not save any effort as it reached out to 

all organizations that could participate 

in this unifying project to attend 

the conference. This was true for all 

contending forces within the Global 

Afrikan Congress (GAC) — an organization 

formed in the wake of the 

United Nations-sponsored World 

Conference Against Racism in 2001 

that has been torn from internal struggle 

— as well as to other forces 

involved in reparations work throughout 

the world. We proposed the rules 

of participation, to secure an orderly 

and serious meeting. 

The rules were as follows: participants 

must recognize the Chairman 

as leadership of this Tribunal; participation 

in this conference is based on 

unity with the Berlin proposal document; 

participants must respect and 

be respectful of each other; in cases of 

contention, a vote will be taken; and 

decisions are carried out based on a 

majority vote. 

The objectives of the meeting 

were: to establish unity based on the 

political proposal; to establish a plan 

of action for moving forward; to unite 

with the structure and fill positions; to 

determine location for next meeting 

scheduled for June 3, 2006; to make a 

definite decision on the location of the 

venue for the Tribunal; and to establish 

a fundraising process. 

Tribunal will quantify impact of 

slavery, colonialism and theft of 

resources 

Chairman Omali stressed also the 

importance of having the Tribunal to 

present facts and figures to quantify 

the political, economic and psychological 

impact of slavery and colonialism 

on Africa. He said that it should 

also quantify the theft of African culture 

and intellectual property, historic 

and present, in all its various forms, 

including music, the arts, sciences, 

inventions and the massive appropriation 

of our historic arts and artifacts in 

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The conference broke up into two 

kinds of working groups. The first one 

was based on geographical regions: 

the African, Caribbean, European, 

and North America regions. After 35 

minutes, each working group had to 

report on the vision, objective, mission, 

plan of action, time line, budget 

plan and PLP for their region. 

The second set of working groups 

took on the task of working on the profiles 

of judges and observers; the 

venue, tribunal and event; information 

and outreach; and Berlin on site 

issues. 

The conference ended with a 

social evening meal at an African 

restaurant owned by Sister Rebecca, 

a supporter of the Uhuru Movement. 

The significance of this March 11 

conference is profound. It was the 

launching point of an unstoppable 

process that will contribute to building 

the emerging African International 

Liberation Movement around the 

world. It is here where the leaders will 

be found who will be organizing for the 

decisive next round of the 500-yearold 

struggle between African people 

and imperialism. 

It is part of the creation of a new 

world from the bottom up, and it is 

vision of the oppressed African people 

defining our reality in our own terms for 

our own benefit. It is an enlargement 

and deepening of the APSP-held first 

World Tribunal on Reparations of 

1982 that put the U.S. government on 

trial within U.S. borders. This time, it is 

all of imperialist white power that is on 

trial. 

World tribunal will serve as 

instrument of state power for 

African workers 

This African world tribunal brings 

the legitimate and just struggle of the 

African people on the international 

arena where all oppressed nations 

are battling the oppressor nations. 

This African world tribunal intends to 

take cases of African political prisoners 

like Mumia, Sundiata Acoli and 

others, or the case of Belgian imperialism’s 

murder of Lumumba, the 

enslavement of African people. It 

would take these cases to our own 

court on world scale. 

It is a project that will establish a 

nucleus of an international black 

power State, born in contention with 

white imperialist power and its black 

puppets allies. We need a State power 

in order to retake our stolen resources 

from the hands of imperialism. 

We must have State power if we 

want to be able to apply the justice of 

the oppressed against the oppressors. 

Our people will have to control a 

State apparatus with our own courts 

and means of carrying the will of a sovereign 

people against imperialist 

oppressors. 

In Berlin next year, we will show the 

world that Africa was better off until we 

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Central Committee 

of the 

African People’s 

Socialist Party 

Point of the spear 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaks on 

We must take back our Africa, 

our resources, our identity! 

Omali Yeshitela 

Chairman 

Gaida Kambon 

National Secretary 

Ironiff Ifoma 

Director of Economic 

Development 

Luwezi Kinshasa 

Director of 

International Affairs 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela gave the following 

presentation at the Uhuru House 

in St. Petersburg, Florida on April 19, 

2006. The event was the last night of the 

African People’s Socialist Party-sponsored 

U.S. tour of Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, 

leader of the Africanist Movement of 

Sierra Leone and West Africa. 

Uhuru! 

First of all I want to express my 

appreciation to Comrade Chernoh 

Alpha M. Bah for the tremendous 

amount of work that he has been doing 

for our Africa in Africa, and also for his 

participation in this tour. 

He traveled to some 16 cities different 

cities throughout the United 

States. In the short time that he’s been 

here Chernoh has traveled to more 

cities in the U.S. than most Africans 

who live here have ever visited. He’s 

had the opportunity to talk to a lot of 

people and to share experiences 

throughout this country. 

Chernoh was also with us in 

London last month, where we met with 

Africans from Germany, Holland, 

France, Israel, England and the 

United States. 

Chernoh’s tour is part of the work of 

the African People’s Socialist Party. 

Everything that we want to make happen 

in Sierra Leone is part of our 

Party’s work as well. All of this work 

reflects our understanding that 

indeed we are one African people, 

whether we are living here in St. 

Petersburg, Florida in the United 

States, or whether we are in Sierra 

Leone or Liberia or Congo in West 

Africa. We are one African people. 

It is really important for us to understand 

this. When you listen to much of 

what Chernoh has been talking about, 

you’re witnessing the ability of a powerful 

oppressor and exploiter to take 

resources from Africa and African 

people. They do this by dividing us and 

convincing us of our differences, even 

as this oppressor convinces us that 

we are a part of him. The reality is that 

Africa is the original sin, if you will. It 

was the assault on Africa that built 

capitalism and white power. 

Slavery isn’t something that happened 

to Africans or so-called black 

people in America or in the Caribbean 

or South America. Slavery is something 

that happened to Africa! What 

we call slavery and the slave trade 

was an attack on Africa. 

It wasn’t as if somebody came here 

and enslaved us. Somebody came to 

Africa and captured Africans! They 

like to talk about America being a 

“nation of immigrants,” but we are not 

immigrants. We are captives! We 

were brought here as captives. We 

are the only people in this country 

other than the Indigenous people who 

did not come here looking for a better 

way of life. We lost a better way of life 

as a consequence of having been 

brought here. [Audience: That’s right!] 

The reality is, when you look at the 

conditions of existence of black people 

any place in the world, you see that 

we share the same reality of imposed 

oppression, exploitation, poverty and 

ignorance. Yet we come from the richest 

continent on earth in terms of natural 

resources. Twelve million square 

miles of wealth. It’s so rich that they 

have been looting Africa for the past 

five hundred years. 

Africans poorest on planet 

because resources are being 

stolen from us 

We are a part of the loot of Africa, 

part of what was stolen from Africa. 

There are a 140 million Africans in 

South America and the Caribbean. 

The poorest people in South America 

and the Caribbean are Africans. The 

poorest people in the world are 

Africans, because we have been 

taken away from the resources that 

belong to us, whether we are in Africa 

We are a part of 

the loot of Africa, 

part of what was 

stolen from Africa. 

There are a 140 

million Africans in 

South America and 

the Caribbean. The 

poorest people in 

the world are 

Africans, because 

we have been taken 

away from the 

resources that 

belong to us, 

whether we are in 

Africa or whether 

we are someplace 

else. 

or whether we are someplace else. 

Our resources are being stolen 

from us. There is one company in one 

city in Sierra Leone that is taking 

nearly 130,000 karats of diamonds a 

year. Each karat is valued at $60,000. 

That’s just one of many, many companies 

in Sierra Leone and throughout 

Africa. Yet in Sierra Leone African 

people are starving. We are trying to 

make it off one meal a day. No electricity. 

No clean water. You see children, 

see Spear, page 20 

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West Coast U.S. Regional 

Representative 

Chimurenga Waller 

President of the 

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Democratic Uhuru Movement 

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April 2003 THE BURNING SPEAR 13 

The Working Platform of the African People's Socialist Party 

WHAT WE WANT—WHAT WE BELIEVE 

Adopted September 23, 1979. Revised and adopted at the First Congress of the African People's Socialist Party, September 6, 1981. 

1We want peace, dignity, and the right to build a prosperous life through 

our own labor and in our own interests. 

We believe that the U.S. North American government and society were founded on the 

genocide of Native people, the theft of their land, and the forcible dispersal, enslavement, 

and colonization of millions of African people. We believe that the present condition of 

existence for African people within current U.S. borders is colonialism, a condition of existence 

where a whole people is oppressively dominated by a foreign and alien state power 

for the purpose of economic exploitation and political advantage. We believe further that 

this colonial domination is the primary basis of the problems of African people within the 

U.S. and that we shall know neither peace, prosperity, nor human dignity until this colonialist 

domination is overthrown and the power over our lives rests in our own hands. 

2We want the rights to economic development and creative and productive 

employment which promote the needs and well-being of our 

entire people. 

We believe that colonialism is a blood-sucking system which causes all economic development 

to benefit the colonialist ruling class state and society at the expense of our colonized people. We 

also believe that the massive, habitual unemployment and underemployment of our people benefit 

the U.S. colonialist ruling class and capitalist system and that a struggle by African people 

for jobs must be combined with a struggle for socialism and independent economic development. 

3We want an end to all local, state, federal, and other taxation of black 

people by the U.S. government and any of its agencies. 

We believe that such taxation is illegitimate, that black people have no real or meaningful 

authority within the U.S. government, and that U.S. taxation of African people is therefore 

taxation without representation. We believe that in the absence of such real or meaningful 

authority we have nothing to say about how such monies are used, and that therefore the 

taxes taken from black people are often used against us and other oppressed and exploited 

peoples within the U.S. and around the world. 

We believe that the use of taxes extracted from the African population to build more prisons 

to stuff us in and to hire more police to kill us with is criminal, as is the use of these 

taxes to hire soldiers to intimidate and plunder peoples oppressed by this same system 

internationally. We also believe African people must refuse to pay taxes to a government 

which uses such taxes to prop up and support brutal dictators around the world who keep 

their own peoples oppressed and living in squalor in order to maintain U.S. and Western 

imperialist economic and political domination. 

4We want the right to free speech and political association, a guarantee of 

the right to work for the betterment and emancipation of black people 

without fear of political imprisonment and the loss of life, limb, and livelihood. 

We believe that the liberation of African people throughout the world will come primarily as 

a result of our own efforts. We believe it is our duty to our mothers and fathers, our children 

and ourselves, to organize ourselves to overcome our oppression. We believe that the rights to 

organize and speak out against our oppression are basic human rights and that the U.S. government 

must discontinue its attempts to smash these rights and must discontinue criminal 

attacks on those African patriots who work for the betterment and emancipation of our people. 

5We want the right to international political and economic association 

with Africans and all other peoples anywhere on the face of the Earth. 

We believe that all black people are African people and are a part of a single national entity. 

We believe that the genuine freedom of African people everywhere is irreversibly linked to 

the creation of an independent, united, and socialist Africa. We believe the struggle of African 

people within the U.S. represents the U.S. front of the worldwide movement of African people 

for African liberation, political independence, and socialist democracy. We believe that 

the worldwide struggle for African liberation is in unity with the struggles being waged by 

the majority of the peoples of the world to end the oppression of nations by nations and to 

create a new world, within which the toiling masses will end the system of workers and bosses 

and slaves and masters and will own and benefit from the means and products of our labor 

and will have political authority over our own lives. We believe that the natural, objective 

friends of our struggle for African liberation, independence, and socialist democracy are all 

the toiling masses of the world — the people of the Middle East, the Asian and Latin 

American peasants and workers, the democratic forces throughout Eastern and Western 

Europe and the U.S., and the truly socialist states of the world, and that we must therefore 

have the absolute right to free political and economic international association. 

6We want the immediate and unconditional release of all black people 

who are presently locked down in U.S. prisons. 

We believe that all the African men and women who are locked down in the U.S. concentration 

camps commonly known as prisons are there due to decisions, laws, and circumstances 

which were created by aliens and foreigners for their own benefit and as a means 

of genocidal colonialist control. We believe that these decisions, laws, and circumstances 

were created and are enforced without our consent and are therefore illegitimate. We 

believe that the African men and women who are locked down in these concentration 

camps are victims of U.S. colonialist ruling class justice which maintains our enslavement 

and terrorizes our people, and that they should therefore be released immediately to the just 

representatives of our struggle for liberation, independence, and socialist democracy. 

7We want complete amnesty for all African political prisoners and prisoners 

of war from U.S. prisons or their immediate release to any friendly 

country which will accept them and give them political asylum. 

We believe that U.S. prisons are also used as the illegitimate tool for torturing, murdering, 

and holding captive those courageous daughters and sons of Africa who through their patriotic 

deeds or spoken or written words in support of the cause of our liberation have become 

political prisoners and prisoners of war. We believe, along with the majority of the peoples 

of the world, that it is the duty of the colonized and enslaved to resist slavery and colonialism 

and to fight for socialism and those who do so are patriots and heroines and heroes 

and should be held in the highest esteem. 

8We want the immediate withdrawal of the U.S. police from our 

oppressed and exploited communities. 

We believe that the various U.S. police agencies which occupy our communities are arms of 

the U.S. colonialist state which is responsible for keeping our people enslaved and terrorized. 

We believe that the U.S. police agencies do not serve us, but instead represent the first line of 

U.S. defense against the just struggle of our people for peace, dignity, and socialist democracy. 

Therefore, we believe the U.S. police is an illegitimate standing army, a colonial army in 

the African community and must withdraw immediately from our community, to be replaced 

by our liberation forces whose struggles in defense of our community and against our oppression 

demonstrate their loyalty to our community and their willingness to serve in its interest. 

9We want an end to the political and social oppression and economic 

exploitation of African women. 

We believe in the absolute, unequivocal, political, social, and economic equality of African 

women and men. We believe that a fundamental test of the progressive or revolutionary 

character of any organization, party, movement, or society is its commitment, confirmed in 

practice, to the destruction of the special oppression of women and the elevation of women 

to the rightful place as equal partners and leaders in the forward motion of the development 

of human society and as leaders, makers, and shapers of human history. 

10 

We want the right to build an African People's Liberation Army. 

We believe that true freedom, although often taken away, cannot be given to a people. We 

believe that African people are our own liberators, and that we have a right and obligation to 

build an African People’s Liberation Army to defend our political gains, our freedom fighters 

and communities, and to win our actual freedom from our oppressive colonial slave masters. 

We believe that neither meaningful freedom, nor guaranteed political and social gains, 

nor genuine liberation are possible without the assuring existence of an African People’s 

Liberation Army. We believe further that the only legitimate wars are wars of national liberation, 

and wars to oppose imperialist aggression, and that therefore, the only legitimate military 

forces for black people to serve with are military forces which defend liberty and repel 

imperialist aggression. Such a force would be the African People’s Liberation Army. 

11 

We want the U.S. and the international European ruling class and 

states to pay Africa and African people for the centuries of genocide, 

oppression, and enslavement of our people. 

We believe that U.S. and European civilization were born from, and are presently maintained 

by, the horrendous theft of human and material resources from Africa and its people. 

We also believe that this theft of human and material resources is responsible for the 

present underpopulation and underdevelopment of Africa and her people and the political 

servitude, material impoverishment, and cultural discontinuity and disintegration of 

African people throughout the world. We believe that Africa and African people are due 

reparations, just economic compensation, billions of dollars which must be paid to the 

Organization of African Unity or any other legitimate international organization of African 

people, for equitable distribution for the development of Africa. We also believe that reparations 

must be distributed to the various independent African states dispersed throughout 

the world, and to the legitimate representatives of African people forcibly dispersed 

throughout the world who have not yet won liberation. 

12 

We want an end to the vicious, self-serving U.S. and Western 

European political, economic, and military interference in the 

affairs of Africa and African people throughout the world. 

We believe that African people in Africa and elsewhere have a right and responsibility to 

solve our own problems, free from the unwanted, and self-serving interference of U.S. and 

Western imperialists. We believe that the U.S. and Western imperialist interference in the 

affairs of our people is designed to maintain the continuation of the theft of our human and 

material resources and our oppression and impoverishment. 

We believe that African people must be free to organize and struggle for an end to colonialism 

and neo-colonialism without interference from U.S. and Western imperialism which supports 

neo-colonialism and colonialism in Africa, the U.S. and elsewhere, and which has deposed progressive 

and revolutionary African leaders and replaced them with neo-colonialist stooges. 

13 

We want an end to U.S. colonial domination of African people 

within the U.S. 

We believe that the primary struggle of African people within the U.S. during this period is 

to throw off the alien U.S. colonial domination which is responsible for virtually every hardship 

imposed on black people by this government that is identifiable as a “black problem.” 

We believe that our problems with education — from our inability to control our own 

schools and determine the education of our own children, to the inferior and racist quality 

of the education we do receive — are caused by colonialism. We believe that our problems 

with health care — from the absence of black controlled and operated health clinics and 

institutions throughout our communities to the hazardous health conditions imposed on us 

by poverty and callous government decisions — are caused by colonialism. 

We believe that our problems with housing — from the unavailability of decent and adequate 

housing for the majority of our people, to the dilapidated and vermin-infested housing 

we are forced to live in — are caused by colonialism. 

We believe that our problems with food and clothing — from the terrible quality and 

quantity which are imposed on us by blood-sucking merchants, to our inability to produce 

and distribute them for and among ourselves — are caused by colonialism, where our 

whole people is dominated and oppressed by a foreign and alien state power for the purpose 

of economic exploitation and political advantage. 

14 

INDEPENDENCE IN OUR LIFETIME! 

We want the total liberation and unification of Africa under an All- 

African socialist government. 

We believe that “the total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African socialist 

government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the 

world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations 

of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time 

advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution, and the onward progress 

toward communism, under which every society is ordered on the principle of — from each 

according to his (her) ability, to each according to his (her) needs.” — Kwame Nkrumah 

see NPDUM, page


AFRICA 

Guinea: an example of the 

failure of neocolonialism 

Lansana Conte is a neocolonial puppet who, like Charles Taylor of Liberia, is 

no longer in his master’s favor 

BY CHERNOH ALPHA M. BAH 

President Lansana Conte will soon 

be celebrating his 71st birthday this 

year. This year marks 22 years since 

he came into power in a 1984 coup following 

the death of Ahmed Sekou 

Toure. 

Conte’s arrival into power not only 

ended the regime of Sekou Toure, but 

it halted an ongoing anti-imperialist 

struggle being fought by Sekou Toure 

against French imperialism. 

Sekou Toure’s significance in the 

history of the peoples struggle against 

colonial domination in West Africa 

became a factor that French imperialism 

had to contend with during the late 

1950s and 60s. It was during this 

period that he stood against Charles 

de Gaulle’s 1958 referendum that 

aimed at transforming “French West 

Africa” into nominal independent 

states whose economy and politics 

would be under the direct control of 

French imperialism. 

France’s dependence on its colonial 

subjects in West Africa was made 

obvious after the defeat of France during 

the second imperialist war and the 

subsequent displacement of the imperialist 

administration headed by 

Charles de Gaulle in England. De 

Gaulle relied on African soldiers from 

the colonial territories to reinstate his 

government. 

As a consequence of the growing 

anti-colonial resistance waged by 

Africans and other colonized people 

following the end of the second imperialist 

war, France like all other imperialist 

nations found it impossible to contain 

the people’s struggle for selfdetermination. 

But since 1800, the French had put 

in place a colonial policy that divided 

the Africans into subjects and citizens 

under a colonial detachment stationed 

in Dakar, Senegal. Africans in the socalled 

communes in Senegal were 

considered as French citizens enjoying 

some amount of “privileges” as 

opposed to Africans in areas like 

Guinea-Conakry, Mali, Burkina Faso, 

Ivory Coast and the rest of the territories 

under direct French colonial rule. 

This policy of division and exclusion 

was not only meant to facilitate the 


extraction of resources from the partitioned 

African States for the benefit of 

the colonial administration, but it was 

also used to deter the development of 

any anti-colonial struggle organized 

across colonial borders that would 

overthrow the colonial administration. 

As a consequence, the so-called 

African elites in Dakar and the other 

communes in Senegal considered 

themselves French citizens and 

refused to unite with the anti-colonial 

aspirations of the suffering African 

masses in other areas because most 

of them, including Blaize Diagne — 

the force who convinced the French 

government to allow the Pan African 

Conference of 1919 to be held in 

France — saw the struggle to overthrow 

French colonialism as a direct 

threat to the positions they held in the 

colonial administration in Paris. 

De Gaulle’s proposal was that the 

African territories under direct French 

rule should vote to become members 

of a “French Community of nations” 

that would have France supposedly 

undertaking “economic development” 

in the said territories. This 

really meant that the plan would allow 

France undeniable access to the 

economy and resources of the 

Africans. 

Sekou Toure was the only African 

leader in “French West Africa” to vote 

against the proposal arguing that he 

preferred to be poor in liberty than to be 

wealthy in slavery. This forced the 

French to withdraw from Guinea, and 

they took with them all office furniture 

including telephone wiring they were 

using in Conakry. 

So Sekou Toure was faced with the 

challenge of maintaining the independence 

and unity of the African masses 

in Guinea in the face of imperialist 

machinations to discredit and overthrow 

his administration. 

An imperialist attempt lead by the 

Portuguese to overthrow his government 

in 1975 failed and deepened the 

people’s unity against imperialism. He 

attempted to adopt a socialist system 

in his effort to build the economy of 

Guinea and unite the people in the 

struggle against the forces of imperialism 

that were working to overthrow 

him. 

Conte’s coup marked the 

beginning of a neocolonial 

puppet system for Guinea- 

Conakry 

Sekou Toure’s death in 1984 and 

the arrival of Lansana Conte in 

Guinea’s political scene was to mark 

the end of the Guinean government’s 

struggle against imperialism. Conte is 

an army general who worked under 

Sekou, but he became undetermined 

to follow the foundation that was being 

built by Sekou. His assumption of 

office was welcomed by France and 

the United States who described it as 

“the beginning of a new era in the history 

of Guinea.” 

Indeed, Guinea under Conte represented 

“a new era” that changed the 

course of the people’s struggle against 

imperialism. Like all the successive 

governments that emerged in Africa 

after the 1960s, Conte’s administration 

and his two decades of governance 

have represented misery, 

poverty, oppression and deprivation of 

the African masses whose quest for 

freedom has grown more obvious than 

it ever was. 

Conte has only 

been able to keep 

himself in power 

through the 

support of the 

various 

imperialist 

nations whose 

interests he is 

serving. 

From 1984 to present, Conte has 

been working for the interests of 

France, the United States and the various 

imperialist nations who currently 

control the economy and have 

absolute access to all the resources in 

Guinea. 

Conte has only been able to keep 

himself in power through the support of 

the various imperialist nations whose 

interests he is serving. The United 

States and France developed an army 

and security apparatus in Guinea 

trained and equipped to suppress the 

people’s struggle for freedom. 

In 1993, Conte successfully transformed 

himself into a civilian president 

through an electoral process organized 

and staged-managed by the 

United States and France and became 

a neo-colonial puppet safeguarding 

the interests of imperialism in opposition 

to the general welfare of the 

African masses in Guinea. 

Imperialists are scrambling for 

Guinea’s resources 

Imperialist build-up in Guinea has 

been ongoing since the death of 

Sekou Toure, and the primary motivating 

factors have been the imperialist 

desire to control the minerals and other 

resources of the Africans in that country. 

Guinea has one of the world’s highest 

deposits of bauxite, a fine white 

metallic powder refined into alumina 

and smelted to become aluminum. 

The country contains one third of the 

world’s recoverable bauxite reserves. 

This mineral has remained 

Guinea’s main export and largest 

source of foreign exchange. But the 

bauxite mines are not by the African 

masses in Guinea. They are owned 

and operated by the United States, 

Canada and Russia. Three companies 

— Alcoa in the United States, 

Alcan of Canada and RusAl of Russia 

— the largest aluminum companies in 

the world, control Guinea’s bauxite 

and iron ore reserves. 

Like in most parts of Africa, the mad 

rush for control of the continent’s 

resources has even lead to a contest 

between the imperialist nations themselves. 

In October 2004, for instance, 

Japan entered the rush for control of 

strategic minerals from Guinea. 

A Japanese company, Global 

Alumina Production Corporation 

(GAPCO), signed a definitive agreement 

with the government of Guinea to 

build a US$2 billion alumina refinery in 

the northwestern mining town of 

Sangaredi. This agreement allows 

Japan to have absolute control over 

the biggest bauxite mining complex in 

the world, and gives Japan 2.8 million 

tons of alumina a year. This situation 

has affected the strategic interest of 

U.S. imperialism in Guinea. 

This Japanese venture, supported 

by Japan’s Marubeni and Mitsubishi 

industrial conglomerates, has been 

described as the largest imperialist 

project undertaken in West Africa 

since a consortium of international oil 

companies led by ExxonMobil opened 

up a US$3.7 billion project to develop 

the oilfields of southern Chad last year. 

That project allowed imperialism to 

extract oil via a pipeline to the coast of 

Cameroon. 

The United States has been struggling 

in vain since 2004 to have 

Lansana Conte cancel the agreement 

signed between him and the 

Japanese. As a result, relations 

between the United States and 

Lansana Conte have been strained. 

The Japanese intrusion seems to 

have affected Global Alumina 

Corporation (GAC), a U.S. company 

that uses the vast bauxite resources of 

Guinea to produce alumina for sale to 

the global aluminum industry. GAC 

has its headquarters in New York and 

administrative offices in London, 

Montreal and Conakry. 

see Guinea, page 16 

www.apspuhuru.org


Le platforme de travaille du Partie Socialiste du Peuple Africain 

CE QUE NOUS VOULONS – CE QUE NOUS CROYONS 

Adopté le 23 Septembre 1979. Modifié et Adopté au premier congres du Partie Socialiste du Peuple Africain le 6 septembre 1981. 

1Nous voulons vivre dans la paix, la dignité et dans le droit de batir une vie 

prospère basé sur nos efforts et en fonctions de nos interêts. 

Nous croyons que le société et le governement des Etats Unis d’Amerique du Nord a été fondé sur 

le genocide de la population Indigène, le vole de leur territoire , la dispersion force, l’esclavage et 

la colonisation de million d’Africains. Nous croyons que la presente condition de vie des Africains 

a l’interieure du territoire des Etats Unis est le colonialisme, une condition d’existence dans laquelle 

une puissance exterieure domine oppressivement une population entière pour des besoins d’explopitation 

economique et politique . De plus nous croyons que cette domination coloniale est la 

cause principale des problemes des Africains aux Etats Unis et qu’en connaissance il n’yaura ni 

paix, ni prospérite ou ni dignité humaine jusqu’a ce que cette domination coloniale ne soie renversée 

et la responsabilité de notre vie entre nos mains. 

2 

Nous 

voulons le droit au dévelopement économique et à des emploies 

créatif et dynamique qui promotionnent le besoin et le bien être de notre 

peuple. 

Nous croyons que le colonialisme est un système suce-sang qui béneficie la classe dirigente, l’état et 

le société coloniale a un dévelopement économique au depend du peuple colonisé. Nous croyons aussi 

que l’enorme taux habituel de chômage et de sous-emploie de la population Africaine béneficie la 

classe dirigente colonialiste et le systême capitaliste des Etats Unis, de ce fait la lutte menée par le peuple 

Africain pour le travail doit être combiner avec la lutte pour le socialisme et à un dévelopement 

économique independante. 

3 

Nous 

voulons la fin de toute forme de taxation locale, nationale ou 

féderale de la population noire menée par le governement des Etats Unis 

et par n’importe quel autre agence governementale. 

Nous croyons que cette taxation est illégitime, que le peuple noire n’a aucune véritable ou même 

un samblant autorite a l’interieure du gouvenement des Etats Unis et par consequence la taxation 

Americaine des Africains est une taxation sans représentation. Nous croyons donc qu’en l’absence 

de cette véritable ou semblant d’autorité nous n’avons aucuns mots-dit sur la manière dont cette 

argent est utilisée et de plus, ces taxes payée par le peuple noire sont souvent utlisées contre nous 

et contre la plupart des peuples oppressés et exploités a l’interieur des Etats Unis et de par le 

monde. 

Nous croyons que cette taxe extraite de la population Africaine est utilisé pour construire des centres 

d’incarceration pour les Africains, pour recruiter plus de policier qui nous criminellement 

assassine; tout comme cette taxe est utilisée pour le recruitement de soldats qui auront pour mission 

d’intimider et de piller les peuples du monde opprossés par ce systeme. Nous croyons aussi 

que le peuple Africains doit refuser de payer des taxes qui sont utilisées pour intaller et supporter 

à travers le monde des dictateurs qui continuent a opprimer et a negliger leur propre population 

afin de maintenir la domination politique et économique de l’imperialisme Americain et 

Occidentale. 

4 

Nous 

voulons le doit a la liberté d’expression et d’association politique, à une 

guarantie du droit de travailler pour l’amélioration et l’émancipation du peuple 

noire sans craindre l’enprisonment politique, la perte de vie, de membre ou de 

condition de vie. 

Nous croyons que la liberation du peuple Africain a travers le monde sera essentiellement le resulta 

de nos propre efforts. Nous croyons que c’est de notre devoir face a nos mères, nos pères, nos 

enfants et nous même de nous organiser pour supprimer l’oppression. Nous croyons que les droits 

de s’organiser et de denoncer notre oppression sont les bases des droits humain , de ce fait le gouvernement 

americain doit interrompres ses tentatives d’ecraser ces droits et doit interrompre les 

attaques criminelles menées contres ces patriotes Africains qui travaillent pour l’amelioration et l’émancipation 

de notre peuple. 

5 

Nous 

voulons le droit de nous associer politiquement et économiquement 

avec les Africains et tout autre peuple n’importe ou sur la surface de la 

Terre. 

Nous croyons que toute la population noire est africaine et donc de ce fait partie d'une seule et 

même entite nationale. Nous croyons que la liberation l'authentique du peuple Africain dans le 

monde est irreversiblement liée a la creation d'une Afrique unie, indépendante et socialiste. 

Nous croyons que la lutte du peuple africain aux Etats Unis represente le front des Etats Unis du 

movement globale du peuple Africain pour la liberation de l'Afrique, l’independance politique et 

la democratie socialiste. 

Nous croyons que la lutte de la liberation globale de L'Afrique est en unite avec la lutte menée par 

l'ensemble des peuples du monde pour en finir avec l'oppression de certaines nations par d’autre 

nations afin de créer un monde nouveau dans lequel la masse des travailleurs eradiquera le systeme 

patron–travailleur, maitre-esclave afin qu’ils puissent beneficier des produits de leur labeur 

et avoir une autorite politique sur leur vies. 

Nous croyons que les amis naturel et objectif de la lutte pour la liberation de l’afrique, de l’independance 

et la democratie socialiste sont :les masse de travailleur du monde – le peuple du Moyen- 

Orient, les travailleurs et paysants de l’Amerique latine et de l’Asie, les forces democratique a travers 

l’Europe de l’Ouest, de l’Est et des Etats Unis, et les véritable Etats socialiste de la planète, 

on doit par consequent avoir le droit absolue à la libre association politique et économique internationale. 

6 

Nous 

voulons la liberation immédiate et inconditionnelle toute la population 

noire actuellement incarcérer dans les prisons americaine. 

Nous croyons que tout les hommes et femmes Africains qui sont actuellement incarcérer dans les 

camps de concentrations habituellement appellés prison sont là due à des decisions, des lois et des 

circanstances crées par des êtres étrangers pour leur benefices et pour des fins de contrôle coloniale 

genocidaire. Nous croyons que ces decisions, ces lois et circonstences ont été crées et 

appliquées sans notre consentement et sont par consequent illegitimes. Nous croyons que les 

hommes et femmes Africains enfermés dans ces camps de concentrations sont victimes de la justice 

de la classe dirigente coloniale americane qui nous maintient en esclavage et terrorise notre 

peuple, par consequence ils devraient etre libérés immediatement a des juste représentants de notre 

lutte pour la liberation, l’independance et la demcratie socialiste. 

7 

Nous 

voulons l’amestie complète de tous les prisoniers politique et prisoniers 

de guerre africains des prisons americaine ou leur liberation et la 

remise immediate aux pays amis qui les accepteront et leur donneront l’asile 

politique. 

Nous croyons que les prisons des Etats Unis sont utilisées comme outils illégitime de toture, assassinat 

et de enfermement de ces fils et fille d’Afrique qui a travers leur actions patriotique, leur discours 

et ecritures en soutient de la cause de notre liberation sont devenue prisonnier politique et 

prisonnier de guerre. 

Nous croyons, paraillement aux autres peuples du monde, que la responsabilité des peuples 

colonisés et en esclavage est de resister a l’esclavage, au colonialisme et de combatre pour le 

socialisme ; ceux qui le feront seront des patriotes, des heros et heroines et seront devraient élevés 

au plus haut égards. 

8Nous voulons le retrait immediat de la police americaine de nos communautes 

exploitées et oppressées. 

Nous croyons que les differentes agences de police americaine qui occupent nos communautes 

sont des bras de l’etat colonialiste americaine responsable du maintien de notre peuple en 

esclavage et sous la terreur. Nous croyons que les agences de police americaine ne nous servent 

pas mais reprensentent leur premiere ligne de defense contre le juste combat de notre peuple pour 

la paix, la dignité et la democratie socialiste. Par conséquence, nous croyons que la police amerinaine 

est une armé, coloniale, illégitime a l’intérieure la communaute, qui doit etre immediatement 

retiree pour etre remplacer par notre force de liberation qui lutte pour la defense de notre communaute 

contre notre oppression en demontrant leur loyauté et leur desir de servir ses interêts. 

9 

Nous 

voulons la fin de l’oppression politique et de l’exploitation 

économique et sociale de la femme Africaine. 

Nous croyons a l’égalité absolue, unéquivoque, politique, sociale et économique de l’homme et de 

la femme africaine. Nous croyons que le test fondamentale de personalite de toute organisation, 

partie, movement ou société est dans la dévotion, confirmée par la pratique, à la destruction de 

l’oppression de la femme et a son élèvation a sa véritable place comme partenaire égale et dominante 

du development de la société humaine comme dirigeante,batisseur et creatrice. 

10 

Nous voulons le droit de crée une Armee de Liberation du Peuple 

Africain. 

Nous croyons que la véritable liberte ne peut être donnée à un peuple. Nous croyons que le peuple 

africain est notre véritable liberateur et que nous avons le droit et l’obligation de construire une 

Armé de Liberation du Peuple Africain pour proteger nos gains politique, nos combattants de la 

liberté et notre communauté, et de gagner notre liberté contre l’oppressive colonisateur. 

Nous croyons que ni un samblant de liberté ou une garantie d’acquisition politique et sociale ou 

authentique liberation ne sont possible sans la sertiude de l’existence d’une Armé de Liberation 

de Peuple Africain. De plus nous croyons que les seule guerres legitimes sont les guerres de liberation 

nationale et les guerres d’oppositions aux aggressions imperialistes, et donc par consequent, 

les forces militaires legitimes dans lesquelle les africains peuvent servir sont les forces armés qui 

defendent la liberté et qui repoussent les aggressions imperialiste. Cette force est l’Armé de 

Liberation du Peuple Africain. 

11 

Nous voulons que les Etats Unis et les classes dirigentes europeenne 

payent a l’Afrique et aux Africains pour les centenaires de genocide, 

d’oppession et d’esclavage. 

Nous croyons que les Etats Unis et la civilisation Europeenne sont nées et presentement maintenues 

par l’effroyable vole des ressources humaines et materielles de l’Afrique et de son peuple. Nous 

croyons aussi que ce vole est responsable de l’actuelle depopulation et sous-developement de 

l’Afrique, de la servitude politique, de l’appauvrissement materielle et de la discontinuité culturelle 

du peuple Africain a travers le monde. 

Nous croyons que l’Afrique et le peuple Africain doivent obtenir reparation, une juste compensation 

econonique, des milliards de dollar qui doivent être repayés a l’Organisation de l’Unite 

Africaine ou n’importe quel autre organisation internationale legitime du peuple noire, pour une 

redistribution equitable et le development de l’Afrique. Nous croyons aussi que la reparation doit 

etre redistribuée a tout les autres etats independants africains et aux autre representants legitimes du 

peuple Africain, dispersé par la force a travers le monde, qui n’ont pas encore gagne la liberation. 

12 

Nous voulons la fin de la vicieuse interference politique, economique 

et militaire des Etats Unis et de l’Europe de l’ouest dans les affaires de 

l’Afrique et du peuple Africain à travers le monde. 

Nous croyons que le peuple africain en Afrique et n’importe où a le driot de resoudre ses propre 

problemes, sans craindre l’interference des Imperialistes americains et europeens. Nous croyons 

que ces interference dans les affaires de notre peuple à été designé pour maintenir la continuite du 

vole de nos ressources humaines et materielle, de notre oppression et appauvrissement. 

Nous croyons que le peuple africain doit être libre d’organiser la lutte pour la fin du colonialisme 

et du neo-colonilaisme sans l’interference de l’imperialisme americain et europeen qui supportent 

le neo-colonialisme et le colonialisme dans l’Afrique, aux Etats unis et ailleurs, et renverserent les 

direngeants progressiste et revolutionnaire africain pour les remplacer par des marionettes neocoloniale. 

13 

Nous voulons la fin de la domination coloniale du peuple africain 

aux Etats Unis. 

Nous croyons que la lutte principale du peuple africain aux Etats Unis en cette periode est de rejetter 

la domination coloniale americaine qui est responsable de chacune des difficultés, imposées a 

la population noire par ce governement, identifiées comme ‘le probleme avec les noires’. 

Nous croyons que nos problemes avec l’education – de notre incapacite de controler nos écoles et 

determiner l’éducation de nos enfants, à la qualité raciale et inferiore de l’education que nous 

recevons – sont causés par le colonialisme. 

Nous croyons que nos problemes avec le systeme de sante - de l’absence du contrôle et de la direction 

des hopitaux, des cliniques de soin et des institutions a travers la communaute, aux dangereuse 

conditions de sante imposées par la pauvreté et par la froideure des decisions gouvernementales- 

sont causés par le colonialisme. 

Nous croyons que nos problemes avec l’hebergement- du manque d’hebergement adequat pour la 

majorite de notre peuple, aux maisons dilapidées et infectees de vermines dans lesquelles nous 

sommes forcées de vivre - sont causés par le colonialisme. 

Nous croyons que nos problemes de nourriture et d’habillement – de la mauvaise qualité et la 

quantité imposée par des vendeurs suceur de sang, à notre incapacite de les produire et les distribuer 

entre nous – sont causés par le colonialisme, là où notre peuple est oppressé et dominé par 

une puissance etrangère pour des buts d’exploitation économique et d’avantage politique. 

14 

INDEPENDANCE DANS NOTRE TEMPS DE VIE! 

Nous voulons la liberation et l’unification totale de l’Afrique dirigé par 

un gouvernement socialiste de tous les Africain. 

Nous croyons que ‘ la liberation et l’unification totale de l’Afrique sous un gouvernement socialiste 

doit etre l’objectif principale de tous les revolutionnaires Noire a travers le monde. C’est un 

objectif, lorsqu’atteint, apportera partout l’accomplissement des aspirations des Africains et des 

peuples de descendance Africaine. Cela le même temps avancera le triomphe de la revolution 

socialiste international, et le progres continue vers le communisme, sous lequel chaque société est 

organisée sur le principle– de chacun (chacune) en fonction de sa capacite, à chacun (chacune) en 

fonction de ses besoins’ – Kwame Nkrumah 

see NPDUM, page


The African Revolution takes 

to the Internet airwaves! 

APSP launches Uhuru Radio to connect the African Revolution worldwide! 

In March 2006, the African 

People’s Socialist Party (APSP) 

launched Uhuru Radio, an internet 

radio station dubbed “The Online 

Voice of the African Revolution”. The 

fledgling broadcasting project is “dedicated 

to giving voice to the struggles of 

the African working class from around 

the world in an effort to unite and inform 

the struggles of African people and forward 

the International African 

Revolution,” as its Mission Statement 

reads. 

It is no small tool in this mission to 

unite African people worldwide. As an 

Internet radio station, it has the capability 

to reach African people anywhere 

where there is an Internet signal. 

With this knowledge, organizers of 

Uhuru Radio are working to spread the 

ability to broadcast Uhuru Radio from 

every front of the African Revolution. 

On his recent organizing tour in 

southern and western Africa, APSP 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela told comrades 

that he met with that Uhuru 

Radio belongs to the African 

Revolution and should be utilized by 

African revolutionaries everywhere as 

their own. This was enthusiastically 

received and news bureaus, as well as 

broadcast facilities, are rapidly being 

organized in Sierra Leone, South 

Africa and elsewhere. 

Currently Uhuru Radio, headquartered 

at the APSP’s International 

Headquarters in St. Petersburg, 

Florida, broadcasts live every Sunday 

from 9:00am until 6:00pm EST with a 

mix of news, public affairs and cultural 

programs. The broadcast schedule 

will be expanded until the station is live 

24 hours a day. Anyone with a broadband 

Internet connection and a computer 

can tune in and listen to the station. 

Listeners are encouraged to call 

in and participate in live discussions 

over the telephone or to send in their 

comments and questions via email. 

Still in its infancy, the station has 

already featured some very dynamic 

interviews with such people as 

Africanist Movement leader Chernoh 

Bah, Benjamin Prado of the Mexican 

liberation organization Union del 

Barrio, and U.S.-based African reparations 

activist Dorothy Lewis. 

Each week, the program “Omali 

Yeshitela Speaks” presents a recording 

of the Chairman, including his most 

up-to-date analysis of world events, 

historical speeches teaching the ideology 

of African Internationalism and 

frank discussions with other freedom 

fighters from around the world. Other 

popular programs include a health 

show, a reggae music show and a hiphop 

show. 

In addition to adding studios 

around the world, Uhuru Radio intends 

to simulcast over shortwave and all 

other means available to it, to get the 

truth out and arm African people ideologically 

to fight for freedom. 

As stated in its Points of Unity, 

What you can do! 

Get involved in building our 

own revolutionary media! 

Uhuru Radio is seeking volunteer 

reporters, producers, promoters, 

DJs, engineers, web 

designers and developers, 

administrators and fundraisers. 

Whether you bring skills or 

need training, there’s a place 

for you at Uhuru Radio. 

Uhuru Radio relies on financial 

contributions from supporters 

to keep bringing the 

truth of African people’s 

struggles to the world. To 

learn more, or contact Uhuru 

Radio, visit 

www.uhururadio.com, call 

001+727-895-4016 or email 

info@uhururadio.com. Send 

donations to Uhuru Radio, P.O. 

Box 7693, St. Petersburg, FL 

33734-7693. 

“Uhuru Radio recognizes that there 

is a war of ideas between the ruling 

class media and the media of the 

conscious African workers and other 

oppressed and colonized peoples of 

the world. Therefore we cannot rely 

on mainstream media, which is 

imperialist media, for truthful representation, 

analysis or leadership. 

Instead we, the oppressed African 

masses, must build and control our 

own media that consciously represents 

the interests of the poor and 

oppressed African working class.” 

Uhuru Radio is an important 

weapon in our arsenal as we fight this 

ideological war against our oppressors. 

More than many other forms of 

media, this Internet radio has the 

ability to spread the International 

African Revolution’s influence to 

places where many other forms of 

propaganda may not reach. 

It also has the ability to allow our 

struggles on the ground anywhere 

where we broadcast from to inform 

our struggles everywhere else in the 

world. We must take on the task of 

growing Uhuru Radio on every front 

of the International African 

Revolution. 

We must wield this ideological 

weapon to strike out against imperialism 

and organize our people to fight as 

one African people under the leadership 

of the African working class. The 

International African Revolution has 

found its voice on the Internet airwaves! 

Let us use it to break the colonial 

borders that divide our people and 

liberate our Africa! 


One Africa! One Nation! 

Guinea 


Another neocolonialist loses his 

usefulness to U.S. and French 

imperialism 

Interestingly, in this desperate 

effort to accomplish his insatiable 

desires, Conte has found himself 

entangled between the scramble of 

the various imperialist nations to control 

the country’s resources. The move 

with Japanese imperialists has placed 

him in direct confrontation with the 

United States and France. 

Since 2004, U.S. and French imperialism 

have backed protests by opposition 

parties headed by imperialisttrained 

elites to bring down Conte and 

restore their interests in Guinea. They 

persuaded the European Union and 

other so-called western “donor countries” 

to cut-off “all aid” to the government 

of Guinea. 

Professor Alpha Conde, a former 

lecturer at Sorbonne University in 

Paris, together with former World 

Bank Consultant Ba Mamadou and 

former IMF employee Sidya Toure 

have formed an opposition coalition 

supported and backed by both France 

and the United States to challenge the 

government of Conte. The opposition 

coalition’s only hope of success is to 

manipulate the plight of the suffering 

African masses in guinea and exploit 

their conditions to their own advantage. 

However, this is proving to be a 

fruitless strategy because none of the 

so-called opposition coalition leaders 

want to step-down and surrender to a 

single leader. 

Conte, aware that France and the 

United States wants to remove him 

from power, has amended the constitution 

to allow him to remain president 

for life. Amidst ill health and a failed 

neocolonial bureaucracy, Conte continues 

to work to transform the state 

into a “royal possession” controlled by 

his family after his death. 

Conte uses the security apparatus 

to suppress the determination of the 

African masses in Guinea to defeat 

imperialism. But with the people’s 

growing determination for change, his 

reliance on the military and police to 

secure him is becoming shaky. 

Last year, a coup attempt staged by 

some junior officers nearly left him 

dead. In response, Conte sacked 

some 2,000 soldiers, including the 

head of the Guinean armed forces, 

General Mamadou Bailo Diallo. 

A total of about 1,872 military personnel 

who included four colonels, 10 

lieutenant-colonels, 39 majors and 93 

captains and 1,727non-commissioned 

officers have been dismissed 

from the army last December based on 

Conte‘s fears that they might possibly 

overthrow his government. 

African masses of Guinea- 

Conakry need the African 

Socialist International! 

With an army whose loyalty is 

increasingly unstable, Conte’s continued 

presence in Guinea’s political 

scene is extremely doubtful. A Trade 

Union strike over low wages and 

deplorable conditions of service 

nearly crippled down the government. 

But the Trade Unions themselves lack 

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the vision and ability to overturn the 

neocolonial system in Guinea neither 

will they transform the conditions of the 

suffering masses in Guinea. 

The fact is that Conte’s removal 

from power will not automatically 

translate into a viable future for the toiling 

African masses. What is required is 

the African working class becoming 

organized in its own interests in order 

to guarantee a future for our people in 

Guinea-Conakry. 

The African masses of Guinea- 

Conakry need the African Socialist 

International in order to take the struggle 

in Conakry out of isolation and tie it 

to an international strategy for the unification 

and liberation of Africa. We 

must build the African Socialist 

International so that we can destroy 

the neocolonial borders and establish 

a united and liberated Africa that can 

control its own resources in Guinea- 

Conakry and elsewhere in the interests 

of the African working class and 

poor peasantry! 

One Africa! One Nation! 

Touch One, Touch All! 

Build the African Socialist 

International! 


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Party’s Solidarity Committee builds 

African People’s Solidarity Day 

A call for unity with the International African Revolution 

BY ALISON HEONE, MEMBER OF 

THE AFRICAN PEOPLE’S 

SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE 

The African People’s Solidarity 

Committee (APSC) is making a call to 

white people all over the world to get 

involved in a campaign to build African 

People’s Solidarity Day (APSD). The 

campaign will culminate in weekendlong 


programs and teach-ins on November 

4 and 5, 2006 in Oakland, California, 

and on November 11 and 12 in 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as 

a forum in St. Petersburg, Florida. 

African People’s Solidarity Day is a 

call to white people and the peoples of 

the world to unite with the unification 

and liberation of Africa and African 

people worldwide, and to demand that 

U.S. and Western imperialism take its 

hands off Africa and African people 

everywhere. 

APSD recognizes that all of Africa’s 

resources belong to African people 

wherever they are located around the 

world. It acknowledges that the only 

solution to the desperate conditions 

imposed on African people by white 

power is the through the brilliant strategy 

of Chairman Omali Yeshitela and 


(APSP) is the realization of their aim: 

the liberation and unification of Africa 

under the leadership of the African 

working class and poor peasants. 

The African People’s Solidarity 

Committee is organizing African 

People’s Solidarity Day to wake up the 

white population to the reality that the 

day has come when African people, 

Indigenous and Mexican people, 

Palestinians and Arabs, Latin 

Americans and the oppressed peoples 

of the world are organizing and 

rising up to take back all their 

resources, their lands and their independence 

stolen by Europeans for the 

past 500 years and more! 

APSC believes that this is the time 

when white people — whether we are 

in the U.S., in Europe, Canada, 

Australia, Occupied Palestine 

(Israel), Occupied Azania (South 

Africa), or in South America — have a 

historic decision to make. 

We have to learn from September 

11 that there is a price to be paid for 

hundreds of years of relentless 

oppression, torture and exploitation of 

the peoples of the world. We can’t 

enslave and decimate the entire continent 

of Africa, slaughter the 

Indigenous peoples of the Americas 

and steal their land to build the wealthiest, 

most powerful and viciously brutal 

system in the world without consequences. 

White wealth comes at the 

expense of African life 

APSC is initiating the African 

People’s Solidarity Day campaign 

because we believe that there are 

thousands of other white people in the 

world who abhor the colonial relationship 

we have inherited. We have to be 

outraged when we realize that we live a 

life where everything we take for 

We can no longer 

pretend that there is 

no relationship to 

[white] wealth and 

Africa’s poverty. We 

have to start the 

struggle for real 

change through 

acknowledging that 

everything we have in 

the white world is 

stolen goods. 

granted — relative wealth, good jobs, 

three meals a day, cars, health care, 

college, democratic rights, cell phones 

and computers, living in peace, diamond 

engagement rings, vacations 

and homes around the world — all 

comes at the expense of African people. 

We have to ask: why do we have 

everything and African people living a 

few blocks away have poverty, daily 

police terror and murder, hostile 

schools and life sentences in prison? 

Why do Africans in Sierra Leone and 

Congo get paid 30 cents a day for the 

brutal work of mining diamonds while 

having to live without food, clean water 

and electricity? How is it possible that 

Africa is the wealthiest continent on the 

planet, yet African people everywhere 

are the poorest in the world? 

We believe that people want to be 

able to take a righteous stand against 

the hideous conditions Africans suffer, 

whether in Sudan, Haiti or 

Philadelphia. It is no longer viable to 

look at the pictures of starving African 

children with swollen bellies and flies 

buzzing around them and make 

opportunist, idiotic statements like, 

“Make Poverty History”. Not unless we 

are committed to support the liberation 

struggle of African people on their own 

terms. 

Our stand must be, “Hands off 

Africa and African people everywhere! 

Reparations Now!” 

We can no longer pretend that 

there is no relationship to our wealth 

and Africa’s poverty. We have to start 

the struggle for real change through 

acknowledging that everything we 

have in the white world is stolen goods. 

We have a billion dollar diet industry 

and eating disorders because 

African children have a bowl of rice a 

day, if they’re lucky. A whole generation 

of young African men is in prison in 

the U.S. because we want jobs in the 

prison economy and in a job market 

that two million Africans would be competing 

in if they weren’t locked up. 

U.S. and Western imperialism is 

looting Africa like bandits! All the 

resources that should be providing 

housing, education, food and a peaceful 

and prosperous life to African people 

are coming to feed the white populations 

in the U.S. and Europe. The 

genocidal wars in Africa that white liberals 

like to blame Africans for are 

being instigated, armed and funded by 

imperialism for the sole purpose of 

controlling Africa’s enormous natural 

wealth. 

White people have to decide to 

stand with the future are 

maintain unity with imperialism 


gives us the opportunity to take a stand 

for the right of African people to liberate 

Africa, so that they can control their 

own resources and future. It gives us a 

chance to unite our interests with the 

interests of the rest of humanity, which 

is something that hasn’t happened for 

many centuries, if ever. 

APSD challenges us to declare to 

the world that there is a growing sector 

of the descendants of the slave master 

who have become allies of the descendants 

of the slave in the struggle to 

bring about the final blow to the system 

of slavery and oppression once and for 

all. 

APSC calls on all freedom-loving 

white people to get involved in the 

APSD campaign. You can form an 

APSD organizing committee wherever 

you live. 

You can actively support the work 

of the Uhuru Movement by organizing 

a fundraiser. This could be a benefit 

concert, a donations drive, a car wash 

or any other way you can think of to 

raise resources. 

You can organize a political forum 

or teach-in and APSD organizers will 

come to your city, campus or area to 

speak and show DVD presentations. 

There can be African People’s 

Solidarity Day sister events and 

actions anywhere in the world! 

Organize a contingent to come to 

Oakland on November 4 and 5, and to 

Philadelphia on November 11 and 12. 


Chairman Omali Yeshitela will be the 

keynote speaker, and there will be presentations 

and workshops from many 

fronts of the African Revolution, There 

will be representatives from the 

Indigenous and Mexican liberation 

movements, from Venezuela, Haiti 

and Palestine, as well as some revolutionary 

culture. 

Build African People’s 

Solidarity Day! 

Solidarity with the Unification 

and Liberation of Africa and 

African People Everywhere! 

Hands Off Africa! Reparations 

Now! 


Visit www.apscuhuru.org to find out what 

you can do to get involved! 




Chernoh Bah 


government and Liberia. 

The U.S. government was in desperate 

search for someone who would 

overthrow the government in Liberia in 

order to restore U.S. control over our 

resources in Liberia, and to facilitate 

the various U.S. operations in Africa. In 

effect, Taylor embezzled close to a million 

dollars from the government of 

Doe, and he fled to the United States. 

The government of Liberia 

requested that Taylor be extradited at 

the time in order to face charges for 

misappropriation of public funds, but 

the U.S. refused. They said they would 

try Taylor under their own law. 

They reported that he was tried and 

put in prison in Massachusetts. Two 

years after that, he was released from 

prison by the U.S. government, and he 

was sent to Libya. We have evidence 

that Taylor was a CIA informant. Some 

people are linking him to Khadafi, but 

we knew that Taylor was sent by the 

CIA to Libya in order to spy on Khadafi. 

That is where he met Foday Sankoh 

and the people who organized the 

genocide against our people in West 

Africa. 

The United States was the only 

government that maintained an 

embassy in Liberia throughout the 

conflict. We are still asking the question, 

what was the U.S. ambassador 

doing in Liberia during the period of a 

crisis of that nature, when the whole 

world was being shown images of 

Africans killing each other. What is the 

U.S. ambassador doing in a situation 

like that? 

The U.S. government had organized 

and rigged the election that led to 

the position of Taylor as president of 

Liberia. Taylor’s relationship with the 

United States was affected when 

Taylor visited France immediately 

after swearing in as president of 

Liberia. While Taylor was in Paris, the 

U.S. State Department made a public 

announcement saying that Taylor 

escaped from prison. In fact, that is 

when most people became aware of 

the fact that Taylor was a prisoner in 

the U.S. Ever since this period we have 

witnessed a witch hunt against Taylor. 

Imperialist courts have no 

integrity 

The so-called United Nations special 

court is not a UN court. It is a U.S. 

court [Applause]. The person who 

made the indictments against Taylor 

and most of the other people facing 

crimes against humanity or genocide 

was an individual working for the FBI, 

and he is still working for the FBI. The 

money that is being used to pay the 

judges of this so-called special court 

comes from the U.S. government. It is 

a court established by the U.S. government 

in order to ensure that imperialism 

has absolute control over our land 

and resources. 

We are not trying to say that Taylor 

and the individuals responsible for carrying 

out the genocide that was 

orchestrated and financed by this 

group of imperialist nations and corporations 

should not be tried. What we 

are saying is that the United States 

government is guilty of the genocide 

committed against our people in West 

Africa. [Applause] The U.S. government 

should equally be tried for the 

genocide that they committed against 

our people, against us. 

We know that the U.S. is not committed 

to the fight against impunity, 

because the U.S. is not a party to the 

Rome Statute established by the 

International Criminal Court. That is 

the court that they are going to use to 

try Taylor after they take him from 

Sierra Leone. The reality is that the crisis 

happened because imperialism 

wants to have access and control over 

our resources. We have a situation in 

Sierra Leone where we are faced with 

neocolonialism. 

In a few days from now the country 

will celebrate its forty-fifth anniversary 

of so-called independence. It is so 

shameful because after forty-five 

years of so-called independence we 

now have a situation where the British 

are absolutely in control of the country. 

April 27 of this year marks forty-five 

years since the British made the ceremony 

claiming that they have granted 

independence to Sierra Leone. But if 

you go to Sierra Leone today, you will 

find British judges in our courts. 

If I am taken to court today in Sierra 

Leone for whatever charges the government 

will bring against me, I will be 

tried by a white man. I will be tried by a 

British judge. The British have a military 

base in Freetown. Over two thousand 

British troops are currently stationed 

there. 

The British have what they call the 

British Department for International 

Development. This is the equivalent of 

what we call U.S. Aid. This department 

is responsible for the formation of 

whatever economic policy that is being 

carried out in the country. We have 

what we call the Office of National 

Security. It is made up of British soldiers. 

The British train the army. The 

British join the police. Until last year the 

Inspector General of the police is a 

British officer. 

This is the reason why the British 

sent arms and ammunition to the rebel 

movement that killed over seven thousand 

people within a week in order to 

This is going to 

strengthen our effort 

to liberate and unite 

our people. The truth 

is without the African 

People’s Socialist 

Party, it would be 

impossible for us to 

stand here and 

explain to you some 

of the conditions that 

we face. 

ensure that the government would 

represent its interests and they are 

imposed on us. This is the situation we 

are confronted with. 

We have come to the realization 

that we have to fight in order to be free. 

We have to organize ourselves in 

order to take back our land and decide 

for ourselves how our resources are 

going to be used. We have built a 

movement within the last four years or 

so that has a membership of over seventy 

thousand Africans. As I said, 

since we joined forces with the African 

People’s Socialist Party out numbers 

are increasing and our strength continues 

to grow. 

So, this explains the importance of 

our unity in the struggle for the freedom 

and liberation of our people. We are 

committed to making the revolution. 

Our movement has membership that 

is greater than the neocolonial army of 

Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea 

combined. [Applause] We are ready to 

fight in order to get back our rights to 

become a self-determined people. 

For the past weeks that I have been 

here, I have been saying most of the 

things I have been saying tonight. I 

have said over and again the same 

thing, but the reality is that we experience 

the same conditions as Africans. 

Nobody is going to change the situation 

for us. We have to change it for ourselves. 

We knew that we can not win in 

isolation, because nobody was aware 

of what we are doing in Sierra Leone 

and West Africa. We were doing it on 

our own. We have been looking for this 

kind of opportunity to meet with our 

brothers and sisters here because we 

know that together we will win. United 

we will defeat the enemy. 

Tour ends the isolation of the 

Africanist Movement 

On behalf of the Africanist 

Movement, I would like to express my 

appreciation to the African People’s 

Socialist Party, the International 

People’s Democratic Uhuru 

Movement, and all of those who have 

worked assiduously to make sure that 

this tour is organized. I believe this has 

been a successful tour. 

This is going to strengthen our 

effort to liberate and unite our people. 

We know the importance of this relationship 

to us. I cannot exactly say how 

much we uphold the significance of 

this relationship. The truth is without 

the African People’s Socialist Party, it 

would be impossible for us to stand 

here and explain to you some of the 

conditions that we face. What that 

means is that we have to be organized 

and be part of this effort to free and liberate 

Africa. 

I am grateful for everything that has 

been done for us and for the movement 

back home. I will be able to explain 

everything to the members of the 

movement. In fact since I’ve been here 

when I call back home, I have been 

able to tell them how the hospitality is 

so great and that everything is just the 

same. 

We are one people and there is no 

difference between Africans here and 

Africans back home. The Africans 

back home are opening their hearts 

very wide to receive you because we 

know that we are one people and from 

the same family [Applause. Uhuru!]. 

We foresee a situation where all of us 

can come together and live as one 

family. 

I want to thank the Chairman of the 

African People’s Socialist Party, 

Chairman Omali Yeshitela. Since I first 

met with the Chairman in London my 

spirit has been raised and I have been 

inspired more than ever to fight for the 

liberation and unification of Africa and 

African people. 

I have never been influenced by 

any other individual the way I have 

been influenced by the Chairman. This 

is something that I am saying out of an 

honest expression of how I feel about 

the Chairman. I don’t think I have the 

exact words to use about the level of 

influence and inspiration that I have 

gotten from the Chairman and from the 

African People’s Socialist Party. 

We know that this is a new era and 

the fact that we are coming together is 

a clear indication that we are beginning 

to see the death of imperialism 

and the various neocolonial puppets 

who represent white power in various 

communities wherever we find ourselves. 

I want to leave you with this slogan: 

“Smash neocolonialism! Smash imperialism!” 



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Plataforma de Trabajo del Partido Socialista del Pueblo Africano 

QUE QUEREMOS — QUE CREEMOS 

Adoptada el 23 de Septiembre de 1979. Revisada y adoptada en el Primer Congreso del Partido Socialista del Pueblo Africano, el 6 de Septiembre de 1981. 

1QUEREMOS PAZ, DIGNIDAD Y EL DERECHO A CONSTRUIR UNA VIDA PROSPERA A 

TRAVES DE NUESTRA PROPIA LABOR Y EN NUESTRO PROPIO INTERES. 

Creemos que el gobierno de los Estados Unidos de Norte América y su sociedad se fundaron en 

el genocidio de los nativos, el robo de su terra y la dispersión por la fuerza, la esclavitud y la colonización 

de millones de gente Africana. Creemos que la condición de existencia actual de la gente 

Africana dentro de los límites corrientes de los Estados Unidos es colonialismo, una condición de 

existencia donde todo un pueblo es opresivamente dominado por el poder extranjero y ajeno del 

estado con el propósito de la explotación económica y la ventaja política. También creemos que la 

dominación colonial es el base fundamental de las problemas del pueblo Africano dentro de los 

Estados Unidos y que no gozaremos de paz, prosperidad o dignidad humana hasta que esta dominición 

colonialista sea desterrada y el poder sobre nuestras vidas descanse en nuestras propias 

manos. 

2 

QUEREMOS 

LOS DERECHOS AL DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO Y AL EMPLEO CREATI- 

VO Y PRODUCTIVO QUE PROMUEVA LAS NECESIDADES Y EL BIEN ESTAR DE TODO 

NUESTRO PUEBLO. 

Creemos que el colonialismo es un sistema chupa sangre en el cual todo desarrollo económico 

beneficia a la clase colonialista que gobierna el estado y a la sociedad a expensas de nuestro pueblo 

colonizado. También creemos que el masivo desempleo habitual y bajo empleo de nuestra gente 

beneficia a la clase colonialista gobernante de los Estados Unidos y al sistema capitalista y que la 

lucha del pueblo Africano por trabajos se debe combinar con la lucha por el socialismo y el desarrollo 

económico independiente. 

3 

QUEREMOS 

PONER FIN A TODO IMPUESTO LOCAL, DEL ESTADO O FEDERAL 

SOBRE EL PUEBLO NEGRO POR EL GOBIERNO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Y 

CUALQUIERA DE SUS AGENCIAS. 

Creemos que tales impuestos son ilegítimos, que el pueblo negro no tiene autoridad real o significativa 

dentro del gobierno de los Estados Unidos, entonces son sin representación. Creemos que 

en la ausencia de autoridad real o significativa no tenemos nada que decir acerca de como se usa ese 

dinero y que consecuentemente los impuestos que se extraen del pueblo negro son con frecuencia 

usados en contra neustra y otras gentes oprimidas y explotadas dentro de los Estados Unidos y en el 

mundo. 

Creemos que el uso de los impuestos extraídos de la población Africana para consruir más prisiones 

donde hacinarnos y emplear más policia para matarnas es criminal, como lo es el uso de tales 

impuestos para emplear soldados para intimidar y saquear las gentes oprimidas internacionalmente 

por este mismo sistema. También creemos que el pueblo Africano se debe rehusar a pagar impuestos 

a un gobierno que usa tales impuestos para apoyar y mantener dictadores brutales en todo el mundo 

quienes mantienen a sus propios pueblos oprimidos y viviendo en la pobreza con el propósito de 

mantener la dominación económica y política de los Estados Unidos y el Oeste imperialista. 

4 

QUEREMOS 

EL DERECHO DE LIBRE EXPRESIÓN Y ASOCIACIÓN POLÍTICA, LA 

GARANTÍA DEL DERECHO AL TRABAJO PARA EL MEJORAMIENTO Y LA 

EMANCIPACIÓN DEL PUEBLO NEGRO SIN TEMOR A LA PRISIÓN POLÍTICA A LA PERDI- 

DA DE LA VIDA, UN MIEMBRO DEL CUERPO O LA SUBSISTENCIA. 

Creemos que la liberación del pueblo Africano en todo el mundo vendrá primeramente como resultado 

de nuestros propios esfuerzos. Creemos que es nuestro deber hacia nestras madres y padres, 

nuestros hijos y hacia nosotros mismos, organizarnos para vencer nuestra opresión. Creemos que 

el derecho a organizarnos y denunciar nuestra opresión son derechos humanos básicos y que el 

gobierno debe los terminar sus ataques criminales a los patriotas Africanos que trabajan por el 

mejoramiento y la emancipación de su pueblo. 

5 

QUEREMOS 

EL DERECHO DE ASOCIACIÓN INTERNACIONAL POLÍTICA Y ECONÓMICA 

CON AFRICANOS Y CUALQUIER OTRO PUEBLO EN CUALQUIER LUGAR DE LA TIERRA. 

Creemos que toda la gente negra es gente Africana y que son una parte de una entidad nacional 

única. Creemos que la libertad genuina del pueblo Africano en todos lados está irreversiblemente 

unida a la creación de un Africa independiente, unida y socialista. Creemos que la lucha del pueblo 

Africano dentro de los Estados Unidos, representa el frente en los Estados Unidos de un 

movimiento mundial del pueblo Africano por su liberación Africana, independencia política y 

democracia socialista. Creemos que la lucha mundial por la liberación Africana está en unidad con 

las luchas libradas por la mayoriá de los pueblos del mundo para terminar la opresión de las 

naciones por naciones y crear un nuevo mundo, dentro del cual las masas trabajadoras pondrán fin 

al sistema de trabajadores y empleadores y esclavos y dueños y poseerán y se beneficiarán de los 

bienes y productos de nuestra labor y tendrán autoridad política sobre nuestras propias vidas. 

Creemos que los amigos naturales, objectivos en nuestra lucha por la liberación Africana, independencia 

y democraticia socialista son todas las masas trabajadores del mundo — los pueblos del 

Medio Oriente, los campesinos y trabajadores de Asia y Latino América, las fuerzas democráticas 

de Europa Oriental y Occidental y los Estados Unidos y los verdaderos estados socialistas del 

mundo, que por consiguente debemos tener el derecho absoluto a la asociación política y económica 

internacional. 

6 

QUEREMOS 

LA LIBERTAD INMEDIATA E INCONDICIONAL DE TODA LA GENTE NEGRA 

QUE EN EL PRESENTE ESTA ENCERRADA EN PRISIONES DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. 

Creemos que los hombres y mujeres Africanos encerrados en los campos de concentración comunmente 

conocidos como prisiones están allí por decisiones, leyes y circunstancias que fueron 

creadas por desconocidos y extranjeros para su propio beneficio y como medio de control colonialista 

genocida. Creemos que tales decisiones, leyes y circunstancias fueron creadas y son implementadas 

sin nuestro consentimiento y son por consiguiente, ilegítimas. Creemos que los hombres 

y mujeres Africanas que están encerradas en tales campos de concentración son víctimas de la justicia 

colonialista de la clase gobernante la cual mantiene nuestra esclavitud y aterroriza a nuestro 

pueblo, y que por lo tanto deben ser inmediatamente liberados los representantes justos de nuestra 

lucha por la liberación, independencia y democracia socialista. 

7 

QUEREMOS 

AMNISTÍA COMPLETA PARA TODOS LOS PRISIONEROS POLÍTICOS 

AFRICANOS Y PRISIONEROS DE GUERRA EN LAS PRISIONES DE LOS ESTADOS 

UNIDOS O SU LIBERACIÓN INMEDIATA A CUALQUIER PAÍS AMIGO QUE LOS ACEPTE Y 

LES BRINDE ASILO POLITÍCO. 

Creemos que las prisiones de los Estados Unidos son usadas también como el instrumento ilegítimo 

para torturar, asesinar y mantener cautivos aquellos valientes hijos e hijas de Africa quienes por su 

actuación patriótica o su palabra oral o escrita en favor de la causa de nuestra liberación se han convertido 

en prisioneros políticos y prisioneros de guerra. Creemos, junto con la mayoría de los pueblos 

del mundo, que es el deber de los colonizados y esclavitud y el colonialismo y luchar por el socialismo 

y quienes lo hacen son patriotas, heroinas y héroes, que deben ser mantenidos en la más alta estima. 

8QUEREMOS EL RETIRO INMEDIATO DE LA POLICIA NORTEAMERICANA DE 

NUESTRAS COMUNIDADES EXPLOTADAS Y OPRIMIDAS. 

Nosotros creemos que las varias agencias de policía que ocupan nuestras comunidades son ligos 

del Estado colonialista de los EE.UU. que es responsable por mantener nuestra gente esclavizada 

y aterrorizada. Nosotros creemos que las agencias policias no nos sirven pero que al contrario representan 

la primera línea de defensa norteamericana en contra de la justa lucha de nuestro pueblo 

por dignidad y democracia socialista. Por esto nosotros creemos que la policía de Estados Unidos 

es un ejército ilegítimo, un ejército colonialista en la comunidad Africana y debe salir inmediatamente 

de nuestra comunidad para ser reemplazada por nuestras fuerzas de liberación cuyas luchas 

en defensa de nuestra comunidad y contra la opresión, demuestra su lealtad a nuestra comunidad 

y su deseo de servir en el interés de ésta. 

9 

QUEREMOS 

TERMINAR CON LA OPRESIÓN POLÍTICA Y SOCIAL Y LA EXPLOTA- 

CION ECONOMICA DE LA MUJER AFRICANA. 

Nosotros creemos en la absoluta igualdad política, social y económica de las mujeres y los hombres 

Africanos. Nosotros creemos que una prueba fundamental del carácter progresista o revolucionario 

de cualquier organización, partido, movimiento o sociedad es su compromiso confirmado 

en la practica a la destrucción de la opresión especial de la mujer y la elevación de la mujer al 

lugar de compañeras y líderes iguales en la mocion del desenvuelto de la sociedad humana y como 

creadores, líderes y constructores, modeladores de la historia humana. 

10 

QUEREMOS EL DERECHO DE CONSTRUIR UN EJÉRCITO DE LIBERACIÓN 

DEL PUEBLO AFRICANO. 

Creemos que la verdadera libertad, aunque muchas veces quitada, no puede ser dada al pueblo 

Africano somos nuestros propios liberadores, y que tenemos el derecho y la obligación de crear un 

ejército de liberación del pueblo Africano para defender nuestros derechos politicos que han sido 

ganados, para defender nuestro liberadones, y para ganar del opresor colonial-esclavista, nuestra 

verdadera libertad. Creemos, que las unicas guerras legítimas son las guerras de liberación national 

y aquellas guerras que se oponen a la agresión imperialista, y por lo tanto, la unica fuerza militar 

legitima para que la gente negra se sirva son las fuerzas militares que defienden la libertad y 

repudian la agresión imperialista. Esa fuerza será el Ejército de Liberación del Pueblo Africano. 

11 

NOSOTROS QUEREMOS QUE LOS EE.UU. Y LA CLASE DOMINANTE INTERNA- 

CIONAL EUROPEA, REPAGUE A AFRICA Y EL PUEBLO DE AFRICA POR LOS SIG- 

LOS DE GENOCIDIO, OPRESIÓN Y ESCLAVITUD DE NUESTRO PUEBLO. 

Nosotros creemos que los EE.UU. y la civilización europea nacieron y son actualmente mantenidos 

por el horroso robo de seres humanos y recursos naturales del Africa y su pueblo. 

También creemos que ese robo es responsable por la baja población y el sub-desarrollo de Africa 

y de su pueblo y de su servidumbre político, pobreza material, de su discontinuidad y desintegración 

cultural a través del mundo. Creemos que a Africa y su pueblo se le debe unas reparaciones, 

una justa compensación economica, billones de dolares que deben ser pagados a la 

Organización de Unidad Africana o cualquier otra legítima organización internacional del 

pueblo africano para que sean distribuidos en forma equitativa para el desarrollo de Africa. 

También creemos que reparaciones tienen que ser distribuidas a las varias naciones Africanas 

que estan dispersas por todo el mundo y los legítimos representantes del pueblo Africano que 

han sido dispersados a la fuerza a través del mundo y que aun no han ganado su liberación. 

12 

QUEREMOS DAR FIN A LA VICIOSA Y EGOÍSTA INTERVENCIÓN DE LOS EE.UU. Y 

DE LOS PAÍSES OCCIDENTALES DE EUROPA EN LOS ASUNTOS POLÍTICOS, 

ECONÓMICOS Y MILITARES DE AFRICA Y DE LOS PUEBLOS DE AFRICA A TRAVÉS DEL 

MUNDO. 

Creemos que los pueblos de Africa en Africa y en otras partes tienen el derecho y responsabilidad 

de resolver sus problemas, libres de la indeseable y egoísta interferencia de los EE.UU. y de los 

imperialistas occidentales. Creemos que tal intervención esta disenada para mantener la continuación 

del robo de nuestros recursos humanos y materiales, para mantener la opresión y la pobreza. 

Creemos que los pueblos de Africa tienen que ser libres para organizar y luchar para poner fin al 

colonialsmo y neo-colonialismo sin interferencia de los EE.UU. y del imperialismo occidental, los 

cuales apoyan al neocolonialismo y el colonialismo en Africa y los EE.UU. y en otros sitios, y que 

ha derrocado líderes Africanos progresistas y revolucionarios reemplazandolos con títenes neocolonialistas. 

13 

QUEREMOS EL FIN A LA DOMINACIÓN COLONIAL ESTADOUNIDENSE 

DEL PUEBLO AFRICANO DENTRO DE LOS EE.UU. 

Creemos que la lucha principal del pueblo africano dentro de los EE.UU. es el derrocamiento de la 

dominación colonial de los EE.UU., la cual es virtualmente responsable por toda la penuria y privación 

impuesta sobre el pueblo negro que este gobierno identifica como el problema de los negros. 

Creemos que los problemas educacionales — desde nuestra inhabilidad para controlar nuestras escuelas 

y determinar la educación de nuestros hijos, hasta la educación inferior que recibimos, son causados 

por el colonialismo. Creemos que nuestros problemas en el área de salud — desde la ausencia 

de clínicas e instituciones operadas y controladas por el pueblo Africano, hasta los peligrosas condiciones 

de salud impuestas por la pobreza y decisiones insensibles gubernamentales — son causadas 

por el colonialismo. 

Creemos que nuestros problemas de vivienda — desde la escasez de vivienda adecuada para la mayoría 

del pueblo, hasta las casas deterioridas y llenas de piojos son causadas por el colonialismo. 

Creemos que los problemas de alimento y vestuario — desde la terrible calidad y cantidad que nos 

imponen los mercaderes chupa sangres hasta nuestra inhabilidad para producir y distribuirlos para 

nosotros y entre nosotros, son causados por el colonialismo. Todo lo nuestro está dominado y oprimido 

por un poder estatal foráneo y extranjero con el propósito de explotarnos económicamente y sacar 

ventajas políticas. 

14 

QUEREMOS LA LIBERACIÓN TOTAL Y LA UNIFICACIÓN DE AFRICA BAJO 

UN GOBIERNO TODO-AFRICANO SOCIALISTA. 

Creemos que “la liberación total y unificación del Africa bajo un gobierno Africano socialista, debe 

ser el objetivo primario de todos los revolucionarios Africanos a través del mundo. Este objetivo, 

cuando sea alcanzado, llenará las aspiraciones de los Africanos y de los pueblos de descendencia 

Africana en todas partes. Al mismo tiempo avanzará el triunfo de la revolución socialista internacional, 

y del avance hacia el comunismo, bajo el cual toda sociedad será guiada en el principio de 

— cada uno de acuerdo a su habilidad, a cada uno de acuerdo con sus necesidades.” — Kwame 

Nkrumah 

¡A CONSTRUIR PARA GANAR LA INDEPENDENCIA EN NUESTRO TIEMPO! 

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little babies with boils on their skin 

because of the impure water. 

Look at Congo, a territory about the 

size of India. There are a billion people 

in India. There are only 50 million people 

in Congo. Angola is the fourth 

largest territory in post-partitioned 

Africa, yet only ten million African people 

live there. Where are the Africans? 

They’re in St. Petersburg, those who 

survived. They’re in Brazil. They’re in 

South America, and elsewhere. 

These are resources that have been 

stolen from our Africa — human, thinking 

resources. 

In 1884-85, the pious representative 

of God on earth called the pope 

held a conference in Berlin, Germany 

where he carved up Africa and 

parceled out different parts of our land 

to the various European powers. 

Those borders that were created then 

are still in existence today. 

Those borders weren’t created for 

Africa. They were created for the 

Belgians, the French, the English, the 

Germans and all the others for the purpose 

of stealing wealth away from 

Africa. 

Africans must reclaim our 

identity as Africans 

Today people call themselves by 

the names given to those countries 

created by the imperialists who control 

those borders. You’ve heard of 

Cameroon, a name given to us by the 

Portuguese. 

They called it Cameroon because 

the Portuguese found a lot of shrimp 

when they came there, and 

Cameroon is derived from the 

Portuguese word for shrimp. So 

you’ve got people walking around 

calling themselves shrimp. 

There’s Ivory Coast, where the 

French killed elephants to take their 

tusks to make piano keys and billiard 

balls. There you’ve got Africans running 

around calling ourselves elephant 

tusks. 

Worse than that, you’ve got 

Africans who were captured and 

brought here, where we call ourselves 

Americans or Negro-Americans or 

African-Americans, almost- 

Americans, Americans-in-the-incubators, 

Americans-maybe-in-thenext-400-years, 

or one-day- 

Americans. Second class Americans. 

Hitchhiking Americans. Some of us 

have accepted this designation 

imposed on us by imperialism. We 

didn’t name ourselves that. The imperialists 

did. 

How the hell can you get on a boat 

in Africa as an African in the 17th or 

We have to build an 

organization of 

professional 

revolutionaries. 

People may have 

occupations as 

schoolteachers, bus 

drivers, bricklayers or 

mechanics. That 

might be your 

occupation, but your 

profession is 

revolution. 

18th century and then get off that boat 

in Jamestown, Virginia as a Negro? 

How can you get on a boat as an 

African in Africa and then get off that 

boat in America as something else? 

I was an African when I got on the 

damn boat, but when I got off I was an 

Afro-something, a Negro-something 

or some other kind of creature. No! If 

we were Africans when we got on the 

Africans work the rubber plantations of Liberia but Firestone controls the 

plantations while our people starve. 

Marcus Garvey reached an agreement with the Liberian government attaining 

land there. The Garvey movement was sabotaged and now Firestone owns it. 

boat in Africa, we were Africans when 

we got off the boats. We were Africans 

then and we are Africans now. This is 

the consciousness we have to 

accept for ourselves. 

Here we are fighting for food 

stamps and welfare and all this madness 

when Africa is the richest continent 

on earth! Everybody’s stealing it 

right out from under our noses 

because they’ve convinced us that 

we aren’t Africans. You used to be an 

African but you aren’t an African any 

more. What happened? 

Chernoh was talking to us about 

Liberia. We have a relationship to 

Liberia because that’s the place 

where Africans who were enslaved 

in this country went to supposedly 

gain freedom. 

Liberia became a U.S. neocolony 

a long time ago. The capital of 

Liberia is Monrovia. It is named after 

the U.S. president James Monroe. 

Did you know that? The flag is red, 

white and blue with one star. The currency 

is the U.S. dollar. Always has 

been. 

In the 1920s Marcus Garvey built 

an international movement that was 

millions strong, with from six to 

eleven million members and supporters 

throughout the African world. 

If you talk about the success of Cuba, 

you’re talking about Garveyites who 

built the movement that initiated much 

of the struggle that happened in Cuba. 

In a few days, I’ll be going to 

Namibia in southwest Africa. I’ll be in 

South Africa. The Garvey movement 

was there. 

Garvey built an incredible movement. 

He never went to Africa, but he 

sent a delegation of people to Liberia 

because Liberia was supposed to 

have been independent. This delegation 

of Africans bought a huge parcel 

of land in Liberia. They had an agreement 

with the Liberian government. 

They had actually begun to transport 

materials from the U.S. to build a 

center in Liberia. They were going to 

build a base in Africa. 

That terrified a lot of the imperialists, 

not only those who were tied to 

America, but from everyplace else. 

They knew that Garvey was setting up 

a base in African territory from which 

he would strike out all across Africa to 

unite and liberate our Africa. 

W. E. B. DuBois and a lot of the 

petty bourgeois Negroes in this country 

were integrationists and assimilasee 

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Azania 


and the Azanian People s’ Liberation 

Army (APLA)/Pan Africanist 

Congress (PAC) veterans in Azania 

while Chairman Omali was here will 

go a long way in building an African 

international socialist organization 

that we want. 

These interactions create the 

necessary point of convergence for 

revolutionary forces to share their 

experiences, aspirations and 

develop a complimentary and coherent 

strategy, political program of 

action and strategy and tactics with 

the aim to dismantle enemy forces. 

The ASI is walking the talk in the 

true spirit of the African revolution in 

its Pan African and international 

character. We have benefited 

extremely in our workings with the 

APSP because we have become 

aware of what is happening in other 

parts of the continent and the world. 

This revolutionary work must be 

intensified and we are ready to play 

our part because we recognize the 

strategic place and role of South 

Africa (Azania) in the continental and 

international political-economic 

scheme of things. 

Not Yet Uhuru! Aluta 

Continua! 

Forward with ASI! 

Tomorrow the United States 

of Socialist Africa! 

Nujoma 


is missing is the kind of consciousness 

that helps us to 

understand that we are one people. 

Expertise that’s available to 

us in Brazil, for example, ought to 

be available to us here. 

I think that the kind of movement 

we are trying to build is one that would 

make available to Africa and African 

people all the resources that belong to 

us. I am a resource of Africa, and I 

think that there are others who are 

conscious of that kind of relationship. 

We see the primary task for African 

people being the total liberation of 

Africa and African people. That’s the 

essence of the work that we try to do in 

the U.S. and other places where we 

function. 

Tjitjo 


battles as Africans. 

I wish, Comrade Yeshitela, to 

pledge PACON’s continued support in 

your just cause that was pioneered by 

Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Kwame 

Nkrumah, W.E.B. DuBois, Madiba 

Mandela, Sam Nujoma and all other 

great African men and women who 

stood shoulder by shoulder in the 

greater cause and mission of Pan- 

Africanism. Welcome Comrade Omali 

Yeshitela, welcome the African way! 

Thank you. 

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tionists, who believed that the solution 

to our problems was not to fight to win 

our own freedom and build our own 

resources, but to somehow fight to be 

with white folks. 

DuBois, who was the founder of the 

Pan Africanist movement, worked 

with the U.S. government to overturn 

the deal that Garvey had made with 

the government of Liberia. Because of 

this Liberia took back the land that 

they had given to Garvey. You know 

who owns that land now? Firestone 

Rubber Company. Firestone Rubber 

Company owns that land right now. 

These are the kinds of contradictions 

we’re talking about. 

When you look at the theft of our 

resources in Sierra Leone right now, 

you’re not looking at something new. 

You’re talking about diamond mining 

that began there in the 1930s, but the 

rip off has been going on for much 

longer than that. Our presence in this 

country is evidence of the fact that 

they’ve been stealing from Africa for a 

long time. 

Today we are building a process to 

take back our Africa, to take back our 

resources and our identity. We are 

fighting to reenter history as a people 

determining our own future and the 

future of our progeny, as opposed to 

having somebody else doing that. 

Our struggle is for power over 

our own lives 

I don’t know about anybody else in 

this room, but I’m tired of living in a 

world where you have to hope, “Oh 

god, please let a good white man get 

elected this year!” I don’t want to live 

like that. I refuse to live like that anymore. 

People are trying to understand 

why Africans in America have such 

hypertension problems. I can tell you 

why. We live in a state of constant fear. 

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Chairman Omali Yeshitela has been working tirelessly to build the African 

Socialist International since the early 1980s 

Some people won’t even come 

into this building now because they’re 

scared of what the white folks will think 

if they come to the Uhuru Movement. 

People are scared they would lose 

their job if their boss found out. 

People are afraid that what happened 

on November 13, 1996 will 

happen again. That’s when the government 

sent in a military force some 

300-strong to attack this building during 

a regularly scheduled meeting of 

over a hundred people. They used all 

the tear gas they had in the city of St. 

Petersburg against us. People are 

afraid of what white folks will do if we 

come together to even talk about 

being free as a people. 

That’s no way to live. I won’t live 

that way, and I don’t expect anybody 

who hears my voice to live that way. 

I will tell you this. We will know freedom 

when we win freedom and take it 

for ourselves. We will know freedom 

when we free Africa and take back our 

resources. We will know freedom 

when we are a self-governing people 

again. 

People tell you if you are African 

you are supposed to struggle to make 

people like you. Nobody else on earth 

is told that. They didn’t tell the 

Vietnamese that. They didn’t tell the 

Nicaraguans that. They don’t tell that 

to anybody but you, both here and in 

Africa. They tell you that your struggle 

is to make white people like you. 

Everybody else in the world understands 

that the struggle is to have 

power over your own life. Power over 

How in the hell do 

you think you are 

supposed to sleep 

peacefully at night 

when you’ve got 

everybody’s loot 

under your bed? Hell 

no! You can’t take it 

from me and sleep at 

night. 

your own resources, so that you with 

your own hands can know that your 

children are going to have a future. 

[Applause] Everybody else understands 

that but us. They tell you that 

you teach “hatred” when you call on 

people to stand up and act like men 

and women. 

You live in a country that has a budget 

approximating a trillion dollars. 

They spend a billion dollars a day on 

more than 730 U.S. government military 

bases around the world, and they 

tell you that you’re supposed to be 

making people love you. 

Look at the people in Occupied 

Palestine that they have the audacity 

to call Israel. It’s one of the last 

colonies in the world, a direct, nasty, 

white nationalist, settler occupation 

there. Now the Hamas government is 

in power. Because it won’t commit to 

non-violence and it won’t say that 

Israel has a right to exist, the U.S. is 

going to economically strangle them. 

How the hell can somebody steal 

your land, then break into your house 

and take it over. They let you have part 

of the bathroom. You’re trying to get 

out of the bathroom, saying “I want my 

house back! Those people who stole 

my house got to get out.” They tell you 

that the only way you can get some 

support is if you say the people who 

stole your house got the right to be 

there! 

The imperialists don’t want a free 

Palestinian State. They want punks. 

They want people who have been 

beaten down, cowards who are too 

afraid to stand up for their rights. 

They are afraid of the Palestinian 

cause because they know that 

oppressed peoples around the world 

are watching the Palestinians, just like 

we watching the Iraqis and the people 

of Cuba and Venezuela. [Applause] 

All the oppressed people on earth 

want to be free! There is nothing that 

the intelligent ones will not do in order 

to get free. Everybody wants to be 

free! 

The problem that we have here is 

not with white people but with the 

imperial attitude that imperialism creates 

in white people, because imperialism 

defined itself as white power. A 

handful of people on earth are holding 

the vast resources of everybody else. 

We are poor in Africa, poor in Latin 

America, and poor in most of Asia 

because all the resources from those 

places are coming to America and 

Europe where they are living it up. 

How in the hell do you think you are 

supposed to sleep peacefully at night 

when you’ve got everybody’s loot 

under your bed? Hell no! You can’t 

take it from me and sleep at night. If I 

know you got it, I’m coming for it, and if 

you get in the way I’m coming for you 

as well. [Applause] 

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World 


Chavez has also been a staunch 

critic of neocolonialism attacking the 

neocolonial relationships throughout 

Latin America. Chavez criticized 

Mexican president Vincent Fox in 

November 2005 saying, “How sad 

that the president of a people like the 

Mexicans lets himself become the 

puppy dog of the empire.” Venezuelan 

and Mexican ambassadors have 

since withdrawn from their respective 

posts. 

Besides lambasting the U.S. and 

its puppets the Venezuelan government 

is creating regional trade 

alliances throughout Latin America. It 

is very close with Cuba and Bolivia, 

and it has a strong relationship with 

Ecuador, Brazil and Colombia. 

Essentially Venezuela is in motion 

and providing leadership to cut the 

U.S. out of the center of all trade, and 

ultimately out of the picture. 

Bolivia 

Alongside Venezuela, Bolivia has 

been on the move to throw off U.S. 

domination of their country. In 2005, 

Evo Morales was elected as the 

President of Bolivia on a socialist, 

peasant-based platform. He is considered 

to be the country’s first indigenous 

head of state since the Spanish 

Conquest over 450 years ago. 

Morales has stated: “The worst 

enemy of humanity is capitalism. That 

is what provokes uprisings like our 

own, a rebellion against a system, 

against a neoliberal model, which is 

the representation of a savage capitalism. 

If the entire world doesn’t 

acknowledge this reality, that the 

national states are not providing even 

minimally for health, education and 

nourishment, then each day the most 

fundamental human rights are being 

The worst enemy of 

humanity is 

capitalism. That is 

what provokes 

uprisings like our 

own, a rebellion 

against a system, 

against a neoliberal 

model, which is the 

representation of a 

savage capitalism. 

violated.” 

As of May 1, 2006, the Bolivian 

government made a decree stating 

that all natural gas reserves were to be 

nationalized: “the state recovers ownership, 

possession and total and 

absolute control” of hydrocarbons. 

Bolivia has the second largest 

resource of natural gas in South 

America after Venezuela. 

After this announcement the military 

and engineers of state firm YPFB 

were ordered to occupy and secure 

energy installations. He gave foreign 

companies a six-month “transition 

period” to renegotiate contracts, or 

face expulsion. 

This power shift occurring in the 

Middle East and Latin America are two 

other fronts in the growing standoff 

between oppressed and colonized 

peoples and the white ruling class of 

imperialist nations. The growing 

motion to unite Africa and African people 

throughout the world through the 

ASI is the critical component to realizing 

all oppressed peoples’ ambitions 

to be free and self-determining. 


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Imperialist crisis in Africa is 

constantly on edge and unstable 

In West Africa the situation is so 

repressive that Chernoh has to weigh 

every word he says. If he says the 

wrong thing, he’s going to get a visit 

from the government asking him to 

explain what he meant by that statement. 

It’s like that here too when 

movements start to emerge. 

The crisis in West Africa is so profound 

that they know something could 

happen any day. That’s why British 

troops are stationed there. That’s why 

they’re building an FBI office right now 

in Sierra Leone. They know that any 

minute everything can explode. 

In the beginning Chernoh was 

taken aback by what we can say at this 

time. Right now we can say it, but 

maybe not tomorrow. Some people 

can’t even say it now. Look at Sami Al- 

Arian, the Palestinian professor who 

was arrested for supposedly “aiding 

terrorists.” He just spent years in jail 

before going to trial. He won the trial 

and he has to spend another year in 

prison before being deported. 

[Audience: That’s right!] How many 

others are stuck in prisons and detention 

camps all over the country that we 

don’t even know about? 

When Chernoh was speaking in 

Emeryville, California, he was confronted 

by an African man from Sierra 

Leone who is tied to the government. 

This person made some not very subtle 

threats against Chernoh reminding 

him of what happened to another journalist 

who criticized the government. 

The man stated to Chernoh that if he 

was there for the wrong reason he 

might not leave the room alive. 

What we are saying is we are building 

a movement today. This is not 

some charity trip. Chernoh has now 

connected himself to the African 

People’s Socialist Party, which has a 

dynamic relationship to the Africanist 

Movement and the situation in Sierra 

Leone. We truly believe in the slogan, 

“Touch one, touch all.” 

We are saying that part of the work 

that will be done by the Sierra Leone 

support group that we are building is 

political support. This lets the government 

there know that if they touch a 

single strand of his hair, they are going 

to be greeted with resistance from 

Africans and other people around the 

world. [Applause] 

We must build an international 

revolutionary party to liberate 

Africa 

My objective, and the objective that 

makes Chernoh so valuable to us, is to 

build a revolutionary movement. 

We’re going have to fight our way out 

of here. You are out of your mind if you 

think they are going to give up those 

diamonds in Sierra Leone. Do you 

think they are going to have an 

epiphany? Maybe they’ll see the 

movie, The Passion of Christ and 

decide they’ll give it back? 

That is not going to happen. 

They’re not going to give the 

resources back. We’re going to have 

to fight for our freedom. We have to 

build the organization around the 

world capable of making that fight. 

That’s why Chernoh is here. That’s 

why we go to Sierra Leone. That’s why 

in a couple of days I’ll be going to 

South Africa, then Namibia, then 

Ghana and France to meet with 

Africans, because we have to build 

this organization throughout the world 

that can fight for our freedom. We 

have to build an organization of professional 

revolutionaries. People 

may have occupations as schoolteachers, 

bus drivers, bricklayers or 

mechanics. That might be your occupation 

but your profession is revolution. 

There are no oppressed people 

on earth who ever won their freedom 

without first building an organization 

of skilled, tested cadre whose profession 

is winning their freedom. 

Now, I am not calling on everybody 

to be a revolutionary. If you can be a 

revolutionary then you should join this 

movement. If you can’t be a revolutionary 

then you should support this 

movement. If you can’t support this 

movement openly, then you should 

support this movement secretly. You 

ought to have some relationship to 

this movement. [Applause] 

We are not the NAACP. We are not 

the Southern Christian Leadership 

Conference. No, we don’t believe “we 

shall overcome some day.” If you 

thought that’s what you were coming 

to, this is the wrong place. We don’t 

believe that we can win our freedom 

by voting. 

If we participate in an election it is 

not because we think that the vote is 

going to free us. We participate in an 

election because we are fighting for 

the democratic space to build our 

struggle. We understand that the electoral 

process is simply a nonviolent 

contest between different sectors of 

the ruling class fighting for control of 

The crisis in West 

Africa is so profound 

that they know 

something could 

happen any day. 

That’s why British 

troops are stationed 

there. That’s why 

they’re building an 

FBI office right now 

in Sierra Leone. They 

know that any minute 

everything can 

explode. 

the State. That’s all it is. 

So we might participate, but an 

election will never free us. They will 

never put revolution on the ballot. 

Giving back our resources will never 

be on the ballot. We are going to have 

to fight our way out of here. 

Brothers and Sisters, Africa has to 

be free. You have to fight for Africa. 

Some people in this room might have 

problems with the concept that we are 

Africans and we are all one people. I 

understand that. Just because I say 

that we’re Africans doesn’t mean that 

we’re smart! [Laughter] It just means 

we’re Africans. 

There are those of us who have a 

stake in not being Africans. If we are 

Africans then some people are left to 

ask the question, “If they are Africans 

then who are we?” 

Some people say we are not 

Africans because we’ve been here too 

long. They don’t say what the cutoff 

date is, but you’ve been here too long. 

I wish they would tell us the cutoff date, 

because Chernoh might need to leave 

tonight. [Laughter] We might need to 

hustle him out of here. What’s the fairy 

tale where the person turns into a 

pumpkin? You might have to get out of 

here tonight because you might turn 

into a Negro, Chernoh. 

We are Africans. We’ve been 

made to hate Africa because we don’t 

know anything about Africa. If we 

knew something about Africa we 

would love Africa. Even the most frothing 

at the mouth reactionaries have to 

admit that human life started in Africa. 

It is not natural for people in Africa 

to have a lifespan of thirty-seven 

years. Human life started in Africa, so 

Africa is not hostile to life. Africa is the 

friendliest place on earth to life. 

Human life didn’t start in 

Manchester, England, you know. It 

started in Africa. Furthermore, human 

civilization has its origin in Africa. We 

were building pyramids before 

Europeans learned to master fire. We 

have been made ashamed of our 

Africa. Somebody has wiped our 

memory clean so that we don’t understand 

our history or anything about 

ourselves. 

The value of our history is that if we 

know what we have done, it informs us 

of what we are capable of doing. 

Knowing our history gives us the 

courage to fight our way out of this. 

Somebody has convinced us that 

they rescued us by making us slaves 

and working us like beasts. They 

worked us to death in some places like 

Barbados where the lifespan of an 

African was seven years. And they’ve 

convinced us that they’ve rescued us 

by doing this. 

Things are not much better than 

slavery today. The minimum wage is 

now $6.15. That means since they 

brought us here they’ve given us a 

raise of $6.15. That ain’t much to brag 

about. 

Chernoh and the Africanist 

Movement are so significant to us 

because we have been working for the 

past 30 years or more trying to build 

the African Socialist International. We 

have been working all over the African 

world. We’ve built relationships with 

groups that ultimately went to power, 

but never have we been able to find 

someone on the ground building mass 

grassroots movement. We had given 

up on the idea and said we’re going to 

have to do this by ourselves. Now we 

have met Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and 

the Africanist Movement and we know 

that together we are going to build a 

revolutionary movement all over 

Africa and throughout the African 

world. 

We want to send Chernoh home 

with some resources so he can do 

some work. This is not charity work. 

We are plotting to slay the slave master 

and overturn the system of slavery. 

This is not to help poor slaves live better 

but to overturn the system of slavery. 

Izwe Lethu! i Afrika! 



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