Unity is an Imperative: Reclaiming African Liberation Day

Tanupriya Singh All-African People’s Conference held in Ghana, 1958. African Liberation Day marks the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. While the idea of ‘liberation’ has since been removed in letter, and even in spirit, from official commemorations of the day, radical forces have held onto it in their fight against capitalism…

Imperialism and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan and Libya

Abayomi Azikiwe After 60 years, the African Union, the successor to the Organization of African Unity, faces monumental challenges in the contemporary period Note: These remarks were prepared for and delivered in part at a webinar in honor of the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor to…

Slavery and Prior Accumulation in Venezuela

Cira Pascual Marquina Enrique S. Rivera is a historian, journalist, and documentary film producer. He teaches at UCLA, and his recent book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution (2021), focuses on the 1795 anti-slavery rebellion in the west of what we now know as Venezuela, but it also examines the origins of…

Closing Remarks at African Liberation Day 2023: We Must Win

All African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) Below are remarks offered by Debora Soares da Gama of the AAPRP Central Committee at the conclusion of the 2023 African Liberation Day International Webinar on May 25, 2023. Her remarks call for a strong focus on political education, organization and revolutionary optimism in our journey toward defeating neocolonialism…

On the Long Path to Reparations

Cira Pascual Marquina Jesús “Chucho” García is an intellectual and activist, and the author of several books, including Afrovenezolanidad e inclusión en el Proceso Bolivariano [Afro-Venezuelanness and Inclusion in the Bolivarian Process, 2018]. He is also a founder of the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations and a member of the National Decolonization Commission. In this interview, García talks…

It’s the Time of Nkrumah!

Adnan Akfirat Oh people, oh humanity, hear and know: Africa is being liberated! We know that imperialism has darkened the fortunes of the land of the black skinned. Our pearl-toothed brothers and sisters are determined to overthrow the hegemony of US imperialism. European imperialism, on the other hand, is watching its feet in Africa in…

Economy Must Be ‘at the Service of Life’: Resisting Debt and Neocolonialism in Africa

Tanupriya Singh An image from the music video ‘IMF’ by Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 (Knitting Factory Records) featuring Dead Prez’s M1, directed by Jerome Bernard and produced by Duck Factory A dossier and accompanying discussion hosted by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research interrogates the vicious cycle of debt rooted in neocolonial extraction that…

“African Labor in the World Community”: CLR James’ Political Economy

Matthew Quest On CLR James’ 122nd Anniversary, Matthew Quest celebrates his intervention in global freedom movements by placing his radical political economy in conversation with the African world and the African continent. He argues that CLR James offers a different and better understanding of capital, the state, and the role of the working class than…

Nkrumah:”Colonialism Can and Will be Defeated”

A-APRP Ghana’s first President Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah was the architect of the African revolution. His clarity of thought and analysis has been of great value to generations of African freedom fighters. As we consider neo-colonialism, it is helpful to listen to what he has to say on the subject. Nkrumah’s responses to questions in the following…

Liberation in Our Lifetime: Towards an African Socialist Movement Manifesto

Alieu Bah A template for social movements and organisations across the African continent to look to the science and laws that can be used to change the time and bring on a post neocolonial Africa. The haunting spectre of communism doesn’t hold the world at ransom any longer. The unholy capitalist alliance has all but…

Kyeretwie Opoku: ‘We Must Unite Our Continent’

Peoples Dispatch Kyeretwie Opoku, Convener of the Socialist Movement of Ghana addresses the West African People For A New World conference. Photo: WAPO conference In his opening address at the West African People For A New World conference in Ghana, Opoku discussed the necessity of building working class unity in the region Last week, members…

Surrounded: An Ethnography of New Colonialism

Yusuf Serunkuma Julius Nyerere demanding complete independence from the British Empire in 1961 ROAPE contributor Yusuf Serunkuma asks if the pillage we are witnessing on the African continent—mostly from the 1980s-onwards—is worse than the exploitation of the 1884-1960s, where is the resistance? Serunkuma writes that even after decolonisation has been achieved (the academy decolonised, stolen artefacts…

Building Power with Food Sovereignty

 jesse chase Food sovereignty activists protest outside a secret elite corporate seed conference convened by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Organised by Global Justice Now. Let’s talk about food sovereignty, Africa, the economic impoverishment of the diaspora and Indigenous people at large. How does…

Two Years Since George Floyd’s Death, Has Anything Changed in the US?

Natalia Marques Protestors in the Bronx, NY (Photo via: the Party for Socialism and Liberation) The gains and setbacks in the movement for Black lives prove how racism is woven deeply into the fabric of capitalism and US society Police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on May 25, 2020, shocking the consciousness of the entire…

African Nationalism Is Not European Nationalism: Stop Projecting

Ahjamu Umi Everyday, everywhere on Earth, some European is coming into spaces with African people (or Indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere) to express their perspective that nationalism is a primitive form of human consciousness. Even most of these people who claim to support national liberation for colonized people still see any semblance of national…

Organizing Africans Against the Capitalist System

Ahjamu Umi Hood Communist Editor’s Note:  The following is an excerpt of Hood Communist Editor, Ahjamu Umi’s, most recent work A Guide for Organizing Defense against White Supremacist, Patriarchal, and Fascist Violence. He was also interviewed about it in Black Agenda Report. If you would like to read it in full, consider purchasing it. All proceeds go toward helping him…

The Missing Chapter in Malcolm X’s Biography They Hid From You

Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza When Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965, the revolutionary flames of Black nationalism he had ignited could not be dimmed. If anything, the name ‘Malcolm X’ is indelibly engraved in the hearts of millions of not only in the United States but in the rest of the world. But here was a…

Fanon and the Caribbean

CLR James Illustrator: Anastasya Eliseeva Trinidadian Marxist CLR James speaks of Frantz Fanon’s commitment to freedom and his philosophical perspectives on the use of violence in the struggle against Western imperialism. This is a lightly edited excerpt from Fanon and the Caribbean by CLR James in International Tribute to Frantz Fanon: Record of the Special meeting of the United Nations…