Abayomi Azikiwe Kwame Nkrumah And Haile Selassie Note: The following solidarity statement was prepared and delivered in part to the African Liberation Day program organized by the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, (A-APRP-GC) under the theme “Pan-Africanism: Waging Class Struggle in Africa and the Diaspora, Fighting for the One United Socialist Africa!” on Sat. May 27,…
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African Unity and the New Cold War
Abayomi Azikiwe Imperialism extends its destabilization efforts against China and Russia across the continent Note: These remarks were made by the author at the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF) Afrikan Liberation Day webinar held on Sat. May 27, 2023. The event was hosted by PASCF organizers in Britain under the theme of “Acknowledging Our Shared…
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…
Africa Liberation Day: We Are Not a Truly Free People
PAIS Africa Liberation Day commemorates the establishment of the Organization of African Unity on May 25, 1963, which later became the African Union in 2002. The day serves as a symbol of African unity, freedom, and independence from colonial rule. But we are not truly free from the yoke of colonial and imperial masters. Even…
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…
African Liberation Day 2022: Smash Neo-Colonialism!
Ready for Revolution The age of classical colonialism in Africa changed the course of history. Exploited trade agreements and pseudo alliances between African nobility and European merchants led to heightened warfare, looting, and genocide across the continent. No mineral or raw material was safe, from gold to palm oil to diamonds. The transatlantic slave trade…
On African Liberation Day Biden’s Troop Deployment to Somalia Confirms Africa is Not Free
Black Alliance for Peace President Biden and Rep. Gregory Meeks (Photo: Twitter @GregoryMeeks) For Immediate Release Media Contact: press@blackallianceforpeace.com (202) 643-1136 The Black Alliance for Peace marks African Liberation Day with a statement condemning the latest US troop deployment to Somalia. May 25, 2022 – The Biden Administration’s recent decision to return U.S. troops to…
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party: African Liberation Day 2022 – Fighting Neo-Colonialism in Africa
AJOPAR collective commemorating ALD in Guinea-Bissau Thank you for commemorating African Liberation Day 2022. You are part of an annual, global demonstration of commitment to the liberation of the African continent from the clutches of African puppet leaders, imperialist governments, large multinational corporations, and foreign militaries. This is important because when Africa’s oil, valuable minerals and…
Pan-Africanism Yes! U.S. AFRICOM and NATO No!
Abayomi Azikiwe Author’s Note: The following statement was delivered to the Africa Liberation Day/Palestine Nakba Day broadcast on Tues. May 24, 2022. The event was sponsored by the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP,GC), All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC), the African Awareness Association, Africans on the Move podcast and the National Council of Arab Americans. Several…
20 Years After Durban: Africans and Afro-Descendants Colonized or Emancipated?
Mireille Fanon Mendes France The 20th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) is an opportunity to analyze the state of African descended people. Reparations for centuries of crimes against humanity must still be paid. At the end of the Durban -2001- conference, the international community, many NGOs, social movements and members of what…
Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Unity
Tricontinental How do you visualise the footprint of Empire? The images in this dossier map some of AFRICOM’s military bases on the African continent – both ‘enduring’ and ‘non-enduring’, as they are officially called. The satellite photos were gathered by data artist Josh Begley, who led a mapping project to answer the question: ‘how do…
Haiti and African Liberation in the Americas
Editors, The Black Agenda Review TRANSCRIPT: Gerald Horne: Haiti and African Liberation in the Americas The Haitian Revolution was not only a victory for the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, it was a victory for all working class people.” “Abolitionist Haiti was the main campaigner against enslavement of Africans before 1888, when the…
African Financial Independence is a Threat to Imperialism
Otobong Inieke The Plan for Financial Sovereignty African leaders had come to recognize the various factors that hinder the continent’s development and seriously jeopardize the future of its peoples. The Abuja Treaty was put in place to increase economic self-reliance, promote self-sustained development, and raise the living standard of African peoples. The treaty signifies years…
Haiti’s Revolutions and Revisions: An Interview with Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg
The Public Archive Toussaint stressed that freedom was something that had to be fought for and taken from below by the masses themselves. “We are dependent on Haiti for the vision of a universal emancipation that the American and French Revolutions could not even imagine.” In Toussaint Louverture : A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions (Pluto)…
On African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace Demands U.S. Shut Down AFRICOM
Black Alliance For Peace The US Military Command in Africa allows Washington and its European allies to dominate the continent and its resources. “The campaign calls on Africans throughout the diaspora to mark Soweto Day on June 16.” On the 57th anniversary of African Liberation Day (ALD), the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) calls on…
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