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…

Witnessing Afro Cubans and Social Change

Austin Cole “To fight for peace is the most sacred duty of all human beings, whatever there religions or country of birth, color of their skin, their adult age or their youth.” Fidel Castro Ruz (14 February 2016) I left Cuba with more clarity — of the real situation on the ground, of the wants…

Why Pan-Africanists Must Defend Burkina Faso

 Kweku Martin-Peprah Cold War We all know we are in a Cold War. Some say the last one is still here, others say it’s a newer, shallower one (“first as tragedy, then as farce blah blah”). Some say it was a struggle between ideological opposites, others say it was a crude struggle for power determined…

“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…

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…

US – African Leaders Summit Aimed to Bribe Leaders to Align with the US Against Russia and China

Sourav Chakraborty It would not be new to point out that the US with its more than 200 years of history is soaked with blood and tears and it remained an epicenter of  forced labor and slavery. It is a country that led coups and numerous air strikes on nations to stop them from advancing….

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…

Steps to a Socialist Pan-African Movement

Nicholas Mwangi A recently published book by Vita books publishers Essays on Pan-Africanismedited by Shiraz Durrani & Noosim Naimasiah contains essays on Pan-Africanism written by Pan-Africanist intellectuals at various times. In its preface, Prof. Issa Shivji says writings on Pan-Africanism never become dated for the desire of Africans globally for freedom continues burning, sometimes dimming into…

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…

Tanzanian Farmers Mobilize for Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pan-Africanism

Tanupriya Singh On November 17-18, over 400 smallholder farmers gathered for the 27th annual meeting of MVIWATA or the National Network of Small-Scale Farmers Groups in Tanzania. Peoples Dispatch spoke to them about their struggle for dignity and justice Hundreds of smallholder farmers gathered in the city of Morogoro on November 17 and 18 for…

China is Not an Enemy of Africa

(Playlist of the complete interview) If the West really thinks China helping Africa to gain influence is a bad thing, the best thing it can do is help Africa even more. President of the Socialist Party of Zambia, Fred M’membe, and the convener of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, Kyeretwie Opoku share with us an…

Neo-Colonialism, International Finance Capital and the Necessity of Pan-African Sovereignty

Abayomi Azikiwe Sudan Women And The Democracy Movement African Union member-states are facing a critical conjuncture as the looming threats of global conflict against imperialism threatens world peace Note: These remarks were prepared and delivered in part to a webinar entitled “AFRICOM, Corporate Dominance, Neo-Colonialism: How Do People Assert Their Humanity and Choices.” The event…

Our Struggle Must Be United: Pan-Africanist Socialist Youth Chart the Way Forward

Tanupriya SinghMística on the first day of the youth camp. Photo: Pan Africanism Today Youth leaders from 14 countries gathered in South Africa as part of the “Youth Camp: Pioneers of the Revolution” to strengthen Pan-African unity and solidarity across struggles. Between October 14 and 20, activists from 17 organizations gathered in the town Bela-Bela…

Mukasa Dada: We Must Take Africa Back

Ready for Revolution This speech by movement elder Mukasa Dada – a former SNCC and Lowndes County Freedom Organization organizer and a current AAPRP cadre – was given at an African Liberation Day 2022 commemoration in Baltimore, Maryland. Hear more from him in his interview with Hood Communist Radio. We must take Africa back. We must have an African attitude. We come…

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…

The Official Position of the African World to Russia’s Defensive War in Ukraine

Chairman Omali Yeshitela delivers an Address to the African Nation, presenting the official position that African people must take regarding Russia’s defensive war in Ukraine against the colonial powers of the world. Alexander Ionov, President of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia Live with Omali Yeshitila The Black Radical Position on the Situation in Ukraine Black…

An Analysis on Ukraine-NATO Conflict with Russia

Abbas Muntaqim amerikkka is the biggest threat to humanity and the planet. Through it’s evolution as a settler colonial regime that enslaved Afrikans and committed genocide against the indigenous peoples and Afrikans, it has become an imperialist power house. Waging wars from Iraq, to Vietnam, to Korea, to Africa. There is no bounds to amerikkkan…

Ukraine: Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective

Gerald A. Perreira Since February 18th, thousands of civilians have been evacuated from Donetsk and Luhansk to Russia following Ukraine’s intensified shelling of these territories, which have been under fire since the 2014 US backed coup. “The White House hysteria is more revealing than ever. The Anglo-Saxons need a war at any cost. Provocation, misinformation…