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ALL-AFRICAN
PEOPLE’S REVOLUTIONARY PARTY
Transforming African
Students Into Revolutionary Organizers for African Liberation
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LANDS STOLEN BY IMPERIALISM!
It is the right of all people on earth to control their own
destiny no matter what nation they belong to. Since the dawn of imperialism in
the west, the Indigenous People have been fighting for what is culturally and
historically theirs, the Western Hemisphere. Capitalists
have been trying to spread the myth that the Indigenous Americans were savages
before the coming of the Europeans and that it was the Europeans who civilized
them. Also, the corrupt Capitalist would have us to believe that today the
Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere have
surrendered all claims to their birthrights. THESE ARE
VICIOUS LIES.
Before the Europeans entered the Western
Hemisphere, 120 million Native Americans occupied the lands. They
lived under a communalistic system, in that the land belonged to everyone. They
also built highly civilized states and empires. Europeans eager to claim the
land exterminated many of the Indians through acts of war, mass murders, and
disease spreading of smallpox and malaria.
War chief Sitting Bull—symbol of undying
resistance
A COMMON HISTORY!
History
seen through the eyes of the oppressor and the oppressed is opposite. Conscious
Africans know the lost Columbus
and his convict crew massacred thousands and sold hundreds of Indigenous People
of the Western Hemisphere
into slavery in Europe. Following his
path, other invaders imposed illegal, immoral European settler colonies
throughout the western hemisphere on a foundation of Indian genocide and
African slavery.
Thus, for Africans, the year 2006 marks 514 years of
courageous resistance by our comrades-in-arms, the Indigenous People. During
slavery, the Original People sacrificed their blood to provide haven and equality
to Africans seeking freedom. Our alliance is bonded in blood.
Though attacked and hunted, isolated and undermined, these proud women and men
defended their way of life: love of Mother Earth, collective responsibility of
communal living, respect for the elders, rich languages and art, and sacred
spiritual culture with humane values.
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!!!
The war of imperialism on the Indigenous People has
not ceased. In Central and South America, the
people are being bombed, dynamited, and attacked with machine guns. In North
America, they are being murdered and sterilized with the help of
the FBI. Capitalists want to destroy the Native Americans simply because
of their desire to control the land and its resources(gold,
silver, uranium) for their own personal use. This is the reason why the
Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere, like
Africans the world over, are suffering from nation and class exploitation.
But the struggle continues and is intensifying. The history
of the Indigenous People’s of the Western Hemisphere
reflects an unbroken struggle for justice. From Argentina
to Canada, the
Indians struggle for progressive causes-such as worker’s and women’s rights,
environmental protection, health care, democracy and social transformation. And
from the Black Hills to Big
Mountain, Guatemala
to Peru, the 80
million Indigenous People are organizing and struggling to recover their land,
sovereignty, and freedom of political, cultural and religious expression. This
struggle is reaching higher levels of organization reflected in the
work of the United Front for the Liberation of the Indigenous Peoples of the Western
Hemisphere. To support this just struggle, all defenders of truth
must honor our blood allies.
“Let Africa be our guiding star, our star of destiny” -Marcus
Garvey
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Discussion Questions
1] What obstacles does micro-nationalism pose for the political and cultural unification of Africa and African People?
2] How is a People’s identity linked to the knowledge of their history?
3] Why must our People assume an African identity rooted in revolutionary ideology rather than an African identity based merely on blood ancestry or place of birth?
4] Discuss the significance of Africa being our land base / land of origin and the center of our civilization. How does this relate to the Primacy of Africa?
Suggested Further Readings
- The Struggle Continues by Kwame Nkrumah
- Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization by Kwame Nkrumah
- Handbok of Revolutionary Warfare by Kwame Nkrumah
- Africa on The Move by Sekou Toure
- The World & Africa by W.E.B. Dubois