WHAT IS THE A-APRP?
The All-African People’s
Revolutionary Party [A-APRP] is a mass, Pan-Africanist, revolutionary party
based in Africa, the just Homeland of African People worldwide. The A-APRP is
an integral part of the Pan-African and world socialist revolutions. The A-APRP
understands that “All people of African descent, whether they live in North or
THE MASS PARTY: KEY FACTOR WITHIN THE CURRENT PHASE OF
STRUGGLE!
The redemption of Mother Africa lies
through one path only: organization and possession of power held in the hands
of the African masses – that is, the common African woman and the common
African man – be they student, farm worker, factory employee, or homemaker. The
power spoken of here results solely from our People’s participation in, and
building of, mass political parties.
The African Revolution is reaching maturation! Having smashed slavery and crushed colonialism, our
People’s final conflict is against capitalism’s last and most insidious phase -
neocolonialism. Our fight against colonialism was directed against a clear
external enemy. Therefore we were able to marshal all our national forces into
one whole, regardless of hostile class interests, in order to achieve the
common goal of ousting the colonizer. Colonialism now destroyed, the once suppressed
class antagonisms re-surface, causing schisms and an all-out power struggle to
establish a society where either the masses or a tiny
elite hold power. This current phase is called neocolonialism and is defined by
a pronounced internal class struggle.
The colonialist phase, characterized by the struggle of ‘black vs. white’ is
replaced by the higher neocolonialist phase, which pits the African People’s class against the Anti-People’s class. The African
People’s class can successfully wage their fight only using the mass political
party as their instrument.
We are building a mass party. The
People’s class is our social base. The People’s class consists of the workers,
peasants and the revolutionary intelligentsia [particularly students]. The
working masses live off only the products of their own labor. Conversely, the
Anti-People’s class consists of the exploitive, oppressive African puppets in
the government, army, police, schools and other key institutions. In the
African class struggle under neocolonialism, the People’s class must build mass
parties in order to struggle against the Anti-people’s class and their
imperialist masters for a new way life and dignity – a way of life in which the
African masses wield political power and have economic equity under socialism
versus a way of life defined by the misery and insecurity which we now suffer
under capitalist neocolonialism.
Building the A-APRP: The Decisive Power of Ideology
The A-APRP, as a political party in general, and as a
mass, Pan-Africanist, revolutionary party in particular, is defined by one
monolithic ideology - Nkrumahism-Tureism. Nkrumahism-Tureism
is the all-encompassing system of revolutionary political beliefs of the
People’s class of the African Nation. This system of revolutionary ideas is
scientifically derived from African history and culture. This political belief
system, based on uncompromising principles, defines and directs a system of
organization with institutions that seek to unite and guide the laborious,
oppressed African masses and the broader African society to the objective:
Pan-Africanism and ultimately World Socialism. Pan-Africanism will be achieved
by ideologically transforming the People’s class into a political army of
faithful cadres.
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WHY
DO WE SPECIFICALLY NEED A PARTY?
To date, our People’s struggle against the forces of
oppression, and for liberation and dignity, has been dominantly spontaneous,
issue-driven, and ebbs and flows based on the external actions of our enemies.
Struggle waged in this manner, regardless how valiant or well-intentioned, can
at best, merely alter conditions here and there, but lacks the power to
transform oppression to liberation. This is the case because spontaneous
struggle does not anchor the People solidly within the bedrock of revolutionary
ideology. A People who are not in control of ideological power – that is, the
ability to independently control their own thinking – lack the power to
fundamentally break the grip of the enemy’s hold over them. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party
is working to solve this fatal problem by establishing an institutionalized
ideological training process throughout the African world. Such a process is
our only hope to break imperialism’s grip over our masses’ thinking, propelling
us forward to permanent victory. Like other revolutionary parties, the A-APRP
works for the organization of a given class – the People’s class of the African
Nation. It doesn’t merely address the immediacy of present circumstances, but
has a broad, overall strategic outlook, based on a global conception of African
society and the world. The A-APRP also aims to achieve the maximum objective –
power within society – culminating in One, Unified, Socialist Africa. The
A-APRP also fulfills the other requirements of a revolutionary party:
-Establish power at the level of the People
through an effective mass line in all sectors - A popular and
revolutionary political party must seek power among the
broad masses of the People
-Institutionalize an ideological training
process leading toward the scientific mastery of all activities by the
People
-Develop the ability to foresee and prepare
the successive phases of social change - A party does not react
spontaneously to events
-Being at the forefront of the People’s
struggle – progressively eliminating internal and external obstacles
It is ideology which gives a party its impregnable
armor as well as serves as its most potent weapon. Africans, steeled and
fortified by the immense power of constant political education and ideological
training, become transformed into a body of highly dedicated political fighters
– representing the best expression of the new and vibrant Revolutionary African
Personality.
We are building a Pan-Africanist party. Africans
are one people with one history, culture and destiny. Despite the generations
of oppression, exploitation, and blood-drain,
We
are building a revolutionary party. The revolutionary
party enables the People’s class to seize ideological and political power. The
working masses gain conscious control of their ideological development and
organize mass participatory democracy to conceive and express their will. The
revolutionary party provides the ideological and political contents for all
institutions and charts the overall political direction of society. Thus, the
revolutionary party is the leading force and the primary institution in the
mass civilization we are building.
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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?
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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