Pan-African Women’s Day Seminar 2025

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Kwame Ture On the Pan-African Movement by Bob Brown

Kwame Ture on the Revolutionary Pan-African Movement

by Bob Brown

Tunapuna, Trinidad, and Tobago

Pan-African Roots thanks the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), the African Awareness Association, and the dozens of our supporters who enabled and empowered me to renew my U.S. passport and make this trip to Trinidad and Tobago. We thank Dr. Jerome Teelucksingh, Senior Lecturer in the History Department of the University of the West Indies, for the Invitation to speak.

Tens of thousands of people are starting to arrive for Trinidad’s and Tobago’s Carnival 2025, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” which will be held on Monday, 3 March 2025 and Tuesday, 4 March 2025. Unfortunately, I will miss it. I will try to come next year.

I thank the staff of the Morton House, a Presbyterian Church-owned Guest House, in Tunapuna, for their gracious hospitality this past week as I prepare for our presentation in the Audio-Visual Library at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine on Thursday, 27 February 2025, from 1 to 3 P.M.

The title of our presentation is: “The World is on Fire, and Kwame Ture is Still Dancing in the Fire!” See attached flyer. Information will follow on how you can connect with the event via livestream and/or access a copy of the presentation.

In the meantime, Pan-African Roots introduces you to an 11-minute presentation that Kwame made in 1996, at the University of Cincinnati titled “The History of Pan-Africanism.” Political education, Nkrumahist-Toureist political education, was the most important role that Kwame played in the African and larger World Revolution. He continues to play that role today. His presentation was videoed by C-Span as part of its “Africa and the Future Series.” As of Aug 28, 2017, 68,737 people had viewed it on the Afro Marxist Channel on YouTube.

In this historic presentation, Kwame made two extremely important points. “First, Africa, like any other society anywhere in the world, was involved in the same evolutionary process going from family to tribe to clan to nation to continent. … Even though Europe has fought more fratricidal wars than any other continent, or all the continents put together, Europe still speaks of European continental unity.”

“The evolutionary process towards continental African unity,” Kwame explained, “was interrupted by European imperialism. It came in two forms, slavery (including the slave trade) and colonialism. … Since it was interrupted by European capitalism, the only way that Africa can unite today is through a revolutionary process aiming at a socialist economy. If capitalism destroyed us, it doesn’t make sense to use capitalism to continue with it. We must use the antithesis of capitalism, which, of course, is socialism.”

“Secondly,” Kwame emphasized, “Pan Africanism must be seen as a movement, a mass movement, and this mass movement must be properly understood. … Pan Africanism found its organizational expression in 1900 [in London], at the 1st Pan African Conference. … One of the leading organizers of this Conference was a man by the name of Henry Sylvester Williams, born in Trinidad, a man whom you should do some history on, a very, very great man.”

Listen to Kwame’s full presentation here.

Point One:

Permit Pan-African Roots to raise several related points:

  • From 642 AD to the 1500’s, Muslim, and Arab forces, invaded the Northern and Eastern Regions of Africa, and launched the so-called Muslim slave trade, and resultant slavery, into the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Trans-Sahara areas.
  • From 1444 to 1888, the Catholic Church, Portugal, Spain, and other European and Protestant countries and churches invaded Africa and launched the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and the resultant slavery in the Regions of Africa, south of the Sahara, and in the 6th Region of the African Diaspora.
  • From 1517, the Ottoman Empire—modern day Turkey—invaded and colonized Palestine and Africa. The Ottoman Empire controlled the Muslim and Arab slave trade, from 1517 to 1922, the end of World War I.
  • The League of Nations and the United Nations continued and solidified colonialism and imperialism in Africa and the Middle East through its Mandate and Trust System, which Ralph Bunche and other Africans born in the United States were and are complicit in. This genocide and racism, colonialism and apartheid continue today.
  • From 15 November 1884 to 26 February 1885, 14 Euro-American Empires: Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, The Netherlands, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, and the United States met at the Berlin Conference. The General Act of Berlin formalized the end of the global slave trade and consolidated colonialism and settler-colonialism in related areas in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The Berlin Conference intensified and expanded the Scramble for Africa, the new and continuing imperialism.
  • One hundred forty years after the Berlin Conference, the G20 and G7 countries, under the leadership of the United States, have launched a new “Scramble for Africa,” and an even more vicious capitalism and imperialism in every corner of the world. Palestinian, African and Oppressed Humanity are fighting back. The World is on Fire. And Kwame, and we, are still dancing in that Fire!

Point Two:

One of the Pan-African Movement’s most egregious errors, since the Universal Negro Improvement Association’s Black Star Line Project in the 1920s, is its preoccupation with capitalist values and objectives, methodologies, and programs. The Honorable Marcus Garvey was not guilty of corruption as the lie is told. He has been exonerated by the masses of African and progressive forces in every corner of the world, even though he continues to be falsely condemned by the United States, the British and other Governments, and their corrupted lackies and slaves.

Kwame Ture was correct in this video. It doesn’t make sense for us to continue to use capitalism to solve our socio-economic or political problems or to build a revolutionary Pan-African Movement. Capitalism’s historical and continuing crimes and failures are obvious.

A mass, revolutionary, and socialist Pan-African Movement must be built. Mass, revolutionary, socialist, and Pan-African political-edutainment is required. This video must and will be expanded and improved. We need and ask for help!

Bob Brown

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On the Release of Comrade-Brother-Warrior Leonard Peltier

Open Letter to Our Comrade-Brother-Warrior Leonard Peltier

and the American Indian Movement

Revolutionary Greetings, Unity and Solidarity,

On behalf of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) [A-APRP (GC)], we honor the enduring legacy of our ancestors Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, co-founder Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and others including our revered senior organizer Bob Brown, whose revolutionary enthusiasm and life-long commitment continues to guide us.

In unity with the extended family of Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island, the American Indian Movement (AIM), and all comrades and allies worldwide, we celebrate the long-awaited release of our Comrade, Brother, and Freedom Fighter, Leonard Peltier. His return reinvigorates the centuries-old resistance against colonialism, imperialism, and oppression across the Americas and the globe. We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Native Nations in their unyielding fight for sovereignty, justice, and the reclamation of stolen lands and dignity.

The enduring bond between African and Indigenous Peoples stretches back over five centuries, rooted in shared resistance to colonial invasion since 1492. The solidarity between the (AIM) and the A-APRP (GC) has flourished for over 50 years, forged in the fires of collective struggle since 1972. This alliance, anchored in mutual liberation from colonialism, genocide, and systemic oppression, continues to inspire global movements for justice and sovereignty.

Comrade-Brother-Warrior Leonard Peltier stands as a profound symbol of resistance against over four centuries of European settler-colonial violence—a system built on apartheid, genocide, forced displacement onto “reservations,” and the betrayal of US treaties. We remember the brutality of December 26, 1862, when Abraham Lincoln orchestrated the largest extrajudicial mass execution in U.S. colonial history, hanging 38 Dakota warriors in Mankato, Minnesota, for defending their People and ancestral lands. Comrade-Brother-Warrior Leonard Peltier’s unjust imprisonment, spanning five decades, echoes this legacy of repression—an attempt to extinguish the flame of Indigenous resistance. Yet, the colonial regime’s efforts have failed.

As a leading, enduring visionary, Comrade-Brother-Warrior Leonard’s return to his People reignites an unbroken commitment to liberation. Despite enduring half a century as a political prisoner under U.S. occupation, his resolve remains steadfast: the fight for Indigenous sovereignty, dignity, and land reclamation continues.

Comrade-Brother-Warrior Leonard, we honor your sacrifices and unyielding courage in the global struggle for justice. Your resilience embodies the certainty of victory. We will continue to struggle to ensure that you will be free to continue the struggle from your home in the Turtle Mountains of Chippewa on the Anishinaabe occupied territory of so-called Minnesota.

Long Live the American Indian Movement (AIM)!

Our Struggle Continues— Our Victory is Inevitable!

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

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Cuba-US Relations Still On Ice

Good-Cops & Bad-Cops Serve the Same Interests in the USA!

US Legacy of Terror & War Continues Against Cuban People!

It was surprising news that the US government would remove Cuba from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) in a statement made on January 14th, 2025, by the outgoing US President Joseph Biden, one of his final acts, six days before leaving the presidency. As part of an agreement to remove Cuba from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, the Vatican mediated a deal between the Cuban government and the Biden administration to release anti-government criminals, imprisoned for violating laws of the Cuban government.

Within six days of Biden’s order to remove Cuba from the list, his replacement and partner in crimes (of chaos, terrorism, and genocide), the current President of the U.S. imperialist empire, Donald Trump, did a ‘Good Cop – Bad Cop’, ‘Carrot & Stick’ tag-team switch against Cuba and its people, by re-instating Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list, on January 20, 2025. This ‘Bait & Switch’ tactic is a repeated policy & practice the U.S. government constantly uses against the people of Cuba.

One can see that this pattern continues the US government’s history and tradition of signing and later breaking agreements and treaties, including the treaty with the Delawares in 1778, the treaty of Washington in 1805, and the Treaty with the Sioux and Arapaho in 1868, to name a few. This has been a well-established pattern and practice employed since Europeans first arrived in the Western hemisphere in their encounters with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. This was the foundation and beginning of the US government’s ‘Bait & Switch’, ‘Good Cop – Bad Cop’, ‘Carrot & Stick’ tactic. Trump first reversed Obama’s 2015 removal order and recently reversed Biden’s, continuing the use of this tactic in 2025.

Biden, Obama, and Trump, leaders of US capitalism and imperialism, all represent the same US government. The historical reality of US capitalism has taught us to recognize that ‘you are what you do, not what you say.’ Summarily, written agreements, treaties, or executive orders issued by the US government only offer an illusion of honesty, agreement, and truth. The Democratic and Republican leaders, as evidenced by their policy and objectives, serve the same interests and are effectively a one-party regime, the left & right cheeks of the same backside. To paraphrase WaBun-Inini (Vernon Bellecourt & Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), they speak with forked tongue, and every Indian treaty they wrote were the very treaties they broke.

This consistently contradictory policy and practice of the US government demonstrates that the exploited and oppressed people and our respective governments may never have permanent principled agreements with this evil empire. This contrary, anti-people behavior is expressed in their ongoing decisions to impose sanctions on 1/3rd of all countries, 60% of poor nations, and recent White House orders to sanction members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), January 28, 2025, for their decisions and  efforts to hold Israel accountable for its state-sponsored genocide, forced population removal and land confiscation against the indigenous Palestinian people and their territory. The Biden and Trump administrations, and the US Congress continue funding & promoting genocide and meeting with Israeli war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu despite the ICC warrant issued for his arrest on charges of genocidal war crimes. On January 20, 2025, the US Trump led government ordered the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) and is now sending indigenous peoples and/or their descendants, classified by US government agencies as illegal immigrants, from prisons within the U.S.A. to the US military prison installation at US occupied Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This is another violation of Cuba’s and its people’s sovereignty. Guantanamo belongs to Cuba and the Cuban people.

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and its women’s organization, the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC), stand firmly with the People, the Communist Party, and the Government of Cuba and other nations of the world in demanding the total lifting of all unilateral blockades and sanctions which have injured and killed the Cuban people over the past 66 years.

We salute you the Cuban People, your Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), your Union of Young Communists (UJC), your Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), your ruling Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and your Cuban Government in your steadfast endurance, consistent resistance, revolutionary creativity, and sterling struggle against the world’s greatest purveyor of violence and corruption, which is US imperialism and its other partners of crimes against humanity: Capitalism, Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, Settler-Colonialism, Zionism, Racism & Genocide.

The Struggles Continue,

The A-APRP (GC)

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6th International Conference For World Balance

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Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network News

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Join the “Arrest Netanyahu Protests” in DC on 24-07-2024!

On 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice, the U.N.’s high court at The Hague, confirmed what Palestinian and progressive forces have been saying for at least 57 years: “Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, a form of apartheid, and must end.”

One month earlier, on 20 May 2024, Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), requested the issuance of warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and genocide against Palestine (Gaza). When issued, these warrants will establish a “Global No Go Zone, a “Global No Travel Zone.” The 124 countries that are signatories to the Rome Convention are obligated to arrest them.

In response to Khan’s request, and with the collusion of the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC), a letter was sent to Netanyahu on 1 June 2024 by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) inviting him to make his fourth speech before a Joint Session of Congress on 24 July 2024. An estimated 100 Congress People have announced that they will boycott his speech. More than 230 Congressional staffers have signed a letter in opposition to this Invitation.

Netanyahu recently suggested that the ICC arrest warrants might be issued before 24 July 2024. The probability increased with the announcement of the ICJ Decision. It is well known however, that the U.S. will not arrest him. The U.S. and the UK are not a member of the ICC. It is in complicity with and aids and abets Israel. The U.S., the United Kingdom, and Israel have committed crimes and genocide against Palestine for more than 76-years.

They threaten to punish those forces who attempt to enforce these warrants. The People of the World, however, are not intimidated by their threats. Massive displays of solidarity with Palestine have been and will be organized, worldwide.

Pan-African Roots, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), the African Awareness Association, and our Supporters and Allies invite you to join us at the “Arrest Netanyahu Protest” on Capitol Hill on 24 July 2024, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. We will align with the U.S. Coalition for Palestinian Rights’ (USCPIf not possible to R). Please RSVP at paroots02@yahoo.com. More details will be provided.

We ask those of you who cannot come to DC to organize protests against Gaza, and displays of solidarity with Palestine in every country, city, community, and campus in the 6 Regions of Africa and the African Diaspora, and the World.

We will wear white, as per our tradition, and carry red banners and signs in solidarity with the other members of the Red Line who will surround the U.S. Congress. We will honor Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Ethel Minor. We will join millions of People worldwide in the demand for the arrest of Netanyahu and Gallant. We join the demand that Harris, Austin, Thomas-Greenfield, Jeffries, and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) be held accountable for their complicity in these war crimes and genocide.

We also invite you to join us at 10:00 AM, on 19 August 2024. in the Daley Center Plaza, 50 West Washington, Chicago, IL We are a small, 1st Amendment-protected protest that begins at City Hall; and do not need or request a permit. We are a member of the March on the DNC, and will join it at Union Park, 1501 West Randolph Street, by subway or bus. If you cannot join us in Chicago, we request that you organize protests in every corner of the World.

We demand that Mayor Brandon Johnson issue all of the 1st Amendment-protected permits immediately! We also demand that all elected officials and civil society leaders of African descent in the 6 Regions of Africa and the African Diaspora end their complicity with Israeli racism and fascism, apartheid and settler-colonialism, genocide and war crimes, NOW!

The whole world was watching in 1968 and 1996, and it will be watching again in 2024. We need your help to organize a massive blitz in DC, Chicago and the World, starting today and continuing through 18 August 2024. Send your donation to $paroots1948a

Please forward this Invitation and Request for Support!

Stay Safe and Strong!

Bob Brown

Director, Pan-African Roots and Organizer, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

paroots02@yahoo.com

(202) 248-6666

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Lisbon Launch of The Stolen Wealth of Slavery

An Emergency Invitation to the Lisbon Launch of The Stolen Wealth of Slavery
Mon, 3 June 2024 at 6 PM

In February 2024, Legacy Lit and the Hachette Book Group (United States) launched The Stolen Wealth of Slavery by David Montero. For the past 90+ days, Pan-African Roots, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), and the African Awareness Association supported book launches by the Missing Pages of History (Blog Talk Radio), the Mount Vernon Public Library, and the Friends of Track and Field in Richmond, VA; Mount Vernon, NY; and Chicago, IL, respectively. These community-based efforts were rewarded with modest success.

Pan-African Roots struggled against tremendous obstacles, to also support community-based launches in several countries in the 6 Regions of Africa and the African Diaspora. Unfortunately. We could not overcome those obstacles. We are pleased to forward to you the following invitation:

“Seminário 3 Junho ___ Slavery Impacts & Meaningful Change”

“ICNOVA (Communication Institute of Universidade Nova de Lisboa), the UNBREAKABLE HERITAGE initiative, and the University of Santiago (Cape Verde) invite you to participate in the Seminar Slavery Impacts & Meaningful Change, with speakers David Montero (author and investigative journalist) and Inocência Mata (teacher and researcher, UL – CEcomp).”

Date and Time : Monday, 3 May 2024, 6:00 PM in Lison, Portugal at CAN – Colégio Almada Negreiros, Room 217 – Campolide Campus, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Admission Free.

Click here for the Seminar start time in a city in your Date and Time Zone!

Website do ICNOVA : https://www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt/icnova-recebe-autor-premiado-david-montero-no-seminaro-slavery-impacts-meaningful-change/

Instagram/Facebook : https://www.instagram.com/p/C7oWtJ1qaUw/

Official Zoom Link : https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/95724552799?pwd=UilFvtGeCuHbZoDLT8CGaKA7f4x4XW.1

Website of the A-APRP (GC) : https://www.a-aprp-gc.org

This Book Launch is hosted  by ICNOVA in Lisbon and the University of Santiago in Cape Verde. See attached list of  local times worldwide, to view the Seminar. Viewing will be possible after it ends.

According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, Portugal and Spain trafficked (traded) 6,909,790 Africans under their flags between 1501 and 1866, 5,848,266 and 1,061.524 respectively; 55.18% of the estimated 12,521,337 Africans trafficked. Pan-African Roots can prove that the true magnitude of the Portuguese and Spanish traffic was in excess of 11,696,532 to 17,544,798 and 2,123,048 to 3,184,572, respectively, of the total magnitude of 25,042,674 to 37,564,011 trafficked. We can also prove that it traffic was and is illegal, a Crime against Humanity, and against God.

The UNBREAKABLE HERITAGE Initiative must be supported!

Please also support Pan-African Roots!

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Pan-African Roots Supports Launch of New Slavery Book

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ALD/PD 2024

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