Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2026

Posted on October 5, 2026 by admin

Honor, Attend, Participate

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Statement from the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

Monday – October 12, 2026, | 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

All Souls Church Unitarian

1500 Harvard Street, NW | Washington, D.C.

Pan-Africanist, Human Rights activist Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) in St. Paul, Minnesota supporting Dennis Banks and Russell Means during the Wounded Knee Trials, 1974.

Photo Source: An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States – Kyle Mays
North and South American activists demonstrate solidarity as they prepare to go to the United Nations. Left to right: Raul Salinas; Nilo Cayuqueo, South America Indian Council; Vernon Bellecourt, White Earth Ojibwe Council; Bob Brown, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC); and Pat Scott, Navajo/Hopi Joint Use Area Representative. White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, June 1981.

Photo Source: An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States – Kyle Mays

Friends, Relatives, Comrades—People of Conscience and Struggle,

We in the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) begin by thanking the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of this land, the Americas; Turtle Island, and the Piscataway Nation for providing sanctuary to us as Africans on land that is not our own. We also thank The American Indian Society of Washington, DC (AISDC), John Steinbach, and the other organizers and organizations for inviting us to join this historic commemoration honoring the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of this land, reaffirming our solidarity with them in struggle.

We gather not as silent observers of history, but to honor Indigenous Relatives and Nations and express our unconditional solidarity with their cultures, sovereignty, survival, and unbroken revolutionary struggle for National Liberation. They and their Nations are here forever, and their struggle, over 534 years since the year 1492, against occupation, and for emancipation, endures!

We neither deny nor soften the truth: Indigenous Lands were invaded and remain occupied; Territories were stolen; and Indigenous Peoples endured slavery, forced labor, displacement, cultural destruction, and genocide. This was no historical accident, but the result of capitalism, Imperialism, settler colonialism, zionism, and racism—systems whose wounds and exploitative structures persist today.

We did not come here to mourn.    We came to reflect.    We came to reaffirm.

We came to unite.   We came to act.

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) calls on African people in the five-member regions across the continent and throughout the sixth-region, the African diaspora to stand shoulder to shoulder with Indigenous Peoples everywhere. Bound by a shared history of oppression, our struggles confront the same forces: dispossession, exploitation, racism, colonial domination, zionism, and systems that turn stolen land and labor into oppressive power.

We reject both “(Monroe), James Monroe, and (Donroe), Donald Trump doctrines.” We reject the lies that might makes right or that oppression grants anyone a legitimate claim to another people’s land. We reject versions of history that erase the Nations that existed before conquest. We reject every system that divides Oppressed Peoples, turns their suffering against one another, and profits from that division. We will not be divided, erased, or made to surrender the truth.

Across the world, Indigenous Peoples and Nations have fought colonial invasion and occupation to defend their lands, waters, communities, and sovereignty.

Their liberation struggle unites armed defense, diplomacy, alliances, cultural survival, spiritual leadership, and political organization. It stands as an unbroken front against empire and settler colonialism—a collective force to reclaim stolen lands, overthrow colonial domination, restore Indigenous sovereignty, and win justice, liberation, and reparations.

Some examples include:

In the Caribbean, Taíno resisted across Borikén, Ayiti–Kiskeya, Cubao, Xaymaca, and the Lucayan Archipelago—now Puerto Rico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, and The Bahamas.

On Turtle Island, the Haudenosaunee, Seminole, Muscogee, Lakota, Cheyenne, Apache, Diné, and Comanche defended homelands across areas now divided among Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Maya, Yaqui, Lenca, Miskitu, and Guna peoples likewise resisted dispossession across Mesoamerica and Central America.

In South America, Mapuche, Quechua, Aymara, Guaraní, Munduruku, Kayapó, and Yanomami peoples defended Wallmapu, the Andes, and Amazonian territories now claimed by Chile, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela, and neighboring states.

Across the Pacific, Māori, Kanaka Maoli, Chamorro, Kanak, and Aboriginal nations resisted colonial rule in Aotearoa, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, Kanaky, and Australia.

In Asia, Ainu and Igorot peoples defended Ainu Mosir and the Cordillera highlands, now within Japan, Russia, and the Philippines.

They endured conquest, resisted erasure by remembering and defending their cultural identity, and organized against domination. For Indigenous Peoples and Nations, resistance is not a relic—it is a driving force for the liberation of humanity worldwide and reparations.

We declare this plainly: Indigenous sovereignty is nonnegotiable. A people’s culture is not a privilege; it is the essence of their life and an expression of their human rights. Land, dignity, and self-determination are not gifts from the powerful. No People’s Liberation, privilege, wealth, or comfort should rest on another’s dispossession!

Solidarity cannot exist only in speeches; it must shape what we study and defend, where we stand, and how we organize. It means respecting Indigenous leadership, learning the history of the land beneath our feet, defending treaty and human rights, protecting sacred places and the living Earth. It means supporting community-led movements, ending racism, confronting the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, stopping violations of land rights, and defeating colonial domination wherever they take root.

Let this life changing Movement, and History changing gathering, forge more than agreement—let it forge commitment. Let us leave disciplined, organized, and unafraid. Let us build power through coordinated collective action, truth, mutual respect, and shared struggle. Let us disrupt the silence, resist division, and organize until every People can determine their own future.

Honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day—not with empty words, but with courage and commitment!

Honor the Ancestors! Honor the Survivors! Protect the generations still to come!

Find our missing Relatives! Protect Indigenous women and girls! Stand with families, survivors, and Indigenous-led search, safety, and healing efforts!

Organize relentlessly—demand accountable investigations, mobilize resources, defend those at risk, and build community power until every missing relative is found, every family is supported, and every community can heal in safety and dignity!

Defend Mother Earth! Defend dignity! Defend sovereignty! Defend liberation!

Turn remembrance into resistance. Turn solidarity into organized action. And together—let us move forward until justice becomes reality for all of us!

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Revolutionary Condolences: Shirley Pate

Posted on September 13, 2026 by admin

To: Alpha Diallo and Family,

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and its All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC), expresses genuine and sincere revolutionary condolences on the transition to our ancestors, our sister in struggle, Shirley Pate.

We send our deepest heartfelt sympathy and empathy to you and your family. We see your loss as our loss. Shirley’s history of compassion for the oppressed and exploited will surely be missed, yet her contributions to world Humanity ensure her a permanent place in the annals of history. We do not offer this proclamation lightly.

We truthfully declare that Shirley stood fearlessly in opposition to the ignoble and inhumane deeds of the perpetrators of colonialism, neo-colonialism, imperialism, and the oppression of women worldwide. She lived in solidarity with the exploited and oppressed. These facts, for our Party, compel us to recognize Shirley with the pantheon of freedom-loving heroes and sheroes of Africa and the world.

Shirley’s life of struggle, sacrifice, service, support for and solidarity with the struggling Masses of Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Turtle Island (USA), Indigenous Peoples and Nations of the Western Hemisphere and the oppression and exploitation of Africans in the USA was exemplary. Long live the examples of Shirley’s path of struggle, her noble ideas and fight for human dignity, justice, and peace. We salute her and say Shirley Pate ‘Presente’!

Yours in Struggle,

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

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We Too Are Fidel! | In Solidarity on the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Fidel Castro Ruz

Posted on August 17, 2026 by admin

August 17, 2026

In Solidarity on the 100th Anniversary of Fidel Castro Ruz’s Birth

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and its women’s union, the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC), honor the recent celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro Ruz’s birth. Although we could not join The First Edition of the International Colloquium “Fidel: Legacy and Future” August 10–13, 2026, commemorations in Havana, Cuba, we were honored to have attended the August 12 screening of the film Cuba After Castro: The Island in the Crosshairs in Washington, D.C., where Cuban Embassy officials presented updates on conditions in the country. Our Party regards Fidel Castro as one of the 20th & 21st century’s most uncompromising revolutionaries and consequential political figures.

We agree with Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), a founding member of our Party, who offered the following insight in the YouTube video “Principles, Cuba and Socialism”:

“Fidel Castro is a great man, and all people who respect justice love him. Cuba is a poor country, but every child, from the day they are born until the day they die, will have free health care, at every level. They don’t even pay for medicine. Cuba is a poor country, but if you were a student in Cuba, you wouldn’t pay a penny for education, not a penny. When you look at poor Cuba, and its concern for its citizens, and when you look at America, rich America and its homeless, of which Cuba has none. You can see the difference between capitalism and socialism.”

This vision of Fidel and the Cuban Revolution inspires us to stand unreservedly with the Cuban people and declare, “Nosotros también somos Fidel” (“We too are Fidel”)!

In Defense of the Cuban Revolution,

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

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Hadja Andree Toure | 1933-2026

Posted on July 11, 2026 by admin
𝗚𝗠𝗗𝗧𝗩 | SYMPOSIUM DE HADJA ANDREE TOURE

Hadja Andrée Touré

Introduction

Hadja Andrée Touré, widow of President Ahmed Sékou Touré and the first woman to hold the title of First Lady of the Republic of Guinea, passed away on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in Morocco, at the age of 93. Her life, marked by the splendor of power, the trials of exile, and a belated rehabilitation, remains inseparable from the history of independent Guinea. This is a look back at the life of a woman who, for more than half a century, embodied the living memory of Guinean independence.

Origins and Childhood

Born in 1934 in Kankan, Upper Guinea, Andrée Touré grew up in a mixed-heritage environment that would shape her identity for life. She was the daughter of a French military doctor, Dr. Paul-Marie Duplantier, and a Maninka woman named Kaïssa Kourouma. This dual Franco-Guinean heritage placed her, from an early age, at the crossroads of two worlds, at a time when colonization still deeply structured Guinean society.

Her father’s departure at the outbreak of the Second World War upset her childhood. Young Andrée was then entrusted to the family of her uncle, Mory Sinkoun Kaba, who raised her in Kankan. It was in this household that she grew up, far from her biological father, but surrounded by a Guinean family that passed on to her its cultural and social bearings.

An Education Shaped by the Colonial Context

Like many young girls of her generation from families in contact with the colonial administration, Andrée Touré benefited from schooling that was, at the time, a privilege. She earned her primary school certificate at the age of twelve, in 1946, before continuing her education at the Collège des jeunes filles de Conakry, run by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny.

This religious institution, known for the rigor of its teaching, allowed her to obtain the brevet élémentaire, a diploma that opened limited but real prospects for young Guinean women of the era. She later became secretary of the women’s association of the French Union, an experience that introduced her, while still young, to community involvement and public life — a few years before she met the man who would become the first president of independent Guinea.

Meeting Sékou Touré and the 1953 Marriage

It was precisely at her uncle Sinkoun Kaba’s home that young Andrée met Ahmed Sékou Touré, then a young Guinean trade unionist on the rise politically. Their union met with reluctance in certain influential circles of the time, notably because of the difference in social status between the two families. Neither social obstacles nor the reservations of certain relatives prevailed over this relationship — one arranged by the families, yet genuinely desired by the young couple.

The marriage was celebrated on June 18, 1953, at the great mosque of Kankan, according to Muslim rites, even though the young couple did not themselves attend the traditional religious ceremony. This union sealed a shared destiny that would soon merge with that of an entire nation marching toward independence. The couple had one son, Mohamed Touré, born March 12, 1961, who would later become a Guinean political figure in his own right.

First Lady of the Young Republic

When Guinea gained independence in October 1958, following the famous Guinean “No” in General de Gaulle’s referendum, Ahmed Sékou Touré became the country’s first president. Andrée Touré then took on, at his side, the unprecedented role of First Lady of the Republic of Guinea. She was the very first woman to officially hold this title in the country’s history.

During her husband’s twenty-six years in power, she chose discretion over media exposure, while still taking on an active social role. She converted to Islam and regularly represented her husband at official receptions. Her unwavering support served as a quiet but essential pillar during the turbulent years of building the young Guinean state.

Andrée Touré also accompanied her husband on numerous major international diplomatic trips. She was notably present at his side during meetings with prominent heads of state and government, including US President John F. Kennedy in Washington, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Beijing, and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow. These trips reflect the discreet but real diplomatic role she played alongside the Guinean head of state on the international stage of the Cold War.

After Sékou Touré: Arrest, Conviction, and Exile

The death of Ahmed Sékou Touré on March 26, 1984, following a failed heart procedure, marked a brutal turning point in Andrée Touré’s life. Just days after the president’s death, a coup overthrew the ruling regime. Andrée Touré and her son Mohamed were arrested, and their property was seized by the new authorities.

In 1987, Andrée Touré was sentenced to eight years of forced labor — a particularly harsh sentence for the woman who had been the discreet wife of the father of Guinean independence. She was finally released in early 1988, but forced to leave the country. A long period of exile then began, taking her successively to Morocco, Ivory Coast, and then Senegal.

Return to Guinea and Rehabilitation

It was not until 2000, more than a decade after her forced departure, that Andrée Touré was finally able to return to her native country. Back in Guinea, she devoted the following decades to defending and preserving the memory of her late husband, actively taking part in passing on Ahmed Sékou Touré’s political and historical legacy to younger generations of Guineans.

Her son, Mohamed Touré, was also appointed secretary general of the Guinean Democratic Party, the political party founded by his father, thereby continuing the family’s engagement in national political life.

A symbolic turning point came under the presidency of General Mamadi Doumbouya, who came to power following the September 2021 coup. Guinea’s current authorities carried out a form of official rehabilitation of Andrée Touré, a gesture widely praised as an act of historical justice, restoring the honor of the former First Lady and giving her back the place she deserved in the national collective memory.

The Publication of Her Memoirs

In 2023, at the age of 89, Hadja Andrée Touré published an autobiographical work with L’Harmattan Guinée titled Ma Vie auprès d’Ahmed Sékou Touré (“My Life Beside Ahmed Sékou Touré”). The book retraces the whole of her journey alongside her husband: the struggle for independence, their many diplomatic trips around the world, and their shared life away from the official spotlight.

This work stands as a valuable testimony to a pivotal and often controversial period in Guinean history, this time told through the intimate perspective of the woman who shared the head of state’s daily life. It also allowed Andrée Touré to speak publicly once again, nearly four decades after the tragic events of 1984, and to defend, in her own way, her husband’s political legacy.

Death and National Tribute

Hadja Andrée Touré passed away on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in Morocco, where she had been staying to receive medical care. News of her death was confirmed by a source close to the family, while no date had yet been set, in the hours following the announcement, for the repatriation of her remains to Guinea.

The death of the former First Lady immediately triggered a wave of official tributes. The chairman of the High Authority for Communication, Boubacar Yacine Diallo, paid tribute to the memory of a “towering figure” in Guinean national history, emphasizing the dignity and resilience she showed throughout her life, including in the face of the injustice of her imprisonment. He also highlighted her quiet social commitment to vulnerable women and children, as well as the act of rehabilitation carried out under the presidency of General Mamadi Doumbouya.

On the protocol front, Guinean authorities responded swiftly. President Mamadi Doumbouya dispatched, on the very day the death was announced, a large government and military delegation to the Cases Bellevue in Conakry, where the deceased’s family was receiving condolences. The delegation was led by the Minister Director of the Presidential Cabinet, Djiba Diakité, and the Minister Secretary General of the Presidency, General Amara Camara, accompanied by the national gendarmerie’s top commander, General Balla Samoura.

It was the Minister of Planning, International Cooperation and Development, Ismaël Nabé, who delivered the head of state’s official message to the grieving family, assuring them that the entire funeral proceedings would be covered by the Guinean government, given the national character of this period of mourning. This direct involvement by the presidency confirms that a funeral befitting her historic standing will be organized for the woman who was, for twenty-six years, First Lady of the Republic of Guinea.

Conclusion

The life of Hadja Andrée Touré remains inseparable from that of Ahmed Sékou Touré and from the turbulent history of independent Guinea. Her journey — between the splendor of power, the pain of exile, and belated recognition — illustrates the challenges faced by many women of her generation, torn between a traditional role and a longing for emancipation and public recognition.

A privileged witness to a period of Guinean history that was both glorious and turbulent, Andrée Touré managed, until the end of her life, to preserve her husband’s memory and contribute to a deeper understanding of that pivotal era. Her death, on July 8, 2026, marks the end of a generation of direct witnesses to Guinean independence, but her legacy — now recorded in the memoirs she published in 2023 — will continue to shed light for future generations on this essential chapter of Guinea’s history.

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Condolences to Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam

Posted on July 3, 2026 by admin
Khadijah Farrakhan (November 26, 1935 – June 27, 2026)

July 2, 2026

To:       Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam

We are deeply saddened to hear the news of our Sister Khadijah Farrakhan’s passing. May Allah accept her good deeds, grant her peace in the hereafter, and give the family solace during this time of mourning.

The All-African Revolutionary Party (GC) and All-African Women Revolutionary Union (GC) have historically viewed our relationship with the Nation of Islam as an important expression of our ideology and theology, as a branch of our family and clan. For those who do not know and to honor the support of Sister Farrakhan, a short history is in order.

Kwame Ture, after calling for Black Power in 1966 in Greenwood, Mississippi, visited the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in Chicago. Thus, our long relationship began and was maintained with him until the Messenger died February 25, 1975.

In November (13-16), 1978 in Conakry, Guinea, President Ahmed Sekou Toure hosted an International Ideological Symposium entitled “Religion and Revolution”.

On Feb 28, 1982, at the annual Saviors Day held at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Kwame Ture and Minister Louis Farrakhan participated in a seminar entitled “Religion and Revolution”.

So, it was no surprise that when President Toure visited Washington, D.C. on August 15, 1984, the A-APRP asked Minister Farrakhan to introduce him at Howard University Blackburn Center.

Our historic relationship guided our work to build an African United Front and with our brothers, sisters, and comrades in Libya to build an African Anti-zionist United Front.

Our Party cadre was called to coordinate the logistics in organizing the 1995 “Million-Man-March”, a role played by Bob Brown.

Through all of this we have maintained an intimate and principled relationship. This reciprocated respect is the pinnacle of our family-hood and the basis of our reverence for Minister Louis Farrakhan and our beloved departed sister Khadijah Farrakhan.

And through all the A-APRP (GC)’s toil and suffering, Sister Khadijah has been side by side with Minister Farrakhan, expressing her warmth, respect, and love.

With All Due Respect,

Banbose Shango

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

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African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day 2026

Posted on May 9, 2026 by admin

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

Inheriting, Continuing And Commemorating

“68 Years of African Liberation Day”

“50 Years of A-APRP Organized African Liberation Day”

“20 Years of A-APRP (GC) Organized African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day”

Theme: “68 Years Fighting Neo-Colonialism: Forward to Pan-Africanism – One Unified Socialist Africa!”

Defend, Sustain and Advance the Pan-Africanist Character of African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day Worldwide!

National Democracy

Unity for Social and Democratic Progress

“We of the Guinean nation have made the rehabilitation of the African people and of the African man our chief preoccupation, because we want Africa with all her prerogatives to liberty and dignity, after recovering full sovereignty, to assert her whole personality and become an African Africa. Then our continent will be able to project on to the international scene her own reality and so participate in full consciousness and determination in her historic responsibilities to create a better world, opening to humanity a new age of greater democratic justice, of real brotherhood and lasting peace.”

Ahmed Sekou Toure

People’s Revolutionary Republic of Guinea

African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day-2026!

Today, African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day, honoring, El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), and Ho Chi Minh (Uncle Ho) must remain, with a Pan-Africanist character, a permanent, mass ideological, mobilizing and organizing weapon within the revolutionary struggle for Pan-Africanism. This worldwide annual commemoration must help build revolutionary organization in every corner of the world. “We must organize as never before, for organization decides everything” declared Kwame Nkrumah. He is correct because organization imposes discipline. Discipline is necessary for a liberated People.

Revolutionary Organization Decides Everything!

The advancement of our revolutionary struggle for Pan-Africanism is directly reflected in the level of the organization of the African masses, particularly African women, students, and youth. The organization of the African masses, in our war against neo-colonialism can be accelerated through the unity of organizations willing to join and build a Pan-Africanist revolutionary organization of organizations, as defined by Kwame Nkrumah, the All-African Committee for Political Coordination (A-ACPC), representing Africa and the African Diaspora. The A-ACPC will be a qualitative step in the process to help build a transnational all-African Pan-Africanist political party. It is progressive and revolutionary women, students and youth of Africa and the African Diaspora that must claim and take African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day to its next revolutionary expression and with it, enhance the eternally growing and developing revolutionary African Personality. As an institution, ALD/PD is becoming politically stronger today because the masses of African people have developed more conscious women, student, and youth fighters. Therefore ALD/PD is their day of resistance and Revolution as international imperialism wreaks havoc on the African world. As a day of commemoration, but also one of ideological struggle, organizational work, and political education ALD/PD illuminates that, we as a People, are not liberated, we are not free and remain divided, oppressed and exploited by international imperialism, zionism, neo-colonialism and the African anti-People’s class and elites. No African is free, until all are free! African Liberation Day/Palestine Day also expresses the African Revolution’s solidarity with all Indigenous Peoples and Nations just struggles worldwide. Africans will never overcome these obstacles and our oppression and exploitation until we achieve Pan-Africanism – the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism. In Africa and the African Diaspora, ALD is an institution for both Pan-Africanist and anti-Pan-Africanist organizations and parties. At the level of governments anti-Pan-Africanists dominate ALD. It is of critical importance that African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day be organized as a day of the Masses. Thus, ALD must be entrenched in the struggles of the African masses worldwide.

Today, We Fight Neo-Colonialism the Last Stage of Imperialism!

The most important and pressing problem confronting African people worldwide is international imperialism, zionism and neo-colonialism, led by the U.S., as the vast majority of the African governed states and African elected officials in the Diaspora are governed and led by corrupt African elites in business, government, and a pro-capitalist African intelligentsia, in Africa and the African Diaspora. They are conscious participants and neo-colonial appendages 527 of international imperialism, led by the U.S. Mass poverty, poor health care and disease, starvation, victims of terrorism, guns and drug trafficking and war, illiteracy, women’s oppression, and other ills are acceptable conditions for the African anti-People’s class and their reactionary governments, worldwide. The anti-People’s class is the direct beneficiaries from the rape of Africa’s natural and mineral resources and the merciless exploitation our People’s labor, particularly that of African women and youth.

Neo-colonial Africa and bourgeois elected officials, in the Diaspora, are silent on U.S. imperialism’s savage attacks on Cuba, Haiti, Somalia, Venezuela, Yemen and West Papua, and other countries made home by People of African descent. Africa is particularly silent on the unjust, inhuman, immoral, and genocidal war against Palestine and the Islamic Republic of Iran! These are current neo-colonialist betrayals of our People and the principles that guide the revolutionary struggle for Pan-Africanism of which African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day is but one of its expressions!

Wage a Revolutionary War for Pan-Africanism – One Unified Socialist Africa!

African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day must advance our People’s struggle towards the achievement of Pan-Africanism. This revolutionary struggle must be in principled solidarity with Indigenous movements fighting for national liberation and sovereignty and for all justice and peace-seeking Peoples worldwide. This we have learned and offer from studying Pan-African history and as organizers in the 68 years of African, Palestinian, and international history of African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day.

We Wear White as a Symbol of African Unity!

As an expression of African unity, on days of African celebrations and respecting the revolutionary history of African Liberation Day, we are asking all attendees to show unity and solidarity with African Liberation Day/Palestine (Nakba) Day by wearing white that day.

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ANOTHER NOTE FROM THE BARRICADES

Posted on April 22, 2026 by admin

A Pan-African Roots Blog

2026-04-22

Free Djeukam Tchameni, and

All Cameroonian Political Prisoners, NOW!

Greetings:

We hope this email finds you in the best of health and spirits. Permit us to introduce you to Djeukam Tchameni, one of the more than 2,782 political prisoners in Cameroon, and to the International Committee for the Liberation of Djeukam Tchameni. We request that you support him and all of the political prisoners in any and every way you can.

Some Information

Djeukam was born on 1 March 1961 in Cameroon. He was an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Yaoundé from 1978 to 1982. He was a member of independent student associations forced to operate underground and was involved in student-led protests in 1978, 1979, 1981, and 1982.

Upon graduation, Djeukam came to the United States. Between 1982 and 1985, he joined the A-APRP and worked with Kwame Ture, Mawina Kouyate, Banbose Shango, and other Members, especially in the Texas chapter. Kwame introduced him to me. He also worked with the NAACP,  Nation of Islam, the National Black United Front, and several student groups.

In 1985, he went home to Cameroon, co-founded and/or became involved in several organizations that struggled for democracy, civil and human rights, including: CAP Liberte; ABC Democracy, the Movement for Democracy and Interdependence; the National Network of Civil Society Organizations; and the Citizen Consultation Platform.

In 2025, Djeukam co-founded, with Anicet Ekane, the Union for Change (UPC), the largest pro-democracy movement in Cameroon in decades. The UPC supported Issa Tchiroma Bakary in the 12 October 2025 Presidential election. “Citizen tallies and observer reports indicate that UPC won a clear victory.” Official results later contradicted these findings. Mass protests erupted across the Cameroons.

On 24 October 2025, Anciet and Djeukam were kidnapped from their homes by the military and detained. Anicet died while in custody in December 2025. His family and lawyers are demanding an investigation. Djeukam has spent more than 190 days under illegal, inhumane, and arbitrary detention. He faces prosecution by a military court for peaceful political expression. His arrest and arbitrary detention are violations of Cameroonian law, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the African Charter.

According to the Committee to Liberate Djeukam, the main legal issues that he faces include:

·         “Military courts have no jurisdiction over civilians.” (CJM, Articles 2 & 8).

·         “His illegal detention is beyond the maximum lawful period.” (CJM, Article 11).

·         “The refusal to give him access to legal counsel and the repeated psychological pressure he faces violates his fair trial guarantees.”

·         “The charges he faces are unsupported by the material evidence.”

Two Appeals

On 13 April 2026, the Women and Mothers Collective of Political Prisoners (COFEM), led by Alice Nkom, Henriette Ekwe, and Makini Tchameni, Djeukam’s wife, submitted a Memorandum to Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala. It was addressed to Pope Leo XIV on the eve of his historic visit to Africa and Cameroon.

This Memo “denounced the continued detention of political prisoners, including Djeukam, during this post-election 2025 crisis, as well as the continued detention of others who were arrested in connection with the earlier crisis in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroons.” The Memo also “argued that the Pope’s global moral authority could help amplify calls for justice and ease tensions.” It appealed for Papal help!

Independently, and yet simultaneously, Pan-African Roots and I appeal to you, and to all justice-loving, and democracy-loving people in the 6 Regions of Africa and its Diaspora, and in the World, to help free Djeukam Tchameni, and all Cameroonian political prisoners. We also call for a full investigation of all deaths and torture in detention.

Sincerely,

Bob Brown

Blogger, Another Note from the Barricades / A Pan-African Roots Blog

Organizer, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

Please contact: The International Committee for the Liberation of Djeukam Tchameni at cil.djeukan@gmail.com and see https://freedjeukamtchameni.com/take-action.

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Pan-African Women’s Day Seminar 2026

Posted on March 13, 2026 by admin
00:00:25 – Thomas Sankara on the Emancipation of Women (Video)
00:03:44 – Introduction – A-AWRU (GC)
00:07:39 – Turtle Island (USA) – Sarah Adams
00:19:52 – Burkina Faso – Inem Richardson (Video)
00:35:40 – Republic of Niger – Djamila Amadou
00:49:32 – Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela – Fravia Marquez
00:58:20 – Republic of Haiti – Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper
01:10:56 – Republic of Cuba – Gabriela Castillo
01:30:14 – Republic of Colombia – Eloisa Montano Guerro
01:55:36 – Islamic Republic of Iran – Nina Farnia
02:08:41 – State of Palestine – Nouhad Moussa
02:16:23 – Republic of Kenya – Nita Okoko (Video)
02:23:45 – Participant Q&A Session – Facilitated by A-AWRU (GC)
02:55:40 – Closing Remarks – A-AWRU (GC)
02:56:14 – Mali – Simpara Assitan Keita (Statement)
02:58:42 – Andree Blouin – The Forgotten Architect of African Independence (Video)
03:04:25 – Cuban Women in Revolution (Video)
03:07:07 – Cuban Women honor Palestinian women as leaders of anticolonial struggle on International Women’s Day (Video)
03:08:02 – Lost History: Women Of The Haitian Revolution You NEVER Heard Of (Video)
“I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and still fall in love and be loved. She can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life in all forms.”    Leila Khaled, Palestinian Liberation Fighter

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Free President Nicholas Maduro and 1st Combatant Cilia Flores Now!

Posted on March 12, 2026 by admin

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), together with its All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC), continues the revolutionary Pan-Africanist legacy established by Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure, and Kwame Ture. In light of recent events, we wish to reaffirm our condemnation of the January 3, 2026, intervention by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. military in Venezuela. This intervention was marked by violence, leading to the murder of over 100 civilians, and the kidnapping and extraterritorial imprisonment of the legitimately elected President Nicholas Maduro and his wife, First Combatant Cilia Flores.

We stand alongside people and nations throughout the world in condemning the United States for its illegal and reprehensible actions. Imperialism and Zionism, exemplified by the violation of Venezuela’s sovereignty, are not only crimes against international law but also offenses against human decency. These actions demonstrate the persistent drive of the U.S. for dominance over the western hemisphere. We vehemently denounce the loss of Venezuelan and Cuban lives and other casualties. Our condemnation extends to the U.S. for its attempted coup d’état, kidnapping, trafficking, wrongful imprisonment, and detention of President Maduro, as well as the invasion and acts of aggression aimed at regime change. We also denounce the extrajudicial killing of approximately 157 innocent Venezuelan, Colombian, and Trinidadian fishermen, and the bombing of 46 fishing boats, acts which served as precursors to the invasion.

The A-APRP (GC) stands firmly in solidarity with the people of Venezuela and with all justice-loving individuals who oppose imperialist aggression and violations of national sovereignty. The recent operation by the U.S. CIA and military in Venezuela, which included airstrikes, murder, violations of the Law of War, and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, represents a dangerous escalation. This threatens the peace and stability of a region that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) has declared a ‘Zone of Peace’ since 2006. Such actions violate the fundamental principle that all nations possess the right and responsibility to determine, defend, and advance their political choices free from imperialist coercion or military intervention.

We urge the Pan-African and international communities, socialist and progressive people, and movements, as well as defenders of justice and peace, to stand with the Venezuelan people in their defense of national sovereignty and their right to self-determination. The Venezuelan people, like all peoples, deserve the freedom to resolve their own political differences and shape their future without the threat of U.S. imperialist domination, the Monroe Doctrine, or any form of imperialism. The A-APRP (GC) reaffirms its commitment to Pan-African unity, international solidarity, and the global struggle against imperialism, neo-colonialism, Zionism, white supremacy, and all forms of imperialist intervention.

We demand the release and return of President Nicholas Maduro and Cilia Flores, who are currently held in solitary confinement in a New York prison, so they can return to Venezuela. We call for self-determination, justice, human dignity, human rights, and peace for the Venezuelan people, the Global South, and all of humanity. As Kwame Nkrumah reminds us, peace is not merely the absence of war—it requires liberation from colonialism, neocolonialism, and imperialism, as well as the construction of socialism, Pan-African unity, and international solidarity among oppressed peoples. Ahmed Sekou Toure, the first President of Guinea, teaches that peace is the presence of justice, sovereignty, and dignity. Kwame Ture was explicit in his assertion: “Imperialism means war.”

We stand with the peoples of the world in demanding liberation, an end to imperialism, respect for human rights and Venezuelan sovereignty, and the realization of true democracy and justice.

Long Live the Bolivarian Revolution!!

Free Nicholas Maduro and Cilia Flores Now!!

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Ahmed Sekou Toure Day 2026

Posted on February 20, 2026 by admin

Honoring Ahmed Sekou Toure: In Solidarity with the Sahel Alliance

Theme: Fighting Imperialism & Neo-Colonialism: Towards African Unity & Pan-Africanism!

Click Below for Seminar Content

Opening Video
Layla Brown
Moderator – All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
Intermission Video
Ibrahim Hamadou
Union of Free Trade Unions of Niger (USLT/N) – Republic of Niger
Abdou Issaka
Union of Free Trade Unions of Niger (USLT/N) – Republic of Niger
Yaou Mahamadou
Union of Free Trade Unions of Niger (USLT/N) – Republic of Niger
Simpara Assitan Keïta
Democratic Confederation of Workers of Mali (CDTM) – Republic of Mali
Wendlassida Fabrice Simporé
Thomas Sankara Center – People’s Republic of Burkina Faso
Inem Richardson
Thomas Sankara Center – Republic of Niger
Paul Sankara
Brother of the late President of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara
Mwalimu Keita
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
Questions & Answers
Intermission Video
Closing Video

Some Political Education Study & Discussion Materials
Sekou Toure – Africa on the Move – Africa’s Future and the World
Sekou Toure – Chapter 11 The United States of Africa – The United States of Africa
Sekou Toure – OAU 1963 Speech
The Sahel Seeks Sovereignty – Tricontinental
Joint communiqué of Burkina Faso, the Republic of Mali and the Republic of Niger: The three countries decide to withdraw without delay from ECOWAS
Some Essential Features of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

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Afro-Descendant Response to US Jan 3, 2026 Attack on Venezuelan Sovereignty

Posted on January 18, 2026 by admin

To the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

Ahmed Sekou Toure Day 2026

Honoring Ahmed Sekou Toure in Solidarity with and Defense of the Sahel Alliance | Fighting Imperialism and Neo-colonialism: On the Path of African Unity and Pan-Africanism

January 18, 2026

Fravia Marquez Silva

International Anti-Imperialist Cumbe of African and Afro-Descendant People and the Committee to Bring them Back (Republic of Venzuela)

Today we gather in revolutionary solidarity to speak truth to power—to examine the epoch-defining moment in the struggle for self-determination, sovereignty, and human dignity: the assault on Venezuela that began on January 3, 2026, and its unfolding aftermath.

On that date, the U.S. military carried out a large-scale strike in Venezuela, resulting in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were flown to New York to face the U.S. charges of narcotics and terrorism—charges widely contested and rejected by Venezuelan institutions and allies.

This was not merely a change of leadership; it was a blatant violation of Venezuelan sovereignty and a reminder that imperialism still regards the nations of the Global South as territory to be owned, manipulated, and dominated.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN VENEZUELA—COMPLEX, BUT NOT DEFEATED

Following the capture of Maduro:

  • Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice appointed Vice President Delcy Rodriguez as interim president—a constitutional maneuver under contested circumstances.
  • Despite external intervention and internal tension, the revolutionary spirit of the Venezuelan people persists.

Brothers and sisters, we must recognize that the struggle in Venezuela is not isolated—it resounds deeply with the struggles of Afro-descendant communities globally.

Venezuela’s history is profoundly linked to Africa and the African Diaspora:

Millions of Venezuelans—including Indigenous, Afro-descendant, working class, and peasant peoples—have mobilized against economic exploitation, political exclusion, and foreign interference.

The imperial assault in January 2026 reveals once again that Black and oppressed peoples’ sovereignty is never secure without unity and global resistance.

WHY DEMAND THE RETURN OF PRESIDENT MADURO

Comrades, our call is not for the restoration of a single man, but for the restoration of Venezuelan sovereignty and self-determination. We demand President Maduro’s release and return because:

  1. Maduro was the constitutionality recognized leader of Venezuela—elected into office within a constitutional framework and widely supported by a significant portion of Venezuelan society.
  2. His capture by a foreign power undermines the sovereignty of all nations, especially those of the Global South seeking to break free from the chains of domination and economic exploitation.
  3. Venezuelan popular movements—from urban workers to rural communities, from Afro-descendant leaders to youth activists—have voiced their desire for peace, unity, and self-governance, for foreign occupation. These voices must be heard and respected.

This is a solidarity struggle that extends beyond borders. Just as Africa has been targeted by external forces—from colonialism to debt and economic coercion—so too is Latin America subject to similar pressures. Our struggles are one.

What occurred in Venezuela was not merely about one government—it was a belligerent expression of the U.S. doctrine of dominance in the hemisphere.

Today, imperialism thrives not only through military might but through economic blockage, resource control, and manipulation of political and legal systems in distant capitals.

And so, our demand is clear: We call for the immediate release of President Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores.

Comrades, the struggle in Venezuela is a litmus test for the global revolutionary movement. It challenges us to stand firm against imperialism, to support the oppressed in their own terms, and to affirm that the peoples of Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the diaspora are bound together in a shared destiny.

Let this be a moment of international unity—a moment where we reaffirm that justice, dignity, and self-determination cannot be bargained away by foreign powers.

Let us raise our voices, not for a return to the past, but for a renewed struggle for freedom and sovereignty across the world.

! Viva Venezuela libre!

! Viva! la revolucion de los pueblos!

! Viva la solidaridad  internacional!

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