Samone Mikeal Richardson RIP!

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January 11, 2020

From: All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

          All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC)

To:    The Buie, Shango and Richardson Families

Sisters and Brothers,

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC) send our deepest most sincere revolutionary condolences and humbled heart filled sorrow to our ideological Daughter Inika Buie and our Brother Banbose Shango and family due to the transition of your and our Daughter, Granddaughter and Grand Niece.

We join you in the celebration of her life and share with you with our fond memories of Samone Mikeal Richardson as a beautiful, intelligent, kind, loving and strong Daughter, Sister, Granddaughter, Niece and Friend. Samone exemplified the revolutionary spirit of our ancestors and her will and determination is to be emulated as she fought an uncompromising and courageous fight against cancer and for her life. Her physical pains are no more and her soul has been set free as she has made her transition to our Ancestors.

We know there are no words to give your family comfort. Yet with give them with compassion and love. We know it is only time that can heal wounds; it is only time that will prepare you to adjust to life without her in the physical, but  knowing that in our culture and with our beliefs, we know she will always be with you and us in your and our hearts and minds. We know in the days, months and even years to come Mikeal will never be forgotten and forever be with you and us. Her legacy has been recorded in the annals of history.

We can only hope that all of the family will be as strong as Mikeal was during her transition. As best we can, we are here with and for you and your family.

As Always We Stand,

Ready For Revolution!

There Is Victory For Us!

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Venezuela, Cuba, Columbia, and the A-APRP (GC) on the Offensive!

Conferences and Delegations that you should be aware of!

Non-Aligned Movement Condemns US Sanctions Against Venezuela 22 July 2019 clip_image002

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Final Declaration of the XXV São Paulo Forum: Unity of the peoples against imperialism 29 July 2019 clip_image004

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President Maduro closes I International Congress of Native Peoples 31 October 2019 clip_image006

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Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Conference, for Democracy and against Neoliberalism opens in Havana 1-3 November 2019 clip_image008 Lee Robinson and Kamau Benjamin, representing the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and Banbose Shango, National Co-Chair of the National Network on Cuba, member of the Board of the Alliance for Global Justice, and an A-APRP (GC) organizer, traveled to Havana to participate in the Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Conference, for Democracy and against Neoliberalism. Kamau is also a representative of the DC Metro Coalition in Support of Cuba, and a “leader” of its Delegation. Lee leads an African Awareness Association Delegation. Lee, Banbose and Kamau will travel to Baracoa in Guantánamo Province to meet with the African Community there. Learn the true history of Baracoa. Report backs will be made. See: Statement to_Anti-Imperialist Solidarity_Conference

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Venezuela, Headquarters of the World Meeting of Afro-descendant Movements 10-12 November 2019 clip_image010 Bob Brown and Dr. Layla Brown-Vincent are travelling to Venezuela to represent the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) at the First International Afrodescendant Congress. They will meet with the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, and social movement leaders, students, women, professors, filmmakers, and others. See: Statement to First International Afrodescendant Congress Bob will travel, where possible in Venezuela, with your enablement and empowerment, to introduce the A-APRP (GC) and provide an update on the status of our book God Makes No Slaves in the Womb! and on our movie Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Dances in the Fire! to our allies and key contacts in Venezuela. Report backs will be made!

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USLAW – AfGJ Delegation to Colombia 24 November – 4 December 2019 clip_image012 With your support the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) will send 1 or 2 organizers with the USLAW – AfGJ Delegation to Colombia which travels from 24 November – 4 December 2019. Please help us! This Delegation, according to the Alliance for Global Justice, “is timed to coincide with the third anniversary of Colombia’s peace accord that ended more than five decades of war between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP). This Delegation also occurs 8 ½ years after the signing of the Labor Action Plan (LAP), a side agreement of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement to address repression of the labor movement. The Delegation will assess the changing situation for Colombian labor unions, workers and farmers. The Delegation will also assess the importance of these key dates and will issue a comprehensive report on our findings. Lastly, the Delegation will provide a prime opportunity for the establishment of new, direct worker-to-worker solidarity among unionists.” This Delegation, according to the A-APRP (GC) will also meet with African community leaders in Bogota and Cali. We will discuss and share information and perspectives on the genocide and violence that has been, and is being waged against African People in Columbia and the United States, and throughout Africa and the African Diaspora. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) will help link radical and revolutionary forces in the African community in Columbia with their counterparts in the US and worldwide.  Report backs will be made.

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A Call for Militant, Positive Action!

“4.9 Million African People in Colombia Don’t Have Weapons, They Have Dignity!”

“There is No Peace in Colombia!”

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Source: Telesur.net

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

September 18, 2019

Permit the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) to bring to your attention the crimes of aggression, the crimes against peace, the war crimes, and the crimes against humanity that have been waged for six centuries and continue to be waged against 48 million people who live, suffer, and struggle in Colombia. They need our principled, uncompromising, and unyielding support. They deserve militant, positive action.

Permit us to remind you that:

1. With 48 million people in 2019, Colombia is the third-most populous country in Central America. More than 52.4% of its population are Indigenous, 37% are European, and 10.6%, 4,944,400, are African.

2. War has been waged against the Colombian People for more than 600 years, especially since April 9, 1948, when presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was assassinated, launching a period in the 1940s and 1950s known as La Violencia (“The Violence”). At least 180,000 Colombians were murdered during this period. United States complicity in this and other crimes is documented.

3. For more than 55 years, from May 27, 1964 to the present, armed repression has been waged against the people of Colombia and their movements and organizations, struggling for social change by, the military and police, right-wing paramilitaries, and death squads. These Colombian state institutions are armed and financed by the United States government and multinational corporations, including Chiquita Banana International. See:

  1. All Money Ain’t Good Money
  2. John Doe 1 v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc.
  3. The Chiquita Papers: Banana Giant’s Paramilitary Payoffs Detailed in Trove of Declassified Legal, Financial Documents“, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 340
  4. Documents Implicate Colombian Government in Chiquita Terror Scandal, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 217

4. According to studies by Colombia’s National Centre for Historical Memory, the United Nations Human Rights and Refugee Agencies, and UNICEF:

  • 16.9% of the population in Colombia, especially Indigenous and African People, has been a direct victim of the war;
  • 5 million civilians, including 2 million Africans, were forced from their homes between 1985 – 2012, generating the world’s second largest population of internally displaced persons, 7.3 million;
  • 2.3 million children were displaced from their homes, 45,000 children were killed, and 8,000 children are missing;
  • 340,000 Colombian refugees live in Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama and Costa Rica;
  • 220,000 people (177,307 civilians and 40,787 fighters) died in the Colombian conflict between 1958 and 2013; and
  • 27,023 people were abducted, 25,007 victims have been disappeared, and 10,189 have been injured by anti-personnel mines.

5. On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, (FARC), the country’s largest rebel group, signed a revised peace agreement . One week later, on November 29 & 30, 2016, the Colombian Senate and House, respectively, approved it. On 27 June 2017, FARC disarmed itself handing over its weapons to the United Nations. The National Liberation Army (ELN) and FARC dissidents refused to disarm, and the war for social justice continues.

6. Since 2016 Peace Accord, over 700 social movement leaders and more than 150 former guerrillas have been assassinated In 2018, 34 union organizers were executed, more than twice the number killed in 2017. In the first six months of 2019, 10 members of the Federación Nacional Sindical Unitaria Agropecuaria (FENSUAGRO) were murdered.

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) strongly encourages you to:

  1. Sign and forward the Peoples Travel Advisory on Colombia.
  2. Join and support the Coalition for Peace in Colombia.
  3. Participate in and help build the September 27th International Day for Peace in Colombia.

We invite you to travel with the A-APRP (GC) as a part of the USLAW – AFGJ Solidarity Delegation to Colombia from November 24 to December 4, 2019. This Delegation will “visit national and local leadership of oil, agricultural, miners, flower cutters, port workers, and other leading unions, and will meet with injured workers from the GM plant in Bogota. We will engage with popular movements leaders, human rights defender, and rural, Indigenous, and African communities. The Delegation will spend half its time in the capital city of Bogota, and half based out of Cali and Buenaventura, traveling throughout the Departments of Cauca and Valle de Cauca, where political violence is at the highest rate in the nation.”

We also invite you to travel with the African Awareness Association, the National Network on Cuba, and the A-APRP (GC) to the Meeting of Anti-imperialist Solidarity for Democracy and against Neoliberalism which will take place in Havana, Cuba from November 1st to the 3rd, 2019.

Through these and other work-study-and-struggle tours, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) will help forge principled people-to-people and movement-to-movement relationships worldwide. For information, contact us at info@a-aprp-gc.org.

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Message to 1.5 Billion African People Worldwide!


(21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019)

A Tribute to Robert Gabriel Mugabe!

By All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

11 September 2019

It is with our deepest sadness that the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) learned of the passing of our Comrade, older Brother, and Friend Robert Gabriel Mugabe. We offer our sincere apologies and condolences to the Mugabe family, our revolutionary sisters and brothers in the ZANU-PF, in Zimbabwe and throughout Africa and the African Diaspora. Africa and the World have lost a true and noble revolutionary leader.

Robert Mugabe, like so many of his predecessors and contemporaries, was forged in the fire of the ant-racist, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist, nationalist, Pan-Africanist and socialist struggles which engulfed the African continent and world during the 20th century and still burns in the hearts and minds of more than 1.5 billion of Africa’s and the African Diaspora’s oppressed and exploited masses into the 21st century. The liberation of Zimbabwe dealt a crippling blow to racism, colonialism and imperialism that helped shape the course of events in Africa since. With a population of barely 12 million people, Zimbabwe under Mugabe’s leadership, became a spear of Pan-Africanism to strike a blow against imperialism on multiple fronts – militarily, educationally, agriculturally, economically and politically. That spear is now passed on!

Not only did Mugabe lead the forces of liberation to remove the illegal, racist, settler-colonial regime of Rhodesia, one of England’s colonial spawns, he and the revolutionaries of ZANU-PF aided the struggle for liberation against the forces of colonialism across Southern and Central Africa – in Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, the Congo, and throughout Africa and the African Diaspora. He defended liberation movements and helped beat back forces of imperialism, colonialism, and racism worldwide. They should not sleep to deep or long, celebrating his transition. He championed African and world liberation in all international forums, challenging the African Union and the United Nations against Africa’s continued subjugation.

During the early days of independence, Mugabe reached out to the progressive and revolutionaries of the African world, inviting all who wished to build a strong and united Africa, to come home and help build Zimbabwe. Several members of the A-APRP and allied organizations enthusiastically took up his call and returned home. They are still living there today. He fought against forces, European and African, within and around Zimbabwe to secure the future of liberation. He championed mass education that has made the Zimbabwean population among the most well educated on the continent.

In spite of all the negative criticism and propaganda around Zimbabwe’s land reform, the policy of land indigenization is historically and morally correct. It is proving to be the most practical and expedient solution to two of Africa’s and the world’s many problems—homelessness and hunger. Were it not for the courage and steadfastness of Mugabe, the legacy ZANU-PF and the persistence of Zimbabwe’s working masses, the seeds of land indigenization without compensation may have gone generations more without taking root? These seeds have spread to every corner of the African world, and they will blossom one day; a glorious sight to behold.

The Zimbabwean Revolution did not begin with Mugabe, and it will not be entombed with his mortal remains, as his enemies hope. It is one of countless revolutions whose promises, and demands have not yet been completed or won. It is an idea, a movement whose time has come; and no force on earth can contain or crush it for long. And despite any setbacks and attacks that such just and righteous policies must endure, we are eternally grateful to our Comrade “Gushungo” Mugabe for his tenacity, wisdom, and steadfastness to lead us on this revolutionary path. Mistakes and errors have and will be made during that journey; victories have been and will be won.

Throughout the last half-century, most Africans in all parts of the world, have looked to Zimbabwe with pride and loyalty because of Zimbabwe’s fight against the international and domestic criminal enemies of Africa! Dear comrade Mugabe, we will continue to look for your guidance and wisdom among our ancestors as we continue our revolutionary, Pan-Africanist struggle, in which you have served us so completely. It is with the utmost admiration, respect, love, and honor that we pay tribute to you, one of Africa’s most noble and enduring Fighters. We thank you and all the revolutionary fighters of Zimbabwe, living, dead and as yet unborn, for your and their eternal contributions to the cause of African unity, liberation, and socialist transformation.

Osagefyo Kwame Nkrumah’s revolutionary, Pan-African vision of a truly liberated, unified and socialist Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo, will be materialized one day; and your contributions to the struggle will be remembered. In the meantime, the revolutionary youth of Africa, living and yet unborn, will remain steadfast, unbending and unyielding, faithful and true to our revolutionary, Pan-Africanist values and principles, objectives and beliefs. The masses of African People, 1.5 billion of us worldwide, are the true makers of history.

Nothing can stop the African winds and rains, that nourish our lives and feeds our graves!

Long Live the Pan-African Revolution!

Izwe Letu!

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African Liberation Day & Palestine Day – 2019

Generations of Resistance and Revolts, Rebellions and Revolutions as

Illuminated in Cuba, Haiti, Libya, Palestine and Venezuela

Smash the Repression-Industrial Complex Worldwide!

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) (A-APRP) (GC) is organizing African Liberation Day (ALD)-2019 to reaffirm our undying love, pay homage and tribute to and applaud generations of African people. We acknowledge and honor, our peasants, nomads, workers, students, other intellectuals, youth and women from ancient times to the present who resisted, revolted, rebelled and organized Revolution. Those who fight to rid ourselves of all forms of oppression and exploitation in Africa and every corner of the world.

The A-APRP (GC) also commemorates Palestine Day by reaffirming our principled and unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people’s just and inspirational revolutionary struggle against zionism and its illegal and immoral crime against humanity, the settler-colonial/apartheid state of Israel. The liberation of Palestine will mark a breakthrough in the annals of Arab, African and world history. It will help establish a foundation for Pan-Arab, Pan-African and International solidarity and peace.

Ho Chi Minh, affectionately known as “Uncle Ho” and Malcolm X’s contributions to the Pan-African and International struggles against national oppression, economic exploitation, cultural annihilation and the oppression of women and for socialism are etched in the annals of African and world history and we highlight and pay tribute to them on their birthdays.

The A-APRP (GC) knows that it is of critical importance that we correctly affirm that the history of African people, those in Africa and those abroad is the history of the Masses of our People. “Class struggle … is a cardinal principle, of which the forms of materialization depend on the phases of People’s historic development.”[i] It is the struggle of our People and their creation of culture, specifically African culture that guides our way and shapes our methods for solving the problems of everyday life. Sekou Toure was clear that “Revolution is an act of culture.” It is this history expressed through our cultural greatness that Kwame Nkrumah recognized. He identified our collective political and cultural expression as the African Personality.

Our anti-People, Africans who are the agents of capitalism, imperialism, zionism, national oppression , neo-colonialism and the oppression of women along with their allies want us only to recognize, admire and promote our great “leaders”, whether man or woman. Our African anti-People and their allies want us to look down on and despise our, so-called “uneducated and uncouth” People, particularly our politically ignorant and disorganized youth. This is because our African anti-People and their allies know that if we don’t love our People; if we don’t recognize our People as the source of everything we have ever achieved and need socially, politically, economically, spiritually and culturally, we will never experience genuine liberty. Anti-People Africans are clear that the Masses make history, but have contempt for them. The anti-People are crystal clear that, “The Revolution embodies the People, their present interests and their future happiness.”[ii] Our People’s interest is diametrically opposed to that of our anti-People. Freedom for all Africans no matter where in the world we live is grounded in the revolutionary struggle to bring into fruition Pan-Africanism — the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism and with it the destruction of capitalism, imperialism, neo-colonialism and zionism.

It is the People and only the People who are the artisans of history. It is the People who organized and sustained massive resistance, revolts, and rebellions with their highest expression in organized Revolution, throughout history. All economic, political, social and cultural accomplishments are a direct product of our People’s struggles at all levels. No individual man or woman wields the power that comes with the politically educated and organized Masses. It is the Masses who are the motive force for all Positive Action. At the same time, we would never deny the critical role that key individuals play in history so we love, pay homage, tribute and applaud them as well.

The A-APRP (GC) correctly says, standing on shoulders of truth that we do not quiver in declaring that without mass resistance, mass revolts, mass rebellions and without organized Revolution African people would have never tasted nectar sweetened by liberty, dignity, women’s emancipation and scientific socialism. Our revolutionary struggle continues as we remain under the heel of the immoral and murderous system of capitalism, imperialism, neo-colonialism and zionism. It was in Africa on our battlefields that encompassed our secondary and high school youth, universities and colleges, villages and cities, on our deserts among our nomads and in our rain-forests that the Masses of our People lost our liberty and dignity. Now it is on our current battlefields, in Africa and the African Diaspora, in our secondary and high schools, among our university and college students, in our streets, ghettos, favelas, barrios, villages, and in our deserts among our nomads and in our rain-forests that our liberty and dignity has and continues to be reclaimed. Our struggle continues.

Pan-Africanism, One Unified Socialist Africa, will be the direct product of ongoing mass resistance and revolts; rebellions and organized Revolution. The history of our People, of our revolutionary ancestors, is clear that there is no other way. This is seen through the revolutionary history and traditions made by our revolutionary ancestors, and is understood everywhere in the world today. In the struggle for liberty and socialism the masses of our People are the ultimate determiner of victory or defeat and history records that our People have never missed a call to battle and have yet to lose the war against imperialism. African and the world’s Peoples are at war with the International and Pan-African forces of economic exploitation, national oppression and political repression.

The masses of African people and other nationalities representing every corner of the globe are in a life and death revolutionary struggle against the settler-colonial capitalist United States, Israel, Australia, Canada and others, Europe and neo-colonial Asia. Our revolutionary war is most importantly directed at imperialism’s puppets, our anti-People, inside and outside of Africa, who do their bidding in every corner of the world. Victory will never be fully achieved without revolutionary mass political education and our organized efforts to destroy the capitalist/imperialist system and its Industrial-Repression Complex used to maintain its power to exploit us and our Peoples’ labor, intellect and natural resources. Kwame Ture used to correctly say, ‘and without pity and without mercy’.

Therefore scientific socialism, a pillar of the African Revolution, requires revolutionary consciousness, commitment, passion and the development of a revolutionary African Personality, among the African masses, in order to achieve Pan-Africanism.  Sekou Toure makes it plain, “Without revolutionary consciousness there can be no Revolution. All those who have had to conduct revolutions have been able to attest this fact. But where does this revolutionary consciousness come from if it is neither fundamental to man, nor does it develop spontaneously? History teaches that it is created and developed through ideological education and revolutionary practice. We can equally affirm that without ideological training and without revolutionary action, there can be no revolutionary consciousness.”[iii] That is why the Masses must be politically educated and organized. An African proverb humbly teaches, If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. The African Revolution is eternal!

African Liberation Day and Palestine Day 2019 illuminates some of the mass battles and mass struggles of African people, those in Africa and those abroad. The A-APRP (GC) also highlights the battles and wars of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of the Western Hemisphere and their allies, particularly in Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela and the mass revolutionary heroic struggle of the Palestinian people, in Palestine and abroad, against settler-occupation in their homeland, Palestine. In addition, we also highlight the historic struggle of the masses of Libya a historic struggle that is part and parcel of the revolutionary Pan-African fight for One Unified Socialist Africa.

Imperialism, neo-colonialism and zionism continue to resort to military, surrogate-military, para-military and mercenary/contractor violence to maintain their system of exploitation and oppression. The Masses of the world are responding and utilizing every means including, demonstrations and protests, the courts, the media, electoral politics, revolts and rebellions and armed warfare to defend and advance the revolutionary struggle for genuine liberty, unity and socialism.

What is fundamental in qualifying the revolutionary warfare of the Masses is the understanding that this revolutionary struggle is for Human Dignity. Human Dignity is a human need for which we all must fight; it is not a gift that can be given. Scientific socialism, the society that nurtures Human Dignity must and will be built by the Masses.

With this African Liberation Day and Palestine Day, the A-APRP (GC) honors this history of resistance and revolts, rebellions and organized Revolution; we love this struggle, and we applaud our People and all struggling Peoples and Nations for their passion in our International and Pan-African revolutionary fight against capitalism, imperialism, neo-colonialism, zionism and the agents of the Industrial Repression-Complex. It’s our accumulating victories that is changing the course of African and World history.


[i] Toure, Sekou. Strategy and Tactics of Revolution: On the Strategy and Tactics of the Revolution, Pg. 99

[ii] Toure, Sekou. Strategy and Tactics of Revolution: On the Strategy and Tactics of the Revolution, Pg. 87

[iii] Toure, Sekou. Strategy and Tactics of Revolution: Foreword, Pg. 13

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A Call for Solidarity in the Struggle to Defeat U.S. Imperialism in Venezuela

“We love Africa and every day we are more aware of our roots in Africa . . .

I am so proud to have this hair because it is African”

Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela – September 20, 2005

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) is clear that facing the vicious attack of the U.S. Empire, the anti-People’s alliance of Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador and NATO and with the U.S. organizing coup d’états against progressive and revolutionary parties in power, worldwide, Venezuela, a country some suggest, having a population of 32,624,284, populated by Indigenous Peoples and Nations (70%-22,836,999), Africans ( 8%-2,609,942 to 10%-3,262,428), Europeans (21%-6,851,100–Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, Germans and a small Arab population)[i], as a matter of principle, requires solidarity and assistance from all Africans in Africa, the Caribbean, Central, North and South America and the world and from all Peoples who are committed to human dignity, liberty and peace with justice.

The Bolivarian Revolution rooted in the struggle of the Indigenous Peoples’ and Nations’ struggle against colonization with the African presence, is also an expression of the revolutionary struggle for Pan-Africanism– One Unified Socialist Africa. Venezuela is at the pinnacle of the Pan-African and international struggle against imperialism and Zionism. Therefore, the People of Africa and the African Diaspora are in solidarity with Venezuela and its revolutionary President Nicholas Maduro. This struggle is historic.

“In the eighteenth century large shipments of Africans were brought to Barlovento [Venezuela] to be slaves in the burgeoning cacao industry and to the sugar plantations in Zulia, around Lake Maracaibo. It was the site of intense cimarrón activity throughout the eighteenth century, with several Cumbe settlements established around Curiepe and Caucagua.” [ii] The African contribution to the struggle for an independent and sovereign Venezuela is traced to the fight to eradicate colonization and slavery. The Venezuelan Revolution has had an African expression since our arrival. African people’s revolutionary contribution to the Bolivarian Revolution will continue in perpetuity. It was within the context of the mass struggle against colonization and slavery that Simon Bolivar found traction to advance a vision and struggle for a united South America. Hugo Chavez inherited and continued that vision and struggle.

“. . .., by naming Venezuela’s Socialist Revolution in honor of Simón Bolívar, [Hugo] Chávez seemed to be making an effort to reckon for a few debts owed to the nation of free Blacks . . .. Bolívar is the historical link between Venezuela, Haiti and colonial independence struggles in the western hemisphere . . . it was the Haitian Revolution and his subsequent exiles in Haiti that provided the theoretical foundations, material support and model for the Great Liberator’s dreams of independence from Spain and continental unity . . .. Bolivar is even quoted saying the following to Petión in the wake of his success, ‘Should I not let it be known to later generations that Alexandre Petión is the true liberator of my country’?” [iii]

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the U.S., displaced Spanish, French and Dutch colonialism in South and Central America and the Caribbean and the South Pacific. The U.S. then imposed neo-colonialism on the region, including Venezuela, in 1895. The U.S. used its Monroe Doctrine and a “Big Stick” policy (military intervention), later called “Gunboat Diplomacy” to impose its interests. In 1908, the U.S. organized a military coup and imposed Juan Vincent Gonen, one of the most sadistic dictators in Venezuelan history. The U.S. also imposed military dictators, throughout the region, some later trained at the U.S. School of the Americas. The School of the Americas was founded in 1946 originally located at Fort Gulick in the Panama Canal Zone. The School of the Americas was renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC) in 2008 and continues to train officers to coordinate mass military repression and murder. Through 1948-1958 the U.S. supported, armed and controlled the Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jimenez.

Hugo Chavez, in 1999, was elected President inheriting and continuing the vision and work of Simon Bolivar. He led the struggle to build a revolutionary political party and organize the Masses towards the creation of a revolutionary Venezuela. Because of the discontent of the Masses and of the struggle to politically educate and organize the People, progressive, socialist, indigenous, revolutionaries, including women became presidents throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean. [iv] It is with the advances of the Masses that the struggle by the U.S. to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela escalated in earnest.

With his vision of La Patria Humana or “Humane homeland”, [Hugo] Chávez launched a revolutionary program he called “social missions”, basically transforming all government agencies and ministries into missions to serve the needs of the people. Describing the social missions, Chávez said, “The missions, which I consider of strategic importance, must be a way for the creation of a new social state. We come from a bourgeois state. That state served the interests of the bourgeoisie, and even until today, special interests that oppose the revolution infiltrate the state. The missions should become an instrument to boost the transformation of the bourgeois state into a social state of rights and justice. The missions should generate a new spirit of service, where plenty of voluntary and creative work is performed; where public servants would act differently, with a new social and socialist spirit”. [v]

Hugo Chavez became the president of Venezuela and immediately fought to change the constitution of Venezuela to ensure that it was a product of the Masses aspirations, many of them African and that the natural resources and human labor of Venezuela would be to their benefit. Venezuela has the world’s largest known oil reserves, along with other deposits of gold, coltan and other natural resources. Under the leadership of Hugo Chavez these resources were used to benefit the people and his policies were and are a direct threat the interest of capitalism, imperialism and Zionism. Under imperialist exploitation, imperialism was the only beneficiary of Venezuela’s vast resources. With the struggle for socialism “social investment . . . reduced poverty from nearly 50% in 1999 to 27% in 2011, increased school enrollment, substantially decreased infant and child mortality, and improved access to potable water and sanitation. . .” [vi] Venezuelan oil assured that the Venezuelan government remained in the cross-hairs of U.S. imperialism.

In 2002 the US organized its first coup d’état against Hugo Chavez, which was re-soundly defeated by the Venezuelan people. On March 24, 2007 the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) was founded. The PSUV socialist policies and proclamations infuriated the U.S.

“Chávez’s strong position against imperialism and neo-colonialism brought him the fury of the top champions of those two infamous world policies [capitalism vs scientific socialism] to the point that he was characterized as an enemy of a number of Western countries. Perhaps the biggest opposition to imperial domination and pressures was Chávez’s and Fidel’s idea in 2004 to establish the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA—Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América in Spanish) as a group whose objective was to promote social, political, and economic integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. ALBA, which means “dawn” in Spanish, was conceived by Chávez and Fidel to be an alternative to the United States of America-led Free Trade Area of the Americas so that member states did not have to always rely on the US for their progress.” [vii]

Through the funding of the counter-revolution of the Venezuelan anti-People Class through the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States Aid for International Development, (USAID), National Endowment for Democracy (NED), by George Soros, with his “civil societies” and other capitalist instruments of repression, protests of the anti-People erupted. They became more violent and sustained in November 2013. Historically, the U.S. has used economic, social, cultural, psychological, military and clandestine intelligence agencies to overthrow democratically elected progressive and revolutionary parties and governments in the Caribbean, South and Central America. U.S. imperialism has conducted, at least, 50 military interventions in this region.

The truth, as understood by the A-APRP (GC), refutes the lies spread by the corporate media, the Republican, Democratic, and Likud parties and other capitalist parties, and their neo-colonial allies and puppets. We denounce the immoral and unjust U.S. attack on Venezuela. As Pan-Africanists we know that an attack on Venezuela is an attack on all People of African descent and the alliance between the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of the Western Hemisphere and African people is one of principle. The A-APRP (GC) once again, expresses our solidarity with the Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the Bolivarian Revolution. We are in solidarity with President Maduro, who has pronounced:

“It is necessary to convoke the revolutionary and patriotic sectors to maintain unity in order to face the internal and external threats. Our fatherland today is free and sovereign, and we will defend it with our lives if necessary. We will not move backwards from the advances and social conquests we have obtained, and we will never more be under the imperialist tutorship to decide our destiny . . .. We descend from a lineage of freedom fighters . . . It is time to return to the roots that led us to initiate the first Socialist Revolution of the 21stcentury; it is time for lucidity. Because there is one thing we are certain of we will never return to the past. . .. With Chávez forever! Long live the Fatherland!” [viii]

The A-APRP (GC) challenges all African progressive and revolutionary parties, organizations, and governments and all Peoples of good will to call for the defeat of U.S. imperialism in Venezuela also. The A-APRP (GC) is uncompromising with respect to our call for the defeat of U.S. imperialism in Venezuela and the world. We make no apologies for this call.

To deny solidarity with the Socialist Party of Venezuela, President Nicholas Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution is to convey solidarity with U.S. imperialism and its allies and their racist genocidal coup d’état. There are only two paths, in this struggle, the path of the People or the path of the anti-People. Today, on the question of Venezuela there is no middle ground!

LONG LIVE THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION!

LONG LIVE THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF VENEZUELA!

LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE FOR PAN-AFRICANISM!

LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE TO DESTROY US LED IMPERIALISM and ZIONISM!

LONG LIVE THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE FOR SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM!

VICTORY OF THE PEOPLE IS INEVITABLE!

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

[i] Nations Encyclopedia. Venezuela. https://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/America/Venezuela/.html

[ii] Brown-Vincent, Layla Dalal Zanele Sekou. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Pan-African Consciousness Raising and Organizing in the United States and Venezuela: Dissertation, Duke University. 2016. Pg. 59

[iii] Brown-Vincent, Layla Dalal Zanele Sekou. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Pan-African Consciousness Raising and Organizing in the United States and Venezuela: Dissertation, Duke University. 2016. Pg. 61

[iv] 2002—Luis Inacio “Lula da Silva, Brazil (re-elected in 2006); 2—3—Nestor Kirchner, Argentina; 2004—Roosevelt Skerrit, Dominica; 2006—Evo Morales, Bolivia (first Indigenous President); Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua; 2006—Michelle Bachelet, Chile (first female President in South America); 2006—Rafael Correa, Ecuador; 2006—Manuel Zelaya, Honduras; 2007—Christina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina; 2008—Fernando Lugo Mendez, Paraguay; 2009—Maricio Funes, El Salvador; 2010—Jose “Pepe” Mujica, Uruguay; 2009—Dilma Vana Roussseff, Brazil

[v] Yves Niyiragira Pamazuka News. Voices of Freedom and Justice. Mar 16, 2016

[vi] https://www.indexmundi.com/venezuela/demographics_profile.html

[vii] Yves Niyiragira. Pamazuka News. Voices of Freedom and Justice. Mar 16, 2016

[viii] Frias, Adan Chavez. The Dawn International Newsletter of Popular Struggles: Venezuela Will Achieve New Victories. January 22, 2018. www.thedawn-news.org.

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African Liberation Day / Palestine Day 2018

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Howard U “A Building” Renamed – Kwame Ture Student Center

April 3, 2018

 

To:  Sister Alexis McKinney

Howard University Resist

 

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), the party of Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure and Kwame Ture (whom you may remember as Stokely Carmichael) and its women’s wing, the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC), send you and HU Resist revolutionary greetings.

We salute you and direct our gratitude, our solidarity and our support to the courageous students of HU Resist; and to all Howard University students – previously, currently and in the future – who, for what is correct and just, are involved in and support the “A (Administration) Building Take Over” at Howard, which began on March 29, 2018.

As Howard University students continue the legacy of resistance, rebellion and revolutionary Pan-African struggle, our Party stands, steadfast and uncompromising, with you.  We commend you for protecting and advancing the integrity of Howard and all Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States, and institutions of higher learning in Africa and the African Diaspora.

The A-APRP (GC) stands with your principled commitment and determination. You will win, as history resides on the side of the just!

Please take a minute and recall the profound words of Frantz Fanon because they are so germane to the battle that you have chosen, “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.”

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Recall also the Fireside Chat that Kwame Ture, a former student and life-long alumni, delivered at Howard shortly before he made his way home, to his beloved Guinea and Africa to transition to our ancestors.  Perhaps HU Resist can watch and discuss it during the long-nights ahead.  Recall also and gather insight and strength from Kwame’ self-authored obituary, which is chiseled on his Grave-Site in Conakry, Guinea.

“Kwame Ture dies in his beloved Africa, affirming that if Africa’s children cannot alleviate her suffering, we can at least share them fully.”

(June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998.  Burial on November 22, 1998)

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Victory is certain,

 

Organizers,

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC)

 

Ready for Revolution!!

 

 

 

 

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ALD / PD 2018

Program updates coming soon!

Check back frequently for more information!

See you at ALD / PD 2018 Washington, DC!

 

 

 

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An Open Letter to the Cuban People & Government, the Cuban Communist Party, and the Federation of Cuban Women

Greetings on the 59th Anniversary of the Victory of the Cuban Revolution!

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