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