Posted on April 30, 2019 by admin


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

Posted on February 22, 2019 by admin

“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

Posted on April 13, 2018 by admin

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

Posted on April 5, 2018 by admin

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

Posted on March 11, 2018 by admin

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

Posted on January 22, 2018 by admin

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

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Condolence Statement for Hasinatou Camara

Posted on January 22, 2018 by admin

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Petition: Terminate ICC Warrant of Arrest for Saif al-Islam Qaddafi

Posted on July 23, 2017 by admin

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The Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Brigade, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), the Malcolm X Movement (UK), Pan-African Society Community Forum (UK), and the undersigned organizations and individuals, will deliver this Petition

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The United Nation (UN) General Assembly, the United Nations (UN) Security Council, the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the Governments and Peoples of the World

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Background Preamble

On 26 February 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1970 referring the “Situation in the Libyan Arab Jamahirya” to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. See ICC Reports and Transcripts.

On 27 June 2011, the ICC issued a Warrant of Arrest for Muammar Qaddafi alleging his “criminal responsibility for the commission of murder and persecution of civilians as crimes against humanity.” Similar warrants were issued against Saif al-Islam, his son, Abdalla al-Senussi, and others.

The ICC alleged, among other things, that it had “reasonable grounds to believe” that:

“There was a state policy designed at the highest level of the State machinery aimed at deterring and quelling the February 2011 demonstrations by any means necessary, including by the use of lethal force, against demonstrators confronting Gaddafi’s regime, which started in February 2011”;

“As of 15 February 2011 and within a period of less than two weeks, in February 2011, Muammar Gaddafi’s Security Forces killed and injured, as well as arrested and imprisoned hundreds of civilians”;

“From 15 February 2011 until at least 28 February 2011, Muammar Qaddafi, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, and others committed (i) murder as a crime against humanity, within the meaning of article 7(l)(a) of the Rome Statute; and (ii) persecution as a crime against humanity, within the meaning of article 7(l)(h) of the Rome Statute.”

The ICC warrant for The Brother Leader was terminated on 22 November 2011, following and as a result of his murder. The ICC case against al-Senussi was declared inadmissible on 11 October 2013. A General Law of Amnesty in Libya was proclaimed in July 2015, and Saif, al-Senussi and others were freed. The ICC Warrant for Saif however, is still pending.

On 9 September 2016, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom released a report titled Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the United Kingdom’s policy option. This Report refutes the ICC’s allegations, and confirms our belief that Muammar Qaddafi, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, and others, are innocent of the ICC’s allegations; and that crimes were committed, and continue to be committed against and the People and Residents of Libya. We cite several paragraphs from this Report that confirm our belief and link them to articles, photos, and videos.

The introduction to the Summary of this Report said “that [i]n March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the support of the United States, led the international community to support an intervention in Libya to protect civilians from attacks by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. This policy was not informed by accurate intelligence. In particular, the Government failed to identify that the threat to civilians was overstated and that the rebels included a significant Islamist element. By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change.”

In paragraph 32, the Report found that “[d]espite his rhetoric, the proposition that Muammar Gaddafi would have ordered the massacre of civilians in Benghazi was not supported by the available evidence. The Gaddafi regime had retaken towns from the rebels without attacking civilians in early February 2011. During fighting in Misrata, the hospital recorded 257 people killed and 949 people wounded in February and March 2011. Those casualties included 22 women and eight children. Libyan doctors told United Nations investigators that Tripoli’s morgues contained more than 200 corpses following fighting in late February 2011, of whom two were female. The disparity between male and female casualties suggested that Gaddafi regime forces targeted male combatants in a civil war and did not indiscriminately attack civilians. More widely, Muammar Gaddafi’s [alleged] 40-year record of appalling human rights abuses did not include large-scale attacks on Libyan civilians.”

In paragraph 33, the Report said that “[o] n 17 March 2011, Muammar Gaddafi announced to the rebels in Benghazi, “Throw away your weapons, exactly like your brothers in Ajdabiya and other places did. They laid down their arms and they are safe. We never pursued them at all.” Subsequent investigation revealed that when Gaddafi regime forces retook Ajdabiya in February 2011, they did not attack civilians. Muammar Gaddafi also attempted to appease protesters in Benghazi with an offer of development aid before finally deploying troops.”

In paragraph 34, the Report said “there were past examples of the way in which Gaddafi would actually behave. If you go back to the American bombings in the 1980s of Benghazi and Tripoli, rather than trying to remove threats to the regime in the east, in Cyrenaica, Gaddafi spent six months trying to pacify the tribes that were located there. The evidence is that he was well aware of the insecurity of parts of the country and of the unlikelihood that he could control them through sheer violence. Therefore, he would have been very careful in the actual response…the fear of the massacre of civilians was vastly overstated. … [T]here was no “real evidence at that time that Gaddafi was preparing to launch a massacre against his own civilians.”

In paragraph 28, the Report said “Libyan connections with transnational militant extremist groups were known before 2011, because many Libyans had participated in the Iraq insurgency and in Afghanistan with al-Qaeda. … It is now clear that militant Islamist militias played a critical role in the rebellion from February 2011 onwards. They separated themselves from the rebel army, refused to take orders from non-Islamist commanders and assassinated the then leader of the rebel army, Abdel Fattah Younes.”

In paragraph 36, the Report said “An Amnesty International investigation in June 2011 could not corroborate allegations of mass human rights violations by Gaddafi regime troops. However, it uncovered evidence that rebels in Benghazi made false claims and manufactured evidence. The investigation concluded that much Western media coverage has from the outset presented a very one-sided view of the logic of events, portraying the protest movement as entirely peaceful and repeatedly suggesting that the regime’s security forces were unaccountably massacring unarmed demonstrators who presented no security challenge.”

In paragraph 37, the Report said “[W]hile Muammar Gaddafi certainly threatened violence against those who took up arms against his rule, this did not necessarily translate into a threat to everyone in Benghazi. In short, the scale of the threat to civilians was presented with unjustified certainty. US intelligence officials reportedly described the intervention as “an intelligence-light decision”.

In paragraph 38, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom concluded: “We have seen no evidence that the UK Government carried out a proper analysis of the nature of the rebellion in Libya. … [T]he UK Government was unable to analyse the nature of the rebellion in Libya due to incomplete intelligence and insufficient institutional insight and that it was caught up in events as they developed. It could not verify the actual threat to civilians posed by the Gaddafi regime; it selectively took elements of Muammar Gaddafi’s rhetoric at face value; and it failed to identify the militant Islamist extremist element in the rebellion. UK strategy was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence.”

In paragraph 20, the Report offers an “insight into French motivations [as] provided in a freedom of information disclosure by the United States, State Department, in December 2015.” “On 2 April 2011,” according to the disclosure,” Sidney Blumenthal, adviser and unofficial intelligence analyst to the then United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, reported this conversation with French intelligence officers to the Secretary of State:

“According to these individuals Sarkozy’s plans are driven by the following issues:

a. A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,

b. Increase French influence in North Africa,

c. Improve his internal political situation in France,

d. Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,

e. Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi’s long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa

The sum of four of the five factors identified by Sidney Blumenthal equated to the French national interest. The fifth factor was President Sarkozy’s political self-interest.”

David Cameron of the United Kingdom and Nicolas Sarkozy of France, according to the Report “were the undisputed leaders, in terms of doing something.” … Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton of the United States were “instrumental in extending the terms of [UN Security Council Resolution 1973 beyond the imposition of a no-fly zone to include the authorisation of “all necessary measures” to protect civilians. In practice, this led to the imposition of a ‘no-drive zone’ and the assumed authority to attack the entire Libyan Government command and communications network”.

Salon.com reported, in an article titled U.K. Parliament report details how NATO’s 2011 war in Libya was based on lies that “The Associated Press reported in September 2011, [that] rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa. The crimes rebels committed against black Libyans would go on to become even worse.” In 2012, there were reports that “black Libyans were put in cages by rebels, and forced to eat flags.”

As Salon previously reported, “Human Rights Watch warned in 2013 of “serious and ongoing human rights violations against inhabitants of the town of Tawergha, who are widely viewed as having supported Muammar Gaddafi.” Tawergha’s inhabitants were mostly descendants of black slaves and were very poor.” Human Rights Watch also reported that Libyan rebels carried out “forced displacement of roughly 40,000 people, arbitrary detentions, torture, and killings are widespread, systematic, and sufficiently organized to be crimes against humanity”.

The Washington Times, according to the Salon.com article, wrote: “Gaddafi’s son Saif had hoped to negotiate a ceasefire with the U.S. government. … [He] quietly opened up communications with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton intervened and asked the Pentagon to stop talking to the Libyan government. “Secretary Clinton does not want to negotiate at all,” a U.S. intelligence official told Saif.”

In March 2011, Secretary Clinton called Muammar Qaddafi a “creature who has no conscience and will threaten anyone in his way.” Clinton, who played a leading role in pushing for the NATO bombing of Libya, claimed that “Qaddafi would do “terrible things” if he was not stopped. From March to October 2011, NATO carried out a bombing campaign against Libyan government forces. It claimed to be pursuing a humanitarian mission to protect civilians.”

“In October, Qaddafi was brutally killed — sodomized with a bayonet by rebels. Upon hearing the news of his death, Secretary Clinton announced, live on TV, “We came, we saw, he died!”

See: Flashback 2011: Hillary Clinton Laughs About Killing Moammar Gaddafi

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Call to Action!

Muammar Qaddafi, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, and others who were charged, imprisoned, persecuted and murdered, did not commit the crimes charged in the ICC warrant. Murder, persecution, human rights violations, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed, and continue to be committed against them, and the Libyan and other African Peoples. France, the United Kingdom, the United States, the United Nations Security Council, the International Criminal Court, and NATO must be held accountable for their crimes.

This Petition is the opening salvo in a massive, worldwide campaign for human rights, justice and peace. The Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Brigade, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), the Malcolm X Movement (UK), the Pan-African Society Community Forum (UK), and the undersigned organizations and individuals, demand that the International Criminal Court (ICC) terminate the Warrants for Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, immediately and unconditionally; that he be released immediately and unconditionally; and that his safety and human rights be protected and guaranteed in Libya and in any and all countries he travels to and lives in.

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Related Documents:

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ALD 2017

Posted on January 8, 2017 by admin

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

A-APRP (GC)

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African Liberation Day & Palestine Day 2017

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Saturday – May 20, 2017

10:00 am to 6:00 pm (Eastern Time in US)

St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church

1525 Newton Street NW

Washington, DC 20010

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Click here, to register your ONLINE participation in our Webinar!

[Webinar facilitated by Alliance for Global Justice and Anymeeting]

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Make a Donation TODAY!

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Theme:

PAN-AFRICANISM Yes! US AFRICOM and NATO No!

US out of Africa, Guantanamo (Cuba), and Shannon Airport (Ireland)!

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Dismantle the destructive Military Industrial Complex, Worldwide!

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Symposium Program / Webinar Schedule

List of Participants coming soon!

Welcome!

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM (Eastern Time in US)

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Panel 1: US AFRICOM Out of Africa!

11:30 AM – 12:50 Noon (Eastern Time in US)

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Panel 2: US PACOM Out of Asia!

12:50 (Noon) – 2:10 PM (Eastern Time in US)

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Panel 3: US EUROPECOM Out of Europe!

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Panel 4:  US SOUTHCOM Out of the Americas!

3:30 PM – 4:50 PM (Eastern Time in US)

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Panel 5: No to US NORTHCOM!

4:50 PM – 6:00 PM (Eastern Time in US)

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Symposium / Webinar Ends

6:00 PM (Eastern Time in US)

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Honor Fidel! Long Live the Cuban Revolution!

Honor Ho! Long Live the Vietnamese Revolution!

Honor Malcolm! Long Live the African Revolution!

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Educational Materials and Action Alerts!

Paper: African Liberation Day and Palestine (Nakba) Day 2017

May 20, 2017

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Call  for: International actions against the NATO Summit, Brussels

May 20 – 25, 2017

No to War! –  No to NATO!

“TRUMPism Not Welcome” in Brussels, Belgium!

Join the Worldwide Protests against NATO!

Official Call!

Newsletter!

Facebook Page

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Leaflet: Hell-No!! We Still Won’t Go! A Hisdtoric and Movement-Changing Event!

Friday, May 26, 2017

6:30 to  9:30 PM (New York Time)

The Brooklyn Commons

388 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Limited Onsite Seating – RSVP TODAY!

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The Brooklyn Commons will live-stream the event!

Click here, for information!

They will assign a URL after the event, where it can be watched as a non-live video.

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Make a Donation TODAY!

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African Liberation Day & Palestine Day 2016

Posted on March 3, 2016 by admin

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

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AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY 2016 and

PALESTINE (NAKBA) DAY 2016

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Black Visibility is not Black Power!

White Power in blackface is not Black Power!

Revolutionary Pan-Africanism is the Highest Expression of Black Power!

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Saturday – May 21, 2016, 2:00 to 6:00 pm

St. Stephen’s Incarnation Church

1525 Newton Street NW

Washington, DC 20010

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Program to be announced!

Program will be broadcast online!

Educational Materials will be uploaded soon!

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You are also invited to attend

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Black Power, Black Lives & Pan-Africanism Conference: Honoring the Legacy & Building for a Self-Determining Future!

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Organized by

Cooperation Jackson, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the

All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party (GC)

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Thursday, June 16, 2016 to Sunday, June 19, 2016

Chokwe Lumumba Center for Economic Democracy and Development

939 W. Capitol Street

Jackson, MS 39203

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Registration and Onsite Meals To Be Announced!

Transportation and Housing To Be Announced!

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Program to be announced!

Program will be broadcast online!

Educational Materials will be uploaded soon!

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Announcement:

Countering the Confederate ‘Spring’:

The Assault on Black Political Power in Jackson, MS

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Register Today!

 


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Report on the Progress of Our Film Trailer:

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Dances in the Fire!

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Kwame Turé/Stokely Carmichael Film Project (Day One) | Facebook

Day One – January 9th., 2016 – on the set of Kwame Turé/Stokely Carmichael Film Project

Crowd-funding Short, shot at the house Tony Hall grew up in,

20 Donaldson Street, Les Efforts East, San Fernando, T&T.

Director: Tony Hall

Actors: Penelope Spencer as Tante Elaine Letren, and Armani Rowe as the “Young Stokely”

Director of Photography: Robert Macfarlane

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Day Two – January 10th., 2016 – on the set of Kwame Turé/Stokely Carmichael Film Project

Crowd-funding Short, shot on location at the

Trinidad Theatre Workshop in Belmont, Trinidad.

Director: Tony Hall

Actors: Penelope Spencer, Michael Cherrie and Armani Rowe as “Young Stokely”

Director of Photography: Robert Macfarlane

Make-up & Still Photography: Mervyn de Goeas

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Tony Hall

Lordstreet Theatre

text: 1-868-681-7475

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Events: June 16, 2016

SNCC Legacy Project’s Black Power 50th

SNCC Legacy Project on Facebook

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Call for Action: Please Sign this Petition TODAY!

Save 350,000 Chicago Police Misconduct Records Before Its Too Late!

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