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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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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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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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A-APRP (GC) Congratulates Cuba on the 56th Anniversary of Its Revolution …
Message From the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the People re the Cuban Five …
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Sister/Comrade Assata,
On the occasion of the December 2014 US government release of the last three of the “5” Cuban heroes and the accompanying escalation in the demand for your return to the persecution and torture of the racist, criminal US “injustice” system, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), reaffirms our support of your heroic contributions to the revolutionary struggle for freedom, justice, equality, peace, Pan-Africanism, and socialism. Your courageous, consistent and historic work with the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army and the Cuban Revolution, and your proven ability to inspire, motivate and activate a new generation of youth and women of all ages, as evidenced by the pervasive usage of your image and words and the uplifting of your name in current protests against police and government repression sweeping the US, are testament of the enduring value of your work and life-long service, sacrifice and suffering.
In your honor, we salute the Revolutionary Government of Cuba and defend its right and position articulated through Dr. Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, Director, North American Division, Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations, to “grant political asylum to people it considers to have been persecuted“ and for exercising its right by reaffirming its Revolutionary commitment to protect you. Cuba has legitimately granted your asylum from the racist, criminal US “injustice” system despite contrary demands from fascists New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the New Jersey State Fraternal Police Association and Acting New Jersey Attorney General John Hoffman.
History will record your place among the numerous women of the world who have made tremendous contributions to the struggle to achieve liberation, peace, Pan-Africanism and scientific socialism such as Yaa Asantewaa, M’balia Camara, Nanny of the Maroons, Anna J. Cooper, Lolita Lebron, Anna Mae Aquash, Leila Khaled, Dalal Mughrabi, Mariana Grajales Coello, Dolores Ibarruri, Rosa Luxemburg, Constance de Markievicz, Vilma Espin, et al. Your courage and tenacity have exalted your status to one of the eternal warriors who sacrificed their own comfort and security to fight for the liberation of all oppressed peoples.
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In Revolutionary Solidarity,
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
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Free All Prisoners of Conscience, Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Wars!
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Hands off Assata, or the “Sky if the Limit!”
December 29, 2014
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Message From the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the People re the Cuban Five …
Comrades Gerardo, Ramon, Rene, Fernando and Antonio:
Your unyielding display of principles with conviction, determination, dignity, resistance, steadfastness and devotion toward the struggle for truth, justice, peace and the elimination of terror & terrorism has been an exemplary lesson, a heroic model of service, sacrifice and suffering. As a result of your conviction and dedication to the Cuban Revolution, the revolutionary steadfastness and determination of the Cuban People and Government, and the solidarity of the peace and justice seeking peoples of the world, you have returned to your homeland, “Cuba.”
It was you, the “5,” who served as the nucleus and the driving force of your own return “home” to revolutionary Cuba. Your spirit of no-compromise, no-sell-out and your will to sacrifice for the truth and the just cause of your people and country and, indeed, for world humanity made your release possible. Your attitude and behavior are a reflection of the Cuban people’s unyielding love for peace, justice and socialism combined with tireless struggle in securing and defending the aforementioned. Demands for your return never wavered as both the Communist Party of Cuba, the Cuban people, the government and your families maintained a posture of strength and resolve in the face of the U.S.’s unjust and criminal behavior. Clearly, your understanding of the importance of unity in the face of adversity is a lesson all humanity should embrace as it pushes against the forces of reaction and injustice.
To the Cuban Government and the Communist Party, we salute your effort as architect and guide, leading a sustained battle of political will; keeping your people united, organized, educated and focused against an egregious injustice rendered against a people/nation who, as a matter of principle, seek to elevate humanity in theory and practice. Additionally, we salute the International Support to Free the Cuban Five, its various committees and groups world-wide for being a vehicle of political education and resistance, doing the “right thing” and calling out the unjust.
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) extends our gratitude to our “5” revolutionary brothers and comrades: Gerardo, Ramon, Rene, Fernando and Antonio, on your return home. History has recorded Comrade Fidel’s statement, “They Will Return Home” and now they have. We join the Communist Party of Cuba, the Government of Cuba and the Cuban people in the joyous occasion of welcoming home the remaining members of “the Cuban 5.”
Viva la Cuba!
Viva los Cubanos!
Viva el Revolucionario Cubano 5!
In Revolutionary Solidarity,
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
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2. November 2014
The Pan-Africanism Working Group shows solidarity with the people of Burkina Faso. The Pan-Africanism Working Group welcomes the determination of the women, the youth, of committed people, of the political opposition, who have forced the 27 year old dictatorial regime to step back during the past four days. Hundreds of thousands took the streets in the cities throughout the country and have asserted their will to the downfall of the regime.
After having been in power for 27 years, the head of government, Blaise Compaore had intended to alter the constitution in order to stay in power in 2015. The peoples victory after the four days long revolution resulted in the president being disposed and forced to go into exile to Ivory Coast. A transitional government is currently building under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Yacouba Zida. Hopefully, the transitional government will soon be replaced by a democratically elected government.
The Pan-Africanism Working Group hopes that this upheaval serves as an example to other countries in Africa to end existing dictatorships. We hope that Blaise Compoare has to account for the murder according to international law concerning his predecessors, the journalist Norbert Zongo and Thomas Sankara.
The Pan-Africanism Working Group regrets the high number of injured people and casualties in the cause of the uprisings in Burkina Faso and appeals for donations to be passed on to the civil organisation “Balai Citoyen“ in Ouagdougou for the medical care of the injured people.
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B.F. Bankie,
The A-APRP (GC) hopes this email finds you in the best of health and spirits. Thanks for acknowledging receipt of our Open Statement on the 8th Pan-African Congress in Accra. We have published our Statement and this Response on our web portal. We have reached several conclusions also, drawn from our five decades of experience and study, our Pan-African objective and our Nkrumahist-Toureist ideology.
Africa, from Cape to Cairo, is our home, our Motherland. All 1.5 billion African People scattered, suffering and struggling in 125 countries in the world are our People. We do not ask anyone’s permission to suffer and struggle with them. We do not pretend or seek to lead them, and cannot be lead. We do not disrespect you or anyone. We disagree with your positions, and will not compromise our principles.
We are familiar with Malcolm’s Statement at the July 17-22, 1964 OAU Meeting; and with his letter from Accra, Ghana, the then “fountain-head of Pan-Africanism” under Osagefyo Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership. Our commitment to revolutionary Pan-Africanism begins from this date.
Malcolm did not create this bond “between Africa and its Diaspora,” as you suggest; and it cannot be so easily broken as you postulate. You do not speak for Africans on the Continent, especially the almost one-half of them whom are Muslim. We doubt if you speak for many of the others.
We are not afraid of conflict, we don’t run from it, we run to it. Reactionary African chiefs, (Traditional religions) working with and for European (Christian) and Arab (Muslim) masters “sold” us into the Diaspora (trans-Mediterranean, trans-Red Sea, trans-Indian Ocean and trans-Atlantic). They enslaved millions more of us on the Continent. We fought them then and continue to fight them now. We are sure that the revolutionary African youth will fight with us, once they recognize the truth.
We are also familiar with Malcolm’s article on zionism which was published in the Egyptian Gazette on September 17, 1964. “The zionist-capitalist conspiracy,” Malcolm wrote, “dread Gamal Abdul Nasser’s call for African-Arab Unity under Socialism.” Our commitment to Palestine’s liberation, and our uncompromising struggle against zionism and the illegal, settler-colony of Israel begins then as well.
Nasser and Malcolm did not create this bond between Africans and Arabs; and it cannot be so easily broken as you also postulate. Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure, Kwame Ture and others, also called for this revolutionary African-Arab unity. The A-APRP (GC) reaffirms this call, and extends it to include all genuine revolutionary forces in the Middle East and Africa, and their Diasporas. This revolutionary camaraderie is needed more today, than ever!
Bankie, we are amazed at how little you know about the internal dynamics in the African community in the United States, or in the Pan-Africanist and nationalist movements here. We do not share your belief that the World Conference against Racism represents a watershed for the movement. It was certainly not a revolutionary watershed. Your concern regarding Minister Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam) and Omali Yeshitela (African Peoples Socialist Party) has been read, especially your concern regarding their position on the situation in the northern part of Africa, our Motherland. We notice that you have not voiced any concern regarding Obama’s escalation of US AFRICOM’s presence in Africa.
The A-APRP (GC) does not work with or for the United States or Israel, or their allied governments, political parties, foundations and NGOs. We do not intend to do their work for them now, and therefore decline your invitation to debate or denounce Farrakhan or Yeshitela. We have no relationship with many of the forces with whom you work. We will not denounce or debate you or them behind your backs either.
No organization or individual has “carte blanche” on any area of interest to 40 million Africans in the United States; not even Obama and the US government. Some organizations have more access to the establishment—right, center and left—and are more resourced. They are therefore in a better position to be seen and heard, by external forces. Those on the ground see the lightning and hear the thunder before they feel the rain. “Black visibility,” as Kwame Ture correctly said in 1967, “is not Black Power.”
Malcolm met three political forces in Cairo 50 years ago: Nasser’s forces, Sunni Islam under the control of Saudi Arabia, and the Muslim Brotherhood. They were then and remain at war with themselves and others. Malcolm tried to align with all sides, a good choice for him then (perhaps), a “non-aligned” choice that was determined objectively by political and spiritual necessity.
Osagefyo cautioned us in 1964, that “a new harmony needs to be forged, a harmony that will allow the combined presence of traditional Africa, Islamic Africa and Euro-Christian Africa, so that this presence is in tune with the original humanist principles underlying African society.” He told us that “[o]ur society is not the old society, but a new society enlarged by Islamic and Euro-Christian influences.” He also told us that, “a new emergent ideology is therefore required, an ideology which can solidify in a philosophical statement, but at the same time an ideology which will not abandon the original humanists principles of Africa.” (Consciencism; Philosophy and ideology for decolonization. p. 70.) He named this philosophical statement consciencism. We did not listen to Nkrumah 50 years ago.
Sekou Toure delivered a position paper on the relationship of Religion and Revolution at the 1979 Congress of the Democratic Party of Guinea. Kwame Ture delivered a speech at Dunbar High School in 1983 on Religion and Revolution. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) will republish them on our webportal. We did not listen to them 35 or 31 years ago. Their voices are hot silent however.
The so-called “silence” of the African community in the United States regarding Sudan and South Sudan is a MYTH! You perhaps have not heard its many and conflicting voices. That is your problem, not ours. Perhaps you have heard, disagree with certain positions, and are lobbying against them. Again, your problem. We give two facts that debunk your myth of “silence:”
Again, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) unequivocally condemns the trafficking in and enslavement of all human beings—historically and currently—in all forms and manifestations, domestic and international, in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora and the World. We condemn human rights violations, genocide, ethnic and religious cleansing, chauvinism and ethnocentrism. We also condemn racism and sexism, capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, settler-colonialism, Zionism, segregation, apartheid and neo-colonialism.
We do not support 8th PAC in Capetown or Accra!
READY FOR THE REVOLUTION!
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
Statement on the 8th Pan-African Congress
August 19, 2014
To: International Preparatory Committee for the 8th Pan-African Congress (8th PAC) and the North American Delegation
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), respectfully, declines your invitation dated July 19, 2014, to participate in 8th Pan-African Congress, convening November 4-9, 2014, in Accra Ghana. We have followed the 40-year struggle to convene 6th, 7th and 8th PAC’s. The A-APRP (GC) has discussed the call for an 8th PAC for almost two years. We were informed about the progress of other efforts in Trinidad and South Africa. We were correspondingly informed of anti-Arab, anti-North African sentiments, anti-Muslim and other views. We exchanged our views—openly and principally–to all parties concerned, but did not join or attack any initiative. We would error by joining or attacking this 8th PAC initiative. For what purpose, and to what end?
Malcolm X correctly stated in 1964: kittens born in an oven are not biscuits. We are African, period; and it is unthinkable for us to be part of a Delegation that identifies itself as North American and is composed overwhelmingly of individuals and organizations with whom we share no history of struggle, and have minimal or nothing politically in common. We would never consent to being silenced, managed or controlled. We would never agree to implement positions and projects with which we disagree. We know that our Nkrumahist-Toureist analysis of history and our principled positions on socialism, capitalism, imperialism, neo-colonialism, apartheid and zionism would be a minority interpretation, a correct one nonetheless. It is better raised, principally, outside this Congress.
The 8th PAC theme speaks about a “pan-African Movement.” The A-APRP (GC) is part of the “Pan-African Movement,” and is conscious of the difference between the two. The 8th PAC theme calls for“structural transformation” without explaining how it is better than “structural adjustment”. The A-APRP (GC) calls for the political education and organization of the African masses, and for the organization of the African Revolution.
The African Revolution has identified its enemies and is crystal clear that the realization of Pan-Africanism can only come with the complete destruction of capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, settler-colonialism, segregation, apartheid, zionism, neo-colonialism, and with them sexism, racism, Euro-Asian supremacy, and all of their manifestations in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora and the world. We are also clear that, in our Pan-Africanist lineage, Pan-Africanism is correctly defined as, One Unified Socialist Africa!
“The Pan-African Congress Movement: Building Solidarity for Emancipation and Transformation” is posted on the North American Delegation’s official website. We note the ideological inconsistency with respect to the use of “pan” versus “Pan.” The Pan-African Congress Movement that it speaks of is at best, a subset of the larger Pan-African Movement; it is not the Movement. This paper references the “global political, social and environmental challenges” that we face today. It does not mention the global economic, military-police and ideological war that is raging in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora and the world. Why?
The A-APRP (GC) disagrees with this line of thinking regarding the origin of the Pan-African Movement, which has been the dominant view for a century, a view that was shared by Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure and Kwame Ture. Historical research and ideological struggle has called this view into question. It is sexist, elitist, chauvinist, micro-national and African-American centered. Intellectual honesty requires us to revisit and re-frame it.
How can Dr. W.E.B. DuBois be considered the “father of Pan-Africanism” when Henry Sylvester Williams and others proceeded him; and Marcus Garvey and George Padmore were his contemporaries? How many fathers do we have or need? Who is the“mother of Pan-Africanism?” The “roots of Pan-Africanism,” according to The Pan-African Congress Movement: Building Solidarity for Emancipation and Transformation, “can be traced to the trans-Atlantic slave-trade,” “500 years ago,” and “the bonds of solidarity and unity forged” on the slave ships. Why trade instead of trafficking? Why not war or “social violence” as Walter Rodney labeled these slave raids?
Why do we continue to frame Pan-Africanism as a reaction to Euro-Asiatic “adventures,” to paraphrase Kwame Nkrumah, albeit tragic ones? The A-APRP (GC) traces the roots of Pan-Africanism to the struggle—class struggle, following the laws of historical development, —to build a larger and more complex African society and civilization in every corner of Africa, north and south, east and west? Surely, this is the main root!
Why trace Pan-Africanism’s roots to the trans-Atlantic traffic exclusively, and not the trans-Mediterranean, trans-Red Sea, trans-Indian Ocean and other external routes of trafficking and the enslavement of Africans, many of which continue to function today? Why not also include the internal routes of human trafficking in every corner of Africa before, during and after the European and Asiatic (including Arab) invasions, which were conducted in the name of Judaism, Christianity and Islam? Did we not forge unity and solidarity during these Maafas as well?
Do we suggest that the 500,000 Africans trafficked to the United States made a greater contribution to the Pan-African Movement—which is larger than the Pan-African Congresses—than the 10,000,000 Africans who were trafficked to the rest of the Americas, or the 15,000,000 who were trafficked to Asia and Oceania? Is this not chauvinism, “American exceptionalism” in its ugliest form, by Africans enslaved in the “belly of the beast?”
As Nkrumahists-Toureists, we respect and support all progressive and revolutionary meetings and traditions within the Pan-African Movement. We condemn the counter-revolutionary and neo-colonialist meetings and traditions. We inherit and continue the revolutionary organizational tradition that emerged full blown at the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945. Our inheritance and continuation also emanates from the African Democratic Rally(RDA) in Bamako in 1946, the Bandung Conference in 1955, the African-Asian People’s Solidarity (AAPSO) meeting in Cairo in 1957, the All-African People’s Conference (AAPC) meeting in Accra in 1958, the Organization of the People’s of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAL)meeting in Havana in 1966, the Organization for Latin American Solidarity (OLAS) meeting in Havana in 1967, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) meeting in Caracas in 2004, and a host of follow-up, and other regional and local meetings. The 6th, 7th and 8th Pan-African Congresses are not a part of the Pan-African movement’s revolutionary tradition. We are conscious of the neo-colonial parties and governmental processes within the façade of the Pan-African Movement, but we choose to not have any relationship with them, or the African Union.
What does “intellectual understanding” and “spirit of freedom mean?”These concepts sound elitist and a-historical. Intellectuals understand, while the masses are imbued with emotions and spirits? This assessment, sounds like warmed over spittle, warmed over “Negritude”. We are asked to believe that Africa is “liberated,” with the exception of a few remaining colonies in Africa and the African Diaspora. How is this “liberation” defined; and when, where and how did it occur? How has it changed the condition and lives of the masses of African People on or off the continent? If “liberated,” then a new series of pan-African meetings is surely required? Those of us who know that Africa and the African Diaspora is not “liberated” will continue to fulfill our generational mission to help liberate it from the bottom up, not the top down.
Twenty years ago, on April 6, 1994, the last day of the 7th Pan-African Congress, a plane carrying Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, respectively, was shot down killing all aboard. Genocidal killings organized by the Rwandan government, mass murder organized by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a wave of spontaneous revenge killings, and mass displacement of the Rwandan people began the following day, and continued for four months. This event escalated the four year old “civil war.”
From April 7, 1994 to mid-July, an estimated 800,000–1,000,000 Rwandans were slaughtered: 300,000 to 500,000 Tutsis and 500,000 to 700,000 Hutus. Who murdered them, and why? What role did France, the United States, Tanzania, Uganda, Libya, and other countries play? An additional 2 million Rwandan citizens became external refugees, and 1 to 2 million became internal refugees. This Rwandan Genocide has had a lasting and profound impact on its neighboring countries, particularly in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, including the First Congo War (1996–97) and Second Congo War(1998-2003), and the conflict in Goma (2003-2013). Nothing was said about these crimes during the 7th PAC or the last 20 years. Why?
It would be a crime against our conscience, a crime against history, a crime against African and world humanity, if this silence of betrayal was permitted at the 8th Pan-African Congress. AFRICOM, the militarization of Africa, and related “democracy promotion” and “development” efforts by the United States and its allied governments must be condemned. The genocide being committed in Palestine, in West Papua New Guinea, and other areas of the world must also be exposed and condemned. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) rededicates itself to these tasks!
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
Invites you to attend
African Liberation Day
Saturday, May 17, 2014
The Festival Center
1640 Columbia Rd – Washington, DC
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
“Smash the Neo-colonialist Intelligentsia:
The True Face of the Counter-Revolution!”
African Liberation Day-2014, organized by the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), under the banner “Smash the Neo-colonialist Intelligentsia: the True Face of the Counter-Revolution!” is dedicated to defining and assessing the alignment of political forces on our campuses, in our urban and rural areas, villages and communities in the present-day, worldwide uncompromising ideological and organizational struggle between the neo-colonialist intelligentsia, the true face of the counter-revolution and the revolutionary intelligentsia, the Revolution and counter-revolution.
It is a historic ALD in that we are seeking to galvanize and spearhead the struggle to identify, ally with, and unite the revolutionary forces within the Pan-African and the international socialist movements and to intensify the political struggle against the neo-colonialist intelligentsia and the counter-revolution.
