All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

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Overarching objective of the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum

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By Omowale Rupert and Pan-African Society Community Forum

14 Gowlett Road, Peckham, London SE15 4HY,

Website: www.pascf.org.uk – Email: pascfevents1@gmail.com –

The Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF) is a Britain based Revolutionary Pan-Afrikanist organisation. We seek to make our contribution to the unification and liberation of Afrika and Afrikan people under a just social system. The achievement of this objective is Afrikan people’s contribution to the worldwide revolutionary movement.

It is within this context that we welcomed and facilitated the visit of senior comrade Bob Brown of the AAPRP-GC to our operational territory from 18th September to 30th October 2013. The PASCF operated with the following objects in focus:

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Objectives of the visit:

1. To deliver the 2013 Kwame Nkrumah Annual Memorial Lecture;
2. To facilitate educational forums broadcasting and advancing the aims and messages of Revolutionary Pan-Afrikanism to Afrikan people and others;
3. To support and enhance the PASCF/CPP consciencism study programme;
4. To build the membership and public image of the PASCF;
5. To lay the foundations for future strategic and tactical alliances with AAPRP (GC);
6. To strengthen operational working relations with CPP (UK & Ireland) with a view to building a future working alliance;
7. To develop and strengthen working relations with a widened range of Afrikan and non-Afrikan progressive groupings operating in Britain;
8. To support AAPRP (GC) in:

• Sharing its political massages in Britain;
• Building its public image in Britain;
• Carrying out research for general political education and the production of literature; and
• Visiting other locations in Afrika and Europe.

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Summary of outcomes of the visit:

1. The Kwame Nkrumah Annual Memorial Lecture 2013 was a great success. Attended by approximately 60 people, the audience was gripped by Bob’s presentation. The volume of questions and enquiries was of such magnitude that the meeting extended 2 hours beyond its planned finishing time. A follow-up meeting had to be arranged there and then to accommodate the level of interest. It was the quality of engagement that was the essence of the event’s success – a feature which characterised the whole tour.
2. Bob spoke at a range of events across Britain including in the cities of: London, Luton, Oxford, Birmingham, Leeds and Newcastle. Events in Liverpool and Leicester though provisionally discussed, did not materialise – nor did speaking engagements at a college and Trade union in London.
3. Given the limited planning time, the tour was very successful. Over 100 people attended the Tottenham event (North London) and over 200 the Leeds one. The South London event was broadcast live on PASCF’s newly launched internet TV station. The Revolutionary Pan-Afrikanist message was broadly spread across specific local communities.

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Summary of Program and Events:

1. Bob attended 2 consciencism study sessions. His inputs and insights were most welcome. The number of attendees increased as a direct result of his presence. More attention needs to be paid to retention of attendees.
2. No new members were directly recruited as a result of the tour. There is a heightened level of interest and there have been specific requests from people wishing to join which are being processed.
3. There has been an ongoing character assassination and undermining campaign against the PASCF and its founder by reactionary forces veiling themselves under the banner of ‘Pan-Afrikanism’. Bob’s visit has contributed positively to overcoming that destructive campaign and rebuilding the good name of the PASCF.
4. The PASCF and AAPRP-GC have informally agreed to develop a working alliance.
5. The CPP participated as chair in all the London meetings. The PASCF/CPP relationship has undoubtedly been strengthened by the visit. The next stage will be to encourage the participation of greater numbers of CPP members.
6. New relations have been established with a number of groups around the country. It is hoped that these will be strengthened over time. A number of organisations supported Bob’s delivery of the Kwame Nkrumah Annual Memorial Lecture as sponsors.
7. A number of idealist grouping claiming to be ‘Pan-Afrikanists’, including the group using the name ‘AAPRP Britain Chapter’ were not supportive and relations with them will have been further dampened as a result of the visit.
8. AAPRP (GC) successfully delivered elements of its political line during the visit and its public profile has been launched/raised. Bob was denied access to some national research institutions on the basis of bureaucratic technicalities. He did manage to access others and was given unrestricted access to a range of materials under the PASCF’s control. Some level of research was facilitated.
9. The PASCF is delighted to learn of the publication of Bob’s first book.
10. Financial and time constraints meant that a number of planned visits had to be deferred. Bob nonetheless visited Germany and participated in a conference.

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Additional brief comments:

The visit would have benefited from a greater degree of forward and budgetary planning. PASCF members and supports could have benefitted more from Bob’s vast wealth of geo-political knowledge and on future occasions this will need to be factored into the programme. A similar analysis could be made for the holding of joint organisational meetings with Bob. Although improvements are still possible, the visit was a resounding success. The PASCF was pleased to host Bob and looks forward to future co-operative ventures.

Approved by The Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF) Board

27th December 2013

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We, the more than three hundred delegates from 35 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East have gathered in Caracas, Venezuela, 24 to 27 of July, in the VII Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba.

Inspired by the example and legacy of Simon Bolivar, Jose Marti, Fidel Castro, the eternal Commander Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro and Nicolas Maduro, and under the 230 anniversary of the birth of the Liberator, the 160th anniversary of the birth of José Martí, the 60th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in the 55 year of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the 59th birthday of Commander Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias.

After six decades of heroics struggle waged by the Cuban people against imperialism and its criminal consequences, which enabled it to conquer for its people, a life of dignity and to deploy as humanistic solidarity for the people of the world, which is on record in the history of mankind, its worthy example has become fertile seed that begins to reap rewards, with the triumphs achieved by the struggles waged by other countries of the Americas, such as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and others who lead real integration and unity of our peoples, to their self-development, dignified and sovereign.

DECLARE:

1. Our firm will and commitment to the defense of the Cuban Revolution, independence, sovereignty, self-determination, dignity and all its accomplishments, which are an example for the peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean and the world.
2. To support the heroic process of the Venezuelan people and the Bolivarian Revolution, democratically endorsed in the recent elections, value your prominent and leading role in promoting unity and true integration of our peoples and governments through mechanisms such as ALBA, CELAC, UNASUR and Petrocaribe, among others.
3. We reject the genocidal, inhuman and anachronistic blockade on Cuba by U.S. imperialism and denounce the policy of permanent aggression developed by the different administrations in power.
4. We condemn the interventionist policy of the United States towards the fraternal Cuban people, to encourage internal political subversion by financing the counterrevolution and mercenaries who betrayed their country, have been given to actions that threaten the people and their dignified Revolution.
5. We demand the immediate and unconditional release of the Cuban heroes who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States and which are constantly violated their rights. Similarly, we demanded that the U.S. government extradite the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to face 73 murder charges related to the bombing of a Cubana Airliner. We also demand the extradition of fugitives from justice other Venezuelan who enjoy the protection of the United States in Florida, whose extradition requests remain pending before the State Department. Protecting terrorists and criminals, is to be complicit in their crimes.
6. We welcome the return of companiro René Gonzalez Schewerert to his homeland and with his family, having fully met the unjust and cruel sentence passed in a rigged trial, we recognize the role and constant efforts of the international mobilization to complaint against this injustice still pursues his four brothers Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez.
7. We exalt the economic and social achievements made by the Cuban Revolution, despite the criminal blockade, which are recognized by various UN agencies such as FAO, UNICEF, UNDP and UNESCO, which belies the smear campaigns and seeking to hide as prevaricators.
8. Condemn the aggressive and interventionist policy of the United States and its allies, in different regions of the world, the installation of a global system of military bases, some call secret water lilies, and activation of the 4th Fleet in the region of Latin American, who defile and undermine the sovereignty of peoples and undermine peace and peaceful coexistence. Similarly we demand the return of the territory occupied by the U.S. in Guantanamo against the will of the Cuban people.
9. Welcome the worthy president of Cuba makes CELAC, which constitutes a major construction and consultation space for the unification and integration of our peoples. Consequently congratulate the first conference of social movements in the countries that are part of this organization.
10. Flatly reject the aggression carried out by the United States and the servile attitude of the governments of Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, against the constitutional President of the Republic of Bolivia, Evo Morales, which constitutes an affront to Peoples of Our America and a return to colonial status that is still in force in different world regions.
11. We condemn the neo-colonial occupation of the territories of the Americas, in all its manifestations, which are victims Puerto Rico, Las Malvinas, and other peoples of the Caribbean, and we support their struggle for independence.
12. We support the struggles of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples, against toxic mega-mineral opencast capitalist corporations that mean the death of human beings and the destruction of the environment and diversity.
13. We support the ongoing efforts to achieve peace in Colombia.
14. We reiterate our solidarity with the Haitian people and express our support for their demand for withdrawal of foreign troops from its territory.
15. We call to strengthen continental solidarity movement with the Bolivarian Revolution, the peoples of the ALBA and others fighting for their liberation, to safeguard the unity and integration process of Latin American and Caribbean.
16. We subscribe to the agreements and the final declaration of the social movements of the CELAC.
17. We welcome and appreciate the presence of the families of the five in this great Continental Solidarity Meeting.
18. We thank the Government and people of Venezuela, the Mutual Solidarity Movement Venezuela-Cuba and the Bolivarian Youth, for the extraordinary welcome given to us, which made possible the realization of this successful meeting.

Given in the city of Caracas, Venezuela on the 27th day of July 2013.

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The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) is a Pan-African Socialist party whose mission is to politically educate and organize the scattered, suffering, and struggling masses worldwide into the movement for the total liberation and unification of the entire African continent under Scientific Socialism. We love and respect our allies and we passionately and vigorously expose and resist advocates of imperialism and their capitalist exploiter agents. The AAPRP (GC) recognizes one such enemy as that of George Soros.

George Soros is a Hungarian-born billionaire and philanthropist based in the U.S. He is Chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute.[1] The Open Society Institute and related Soros enterprises fund and herd uncountable thousands of private groups and globalist agencies, seeking to overthrow African governments and seize natural resources, in the name of fighting tyranny and corruption.[2]

One side of this nightmare is the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). It began when the George Soros organization known as Publish What You Pay, aided by propaganda from the Soros-funded Global Witness group, demanded that nations with valuable natural resources be compelled to turn over to multinational cartels and to the British government, all records of their transactions on these resources – so as to stop bribes![3]

He has also been affiliated with the counter revolutionary Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank which rallied against our revolutionary brother, Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam and spreads misinformation on the conditions in Africa.[4] The Open Society Institute is one of three nongovernmental funders of the Global Center for Responsibility to Protect, the military doctrine used by the Obama administration to justify the U.S. – led invasion of Libya.[5]

Soros through the Open Society Institute and numerous other organizations has provided financial backing for the overthrow of socialist governments in Hungary and other Eastern European countries.6] It is widely believed Soros earnestly began influencing, manipulating and interfering in African Affairs in the 1980s while investing in British mining and again, plantations.[7]

Along with other imperialist forces, he has provided financial support for the Movement for Democratic Change opposing the ZANU-PF government in Zimbabwe.[8] He aligns and partners with British imperialists scheming to overthrow the legitimate government of Robert Mugabe, who indeed champions land redistribution for the indigenous Africans, landless due to European settler land monopolizers and thieves.[9] Soros’ Open Society Institute through the U.S. government base National Endowment for Democracy and U.K. government’s Westminster Foundation, and also British and other European plantation owners from Southern Zimbabwe plotted out schemes between 2000-2005 to topple Mugabe’s presidency.[10]

Further incriminating evidence in his suspect affiliation with known felon and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who allied with the Reagan Administration to spy and assassinate activists and revolutionaries who were fighting South Africa’s immoral and politically incorrect system of apartheid and settler colonialism.[11] In Africa’s Egypt, Soros is said to have manipulated the Arab Spring of 2011 by creating a magazine funded again by the Open Society Institute, aimed at linking bloggers and the elite, using Facebook, thus creating a means to propel the Muslim Brotherhood to victory over the back of legitimate Socialists revolutionary parties which would have added impetus to the Pan-African and Socialist Revolution.[12]

More importantly, the blood on Soros’ hands, not only includes Egypt, but perhaps Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain. Currently, no doubt machinations are underway for the the overthrow of Iran’s government, another prediction by Soros. Also in 2011, one must shift blame in his direction as a key figure in the toppling and subsequent murder of our brother Muammar Qaddafi. Soros, serving as an advisor to President Obama, recommended the unconstitutional bombing of Libya and placed unlawful restrictions on their fly zone, which in itself, constitutes an act of war not sanctioned by the U.S. Congress and most alarming violates the War Powers Act , and subsequently paved the way for another Muslim Brotherhood triumph.[13]

Soros backs Revenue Watch, which is a resources watchdog that is advising Alpha Conde of Guinea on getting more capital from mining companies in negotiations.[14] He also has mining interests in Liberia, where Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson has interest in hosting a base for AFRICOM.[15]

Based on the points listed above, we should not support any organization being funded by George Soros since he is a part of the bourgeois forces perpetuating capitalist intervention and domination of Africa and has aided in the setback for the struggle for socialism in Europe.

References

[1] George Soros – Wikipedia

[2] Executive Intelligence Review “Death by Diamonds: Soros Pushes Africa’s Apocalypse”

[3] Ibid.

[4] Council on Foreign Relations ,Africa program p.1

[5] WND: “Why U.S. Military in Uganda? Soros Fingerprints All Over It”

[6] George Soros – Wikipedia

[7] The Dirty Operation Against Zimbabwe: Soros, Abramoff, and British Africa p. 3

[9] The Dirty Operation Against Zimbabwe: Soros, Abramoff, and British Africa p. 3

[10] Ibid.

[11] Ibid.

[12] George Soros – Wikipedia

[13] Ibid.

[14] Mineweb: “Guinea Publishes Mining Deals Online in Transparency Bid”

[15] All Africa: “George Soros, Rothschild, AFRICOM, and Liberia’s Gold”

Delivered by Banbose Shango

Nation co-chair, National Network on Cuba and Organizer, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

July 2013

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Sisters and Brothers, Comrades and Friends,

I bring you greetings from your fellow solidarity workers, living and struggling in the “belly of the beast”, the United States; I bring you greetings from the African American community, where we are murdered every 38th hours by the police (public and private, according to recent releases finding by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement).  I bring you greetings from the over 3 million prisoners, mass-incarcerated in the US’s PIPC (Prison Industrial Police Complex),  prisoners of conscience, prisoners of war and political prisoners, including the “cinco  heroes, held in the largest public/private prison system (4,575 + prisons)  in the world. I bring you greetings from our Latino brothers and sisters, fighting against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement); walls of discrimination, exploitation and xenophobia, and against the border walls. I bring you greetings from the 99%, the occupy movement, struggling against big capital  the 1%. I bring you the greetings and the respect of the National Network on Cuba and their member organizations.

The National Network on Cuba is an umbrella, if you will, of most of the movements, organizations and parties working in solidarity with Cuba in the USA. Our member organization has varying methods, objectives and tactics, but all respect the sovereignty of the Cuban people, their right of self-determination, which demands that Cuba has a right to their own government formation, their own system and their own social order.  That Cuba has a rights to secure and sustainable development, free of interference and sabotage from the USA.

Our members travel regularly with or without approval of the State Department (license) to Cuba and will continue to do so until the racist, illegal and unjust travel ban is lifted. Our member, join the masses of the world, who every year for the past 20 years at the United Nations, resolve that the United States must lift its unilateral embargo and blockade on Cuba. Our members have monitored legislations about Cuba and lobbied against the negative ones and for the positive ones. Our member organizations are in the forefront of the struggle to free the Cuban Five, unjustly imprisoned in the USA.

We thank the Cuban people and their government, for what they have done for the world, for what they have done for humanity, and for what they have done for the children. It is with deep respect and envy that we recall that during the special period, 1992, that Cuba while undergoing tremendous financial hardship, could report that: “Cuba did not close one school; they did not close one hospital”. In the USA with any financial calamity, the first to be cut and closed are the schools and hospital and the social safety nets. We again thank Cuba for the offer to send doctors and medical personnel to the US during hurricane Katrina and hurricane Sandy. We thank Cuba for giving free scholarship to minority and under-privilege students in the USA to study at the prestigious Latin American School of Medicine (ELAN) in Havana, Cuba. And we thank Cuba for what it has done for South and Central America, and the Caribbean and the world. We owe a debt of gratitude to the Cuban people, their party the CPC and their farsighted and iconic leadership especially Fidel and Raul Castro.

We want to make it perfectly clear that we see the contradictions rising up in the USA and have contrasted them to Cuba, where a Yani Sanchez can leave Cuba go on an international speaking tour, funded by the Cuban mafia in Miami and Spain and the US governments’ NED, telling horrible lies about Cuba, and return to Cuba without any harassment or obstruction from the Cuban government. Yet a Bradley Manning is held in jail and tortured for exposing the US’s war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan. A grandmother, Assata Shakur, living in Cuba, has a $2 million bounty placed on her head by the FBI for struggling for Black Liberation in the 1970’s in the USA. Yet the US still refuses to expedite terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to serve time for his Crimes against humanity.  Edward Snowden, who exposed the US spy network NSA spying on US citizens and the world, is being hunted by the US-NATO coalition, leading to the kidnapping of Bolivia’ president Evo Morales, over Europe in July. Yet the US continues it’s war against the people and against the environment.

We want to thank the Organizing Committee of the VII Continental Solidarity Conference, the National Movement of Friendship and Mutual Solidarity Venezuela-Cuba (Movimiento Nacional  De Amistad y Solidaridad Mutua Venezuela-Cuba) We know the hard work, the logistical coordination, the time and patience it takes to carry out an endeavor of this magnitude.  We are honored to be in Venezuela on the exact anniversary date of the birth of two of South America greatest Liberators: Simon Bolivar (July 24, 1783) and Hugo Chavez (July 28, 1954).  We thank the PSUV (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela) for hosting us and for providing the meeting spaces. We salute President Nicholas Maduro, and feel that the revolution initiated by President Hugo Chavez is in good hands. May the union of Venezuela and Cuba and the other ALBA countries continue.

We praise the recent announcement that Venezuela is preparing an air defense capable of withstanding an attack from the empire. We are sure that Venezuela is aware of the new model of warfare being practiced by the empire which includes, but is not limited to traditional military forces, special force units, mercenaries, in country assets, robotics, and computerize social networking, all at the same time. Inside the USA, Venezuela like Cuba has our full support and solidarity.

Long live Fidel and Raul Castro!

Long live President Nicalos Maduro!

Long live President Hugo Chavez!

Free the Cuban Five!

Venceramous!

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Political/Ideological 2013 Summer School Programme

Venue: Braamfontein Recreation Centre

Place: Johannesburg, Azania (South Africa)

Date: 6, 7 and 8^th December 2013

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Report prepared by Banbose Shango, Alicia Jrapko and Cheryl La

National Co-chairs of the National Network On Cuba

July 2013

The VII Continental Conference in Solidarity with Cuba was held in Caracas , Venezuela  July 24 to July 27, 2013. More than 300 delegates from 35 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East attended.

Inspired by the example and legacy of the great Liberator of Latin America and the Caribbean Simon Bolivar, Jose Marti, Fidel Castro, the eternal Comandante Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, of Raul Castro and Nicolas Maduro, the Conference marked the 230th anniversary of Bolivar’s birth, the 160th anniversary of the birth of Jose Marti, the 60th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks, the 55th year of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the 59th birthdate of the great Venezuelan leader who died in March, Comandante Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias.

The delegation from the United States included representatives of several NNOC member organizations. Among the NNOC member organizations represented were IFCO , Pastors for Peace, All Africa People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), ANSWER, Socialist Workers’ Party, International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5, the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, ANSWER, Plumbers Brigade, International Action Center, and three co-chairs of the National Network On Cuba, Banbose Shango, Alicia Jrapko and Cheryl LaBash. To offset the high cost of U.S.-Caracas air travel, the Conference organizers subsidized housing, meals and transportation to conference events. 
The Cuban delegation was headed by Ana Maria Mari Machado, Vice-President of the Cuban Parliament and Kenia Serrano, President of ICAP. The Cuban delegation also included Irma Sehwerert, mother of Rene Gonzalez; Aili Labanino, the daughter of Ramon Labanino; Camilo Rojo, son of a victim of terrorism; Leonela Relis, developer of Yo Si Puedo, the renown Cuban literacy method; Miguel Barnet, president of Cuba’s union of writers and artists (UNEAC); Aleida Guevara, daughter of "Che," Rosa Miriam Elizalde, editor of Cubadebate.cu;  and many others.

On July 24, the first event at Bolivar Plaza recognized the 230th birth of Simon Bolivar with flowers and program. Near the plaza, a Solidarity Exposition lined the street with displays and information of Cuba-Venezuela advances in culture, sports, literacy and medicine through Barrio Adentro, Misiones Ribas and Robinson, and Operation Milago.

The main events took place at the Principal Theater in the morning followed by lunch and plenary discussions at Colegio Universitario Francisco de Miranda where a statement from the NNOC was read. A panel discussion was also held at the National Assembly. Noteworthy both in the main metro transfer station and the conference room of the university venue was the prominent display of the historical contributions of Afro-Venezuelans and also African revolutionary leaders. Topics included the 2014-2015 Plan of Action, the struggle against the U.S. blockade of Cuba , solidarity and continental integration; actions to free the Cuban 5; the struggle against terrorism and the legacy of Comandante Hugo Chavez Frias. A panel commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Network in Defense of Humanity, featured noted Argentine author Stella Calloni who is known for her writing on the bloody U.S. "Operation Condor" intervention in Latin America.. She stressed the danger of U.S. bases to Latin American and Caribbean independence and spoke out against the imperialist-backed war against the government of Syria .

Calloni was one of the many internationally recognized authors present including Stephen Kimber whose new book "What lies across the water, the true story of the Cuban 5" uncovers the facts leading to their arrest and unjust conviction; Arnold August and Salim Lamrani.

On July 26, delegates watched the televised celebration in Santiago , Cuba that dramatized the achievements of continental unity. Representatives of the Boliviarian Alliance of the Americas – ALBA spoke — including Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Antigua and Barbuda ‘s Winston Baldwin Spencer; Saint Lucia ‘s Kenny Davis Anthony and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ‘ Ralph Gonsalves, and the Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patino and other leaders and international guests. This program aired on Cuban television was viewable in the U.S. over the internet, as well.

The Santiago program echoed the conference’s major theme of continental solidarity achieved with the vision of Comandante Hugo Chavez Frias and the Bolivarian Revolution of the Venezuelan people.

The youth string orchestra thrilled the packed Theater Teresa Carreno at the Inaugural Cultural Gala where Venezuelan Vice-President Jorge Alberto Arreaza Montserrat spoke following the concert.

The Conference completed debate and adopted the Declaration of Caracas and Plan of Action on Saturday afternoon, then gathered at the statue of Marti where Cuban doctors and other Caracas residents joined the delegates to march to the Cuartel de la Montana 4F, the mausoleum and museum of Comandante Hugo Chavez life. This hilltop military fortress is the site of Chavez Feb. 4, 1992 rebellion launching the Bolivarian revolution. The spirited and winding march up the hillside was greeted by residents waving from the windows of high rise apartment buildings.

The final declaration included unwavering solidarity with Cuba, its independence, self-determination, sovereignty, dignity and achievements; support for the heroic process of the Venezuelan people and their Bolivarian Revolution ratified democratically in the recent elections recognizing its leadership and outstanding role in unity and integration of the people and government through the mechanisms like ALBA, CELAC, UNASUR and PETROCARIBE and others; rejected the genocidal, inhuman and anachronistic blockade imposed on Cuba by North American imperialism and denounce its permanent aggression policy; condemn the political interference by the U.S. against the Cuban people, internal political subversion financing counterrevolution and mercenaries; demanded the immediate and unconditional liberation of the Cuban 5 — Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez — heroes unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. and the violation of their rights; demanded the extradition of known terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela, denouncing him and other terrorists who freely live with impunity in the streets of Miami with the approval of the U.S. authorities; condemned the aggressive political and interventionism of the U.S. and its allies in the various regions of the world like the installation of military bases; demanded the return of U.S. occupied Guantanamo; roundly rejected the U.S. aggression and servile actions of the governments of Austria, France, Spain and Portugal against the constitutional president of the Plurinational Republic of Bolivia, Evo Morales that constituted an affront to the people of Our America and that a return to colonial status is in force in various regions of the world; condemned colonialism and its manifestations and victims in Puerto Rico and other people of the Caribbean who are struggling for independence.

The document saluted the return of Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert to his family and Cuba; recognized the achievements of the Cuban Revolution acknowledged by United Nations agencies like UNECEF, UNESCO, FAO and others, despite the criminal U.S. blockade; saluted Cuba’s current presidency of CELAC that constitutes important space for unification and integration of our people, and greeted the first conference  of social movements from these participating countries.

And finally, thanked the government and people of Venezuela , the Movement of Venezuela-Cuba Mutual Solidarity, Bolivarian youth for the extraordinary work that made the Conference possible.

Some points in the action plan included: intensified use of social and alternative media to tell the truth about Cuba . ICAP will create a method for centralizing information to push this battle forward; expand the Movement in Solidarity with Cuba with other sectors like students, unionists, intellectuals, sports, religious and social and cooperative organizations, with priority to mobilize parliamentarians at every level to make statements of support for Cuba; redouble the campaign to free the Cuban 5 and the Puerto Rican prisoners; prioritize assistance to the next 5 Days for the Cuban 5 and other actions in the U.S.; strengthen the campaign for the 5 on the 5th of every month; mobilize delegates for the IX Colloquium for the freedom of the Cuban 5 and against terrorism in Holguin from November 13 – 17 along with the International Seminar for peace and the abolition of foreign military bases in Guantanamo November 17 – 20; and keep the agreement from the II World Solidarity Conference declaring Oct. 10 as a World Day of Struggle against the U.S. blockade of Cuba; summon the Diaspora living in the U.S. to promote the international campaign to free the Cuban 5.

 

WHAT IS THE A-APRP ^(GC)

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party ^(GC), the A-APRP ^(GC), is a Pan-Africanist Socialist party whose mission is to politically educate and organize the scattered, suffering, and struggling African Masses worldwide into the movement and organization for the total liberation and unification of the entire African continent under Scientific-Socialism.  We are clear that Pan-Africanism is the primary objective and condition for alleviating our suffering and better enabling our progress and development.

We accept, as a historical fact and current reality that all persons of African descent, wherever we are scattered, in Africa (north and south of the Sahara) and the African Diaspora, are African, and belong to the African Nation.  We understand that the scattering of Africans all over the World and our continuing untold suffering is due, primarily; to the racist, capitalist, imperialist system and that nation, class and gender struggle is the motive force for qualitative, revolutionary, change and progress in Africa and the World.

The A-APRP ^(GC)  is the inheritor and continuator of the revolutionary ideas, teachings, struggles, and works of Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure, and Kwame Ture.  We are for the complete independence, unification and revolutionary development of the African nation under scientific-socialism.  The A-APRP ^(GC) is anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-neocolonialist, anti-racist and anti-Zionist.  We are opposed to all bourgeois philosophies and ideologies which seek to defend and perpetuate the racist, capitalist, imperialist system; and as a consequence, mis-educates, divides, disorganizes, exploits and oppresses the masses of the people.

Ideologically and philosophically speaking, the A-APRP ^(GC) is uncompromising in our understanding that, the struggle for Pan-Africanism, like the struggle for Socialism throughout the World, is scientific.  Its laws are scientifically discovered, not invented or created by ideologists.  These laws are discovered by observing and analyzing material reality in both its general and specific aspects; and they are mastered and understood when consciously embraced and successfully executed to change the undesirable and unacceptable reality.

• Our philosophy, Philosophical Consciencism, articulated in Kwame Nkrumah’s 1970 publication of Consciencism:  Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization, is deeply materialist.  It asserts the absolute, independent and primary existence of matter as a plenum of forces in tension, endowed with the capacity for spontaneous self-motion; asserts the secondary existence of non-material forms such as time, space, mind, spirit, ideas, etc.; and claims the reality of categorical conversion as the interaction and transformation of matter to non-matter and vice versa.
• Our scientific method of analysis is dialectical and historical materialism, correctly applied to African history, present day reality and the African Personality.
• Our ideology is Nkrumahism-Toureism, which takes its name from the consistent, revolutionary, scientific socialist and Pan-Africanist principles followed, implemented and taught by Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure and Kwame Ture; three of the foremost exponents and practitioners of the scientific strategy to liberate and unify Africa under Scientific Socialism.
• Our objective is Pan-Africanism, defined at the 5^th Pan-Africanist Congress in Manchester, England in 1945, and reaffirmed in Kwame Nkrumah’s 1970 publication of Class Struggle in Africa, as the total liberation and unification of Africa under Scientific Socialism.  We believe that African people must be politically educated and organized in a mass, revolutionary, all-African political party to achieve our Pan-African objective; and that ideological struggle and revolutionary work are the essential determining forces in our struggle to achieve Pan-Africanism.

INTENSFYING THE IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE

Neo-colonialism, which is the last stage of capitalism and imperialism, in all of its forms and manifestations, is the primary enemy of Africa and the African Diaspora today.  The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party ^(GC) reaffirms the 1961 – Cairo All-African Peoples’ Conference Resolution on Neo-Colonialism.  We also reaffirm:

• Kwame Nkrumah’s repudiation of African Socialism and the notion of the so-called Third World.
• Ahmed Sekou Toure’s analysis of the People’s Class and the Anti-People’s Class;  his denunciation of Negritude as an enemy of the African Revolution; his affirmation of Revolution as an act of Culture; and his assertion that the ideology of the African Revolution emerges from the Revolutionary culture and material conditions of the African people.
• Kwame Ture’s position which clarifies that Pan-Africanism is the highest political expression of Black Power and Black or African Nationalism.

In the limited time and space available to us tonight, the A-APRP (GC) will identify several key ideological struggles we seek to intensify.  We will clarify our position on these struggles over the coming weeks and months. Our positions will be posted on our web portal.

As Nkrumahist-Toureist who have consistently advocated for correct ideology as the guide for the African Revolution, we call for and welcome intense, informed and honest ideological struggle around the following points:

1. The necessity to expose fake Pan-Africanists, and to engage reactionary right-wing nationalists, micro-nationalists, fetishists, and tribalists regarding their failure to understand that they represent a fetter or brake in the advancement and progress of the African Revolution.

2. The necessity to expose and reject ethnic chauvinism, religious intolerance, sectarianism, class, gender and national exploitation and oppression in the balkanized states of Africa and the African Diaspora as forms of neo-colonialism and enemies of revolutionary African nationalism and unity.

3. The need to correct the dogmatic and mechanistic socialists, regarding their failure to understand the determining power of ideology and culture as instruments of the organized masses in changing the material conditions of their existence.

4. The necessity of scientific revolutionary ideology emerging from the social/cultural milieu of each people as the most correct means for organizing them.

5. The necessary destruction of capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, settler-colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism and Zionism throughout Africa, the African Diaspora and the World and the reconstruction of society under Scientific-Socialism.

6. Revolutionary nationalism, which is still the requisite channel for waging anti-colonial struggle necessitates the continued demand for an anti-racist, non-chauvinistic defense of a Socialist Republic of Africa, in the era of colonialism, settler-colonialism and neo-colonialism, where foreign domination is still the primary form of exploitation and oppression of the African People and Nation.

7. The necessity to expose and reject the African Union and similar structures throughout the Africa and the African Diaspora who, without policies and actions demanding genuine revolutionary, anti-imperialist, political unification under Scientific Socialism, become agents of neo-colonialism. We further reject and seek to expose the efforts of Diaspora groups fighting for membership in the AU as conscious or unconscious co-conspirators in legitimizing and sustaining the corruption inside the AU.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, MILITARY AND HUMANITARIAN AID

8. We denounce the efforts of organizations such as AFRICOM, NEPAD, USAID, etc. seeking military, economic, political, and so-called humanitarian aid relations with reactionary, puppet African leaders and regimes as forms neo-colonialism which undermines and diminishes genuine independence.  Seeking membership in and expecting change through capitalist/imperialist parties and government formations in Africa and the African Diaspora (including the presidency, congress, parliament, etc.)  which maintain and further the exploitation of the African Masses is neo-colonialist.  Africa Day or African liberation Day activities funded or organized by AFRICOM, USAID, US Embassies, the US Congress etc. are efforts to co-opt, redirect, control and destroy institutions created by the masses of the people

9. Leaders and members of parties and movements in Africa and the African Diaspora who misuse their historical positions in the mass organizations or movements during the national liberation phase of our struggle; who are in positions of power in these parties, movements and in government today, and are unwilling to improve the condition of the people; and who misuse their positions of power to accumulate individual/family/tribal privilege and wealth are neo-colonial puppets and enemies of the people.

INTELLECTUAL AND MOVEMENT IDEOLOGUES

10. We contend that occupying academic and movement space, misusing intellectual and organizational resources, engaging in research that has no relationship to the material needs or aspirations of our People and promoting erroneous ideas and information as education, who’s intent or result is to maintain the status quo by mis-educating, distracting and dis-organizing the people is neo-colonialist.

11. We denounce all cultural nationalist philosophies including, but not limited to Negritude, African socialism, Ujamaa Socialism, third universal theories, Afro-centrism, Sankofaism, etc., which promote racist, tribal, ethnocentric, pro-capitalist interests, and organizational formations as neo-colonialist.

12. While we understand the African Revolution is part of the world socialist movement and as such has its own unique historical material reality and contributions, we maintain the necessity of its independence. We reject as chauvinistic and counter-revolutionary the imposition of foreign cultures, ideologies and forms of organizations and struggle which claim to be revolutionary, scientific and universally correct, but have not considered the specific culture, experiences and material conditions of African society.

CALL TO REVOLUTIONARY POSITIVE ACTION

The Masses of the People in Africa, the African Diaspora and the World are the true makers, artisans and motive force of their histories. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) has unconditional and uncompromising faith in African and other Oppressed Peoples, when properly educated and organized, to decide and execute their liberation. Our task, and yours, is to help politically educate and organize them, because revolutionary culture, ideology and political organization are the weapons of the oppressed.

The A-APRP ^(GC) will not make any compromises over our Nkrumahist-Toureist principles, ideology or Pan-African objective with capitalism, imperialism, or its neo-colonial agents. Though the struggle, political, economic and social, will be long, hard and fierce, victory is certain!  Africa will be free, united and socialist, even if not in our lifetime!

The African Revolution is currently bogged down with ideological chaos and confusion, organizational corruption and treachery, enemies of the Revolution, and enemies of Oppressed Humanity. Thus, the A-APRP (GC) calls for Positive Action.

We ask progressive and revolutionary forces worldwide to join us in launching, waging and winning this ideological struggle.

We ask you to join and build an organization to combat capitalism, imperialism, neocolonialism, & corruption in order to construct Scientific-Socialism and end exploitation and oppression.  We ask you to join and build an organization which seeks to properly educate and organize the masses of the people; an organization willing to suffer, sacrifice, and serve the African masses and Oppressed Humanity.

We ask revolutionary Pan-Africanists throughout Africa and the African Diaspora and other revolutionary fighters for liberation and Scientific Socialism to join and/or align with the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC).  In closing, we ask that you:

Intensify the Ideological Struggle and the Work of the Revolution!

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