[Youthsurvival-network] Fwd: Forming a world wide coalition of African organizations

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• Subject: Fwd: Forming a world wide coalition of African organizations
• From: ForAfricanWomen@xxxxxxx
• Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 07:09:46 EDT
• Full-name: ForAfricanWomen

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• Subject: Forming a world wide coalition of African organizations
• From: AAPRUP2@xxxxxxx
• Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 06:24:30 EDT
• Full-name: AAPRUP2

ALL AFRICAN PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY
UNIFICATION PARTY
PO Box 23074 Oakland, CA 94623-0074
Phone: (415) 789-7360  E-mail: AAPRUP2@xxxxxxx



To: All African organizations for the total liberation and unification of Africa
Re: Forming a worldwide coalition

June 5, 2005

President Kwame Nkrumah, first president of Ghana said, "All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any other part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation."
First of all we want to compliment and encourage you for being organized because it is organization that decides everything. It is out of historical necessity that we call on all African organizations for the total liberation and unification of Africa to form a worldwide coalition. President Sekou Toure, the first President of Guinea tells us, "The first requirement for all people desiring to control history and their destiny, is organization. History teaches us that defective organization is better than the total absence of organization, for, at least organized people are capable of analyzing the functioning of their organization and if finding that this function is defective, correcting it in one way or another." It is necessary for all of our organizations to analyze and correct the defects of our organizations so we can serve the people better. One serious defect of our organizations is that we have not aggressively organized a very active worldwide coalition of African organizations to fight for the total liberation and unification of Africa, and self-reliance. World wide our people are still dependent on other people to solve our basic problems of housing, food, transportation, healthcare, education, clean drinking water for all, employment/skills, etc. To solve these problems, we must build a strong infrastructure in Africa and be tightly organized inside and outside of Africa.
In the 20th century Africa fought one of the greatest anti-colonialist struggles ever when we put out the British, the French, the Germans, the Italians, the Portuguese, the United States, etc. During this time Africa developed some of the greatest leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, etc. Kwame Nkrumah led this process. We say this because another defect of our organizations is that we have not read the instructions that our leaders left us in their writings and books.
We would like to share some of President Nkrumah's instructions from his book, Africa Must Unite, chapter 17 Economic and Political Integration: Africa's Need. "The unity of the countries of Africa is an indispensable pre-condition for the speediest and fullest development, not only of the continent but of the individual countries linked together in the union.
Advancing science, the new technologies, the constant improvements in modes of production and techniques of management, the economic realities of this second half of the twentieth century demand large expanses of land, with their variegated natural resources, and massive populations, to obtain the greatest benefits from them and thereby sustain their profitability. Today, those powers embracing large aggregates of population and earth surface are more capable of full industrialization."
"It is equally romantic to think that the Development Fund could ever be big enough to provide anything like the investment capital the African states require for substantial development…. This is the neo-colonialism of the European Common Market, which holds out to the undeveloped African states the threat of discriminatory tariffs for those who do not come in and the promise of aid for those who do. It is a 'heads I win, tails you lose' policy, which aims to create a bitter schism among the independent African states or else to cajole them all into the fold of the European market, in the same old imperialist relationship of the European rider on the African horse. Any of the states that enter deprive themselves of the possibility of independent action. They will have lost their freedom to trade wherever it is most advantageous or to secure capital from the most convenient sources. They will, moreover, have surrendered their policy of non-alignment by attaching themselves to the European economic organization which is linked with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O.). Even worse, they will be compelled to betray the cause of African freedom, by the support they will be obliged to give to the imperialist suppression of the emancipation struggle in Africa. In short, they will have sold their African birthright for a mess of neo-colonialist pottage.
Nor could there be any idea of solid industrialized advancement for these African states in the interests of their people. For, having returned themselves to the imperialist fold, this time of their own 'free' will and not by territorial conquest, the same forces which kept them tagging behind the industrialized countries of the West will continue to operate. The African countries will once more be wide open to imperialist exploitation. Political independence will be a sham and will have gained nothing except the aggrandizement of certain opportunist groups within the national societies and the enrichment of the neo-colonialist interest. Economic independence will be farther away than ever and the conflicts within these African societies will be more severe, because the class divisions will crystallize sharply under the more ruthless demands of neo-colonialist monopoly to feed its greedier and greedier economic and military machines."
The calling for this worldwide African organization coalition is necessary for us to unite politically. We are not going to be able unify from the top down, because the leadership of most of the African governments are corrupt and firmly in the camp of imperialism and against the people. We believe that our true unity will come from the ground up, and therefore from the organizations that are truly organizing the masses of our people for liberation and self-sufficiency. President Nkrumah again, "It is clear that radical changes in economic planning in Africa are urgently needed, and this can only be achieved quickly and effectively if we are united politically. At the 1962 meeting of the E.C.A. to which reference has just been made, speakers found it difficult to separate economic and political issues. This is because they are, for us, inseparable at this time in our history. For the radical changes that are urgently needed in economic planning can only be brought about quickly and effectually if we are united politically."
We challenge the African organizations inside the United States to build a strong movement that is clearly part of the African liberation movement with an educational emphasis on trying to get all Africans inside the United States to join an organization working for the people. A movement which has as an important goal, control of our communities in the spirit of being self-sufficient. A movement that struggles with all the strength that we have against the United States war on Africa. A movement that is determined that Africans will solve the problems of Africa. We must demand that there be no foreign military bases in Africa. We must encourage our children that they must educate themselves with the intention of building a strong infrastructure in
Africa by studying science and technology. We must solve the HIV/AIDS problem globally for the masses of our people. We must demand debt relief bringing out the absurdity of Africa owning debt to our historical oppressors. We want our people who are outside of Africa to get into a permanent habit of getting resources to Africa, just like the Chinese are in the habit of getting resources to China. The movement must create an atmosphere in which African organizations are working with each other as never before. The possibilities are endless if we build this kind of movement.
We know that liberation is a process and it is not our intention to simply collect a lot of names of organizations that claim to want to be a part of the coalition. More importantly, this coalition will be built by the actions of organizations objectively doing work that benefits the liberation of Africa. There are many organizations that have been fighting for the liberation of Africa for many years. Some of these organizations have had intense struggles with each other over the years. We are not discouraged by this fact, on the contrary this encourages us, because the unity that we need is like the unity our comrade Amilcar Cabral spoke of which is, Unity, struggle, Unity. We believe that we are on a higher level of unity with those that we have struggled with than we are with those that we have not struggled with. For true unity requires struggle. We want to aggressively increase the number of organizations that we have unity with using the formula, Unity, struggle, Unity. It is a challenge we look forward to.



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