The Indispensible Role of the African Masses

[RWalker]

Greetings to all,

As we know the struggle to build Pan-Africanism has been the major weapon of our people for more than a century now. It is important that we all understand this as it is the key to our liberation. There are many obstacles standing in our way...but we have many strengths and assets. Properly organized we will overcome all obstacles.


The shameful NAACP attempt at a love fest with the Fuhrer Bush, the continued assault on the McKinney campaign by elements of both capitalist parties, the unrelenting physical and psychological warfare waged against the African community in this country are al part and parcel of the very same phenomena -- the war against Africa and Africans.


Dr. Nkrumah cajoled, pleaded with, instructed, admonished, warned, reminded and begged us to grasp this fundamental fact. He clearly declared that the solution to the problems of Africans at home and abroad could only be resolved through Pan-Africanism, the establishment of a socialist union government for Africa that would serve all Africans everywhere. He also correctly pointed out that such a government could not arise without the successful prosecution of a continental war against our oppressors; a war which he pointed out that would require the continuance and qualification of the African fighting forces outside of Africa, in places such as this hemisphere, Europe and elsewhere. He was particularly vocal in his support and admiration for the Black Power movement.


Our beloved brother Malcolm X (Omowale) believed likewise, stating that as Africans we are nothing without Africa and encouraging us to fight for our freedom -- and not continue to embrace the constraints, restraints and limitations on our actions imposed on us by the very forces who are exploiters and oppressors. The system was so afraid of Malcolm's message that it deployed anthropologists to study the degree of penetration of his view in street organizations in a study of the Vice Lords here in Chicago conducted in the mid-60s.


Brother Kwame Ture followed the same path as Osaygefo and Omwoale, dedicating his entire adult life to the struggle for African people and pointing out that we have to fight with all available means. Even in the last few months of his life the establishment was so concerned about his impact that in his C-SPAN interview with Brian Lamb, Lamb repeatedly queried Kwame about his role in the Bloods and Crips response to the Rodney King verdict. Kwame responded by saying that he only told them the truth about the situation and the need for unity as well as suggested some tactical responses to the organized aggression waged against our community in LA...

Internationally, Africa remains divided and facilitating, primarily because of corrupt leadership in the employ of international capital. In a Jana article we read about the continued consolidation of the US military in Africa


"The US coast guard forces conducted a one day joint exercises with the Maltese naval and air forces, near the Maltese coast."


"The Maltese "The independent" newspaper reported that these US-Maltese joint exercise which the newspaper did not mention its date included operations and tasks related to the implementation of sea law, maintenance work besides naval exercises.


"The newspaper said the US coast guard forces are currently deployed in the Mediterranean, and West Africa to consolidate the US naval operations in those two regions."

"US Maltese military maneuvers near the Maltese coast" Valletta- 21.07.06-Jana-


Then there is the confusion about the alleged Ethiopian incursion into Somalia Some sources insist that it occurred while Ethiopian sources deny it. Whatever the case it is symptomatic of the general confusion in the horn.

Just yesterday I received an email from the PAC - Azania. The email contained an attachment with a stack of PAC documents. One of the things that I found most alarming was the fascist tactics of the ANC in the last 's elections, let me quote a section from the PAC press release on the subject:




They (ANC) have not only destroyed PAC posters. In Vryburg they stabbed a PAC candidate. He was hospitalized. At Ramotse in Hammerskraal they are reported to have murdered Dani Kekana, a PAC member. In Uitenhage, they are suspected to have hijacked a vehicle belonging to PAC members whom they found putting up PAC posters. All PAC election materials were taken at gun point. At Lebaleng in Makwassie North West Province, violence broke out between PAC and ANC members.



The reason? It is reported that an ANC members took a PAC T-shirt and put it on a dog. And let the dog run around ...



In many other parts of the country many ANC members have been telling voters, especially the vulnerable and ignorant that if they do not vote the ANC, they will lose their old age pension, and the disabled their social grants. Others claim they have been offered money or food if they vote for the ANC.



Of course, the PAC has told the victims of this scandalous propaganda that pensions and social grants are state money. It does not belong to the ANC.


In other cases voters have been promised houses, jobs etc. if they vote for the ruling party.

"THE PAC EXPOSES ELECTION DIRTY TRICKS AND FEAR OF THE ANC "

PAC MEDIA STATEMENT Feb. 28, 2006



We will be posting the full text of the press release along with the other PAC documents on our Pan-African Perspective web site's space dedicated to PAC http://www.panafricanperspective.com/pac/index.html


However bad things might look there are definitive signs that our people are alert to imperialism.


Why did you know that the Africans in France revolted in over 300 cities and towns during the aftermath of the police-related killings of two African youth? 300 municipalities is a broad offensive, consider if you will that the massive and heroic revolt of the Africans in the US after the assassination of Dr. King covered slightly less than 200 municipalities, most sources putting the figure at 186. The anger and resolution showed by the Africans in France is only the tip of the iceberg. The level of unity and organization they demonstrated is probably the most significant aspect of that story...a story which will continue, as the conditions that sparked the revolt have not been altered.


Further, PAC has issued a call to respond to zionist aggression by withdrawing diplomatic relationship as long as the state continues their policies of terrorism, it also criticized un-named states for backing Israel while pretending to oppose terrorism and called for an end to Africa's myopic view on defense matters. There were demonstrations across Libya denouncing the zionists waragainst Lebanon and Palestine, at the same time that the African Telecommunications Union was meeting in Libya. The AU Commission chair used the meeting to reiterate that they are committed to creating real political and economic unity in Africa. One can only hope they are serious about these claims as they will have to confront the true powers in the AU in a fierce struggle to achieve their oft-stated goal.


And even in the NAACP convention two of the delegates were forcibly removed by the US Secret Service because they dared to bring up Bush, Cheney and Co. illegal war against Iraq. As you might expect the NAACP leadership did not raise such issues or even take Bush to task for his platitudes about racism and his administration's commitment to our well being and so forth.


Furthermore we are thrilled to see that the McKinney campaign continue to fight back as they resist the same forces who murder and plunder in the Congo, neo-colonial areas such as Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and indeed throughout the African world.


However none of this is of any significance if we do not organize a mass movement for broad global African unity. This cannot be done without the mass...it is the people who are at the heart of every struggle, it is the people who are the source of every advance we have ever made it is the people that are the critical component in each and every thing we do or wish to do. Without the people we have no chance, no chance to create anything positive.


In that light I close with these words from Drs. Nathan and Julia Hare's Black Think Tank website:


"We must continue to be receptive to the insights and strategies of the anointed and renowned among us, past and present, but now is the time to penetrate and jump-start the wisdom of the people, the unsung, unseen and unheard, those Langston Hughes once dubbed the "misbred, misread, and misled." Thus, Langston anticipated the words of his fellow alumnus of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Kwame Nkrumah: "Go back to the people; live with them, learn from them, love them. “Start with what they know, build on what they have, for the people may be the best thing that you will ever have.�

www.blackthinktank.com/

[Majadi]

Brethren this posting is serious! I feel we must render such organizations as the NAACP as irrelevant until such time as they come to a revolutionary focus that can truly assist the Afrikan masses in the diaspora and continentally in our liberation process.