“Africa in the Global Anti-Imperialist Struggle: Pan-African Unity and the Fight Against NATO and Imperialism”
Sobukwe Shukura | All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)
The total liberation and the unification of Africa under an All—African socialist government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution, and the onward progress towards world communism, under which, every society is ordered on the principle of—from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party sends revolutionary greetings, to the organisers of this forum and all of the participants in this session on WW3.
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) is a Nkrumahism-Turecism-Cabralism Party that is organizing for Revolutionary Pan-Africanism: One, Unified, Socialist Africa. As a revolutionary party we are anti-imperialist. As Kwame Nkkrumah the great Revolutionary Pan-Africanist never tired of saying that, Imperialism in all its forms, is the primary enemy of Africans and oppressed people everywhere. This is what gives us common ground for unity. Nkrumah also said Unity presupposes organisation. The A-APRP stands with you today not in a sentimental posture of reflection of the shared enemy of Imperialism nor are we satisfied with reflection of past efforts and collective successes against Imperialism. ‘Imperialism is Endless War’ and requires constant organizational and generational struggle to defeat it. The A-APRP understands that conception has political power, but without political organisation it becomes empty. We come to this conference to build and increase our organizational capacities collectively. We believe Revolutionary Pan-Africanism has an important space in this era in building a renewed anti-imperialist front in the face of WW3.
“Today when people talk about World War 3 they are speaking of a looming symmetrical war, war against nuclear world powers, an aggressive war waged by Western Imperialist powers led by the United States, against those economic powers and interests the West sees as a threat to their hegemony, namely China and Russia. While we agree with the current analysis that the NATO proxy war in Ukraine and the brazen attack on Iran by the Zionist Entity and the United States, are conflicts that could bring about a new World War. We think the characterization of the possibility of a World War leaves out an analysis of Africa and the Global South’s relationship to Imperialism.”
Reflections from World African Platform May 10. Sobukwe Shukura A-APRP
Africa sits in a unique space as a continuance Imperialist battle ground with 30 percent of the world’s critical mineral resources. Africa sits at the mouth of West Asia and Western Europe. Africa faces almost every Western Imperialist powers military might including NATO, and its non NATO Allies the Zionist Entity and Kenya. Africa is plagued by proxy Imperialist wars, we repeat here that between 1996 and 2003, 5 million died in proxy wars in the Congo alone. More than 10 million throughout Africa. How many have died in Western Asia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran. The displaced alone are in Africa and Western Asia alone are in the millions. So for us we have been in our own WW3 for decades.
Africa is a product of the evolutionary and revolutionary process of the African People towards continental unity. This process was brutally interrupted by The European Slave Trade and Colonization. African resistance against these episodes brought greater and greater unity and clarity to our struggle. The Pan-African Movement in 1900 began as an Anti-imperialist struggle. By the 1945 Pan-African Congress, the Pan-African movement after two European declared Imperialist world wars, where millions of African soldiers’ lives were lost- Africa and African people remained colonized.
After these wars Pan-Africanism went from reform to revolutionary action and national liberation organisations against Imperialist colonization spread across the continent. The resolutions of the 5th Pan-Africanist Congress included support for the Chinese Revolution, Working Women, and Workers in general.
“And what are they (NATO), those who do not like hearing us say the socialist are helping us? They (NATO) help Portugal, the Fascist colonial government of Salazar. Today it is no secret to anyone that Portugal … if it could not count on the aid its NATO Allies bring, would not be able to wage this struggle against us. ….NATO is specific countries, specific governments, specific states. NATO is the United States of America….” Amilcar Cabral “Unity and Struggle” NATO pg 257.
NATO was established in 1949 by the United States. NATO is not a defense pack but a military arm of imperialist military aggression. There is but one objective of Imperialism to dominate the world’s resources, labor, and markets through finance-capital, and military might. This requires an ever growing posture of aggression against all forces of a sovereign character or nature. At the founding of NATO Ninety percent of the African continent was still under colonialism. Coordinated struggle against Imperialism by revolutionary Pan-Africanist and anti-Imperialist between the 1958 All-African People’s Conference and founding of the OAU in 1963, increased African states with some form of independence from 8 to 33. The regional alliance CONCEP combined the efforts of the National Liberation Struggles against Imperialism in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, and Mozambique,
The United States, Britain, and France responded by using NATO to aid Portuguese colonization, to hold on to the Congo, and defend settler-colonialism in Southern Africa. They helped destabilise progressive anti-imperialist parties and assassinated and increased their Neo-colonial strongholds. African freedom fighters cannot be neutral on the expansion of NATO.
In 1979 when Iran overthrew the United States and British Puppet the Shah of Iran the United started its regional high commands, starting with CENTCOM to focus on Western Asia in 1983. After the United States provoked the war between Iraq and Iran CENTCOM played the role of Naval Police to keep the flow of oil from its partners in Western Asia. Today the experience of Iran’s struggle against imperialism has strengthened not just Iran but the Axis of Resistance. The Iran war approval rating has fallen to 35 percent in the United States.
As the Chinese share of precious minerals in Africa grew, AFRICOM was created to serve as an United States African destabilization force. They played a pivotal role with NATO forces in conducting the 40 thousand tons of bombs on Libya and destroyed one of the highest standards of living in Africa. The destruction of the Libyan Jamahyria released weapons into the Sahel dialectically this has produced the Alliance of the Sahel States and anti-imperialist force in the region.
U.S. Imperialist uber aggression in the Global South is a sign of strength or a sign of desperation? What is the role of the Anti-imperialist forces today? The A-APRP is clear that our relationship to help grow anti-imperialist forces throughout the global South within the context of revolutionary Pan-Africanism is crucial. We believe we should explore deeper bi-lateral relationships around our joint campaigns calling for the United States and all NATO forces out of Africa with the Black Alliance for Peace. The A-APRP also calls for the smashing of Zionism. We see the World African Platform as key vanguard in this struggle and our continued relationships against Imperialism must continue to grow.
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