The movement to unite and liberate Africa

The African People’s Socialist Party, along with African people in Africa
and throughout the world, is building the African Socialist
International. 
African people are Africans wherever they have been dispersed by
slavery and colonialism.
The problem is not racism in the U.S. It’s not bad ideas in our heads
that supposedly can be eradicated by a weekend workshop. The
oppression of African people in the U.S. is political and economic. It’s
colonialism and neocolonialism for African people here, just as it is in
Congo, South Africa and Kenya. 
African people were brought to this stolen land as a commodity! The
primary commodity, the primitive accumulation. Before the diamonds,
before the rubber, before the bauxite, oil and coltan, it was the human
beings themselves! There were no Dow or NASDAQ reports then but
the stock market started with African people in chains on sale on every
Market Street in every town in the U.S. 
There are thousands of African people from the era of enslavement
buried under the high-rise buildings of Wall Street. What could be
more explicit than that? The enormous weight of our lifestyle rests on
the backs of their worn and beaten bodies.
America is built on the backs of African people. African people are not
U.S. citizens and never have been. They have been bought and sold
and rounded up like cattle, leased and worked to death. They have
been lynched and scapegoated and degraded. Every time they
amassed a bit of money, acquired skills or started a successful

businesses, which was quite often, they were attacked and burned out
and shot, or pushed out, urban renewed and gentrified.
They were granted the nominal right to vote in 1965, a century after
the slavery system was supposed to have ended. Less than 35 years
later the vote was taken away by the Bush election of 2000. 
One in every three African men of childbearing age is tied to the prison
system in the U.S. That has nothing to do with crime. The crime is
what we have been talking about on these pages, and this is just the
tip of the iceberg. The real criminals don’t go to prison or face the
death penalty. At least not yet.
Africa and everything in it and everything that has been taken out of it
for the past 500 years is the birthright of every African person
anywhere in the world.
The African Socialist International is an organization of African people
from throughout Africa and all over the world. Its mission is to unite all
of Africa and all of the African people and to liberate Africa for the
benefit of its people. Nothing could be more right or more just. Africa
is not going to be anybody’s hunting ground anymore—not for
diamonds or lions or rubber or human beings. 
Chairman Omali Yeshitela who is leading the effort to build the African
Socialist International put it this way:
“We are Africans. We place our future in Africa. The future of all black
people on earth lies in Africa! Not in England, not in America, not in
the Caribbean! You may end up staying there, but if you are going to
be free, it will be because Africa is free and united and in our control...
“We need to have power and we can only have that power if we have
Africa. I’m saying that if we are going to feed our babies, then we’ve
got to regain our resources that white power is taking to feed its
babies. They take the birthright of our children and feed their babies.
“We are socialists and we are Africans, and Africa’s going to be free.
As long as we are conscious and we can draw breath, every waking
moment must be about how we can free Africa and how we can free
our people!”