Come to the International Conference on White Solidarity with Black Power, Jan 9-11 in St. Petersburg, FL

The African People’s Solidarity Committee, organized under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party, invites other North American and European—white—people to participate in “Beyond the Crisis of Imperialism: the International Conference on White Solidarity with Black Power,” January 9-11 in St Petersburg, FL.

This is a call to stand in solidarity with the struggle of African people everywhere to unite and liberate Africa and all its resources.



This call comes at a time when imperialism is facing a serious political and economic crisis that has come as a result of the resistance of oppressed and colonized peoples against imperialist wars of plunder and occupation.

The crisis of imperialism demands that we take responsibility to join in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the world who are struggling to overturn and transform this parasitic social system built on slavery, genocide, plunder and resource wars targeting the majority of humanity for our benefit.

This call comes as African people from many organizations and political persuasions inside the US and elsewhere have come together in the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations (BIBC), a broad-based coalition formed by the African People’s Socialist Party.

This historic coalition unites on the principle that US president Barack Hussein Obama functions as a neocolonial president, as “white power in black face.”

BIBC states that the problem facing African and oppressed peoples inside the US and around the world is US imperialism, and that the Obama administration has intensified the colonial war against the African and oppressed peoples in this country, even as it is escalating its war agenda against oppressed peoples in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world.

The existence of Black is Back demands that we go beyond a simple stand for “peace” or against “racism,” stands that leave the essence of this imperialist system unchallenged.

As Omali Yeshitela, leader of the African People’s Socialist Party, states, “It’s not enough to stand for ‘peace.’ George W. Bush wanted peace through an end to the struggle of oppressed peoples. We have to stand for victory to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, victory to the Palestinian people, victory to the people of Cuba and Venezuela and down with imperialism!”

We have to go beyond the simplistic demand to end “racism,” which is the ideological underpinning of a capitalist system that was born on turning the entire continent of African people into its most lucrative commodity.

We are challenged to stand against the fact that African people inside the US, historically and today, live under conditions of colonialism, the political and economic oppression of a whole people for the benefit of the oppressor nation.

We must take a stand against the US war facing African people in the US today, an ongoing public policy of police containment resulting in relentless police murders and brutality, massive imprisonment and deepening poverty and unemployment.

As the economic crisis of imperialism deepens and white people begin to experience job loss, homelessness, and financial insecurity, we are challenged to recognize that this is the natural outcome of a system that from the very beginning has stolen the resources, labor and land of African, Indigenous and other peoples in order to create the highest standard of living in the world for the majority of the white population living on a pedestal at the expense of everyone else.

As oppressed peoples rise up to take back their resources and drive out imperialist armies in order to exercise their right to self-determination and feed their own children with their own resources, the US can no longer move with impunity to dominate the earth and reward the white population which has historically benefited from this relationship.

The challenge for us as white people is not to seek solutions for our crisis at the expense of African and oppressed peoples on whose backs we have lived, but to join in solidarity with them to bring down this system and be part of building a world built on justice, reparations and liberation for African and other oppressed peoples.

Participate in and endorse “Beyond the Crisis of Imperialism: the International Conference on White Solidarity with Black Power.” Join other like-minded white people and stand on the forward side of history in solidarity with African and oppressed peoples worldwide.

Learn more and register for the conference.

Engine of U.S. prosperity fueled by the oppression of others

In Obama’s address before congress last night he stated that he, like other Americans, is angry at bankers for their enormous bonuses and lavish lifestyles at the taxpayers expense.

These are the same bankers, of course, who contributed more money to Obama’s campaign than to any other candidate.

So it is no surprise that Obama followed up that statement by firmly justifying his programs giving trillions of dollars more to the banks so that, he said, they can begin to loan money to Americans again for cars and homes.

Obama stated that he is going to “restart the engine of our prosperity” with “bold action and big ideas.”

Please!

This week’s economic data for parasitic capitalism is dire and the stock market is tanking. Foreclosures are skyrocketing and housing prices are plummeting. Five million are receiving unemployment benefits and every major corporation, bank and small business is struggling to stay afloat.

Nothing Obama or anyone else does to try to save the economy can put the genie back in the bottle.

The truth is the engine of US prosperity is fueled by the masses of enslaved African people who carried out the forced labor that built the wealth and opportunities of capitalism enjoyed by North Americans.

Prosperity’s engine is the Indigenous population who faced genocide at the hands of the European invaders intent on stealing and settling the Indigenous land. It’s the majority of the peoples of the world who have been colonized for the past 500 years so their labor, land and resources could benefit the white world.

The engine of our prosperity is the millions of slaughtered Iraqis and increasingly Afghanis and Pakistanis in wars to bring us oil and “security”.

The engine of our prosperity is the seven million people murdered in Congo in the past few years by U.S.-backed proxy forces in wars to secure the rare precious metals and minerals that are necessary for our computers, cell phones and the U.S. military.

The engine of our prosperity is the sweat shop workers throughout Asia who work long hours for a dollar, and the diamond workers in Africa digging the precious stones for 30 cents a day.

Prosperity’s engine is the millions of young African people stuffed into prisons in this country on discriminatory sentences and shot down by the military style police.

These police containment policies are highly lucrative to the U.S. economy as a whole with the $100 billion prison industry being the third largest U.S. rural employer, and police forces being up to 80 percent of state and municipal budgets.

We say good riddance to a system built on the oppression of the majority of humanity for our sake. There can never be peace in such a world.

The vile system that created this mess made of the misery and suffering of others cannot solve its own death crisis.

African and oppressed peoples are rising up to liberate themselves and to solve their own problems by taking back their stolen resources, land and self-determination.

The African Socialist International is being built by African workers who believe that Africa and all its resources are the birthright of African people inside Africa and wherever they have been forcibly dispersed around the world. No foreign corporation and colonial power has a right to Africa’s resources.

They are working to reunite Africa under the leadership of the African working class. That means African workers in Africa, in the U.S., in the Caribbean, South America and elsewhere.

The goal is to rid Africa of the false borders set up by the colonizing powers to facilitate the theft of resources that fueled imperialism’s engines of prosperity for hundreds of years.

Like the Palestinian people Africans believe that they have a right to return to their homeland from any place in the world.

Power to the people in the form of struggles for national liberation of oppressed peoples is the engine that will bring about the rebirth of a viable world economy and human spirit itself.

Out of the struggles for national liberation will be built a non-exploitive social system which is the only basis for peace, equity, environmental justice and true community on this planet.

White people can be part of the rising force of history by joining the Uhuru Solidarity Movement.

It’s simple. Jump down off the crisis-ridden, unsustainable pedestal that gave us prosperity, opportunity and democracy at the expense of just about everyone else.

We work in white communities to show our families and friends that it is truly in our interest to become allies with the oppressed instead of attempting to stay joined at the hip with our own oppressors so we can share the stolen loot.

The pedestal was a pretty lonely and alienated place to live.

Be part of transforming this earth and creating a just engine for the prosperity of all people by standing in solidarity with the liberation movements of African and oppressed peoples.

Life has more to offer than being chained to a job, a mortgage and car payments based on the suffering and poverty of others.

This is a great time to be alive. If we look through the eyes of oppressed peoples we see that this is a time of incredible transformation and liberation as the engine of parasitic capitalism putters to a halt.

Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement!

Crisis of imperialism: Obama, the economy and the war against the African community

It’s the weekend before elections and if you want a sobering look at who Barack Obama’s financial backers, political advisors and policies really are, check out the website of the African People’s Solidarity Committee: http://apscuhuru.org/

Our powerpoint slide show on the truth about Obama is there. Also, there you can see our presentation on the current crisis of the U.S. economy (which an Obama presidency will not resolve).

Finally we urge everyone to sign the online petition for reparations to be paid by the city of St. Petersburg, FL for the murders of four teen-aged African men in the past several years by law enforcement. Much background information is available right on the home page about the police murders of these unarmed young men and the cover-up by the Florida good old boy network.

Javon Dawson had just ended his sophomore year at Gibbs High School when he was shot in the back by Officer Terrence Nemeth after a graduation party in June of this year. Nemeth had recently returned from four years as a marine in Iraq—transferring from a job with the U.S. international occupying force to a job enforcing the U.S. domestic occupation of the African community.

Despite the fact that 300 other students and at least 12 other cops were present at the scene the only person who witnessed Javon “with a gun” at the scene was Nemeth, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement report justifying the murder.

If popular support can force the City of St. Petersburg to pay reparations this would establish an important precedent. Reparations would be more than just a financial settlement. It would involve an apology to the families and the community and a commitment to end this violence against the African community.

We are beginning to see fear of martial law manifesting among white people as we learn that the government has stationed the army at Ft. Stewart, GA to handle “civil unrest” in the general population as the crisis of imperialism deepens.

Well, martial law has been in place targeting the African community for a very long time.

FEMA camps? More than a million African people have already been herded into concentration camps called prisons. Thousands of African people—mostly young men—are murdered and brutalized by police annually. Helicopters fly over black communities and Machine-gun toting SWAT teams break down people’s doors on a regular basis.

It’s time for us to take a stand against what is already going on in this country—not just cry when it affects us. If we are interested in any level of democracy defend the rights of African people who live under a U.S. counterinsurgency right here!