Uhuru Movement

Forty-five Cadres of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSP) have convened at our Party’s headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida for the 2016 Cadre Development School.

We were taught that the Fourth of July marks the day on which U.S. colonial settlers adopted the Declaration of Independence and eventually defeated a tyrannical and undemocratic British government that unfairly levied taxes against European settlers of U.S. colonies. We’re taught that this bestowed upon them “certain unalienable rights” and a representative government.

However, we––colonialized peoples––should recognize the holiday as another colonial ploy devised to impose a distorted and disturbing narrative upon us.

ST. PETERSBURG––The Tampa Bay Times released an article Tuesday, June 28th titled, “St. Petersburg committee will invite Uhuru leader's input to replace mural he tore down 50 years ago.”

This piece discussed Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and the the Uhuru Movement, ripping a anti-African mural from the walls of St. Pete’s City Hall 50 years ago on December 29, 1966.

That date in 1966 marks what could be the first time the world saw the slogan “black power” actualize.

BIRMINGHAM, England––The African People’s Socialist Party was first in Birmingham in 1983. We traveled there as part of a European and United Kingdom-wide tour to promote the outcome of the World Tribunal on Reparations for black People in the U.S. that was held by our movement in Brooklyn, New York in November 1982.

When we went to Birmingham, we went as African Internationalists, not Pan-Africanists. Nevertheless, we thought it possible to work with self-declared Pan-Africanists despite our ideological differences.

Adopted September 23, 1979.

Revised and adopted at the First Congress of the African People's Socialist Party, September 6, 1981.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL––The St. Pete branch of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), as forewarned, initiated one of a battery of protests in resistance to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department’s drowning murder of three teenage African girls––Dominique Battle (16), Ashaunti Butler (15) and La’Niyah Miller (15).

This direct action was ignited at a private cocktail party and white nationalist electoral fundraiser in the white enclave of Clearwater, FL for senate nominee David Jolly––hosted by none other than the infamous sheriff Bob Gualtieri.

Even though, then-U.S. president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 proclaiming, “That all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free,” captured Africans remained in the forcible custody of white people in Texas until June 19, 1865.

Many Africans in the U.S. are preparing to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday that remembers that day in 1865.

More than 50 members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) will convene in St. Petersburg, Florida in July to attend the APSP Cadre Development School.  

The “Best Son’s and Daughter’s of Africa” will receive ideological, political and organizational training at our Party headquarters.

They are coming to this especially important Party training from throughout the African world.

Party members will travel to St. Petersburg from the U.S. Caribbean, Africa and Europe to acquire greater skills to advance the African revolution from the various fronts of our oppression and exploitation which has confined us since the advent of white power and parasitic capitalism.

The struggle between Pan-Africanism and African Internationalism is a contest for the truth, between African petty bourgeoisie and the African workers.

It does not happen in vacuum or in outer space, it happens in a  parasitic capitalist world that is split between oppressed and oppressors nations, between bosses and workers, petty bourgeoisie and working class.

There is no Pan-Africanism in general. It has a class ownership.