Elections

These recent elections held on August 3, 2016 for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in all nine local provinces in Occupied Azania (South Africa) have confirmed the African National Congress’ (ANC) decline which was noticeable in the last 2014 parliamentary elections. 

This time the ANC received 53.9 percent of the national votes. This is the first time that the ANC has secured below 60 percent.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) received 26.8 percent of the votes and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) received 8.2 percent.

This means that the ANC in certain cities and towns will have to share power with EFF or any other organization.

A group of black mothers who are known because of the murders of their children at the hands of police and white vigilantes have been branded “The Mothers of the Movement” by the Hillary Clinton campaign. 

The group, which includes the mothers of Michael Brown Jr., Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Jordan Davis, debuted their unnatural brand through Clinton’s campaign, as a strategy to help Clinton win the black vote.

Washington D.C.––U.S. president Barack Hussein Obama offered up criticisms of Republican candidate Donald Trump and declared him “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve as U.S. president during a White House press conference on August 2, 2016.

 

U.S president Barack Hussein Obama endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a web video that Clinton released on her YouTube channel on Thursday, June 9, 2016.

He said in the video “I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.”

U.S president Obama says this only eight years after saying Clinton wasn't right for the position. An Obama campaign ad from 2008 says, “She'll say anything and change nothing.”

 

It is nearing the August 2016 election time in local municipalities of Occupied Azania (South Africa) and all neocolonial political parties in the country have begun campaigning!

From the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA), all the way to the radical sounding Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the masses in Occupied Azania are being told what each party will do for the people.

It is a grand contest all over the country––but the question remains the same as it has since South Africa was born: what about the African working class and its interests?

The electoral process represents a competition between different sectors of the white ruling class. This is true for the 2016 U.S elections as both the Democratic and Republican candidates represent the capitalist-colonialist white ruling class. The African masses must turn away from this parasitic white ruling class parties and turn towards the African People's Socialist Party. The APSP is the Party of the African working class!

A crowd of over 28,000 mostly-white people gathered in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for a Bernie Sanders campaign rally on April 17, 2016. Despite this massive turnout, Sanders lost to his fellow democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, in the New York primary which took place on April 19, 2016.

The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice Peace and Reparations (BIBC) held its annual national conference on April 9th, 2016 in the center of the African community of Harlem, NY. The day-long conference held at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, was themed, “The 2016 Elections and the Struggle for Self-determination.”

Maryland’s general assembly voted 29-18 in favor of restoring voting rights to 40,000 ex-prisoners on February 2, 2016. The colonial laws in Maryland previously only allowed ex-prisoners to vote after completing parole or probation.