Imperialist Attacks

It’s really important that when we begin this process of talking about the 50th anniversary of that mural being removed––which is December of this year––that we do establish some kind of historical context for the discussion. 

Otherwise, people are likely to think that this is just some kind of debate simply revolving around a picture, and what should go up on the walls of City Hall. 

But it’s more than that, it’s more than the discussion about a picture. So I’d just like to discuss more about the historical context, and that’s something that’s really important right now because, although we are seeing a lot of activism that is beginning to reoccur in the cities throughout this country, we went through a period of two generations, more than two generations, more than forty years of there not being much political action or much political consciousness even expressing itself in any organized way in this country. 

Black people from throughout the Unites States will descend on Washington D.C. for a historic two-day Black People’s Convention and defiantly declare independence from the predatory Democratic and Republican parties on November 5th and 6th.

This powerful convention themed, “The National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination” will be held by the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations two days prior to the U.S. elections, and will illustrate the heights which the struggle for African liberation has reached.

We will say, “damn the Republican and the Democratic parties” and their white agendas and put forth our own agenda for black self-determination and black power.

The Indigenous people to this land are currently engaged in intense struggle against parasitic capitalist companies as well as the U.S. State to protect their land and water supply.

Indigenous people of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota are heavily resisting––and have been since the beginning of August––the illegitimate plans to construct the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The pipeline is an estimated $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline that will span 1,172-mile and cross the Missouri River to carry crude oil from North Dakota, through South Dakota and Iowa, to southern Illinois.

The African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) condemns the attacks by imperialist governments and by the U.S. government in particular to ban the Russian Olympic Team from 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics games, which begin August 5, 2016.

U.S. president Barack Obama’s trip to Viet Nam in May 24, 2016, was part of another attempt by the U.S. ruling class to win China’s neighbors to unite with the U.S. strategic goal of encircling and containing China. 

Civil Rights Movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by the U.S. government on April 4, 1968. He was 39 years old when he was gunned down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. April 4, 2016 marks the 48^th anniversary of MLK’s assassination.