Neocolonialism

One of the things, that I certainly tried to do on yesterday with this conference was not simply to lay out the fact that we are consolidating this National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination. Not simply talking about what we’re going to be doing coming forward. But also struggling to place what it is that we’re doing, in some, political context, because obviously, everything that we’re talking about requires struggle against white power, imperialism. And that is important.

But sometimes, imperialism doesn’t come in its own face. In fact, increasingly, over the last two or three generations, it has been extremely difficult for imperialism to step forward in its own face. And because of this, we’ve seen the emergence of what Kwame Nkrumah characterized as neocolonialism.

As Charlotte police continued to battle courageous Africans in the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Negro cop was caught shedding a tear.

The African cop was asked by Africans protesting in the streets whether “his job was worth the black lives killed.” It was at that moment that a photograph captured the cop crying. 

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.

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.

Loretta Lynch, an African woman and the U.S. attorney general, attended the memorial service for the three cops that were killed in Baton Rouge nan act of resistance by Gavin “Cosmo” Long. The memorial service was held on July 28, 2016 in Baton Rouge, LA.

BALTIMORE—Baltimore State attorney Marilyn Mosby and the Baltimore State Attorney’s Office decided to drop all charges against the three remaining cops charged with murdering 25-year-old African Freddie Gray on July 27, 2016.

There were six cops initially charged with the murder of Freddie and all of them have now been acquitted.

It was announced on May 3, 2016 that Haiti would become a Member State of the African Union (AU).

The African Union Commission, however, informed the public on May 26, 2016 at their summit in Kigali, Rwanda that Haiti will not be admitted as a Member State of the African Union, as been reported by several media sources.

According to one of AU’s Constitutive Acts, only African States can join the African Union.

The U.S. president’s wife and partner in imperialist crime, Michelle Obama, delivered what many petty bourgeoisie Africans consider to be a great commencement address at the City College of New York on June 3, 2016.

U.S. neocolonial first lady Obama, during her almost 24-minute speech, spoke of diversity, critiqued subtly the 2016 Republican nominee, Donald Trump, and raised up her neocolonial husband and U.S. president, Barack Hussein Obama.

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?