Analysis on The State, U.S.-backed counterinsurgencies and successful resistance movements of oppressed, colonized people throughout history. This presentation is based on the political theory of Uhuru Movement Chairman Omali Yeshitela and was developed by Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC), white people organizing solidarity with the African liberation movement. APSC works under the leadership of the Uhuru Movement, led by the African People's Socialist Party. For more information, visit www.APSCuhuru.org and www.UhuruNews.com.
29. Thus white people in America experience prosperity, democracy Remaining complicit with the force of the State aimed at colonized peoples inside this country and around the world!
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33. Counterinsurgency in U.S., abroad, main form of warfare Counterinsurgency: War against those who are struggling for liberation, self-determination
55. White people are afraid White people act like we can’t win, that the state is all powerful
56. The bourgeois State: plays a key role in defining & consolidating the Nation The State creates institutions of the nation: the police, military, the courts, taxes, the bureaucracy, etc. What Diop calls an African State was not the same as Europe
57. But African, colonized peoples have always fought against the State! 1712 and 1741--enslaved Africans waged major organized uprisings in New York city--were well organized. Twenty percent of New York’s residents were enslaved Africans. The white people called them “conspiracies” meaning they were well organized.
58. Oppressed people resist with nothing but united will At least 25 wars of resistance were waged by the Indigenous people against the colonizers between 1622 and 1774. The U.S. waged 40 official “Indian Wars” facing brilliant resistance from Indigenous people between 1775 and 1890. These genocidal wars are said to have slaughtered 45,000 Native people.
59. All around the world oppressed peoples resist State terror At the turn of the 20th century, after hundreds of years of attempting to repel the British and other European attempt to colonize them--including two British Opium Wars in the 1800s. Chinese workers and peasants organized a powerful resistance of tens of thousands of people. In addition to Britain, Russia, Japan, Germany, France and Italy were attempting to partition China as they had Africa. The Boxers targeted the colonial settlers and neocolonial traitors who had converted to Christianity. The Western powers sent in 25,000 troops to put down the rebellion which went on for over a year. The Chinese Revolution under Mao called the Boxer Rebellion the opening salvo of the Chinese peoples revolution.
60. China and Vietnam Mao Zedong led the Chinese workers and peasants revolution beginning in 1911 against the imperial Western-collaboratoring Manchu dynasty. 1949 victory of the Peoples Republic of China.
61. Cuba and Kenya From 1952-1960, the Dedan Kimathi led the courageous Kenyan Land and Freedom Army against British colonialism in Kenya. Called the Mau Mau. British counterinsurgency was vicious--hangings, almost entire Kikuyu population behind barbed wire, slander. Kenya won nominal independence in 1964.
62. Zimbabwe and Azania PAC Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, broke away from the African National Congress (the Party of Nelson Mandela) in 1959. Sharpeville massacre mobilized the people. PAC waged armed struggle against the colonial government calling for Africa for African people.
63. Palestine and Nicaragua Nicaragua FSLN, the Sandinista National Liberation Front fought against US backed dictator Somoza, winning victory in 1979.
65. U.S. Front of the African Revolution Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X. Omali Yeshitela and the African People’s Socialist Party.
66. Black Power Movement of the 60s Black Power Movement of the 1960s shook the U.S. to its very foundations. Was an anti-colonial movement inside this country, struggle for political power after voting and civil rights were won. Defined African people as a colonial people, part of the overall African liberation struggle.
68. Black Power Mov’t Recognized The Black Power Movement influenced and gave strength to the revolutionary movements around the world. Revolutionaries everywhere welcomed the leaders of the movement.
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