“We are not a race, but a nation of people forcibly dispersed across the globe!” - Chairman Omali Yeshitela As the imperialist crisis grows in the face of worldwide resistance, African people want to know, “Who are we? What is our identity? What is the African nation and what is our role in it?” Chairman Omali states, “I am an African! Period!” He shows us that we are not African-Americans or any other hyphenated hybrid imposed on us by our colonial slave masters. Find out why the Chairman calls the struggle against racism a “self-defeating waste of time.” It is our responsibility and destiny to consolidate the African nation by uniting and liberating Africa and African people everywhere. Learn how African people can overturn the brutal colonial conditions we face around the world and why we must take on this historic struggle for One Africa! One Nation! African People's Socialist Party apspuhuru.org uhurunews.com

1. THE AFRICAN NATION
Political Education Study
led by Chairman Omali Yeshitela

2. Chairman Omali Yeshitela’s theory
of African Internationalism

3. Part I:
Defining the African nation
Who is an African?

4. The African Nation is:
•a community of people with
core identity based on
historical ties to the equatorial
continent of black Africa
Creating
•a common culture
• history
•physiognomy (physical
features of an ethnic group).

5. Who is a part of the African nation?
•All Africans on
the continent of
Africa.

6. Part of the African Nation:
All African people
everywhere who
have been forcibly
dispersed through
slavery and
colonialism.

7. Part of the African Nation:
All with a sense of
sameness with Africa,
who because of skin
color face poverty and
oppression:
•Dalit in India,
•Indigenous of Australia
•Asia-Pacific Islanders
Indigenous people of Australia

8. Part of the African Nation:
•Europeans •Arabs
•Indians and others
Living in Africa who
commit national suicide,
unite with the African
working class and
abandon allegiance to
predatory, colonial
relationship to African
people.

9. We say we are
Africans and we
feel like we are
Africans.
We are Africans because we SAY we are!

10. Africa: our national homeland
Africa is the national
homeland of all
black people
worldwide.
The identity of the
African nation is
firmly, irreversibly
affixed to Africa!

11. Part II: Key Points on the
African Nation

12. European nation built on slavery
The European or white
nation built on the
assault on Africa, the
kidnapping,
enslavement of African
people and the colonial
attack on the majority of
the world.

13. White Nation consolidated through
parasitism
The consolidation of
the white nation is
tied to the birth of
parasitic capitalism
born at the expense
of the brutal
suffering of African
people.

14. White Nation: Bourgeois Nation
The white nation
was born as a
bourgeois and
imperialist nation.

15. White nation sits on pedestal of colonialism
The whole white nation,
including workers, the
middle class and the
ruling class sit on the
pedestal of the
oppression of African
and other colonized
peoples.

16. White workers’ unity with white ruling class
White workers have
general unity with their
ruling class on the
imperialist domination
and occupation of
African people inside the
U.S., in Africa, around
the world.

17. False colonial borders imposed on Africa
European imperialism
imposed colonial borders
to divide Africa and
facilitate the theft of our
resources to enrich
Europe and North
America and to repress
African people.

18. Africans are colonized wherever we are
African people
throughout the world
exist under some form of
colonial domination or
indirect neocolonial rule
by the European-U.S.
imperialist state.

19. We produce, reproduce life for White Nation
African people have
produced and
reproduced life for white
people and others for
centuries, creating
immeasurable wealth for
the white nation and
others while we live in
poverty.

20. Marcus Garvey, African National Liberation
The Garvey Movement with 11
million members around the
world, and program of “Africa
for the Africans, those at home
and those abroad,” is the best
organizational evidence of the
sense of sameness shared by
Africans worldwide.

21. Imperialism, African petty bourgeoisie attacked
Garvey
The Garvey
Movement was
attacked by the U.S.
government, the
African Petty
bourgeoisie and the
white left.

22. “Black Belt South” invented to undermine Garvey
In the wake of the popularity of
Garvey Movement, the white-
led Communist Party created a
resolution wrongly stating that
black people in the U.S.
constitute a nation only in the
“Black Belt South.”

23. National consolidation is historical necessity
In order for African
people everywhere to
survive and prosper it is
historical necessity to
consolidate the African
nation and destroy all of
the imperialist-imposed
borders.

24. Rise of African nation, fall of white nation
The African Nation will be
consolidated through the
defeat of the white
bourgeois, imperialist
nation.

25. Build the ASI to unite and free the African
nation!
It is the responsibility of every
African throughout the world to
join the African People’s
Socialist Party, build the African
Socialist International to
liberate and unify Africa and
African people everywhere.

26. Withering away of the
bourgeois state
The liberation of the African
nation will make possible the
withering away of the bourgeois
state and usher in socialism led
by formerly oppressed and
colonized workers and poor
peasants. The system of
parasitic capitalism will be
destroyed.