IRSN Message to African Liberation Day Celebration in London
Tue May 20, 2008
African comrades, a chairde,
The comrades of the International Republican Socialist Network, struggling to
strengthen the bonds of solidarity between those engaged in the fight for
national liberation in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Catalonia, the
Basque lands, Puerto Rico, and Quebec and to advance the revolutionary analysis
of republican socialism within those nations send greetings of solidarity to the
All-African People's Revolutionary Party and its sister organisation, AJAMU.
We are proud to acknowledge that comrades now organised into the IRSN have been
celebrating African Liberation Day with the A-APRP for 25 of the 50 years since
African Liberation Day first began. The experience of African Liberation Day and
the shining revolutionary example set by the A-APRP over the course of those
years has never failed to serve as an inspiration to us and our ongoing bonds
of solidarity are a source of strength.
These are both difficult and exciting times for revolutionaries. Difficult,
because the capitalist and imperialist powers of the world are ever more
relentless in their aggression the nations they once held in colonial bondage
and the level of betrayal to which their neo-colonial puppets stoop is
unmatched, as the crisis of capitalism deepens. Exciting, because with that
deepening crisis comes ever greater opportunities for the working masses of the
world to rise up and reclaim the wealth they have long produced, but which has
been denied to them.
Throughout Latin America there are signs of resistance to imperialism growing
and the international revolutionary movement has been strengthened by the
assistance provided by the working people of Venezula, Bolivia, Ecuador, and
Chile, as well as that long given by the Cuban people, as they press forward in
the course of their own liberation. We look to Africa, long the most exploited
of continents, but also the most blessed with natural abundance, to further add
to this wave of revolutionary upsurge. In this, we have no doubt that
revolutionary Pan-Africanist socialist analysis provides the way forward for
the oppressed masses of African workers, represented today by the A-APRP,
PANAFU, the CPP, AZAPO and similar revolutionary groupings.
On this, the 50th anniversary of African Liberation Day, we pay homage to the
pioneering leadership of comrades such as Seko Ture, Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice
Lumumba, Fanon, Cabral, Qadafi and our dear comrade Kwame Ture. More than this,
we pay homage to the ongoing struggle of the African working masses and the
leadership provided by the A-APRP. We recognize the profound bonds between the
struggle for African unity under scientific socialism and the struggle for
national liberation and socialism in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and elsewhere.
Forward ever, backward never!
Peter Urban
Comrade, International Republican Socialist Network
African comrades, a chairde,
The comrades of the International Republican Socialist Network, struggling to
strengthen the bonds of solidarity between those engaged in the fight for
national liberation in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Catalonia, the
Basque lands, Puerto Rico, and Quebec and to advance the revolutionary analysis
of republican socialism within those nations send greetings of solidarity to the
All-African People's Revolutionary Party and its sister organisation, AJAMU.
We are proud to acknowledge that comrades now organised into the IRSN have been
celebrating African Liberation Day with the A-APRP for 25 of the 50 years since
African Liberation Day first began. The experience of African Liberation Day and
the shining revolutionary example set by the A-APRP over the course of those
years has never failed to serve as an inspiration to us and our ongoing bonds
of solidarity are a source of strength.
These are both difficult and exciting times for revolutionaries. Difficult,
because the capitalist and imperialist powers of the world are ever more
relentless in their aggression the nations they once held in colonial bondage
and the level of betrayal to which their neo-colonial puppets stoop is
unmatched, as the crisis of capitalism deepens. Exciting, because with that
deepening crisis comes ever greater opportunities for the working masses of the
world to rise up and reclaim the wealth they have long produced, but which has
been denied to them.
Throughout Latin America there are signs of resistance to imperialism growing
and the international revolutionary movement has been strengthened by the
assistance provided by the working people of Venezula, Bolivia, Ecuador, and
Chile, as well as that long given by the Cuban people, as they press forward in
the course of their own liberation. We look to Africa, long the most exploited
of continents, but also the most blessed with natural abundance, to further add
to this wave of revolutionary upsurge. In this, we have no doubt that
revolutionary Pan-Africanist socialist analysis provides the way forward for
the oppressed masses of African workers, represented today by the A-APRP,
PANAFU, the CPP, AZAPO and similar revolutionary groupings.
On this, the 50th anniversary of African Liberation Day, we pay homage to the
pioneering leadership of comrades such as Seko Ture, Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice
Lumumba, Fanon, Cabral, Qadafi and our dear comrade Kwame Ture. More than this,
we pay homage to the ongoing struggle of the African working masses and the
leadership provided by the A-APRP. We recognize the profound bonds between the
struggle for African unity under scientific socialism and the struggle for
national liberation and socialism in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and elsewhere.
Forward ever, backward never!
Peter Urban
Comrade, International Republican Socialist Network