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Re: Diop Olugbala expelled from APSP Central Committee

Binga — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:57:28 -0000

I think the assumption that criticism should be hidden is what allows problems to continue to persist. That doesn't serve the people, the organization or the individual being criticized. Criticism and self-criticism being done publicly is what allows others to learn from the problem and also allows people to hold the person(s) being criticized accountable. It helps to people to see how to resolve problems—not in a way to attack an individual, but to call out the problem and take on resolving it.

When you say it makes you wonder whether "black political groups are serious about revolution," but really I would say that about an organization that tries to hide contradictions, because that's how problems fester and undermine an organization's capability to carry out its objectives. If anything, seeing an organization prepared to criticize itself and its members when errors are made should prompt you to say, "man, these folks are really serious about what they're doing."

And yes, this was oppression of African women. Instead of organizing African women to their own revolution, the brother organized them to serve his own individual needs and desires, often times pushing them away from the struggle to achieve our own interests. That is oppression.

This is not an "in house" issue. It reaches beyond the Party, and more than that, the issue itself is one that exists beyond the Party and that has to be overturned. Sweeping it under the rug doesn't serve to overturn it, but to cover for and perpetuate it.

This is the proper way to deal with contradictions, openly and honestly, and I appreciate the Party for its consistency in dealing with contradictions principledly, both internally and externally.

Re: The struggle against Chernoh Alpha M. Bah: Build the African Socialist International and revolutionary African Internationalism!

Binga — Mon, 28 May 2012 21:25:07 -0000

Some of our readers have inquired about some posts that did
not go up, and there are a number of them that haven’t that you will see
immediately following this post, some supporting the document as well as others.
As previously stated on this board, we allowed many posts to go up here, some
of them which were nothing more than slanderous attacks on our Party and
Movement. We left this board open for some time despite these attacks because
we wanted to allow for political discussion and struggle. After leaving it open
for discussion and debate for some time, we cut off the ability for immediate
posting as slanderous attacks that spoke nothing to the criticisms in the
actual document.

We invite our readers to weigh the document above against
the anti-Party statements in this thread. In fact, we invite you to weigh those
comments against everything else on this site.

You will find that the comments in defense of Chernoh Alpha
M. Bah do not speak to his theft of the boat motor, the transmitter, the land
and other resources of the people. They do not speak to the refusal to allow
the people of Sierra Leone access to the Revolutionary National Democratic
Program and other charges.

Even if we were to say that his call for the UN to come into
Sierra Leone to protect investors is open to interpretation (which it is not),
what of these blatant offenses against the people? Are they open to
interpretation? No. And none of these defenses of Chernoh’s actions have been
comments in defense of the revolution and the people.

Our posting of this criticism is not something new. We post
criticisms and self-criticisms that are both internal to our organization and
external, particularly on questions that have implications beyond our Party or
can serve as a process for the African Liberation Movement and our people in
general to learn from.

As always, the objective of UhuruNews is to forward the
African Revolution. Principled political struggle is a part of the process that
allows our people and movement to learn about correct actions and incorrect
actions, correct ideas and incorrect ideas. We will continue to expose errors,
opportunism and other bad tendencies that undermine the revolution. We will
continue to engage in criticism and self-criticism both in the Party and in the
Party’s organs like UhuruNews and The Burning Spear, because the success of our
revolution requires it.

So let us defeat imperialism and neocolonialism wherever
they rear their head.

Uhuru!

Nyabinga Dzimbahwe

Director of Uhuru News

Re: Former member attacks movement in face of movement's growth

Binga — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:15:12 -0000

The CIA, like every other military institution in the U.S., functions to maintain U.S. control over other peoples and their resources through assassinations, propping up U.S. puppets and other kinds of vicious acts. Any cursory look at the history of CIA involvement in the world will show that. It has nothing to do with democracy — something that does not exist in the U.S.

Re: Former member attacks movement in face of movement's growth

Binga — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:30:17 -0000

Chairman Omali Yeshitela has talked often recently about opportunism, wherein someone puts their own individual short term interests above the interests of the movement and the people. It appears that this is a textbook case of opportunism. To decide to attack the movement because you can't get your own individual way over the interests of the movement after the movement has made so many resources available to you is just foul. It's sad, but it's not new. It's not the first time that the Uhuru Movement has seen this, nor is it the first time the African Liberation Movement has seen this.

Chairman Omali has talked about how individuals joined the Garvey Movement only interested in meeting their own individual interests and when something happened that impacted on their ability to do that they turned and attacked the Garvey Movement, some even testifying at Garvey's trial.

There is a saying though, that "one person don't stop no show." That's the same case here. The Movement will continue to grow. It'll continue to grow in Belgium and Bahamas, in France and Philadelphia, in England and Oakland and elsewhere. The struggle for our freedom will be completed and that is the case despite the departure of opportunist individuals.

Forward to the victory of the African Revolution!

Re: What's in a flag? - Libya - Al Jazeera English

Binga — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:49:07 -0000

The red, black and green is the flag voted on and accepted by Marcus Garvey's movement as the flag of a united Africa. Garvey's UNIA, which was an international African organization, voted at its 1921 Convention to make this Africa's flag. Subsequently, when African colonial territories won "flag independence" from colonial oppressors many of them adopted variations of that flag. That is the origin of the red, black and green. The original one is just the red, black and green strips.

Re: Video : Raise up Hydra Lacy! Raise up Resistance to Colonial Occupation!

Binga — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:26:35 -0000

White folks really get offended when African people who were brought to the stolen land they call America call ourselves Africans. Is it perhaps because when we call ourselves Africans it forces them to face the question of who they are as Europeans standing on land stolen through genocide of the indigenous people? Perhaps because it raises that uncomfortable reality that the very people who they stole this land from are today in concentration camps called reservations with a life span in the 40s. Maybe because it forces them to face the fact that the Mexicans who their government uses drone attacks against as they attempt to cross over a false border on land stolen from them little more than 150 years ago.

Well, we are Africans. Black people are Africans no matter where in the world Europeans dropped us off when they kidnapped us. And not only are we Africans, but we unite with the demands of the people who you stole this land from in the first place for the return of their land.

By the way, funny how bad white folk want us to be "Americans" after we start calling ourselves Africans, when not too long ago they were bombing children and lynching Africans just to let us know that we weren't.

Re: African community under siege after police killing!

Binga — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:03:09 -0000

Name one parasite that has "evolved" into not being a parasite. It's never happened. It never will. If U.S. imperialism stopped stealing resources and exploiting labor it would no longer exist. That's quite simple to see. Even the struggles being waged by people in various places in the world for control of their own resources right now has impacted the economy in the U.S. greatly. It's not a question of rejecting the possibility of evolution, its just the fact that it can't happen. The U.S. couldn't exist even if it just let go of the land it stole from indigenous people here, not to mention all the resources — both human and material — that it has stolen/continues to steal to keep the U.S. afloat. So yes, defending this parasitic relationship is defending white nationalism. Defending the military aggression against the African community is defending the white nationalist State. Defending the ability for the U.S. to continue to exist on stolen land using stolen resources is defending its ability to continue its abrogation of the rights of African and indigenous people to self-determination.

Re: African community under siege after police killing!

Binga — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:52:08 -0000

No, they didn't even know who they were looking for. The thing is, the assault on the community; the pointing of assault rifles in people's faces who they didn't know, had never met before, had nothing to do with anything; the riding of tanks in the street; the snipers in the community — they weren't there for one barely 16-year-old kid whose face they didn't know. It was a general assault on the community. It was a counterinsurgency.

The fact that several federal agencies responded so quickly, the fact that so quickly the FBI was able to put up a $50,000 and then shortly after $100,000 bounty, is an indication that the government already has plans for this community. It already has a contingency plan for assault on this community. They know that the regular military occupation of the community is bound to result in resistance, and they see the resistance growing around the world to military occupation and colonial domination , including in the U.S.

This military assault is coupled with an ideological assault, that includes the calling for the assassination of Chairman Omali Yeshitela on the radioi by some radio dj called "Bubba the Love Sponge." It includes articles on the website of so-called "liberal" radio station WMNF and other news outlets that mobilize anti-African, white nationalist responses like those that we see being posted here.

There is counterinsurgency being waged against this community, and it has nothing to do with law. In U.S. Counterinsurgency manuals, they say counterinsurgency has no rules. That's why even though "legally" they shouldn't be assaulting people in the community, raiding homes without warrants, etc. they do because it has nothing to do with law. The State is functioning, as it always does, to maintain the status quo, and it does it through violence or threat of violence. Law is just the opinion of the ruling class, and at any time that it doesn't suit them, they violate it or change it, just as we've been seeing in St. Petersburg, and in African communities throughout the U.S..

Re: The killing of Terre’blanche and the struggle for African liberation

Binga — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:02:44 -0000

Pete_Bolton, the "evil colonists" haven't left. Have you checked the reality? More than 87 percent of the land in Occupied Azania is owned by the settler colonial population.

Yes, there are African presidents in Africa, but economies, land, etc. are still controlled by European and North American imperialist powers who put them into power to administer their continued theft of our resources.

You talk about investment... what investment? Would you call it investment if I walked into your house with two dollars and walked out with two thousand? No. you'd call me a thief. You ask what would happen if this so-called investment didn't happen? First of all the European and North American economies, which depend on their ability to continue to steal value out of Africa would collapse. Africa is the richest continent on the planet. It can use its own resources to take care of itself. It's problem is the parasite sucking its life blood.

The African workers and poor peasants have to come to power, kill the parasite and destroy the system of parasitism.

Re: The killing of Terre’blanche and the struggle for African liberation

Binga — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:52:56 -0000

morne13, your statement completely ignores the reality that nearly all of the arable land in Occupied Azania is still in the hands of the 10 percent white settler colonizer population. You ask why have African people there not been able to be "successful" like the white settlers, its because of this reality. It is the same colonial system in place as it was under apartheid the only thing that has changed is the administrators are now black. But its the same system, and it is in place to maintain the same parasitic relationships.

You say that as a white man you have the greatest respect for Mandela. I'm sure you do, because he did not challenge the white settler population's grip on the people's resources.

And it is ridiculous for you as a white man who finds himself in Occupied Azania as a result of the brutal theft of African land and resources to complain about Africans from across a border drawn by the invading colonial settler population from which you come crossing this false border into Occupied Azania.

These borders and identities created by European colonizer bandits are invalid. It is African land and belongs to African people. It is the Europeans who are the invaders.

You ask why Zimbabwe is in crisis, it is because of the parasitic relationship imposed on it by the British, the U.S. and other imperialist powers — the same group of bandits who imposed colonialism on Occupied Azania and subsequently neocolonialism.

The solution for all of Africa ultimately is for the African workers to seize power. The revolution that was halted when the imperialists brought Mandela out of jail to serve as a buffer against the struggling African masses must be completed. And those from the settler colonial population who cannot take a stand on the right side for the return of land stolen through the most brutal means might want to find a way out of there.

Uhuru!
Izwe Lethu i Afrika!

Re: Gates’s intellectual assault and the war of ideas

Binga — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:54:50 -0000

Also, Gates seems to attempt to confine this question of reparations to the period of African enslavement in chattel slavery. But the reality is that the rate of exploitation of African people has been greater since slavery. What about the whole period of convict leasing, which some historians have described as worse than slavery?

What about the theft of African people's resources following the period of "Reconstruction?" What about the bombing of African economic centers like the Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma destroyed by white people in 1921?

What about the countless torture and brutal lynchings of African people throughout the U.S.? What about the more than 1 million African people locked up in U.S. prisons today? What about the political prisoners like Sundiata Acoli and Mumia Abu Jamal who have been thrown in prisons just for struggling to free their people? What about those like Diop Olugbala who is under threat of being imprisoned today just for challenging this parasitic system and its neocolonial representatives and struggling for our freedom? And right now I'm not even going into what this system has done and is doing to African people outside of U.S. borders.

Even if by some stretch of the imagination Gates could let this parasitic bloodsucking system off the hook for all of the stolen labor and wealth it has taken from our people during the period of slavery and direct colonialism, it cannot be ignored that this parasite continues to have its teeth in our necks sucking us dry.

Re: Gates’s intellectual assault and the war of ideas

Binga — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:38:25 -0000

As Chairman Omali Yeshitela has said, this op-ed piece did not just appear out of the blue for no reason. It was published now because now is a time that imperialism needs defending. It is in serious crisis and so now those who benefit as participants are stepping forward to defend this parasitic system.

When Africans were being kidnapped and forced to work as slaves, white people and this white power system had no problem claiming responsibility. They didn't see any consequence, just the benefit — and there was serious benefit. The whole capitalist world system was built through this process, and Africa and African people saw no benefit.

Now that people around the world are struggling for their freedom and return of stolen resources, imperialism has to be on the defensive. Now they have to say, "well some of you were involved too."

Yes, there were a handful of sellout Africans who participated in the process of the European assault on Africa called the transatlantic slave trade — just like there are a handful of sellout Africans who participate in our oppression today. But Africa and her people in general are worse off as a result of the assault then and the continued assault today.

So reparations are due for the attack on AFRICA. Yes, it was an attack on Africa. Some of us as Africans find ourselves in the Americas and in Europe as a result of this attack on AFRICA.

The value has to be returned, and the fact is that value finds itself concentrated in Europe and North America. That tells you where the thieves are. that also tells you on whose door you're gonna have to knock to take back what belongs to you.

Uhuru!

Re: African youth in Philadelphia threaten to shut city down—InPDUM demands hands off the so-called “flash mobs” (African youth)

Binga — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:05:09 -0000

gsanislo, what is being said about the mayor, police chief and DA is that they are black but not working for the African community. They are white power in black face and attack the black community carrying out the interests of the same system that we have been struggling against since it snatched our people up and brought us here against our will. It has changed form and changed face, but is the same. Yes, the system will let individuals "rise to prominence" as you stated but not our whole people and usually at the expense of the rest of us.

And yes, Macy's and other businesses that make money off of our community and take those resources out of the community making other communities rich is a problem. Just like businesses in white communities are white owned resulting in those resources remaining in white hands the same should be the case in the African community. Otherwise it's just economic extraction. On top of that, our people are generally treated terribly in a lot of those shops.

Also, young people resist, often unconsciously, against the status quo — against the current situation that offers no future for our people. What is critical is that they be organized into a revolutionary movement to bring clear consciousness to that resistance and concentrate it to be most effective in overturning the oppressive conditions that our people face.

Re: Revolutionary workers' party set to launch in Sierra Leone

Binga — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:23:06 -0000

But what must be understood is that it is not a question of "input" from Africans in the U.S., Caribbean, etc. It is the same struggle. Even as we are struggling for our freedom wherever we are it is part and parcel of the International African Revolution. We are one nation. So Africans struggling in the U.S. are struggling on the U.S. front of the African revolution, and Africans struggling in Haiti are part of the Haitian front of the African revolution. And what will be required is the capacity to move in concert with each other. Just as the U.S. and France come together to keep places like Haiti under imperialism's thumb, we as One Africa, One Nation have to be able to move with each other. I agree that Africa is the key to the world revolution and I would add that key to the struggle is the liberation and unification of OUR African AND her dispersed people.

Uhuru!
One Africa! One Nation!
Touch One! Touch All!

Re: South Africa explodes

Binga — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:17:23 -0000

The ANC was not given the land. They were given the permission to administer the same system of exploitation that was in place before it changed forms from Apartheid to the current neocolonial system.

The problem in both Azania and in Zimbabwe is that the African working class and poor peasantry have not assumed power. Power is in the hands of the African petty bourgeoisie who can meet its interests short of complete revolution, short of meeting the interests of the working masses. the African working class must take power for itself! Those who create the wealth must control what is to be done with the wealth.

You ask who will work and who will rule when Africa is reclaimed: when the African workers and poor peasants claim our Africa it is we — who create the value — who will work and rule.

No Compromise! No Surrender!

Re: Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to speak at Black is Back mobilization

Binga — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:54:19 -0000

Obama is not "our president" any more than Bush was. Can you blame Obama for this war? Well, he intensified it didn't he?

Obama is responsible for the attacks that HIS regime is making against black people and other oppressed peoples around the world. The question is when will those who excuse these attacks stop justifying genocide waged against us just because the one responsible for it looks like us?

African people in the U.S. have been historically known by people around the world to be opposed to the unjust actions of the genocidal imperialist U.S. government. Now with Obama's black face representing imperialism, he brings shame on our folks. We have to stand up against this. We have to stand up on the right side and say we are opposed to U.S. imperialist war no matter what color the face that represents it. And we should applaud anyone who can stand up beside us for justice against U.S. imperialist aggression and its representatives.

Obama is not "our president", he represents our problem.

Re: South Africa explodes

Binga — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:07:23 -0000

This spontaneous uprising in the absence of revolutionary leadership seems to me to be not only an indictment of the neocolonial government of Azania, but also of the "revolutionary" organizations in there who seem to be more preoccupied with winning elections than organizing the African workers and poor peasants to seize power and overturn their conditions and the neocolonial government that imposes them.

It seems to me that it is a statement that an organization's relevance can no longer be measured by what it may have done in the past but by the leadership it is providing today in this process to unite and liberate our Africa. I hope that it serves as a wake up call to forces attempting to hold on to old and tired tactics and strategies to step into this new period and build the African Socialist International, to organize the masses to seize power, not as Azanians or South Africans but as African people tied to a worldwide strategy to unite and liberate Africa.

One People! One Party! One Destiny!
No Compromise! No Surrender!

Re: http://beta.uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=uhuru-movement-statement-on-lovelle-mixon

Binga — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:08:39 -0000

This is right on. The African community in Oakland and throughout the U.S. is an occupied territory with an ever present military force. To criminalize victims of this occupation when they shoot back at the violent occupier is to unite with the occupation. Any way forward has to begin with the end of the occupation.