AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY

Contents: AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY: A BRIEF HISTORY • THE A-APRP: ORGANIZING FOR FREEDOM • Brochure advertising people to African Liberation Day events including on Friday, May 27 at Howard University and Saturday, May 28 at Malcolm X Park. The brochure says the theme for all ALD's organized by A-APRP is THIRTY YEARS OF AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY: AFRICA WILL BE FREE, UNIFIED AND SOCIALIST; In honor of the indigenous peoples of the world struggling against settler occupation and colonialism. The brochure says there will also be African Liberation Day activities in Los Angeles, California; Sacramento, California; Dallas, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Thomas. Virgin Islands; Paris, France; Toronto, Canada; and London, England. The brochure says ALD was founded in 1958 by Kwame Nkrumah on the occasion of the First Conference of Independent States held in Accra, Ghana and attended by eight Independent African states; the 15th of April was declared "Africa Freedom Day," to mark each year the onward progress of the liberation movement, and to symbolize the determination of the people of Africa to free themselves from foreign domination and exploitation. The brochure says between 1958 and 1963 the nation/class struggle intensified in Africa and the world; seventeen countries in Africa won their independence and 1960 was proclaimed the Year of Africa; further advances were made with the defeat of U.S. imperialism in Asia and the Caribbean; imperialism responded to this tide of victories by assassinating revolutionary leaders and sending U.S. troops to Viet Nam; on the 25th of May 1963, thirty-one African Heads of state convened a summit meeting to found the Organization of African Unity (OAU); they proclaimed May 25, African Liberation Day. The brochure says since then, the world has witnessed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, the U.S. move to crush the liberation movements in Asia, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan; the overthrow of the Democratic Party of Guinea, the U.S. invasion of Grenada, and the U.S. bombing of Libya. The brochure says this period had marked a temporary setback for the Pan-African movement and since 1966 was characterized by a lull in ALD activities; micro-nationalism and neo-colonialism were imposed upon the people as the new stage of the capitalist, imperialist strategy in Africa. The brochure says out of the intensification of the nation/class struggle, a new generation of African youth emerged and reaffirmed their African personality, history and their Pan-African objectives; this youth was the product of Malcolm X, Sister M'balia Camara, Patrice Lumumba, and the countless generations before them. The brochure says the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) is a permanent, independent, all African, mass, revolutionary, socialist, political party based in Africa, the just homeland of African people all over the world.