Contents: Stop The Curfew-Picket City Hall • Capitalism Causes Unemployment • Guinea-Bissau - A People United Can Never Be Defeated • Save Morgan • What Is ALSC? • The proposed Curfew Ordinance, Bill No. 1504, would make it illegal for anyone 17 years old and younger to be on the street after 10:30PM on weekdays and midnight on weekends. On Sept. 23, 1973, Guinea-Bissau, formerly one of Portugal's African colonies, declared itself independent after a ten-year war of liberation. Although the U.S., Portugal and other imperialist powers refused to accept Guinea's independence, it was recognized by most nations. About 400 years ago, Portugal began her conquests there and it became a...
Contents: Stop The Curfew-Picket City Hall • Capitalism Causes Unemployment • Guinea-Bissau - A People United Can Never Be Defeated • Save Morgan • What Is ALSC? • The proposed Curfew Ordinance, Bill No. 1504, would make it illegal for anyone 17 years old and younger to be on the street after 10:30PM on weekdays and midnight on weekends. On Sept. 23, 1973, Guinea-Bissau, formerly one of Portugal's African colonies, declared itself independent after a ten-year war of liberation. Although the U.S., Portugal and other imperialist powers refused to accept Guinea's independence, it was recognized by most nations. About 400 years ago, Portugal began her conquests there and it became a center of slave trading. Portuguese capitalism rested largely on the exploitation of colonized people and their resources and it has depended on powerful capitalist countries like the U.S. and Britain, who received much of the profit from African misery. In 1956, the African Independence Party of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC) was formed under the leadership of Amilcar Cabral and others. In 1973, the Portuguese, with CIA aid, assassinated Amilcar Cabral, bur the imperialists could not reverse the tide of history. Mozambique and Angola also were breaking free from Portugal's grip, and the impoverished masses of Portugal's own people were becoming sick of being used as cannon fodder for imperialist war. The lesson that history teaches us is that "a people united can never be defeated!" The PAIGC is fighting illiteracy, disease and exploitation to build a free socialist society. ALSC has mobilized over 250,000 people in the last two years through annual African Liberation Day demonstrations, collected funds for liberation movements, engaged in agitational and protest activities in support of African liberation movements, and conducted educational activities in Black communities to link the struggle of African people against imperialist exploitation with the struggles of Black people in the U.S. for liberation.
