Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Comrades, and African patriots,
It is almost a year since the last ASI Conference in London, England which occurred in October 2006. At the end of the 2006 we concluded that ASI Conference 2006 was the end of a more than 20 year long effort by the African People's Socialist Party to build the worldwide African Socialist International Party. It was determined that we would hold an interim committee meeting in Barbados West Indies to plan the building process for the ASI Congress scheduled for 2008 in Senegal, Africa.
A number of factors happened that did not allow us to hold the Interim Committee Meeting in Barbados; government harassment of the local ASI organiser, the acceleration, the intensity, and spreading of the crisis of imperialism at home as seen in Zimbabwe, Darfur, Congo and around the world such as in Haiti, Venezuela, Bolivia, and in the Middle East with Iraq, Palestine; in imperialist centres themselves which are gripped in panic with the fear of financial meltdown.
We can all see that the struggles for national liberation in the last 50 years have changed forever the face of the world's nations, threatening to eradicate the existence of imperialism from our planet. Neo-colonialism, the last stage of imperialism, could no longer provide safe havens to a retreating and dying imperialism as the struggles of billions of oppressed people around the world are gathering pace and strength to repossess their lives and resources from the days the great Nkrumah said has been the last.
More than ever, Africa and African people are absent at this historical moment in history, characterised by the increased competition between the old imperialism and the new ones for African resources. Should we fail to build the ASI, this conflict for a new scramble for Africa, would be resolved at our expense, with the most dire consequences, than the best brains could ever imagine.
The growing interest and influence of the ASI in Africa itself, have led the ASI Interim Committee to take the ASI Interim Committee Meeting and Workshops home in Ghana, from the 12 through the 14 January 2008.
Brothers and sisters, comrades and African patriots, a new era in human history is unfolding before our eyes. We can now materialise the vision of our great leaders Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X and others by equipping African workers with the organisational reality to lead our own struggle for political power in our own hands.
We are calling on all who believe in a life of freedom and independence for Africa and her dispersed children around the world, to unite with the effort to build the ASI, a tool of the African working class to seize power.
Unity with ASI Resolution a pre-requisite for Committee Meeting
Those who have already participated in the ASI process are aware that unity with the main ASI Resolution Document is a necessary requirement for participation in the process. For the benefit of newcomers seeking to participate in the January Interim Committee Meeting, please be advised that unity with the document is an absolute requirement. The ASI Resolution Document can be found on asiuhuru.com .
Please be informed: Participation at the conference is by recommendation and invitation only.
Immediate Response Required
We urge a reply on this matter.
Likewise, we encourage you to give serious attention to this matter as we have about 4 months, just enough time to resolve all administrative hurdles for travelling to Ghana. We will ask those who will require visas to travel to Ghana to move immediately to secure them and any other required documents.
Our plan is to leave the Accra with the establishment of an ASI Congressional Steering/ Organising committee, with the task of organising among other things, for the ASI Congress, possibly in late December 2008 /January 2009, and other concrete conclusions from the Accra conference.
Tour to Elmina Castle and other important Sites
At the end of the conference, from the 16 to 18 January, all participants are invited to a tour of historical sites such as the slave castles/dungeons branded on African coasts by Europeans invaders, Various local markets and other places of interests etc. This is an opportunity for all of us, Africans who stayed at homes and those who were removed forcibly to look together, at the significance of the enslavement of Africans as part of our history of struggle and resistance and collectivise and narrow the consciousness gaps that may exist among ourselves.
Please find enclosed, a tentative agenda for the ASI conference
Forward to a United States of Africa
Luwesi Kinshasa, ASI Interim Committee Coordinator
One Africa! One nation! Touch One, Touch All!
