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Date Posted: Fri, May 25 2012, 9:00:01 PDT
Author: IRSCNA
Subject: IRSCNA: African Liberation Day 2012 Statement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

25 May 2012
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

African Liberation Day 2012 Statement

On behalf of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement, the Irish
Republican Socialist Committees of North America send solidarity
greetings to our comrades in the All-African People's Revolutionary
Party and African people worldwide on the occasion of African
Liberation Day on May 25th, a day celebrating the determination of
the people of Africa to free themselves from foreign domination and
exploitation.

We stand in solidarity with African people around the globe
struggling for their liberation and the liberation of the African
continent, and in particular we acknowledge those guided by the
principles of Pan-Africanism and scientific socialism.

For nearly four decades, the Irish Republican Socialist Movement,
comprised primarily of the Irish Republican Socialist Party and the
Irish National Liberation Army (until 2010, when the INLA
decommissioned and left center stage), has been on the front lines of
the struggle for national liberation and socialist revolution in
Ireland, while standing in solidarity with all people worldwide
struggling toward the same goals.

Ireland was the first nation to fall victim to European colonialism
and imperialism. The lessons learned by the British in colonizing and
occupying Ireland would later be put to use by the British and other
Europeans in colonizing and occupying Africa, the Americas, Asia, and
the Middle East (especially in Palestine).

Today, the Irish working class, native born and immigrant alike,
continues to be dominated and marginalized by the capitalist class
locally and internationally as the most exploited workers in western
Europe, while the Irish government played a strategic part of the new
imperial order's illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan,
allowing their country and its resources to be used as a staging
point by the imperialist forces of the United States.

In the North of Ireland, the British continue to occupy part of the
Irish nation, although now they prefer using local lackeys to rule on
their behalf instead of doing so directly.

Like your brothers and sisters in Ireland, the African people of the
world are of strategic and vital interest to the imperialist war
machine. Whether you are used as cannon fodder in the American or
British armies, starved so your resources can be exploited, or armed
to fight each other in proxy imperialist wars, you are some of the
most oppressed and potentially revolutionary people that exist. The
building of Pan-Africanism and African unity through mass
revolutionary organizations is one of the greatest possible threats
that could arise for the rulers and exploiters of this planet.

In Libya last year, we saw how imperialist-backed "rebels" engaged
in racist violence against black Libyans and black guest workers,
while their NATO masters turned a blind eye. Once again, imperialism
used Africans to fight a proxy war, turning African against African.

African people are super-exploited across the globe. The resources of
Africa are stolen to profit Western capitalism. Brothers and sisters,
we stand in solidarity with you in opposing the racist capitalist
system that oppresses us all.

From Port-au-Prince to Belfast, from Chicago to Cork, from
Johannesburg to Derry, from Africa to Ireland and America, we are one
class of people waging the same struggle for human liberation, boldly
going forward in our shared struggle for socialism and the liberation
of humankind from the shackles of capitalism and imperialism.

Saoirse Go Deo! Freedom Forever!

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Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
PO Box 5174
Champaign IL 61825
USA
irscna@irsm.org
http://www.irscna.org/
http://www.irsp.ie/irscna.html

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