The Uhuru Movement, led by Omali Yeshitela, is building the African Socialist International (ASI) throughout the African world. The ASI aims to eliminate colonial borders in Africa that have kept African people separated from their land, resources and each other.

APSC conference organizers point to recent actions as evidence of a resurging African revolution. On Nov. 16-18 the African People’s Socialist Party in Sierra Leone (a member organization of the ASI) held its founding conference and stated its intention to contend for power in that country. In the U.S., the African People’s Socialist Party which has been active since the defeat of the Black Revolution of the 1960’s, now is leading the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. The coalition’s Nov. 7 demonstration in Washington, D.C. demanded an end to U.S. wars and occupation.

Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee stated, “Obama’s policies have deepened the oppression that African people face in the U.S. —mass imprisonment, poverty, foreclosures, police terror and occupation. Around the world, the U.S. continues the war on Iraq, Afghanistan and the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) which is designed to maintain the extraction of African resources.”

“Now is the time,” Hess says, “for honest white progressives to look at the true nature of a social system built on enslavement and genocide. Now is the time for us to abandon our allegiance to this parasitic system, to support reparations to the African community and to join in solidarity with the struggles of African and oppressed peoples for a better world.”

Omali Yeshitela, back from the Sierra Leone conference, will give the keynote address at APSC’s conference in January.

Also featured will be Gaida Kambon, longtime leader in the African People’s Socialist Party who led the first delegation of the Uhuru Movement to Sierra Leone. She has led countless struggles in defense of the rights of the African community in the U.S.

Penny Hess, also a member of the delegation returning from Sierra Leone, will present at the conference as well.

Other items on the conference agenda include world history from the perspective of colonized people and workshops that challenge proponents of anti-racism to address colonialism, the root cause of racism. There will also be sessions devoted to building the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and challenging Obama's war policies at home and abroad.

For more information visit http://www.apscuhuru.org, or contact info [at] apscuhuru.org, 727-683-9949.