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Understandings

African Internationalism, the political theory developed by Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party, is based on these understandings:

• Capitalism was built and is maintained on slavery and colonialism, the theft of land, labor and resources from African and other oppressed peoples.
• Capitalism is a parasitic system. Without the gold, diamonds, oil and vast resources of Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, capitalism could not exist. Most of the conflict regions of the world today are places where oppressed peoples are struggling to regain control of their land and resources from U.S. power.
• All of white society sits on the pedestal of the oppression of African and other peoples - rich and poor, workers and bosses alike. That's why white workers and people in general have never joined in solidarity with the movements of African people in this country. Generally the white left reflects nothing more than the interests of sectors of the white population seeking a greater share of the stolen resources on top of the pedestal.
• All black people are African people, whether they are in the U.S., the Caribbean, Europe or on the continent of Africa itself. Their struggle is not against racism, the ideas in the heads of white people, but for political power, national identity and national liberation as a united African people. Africa and all its resources are the birthright of all African people everywhere.
• The struggle of African people, along with the Iraqis, the Palestinians, the Lebanese and all those struggling against U.S. imperialist war and domination is for national liberation and self-determination of their land and resources.
• The role of white people is to stand in solidarity with the just struggles for the liberation of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
  To get off the pedestal built on the backs of Africans and others, to turn loose our "whiteness" and join the rest of humanity means breaking with our unity with the U.S. system of imperialism, the enemy of oppressed peoples. For a future of peace and justice on earth we must stand in solidarity with the movement for African liberation and the liberation of all oppressed peoples. We must be part of ending the U.S. economic and political stranglehold on the majority of the human race for the benefit of the white world.

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