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Tape Tells of Modern Day Slavery
By L. JANE GREENBERG

Spectrum Staff Writer

The fundamental ideas of the All­
African People's Revolutionary
Party were discussed Thursday at a
meeting of the Black Student
Union.
The All-African People's
Revolutionary Party works towards
pan-Africanism, "the total
liberation and unification of Africa
under scientific socialism," said a
pamphlet distributed by the
A-APRP. They also work to break
down apartheid, which was
instituted by Dutch settlers in
South Africa in 1948.
''Under apartheid, the African
masses are 20th century slaves. The
African majority, who are over 70
percent of the population, are forced
to live on 13 percent of the worst
and most barren land," the political
leaflet said.
A video was also shown of
Kwame Toure, a leading black
activist in the United States. The
video had been filmed during a 1983

speech held at the Erie Community
College City campus. Toure
brought up the point that "all
people who are oppressed cannot be
free until they are conscious ...they
know more about Michael Jackson
than (about) Jesse Jackson."
Racism was a means of justifying
the kidnapping and enslavement of
the African people and the theft of
their land, according to Toure. The
Europeans realized what a rich
continent Africa really is. Among
Africa's wealth are mines of
platinum, cobalt, lead, gold, iron,
coal, chromium, silver and
diamonds . Africa also contains
enough power sources (oil ,
hydroelectric, and coal) to develop a
powerful nation .
Taken advantage of
They have been taken advantage
of, and Toure and the A-APRP
would like to change that .
"We have to fight, fight, fight,
until we're all killed or until we
destroy the enemy," Toure said.
Backbone
"All people of African descent,
whether they live in North or South
America, the Caribbean, or in any
other part of the world, are Africans

and belong to the African Nation."
So states Kwame Nkrumah in his
book, Class Struggle in Africa. This
belief is the backbone of the All­
African People's Revolutionary
Party, which seeks, according to the
pamphlet, to "educate and organize
the masses of exploited and
oppressed Africans living, suffering,
and struggling in Africa and over 61
other countries in the world." The
A-APRP represents a development
in the struggle of black people
against exploitation, dispersion,
depersonalization, and humiliation.
Constant struggle
Kwame Nkrumah, co-chairman
of the 5th Pan-African Congress at
the end of World War II ,
implemented and taught socialist
pan-African principles, practices
and policies to help liberate and
unify Africa under scientific
socialism; they have been named
Nkrumahism in his honor. Some of
the princples of Nkrumahism
include: Humanism, egalitari­
anism, collectivism, dialectical and
historical materialism, scientific
socialism, and the primacy of
Africa. In the words of Toure, "The
only way any people will be free is
by constant struggle."