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The Basic Mode of Operation of

Capitalism’sKiller Institutions:

An Initial Examination of the Central Tools of

Neo-colonialism

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The Basic Mode of Operation of Capitalism’s Killer Institutions An Initial Examination of the Central Tools of Neo-colonialism

1 Introduction 1.1 Raising consciousness of neo-colonialism in Afrikan communities This paper is intended as a brief introduction to imperialism, its changing faces and how they have

and continue to impact upon Afrika. It is impossible to comprehend the recent history of Afrika

without understanding that European imperialism imposed three distinct, but integrally related

historical phases on us: slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism. The paper focuses principally on

the neo-colonial phase of Afrika’s history – the phase that we are currently in and the phase of

imperialist domination that we must overcome if we are to be free. It does not attempt a

comprehensive analysis of all of the mechanisms of neo-colonialism, but instead focuses on some

of its central institutional drivers.

The paper reminds us of the way in which imperialism has, over a period of 500 years, systematically

metamorphosised in a concerted bid to steal and retain the resources of Afrika and other colonised

parts of the world. These metamorphoses have taken place both in Afrika and at imperialism’s centre

depending on their relative strengths at the historical point in question. Despite its changing faces,

imperialism’s objectives and central principles i.e. exploitation, elitism and individualism have

remained consistent throughout. Finally, the paper briefly examines the way in which the current

crisis of capitalism has forced imperialism to re-arrange its centre in a desperate bid to survive.

Imperialism is now so desperate that Uncle Tom has been given the reigns of the presidency by

Uncle Sam.

1.2 Afrikan people’s challenge to slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism Imperialism’s historically phased methods of slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism were all

aimed at creating the conditions necessary for its systematic theft of Afrikan people’s wealth. In order

to achieve this economic outcome it had to disempower Afrikan people politically. It had to destroy

the just indigenous political systems that promoted Afrikan people’s sovereignty, Afrikan people’s self-

determination, Afrikan people’s self-government, Afrikan people’s autonomy, Afrikan people’s

democracy etc. It replaced these just indigenous political systems with its own evil corrupt despotic

systems of rule which were democratically bankrupt because they were controlled from outside of

Afrika.

Through constant struggle, Afrikan people defeated the evil corrupt despotic system of slavery and

forced imperialism to back track to colonialism instead. Afrikan people continued the constant

struggle and defeated the evil corrupt despotic system of colonialism, again forcing imperialism to

back track – this time to neo-colonialism – the phase of history that we are currently in. Osagyefo

Kwame Nkrumah explained that neo-colonialism is the last phase of imperialism (Nkrumah, 1974, p.

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1). This means that when Afrikan people defeat neo-colonialism, there will be no place for

imperialism to back track to. The most important task before us as Afrikan people, in this epoch of

history, is to defeat neo-colonialism. In doing so, we will defeat imperialism and usher in a new

phase of history that will eventually lead to the freedom of Afrika and other externally controlled parts

of the world.

1.3 Ignorance of neo-colonialism blocks the path to Afrikan liberation The task of achieving our freedom is not as simple as it may at first sound. Neo-colonialism is

simultaneously a period in Afrika’s history of exploitation by imperialism and a varied set of cunningly

deceptive techniques designed to control and contain Afrikan people while our resources are being

stolen. Neo-colonialism is used by imperialists to subdue Afrikan nations on the continent and in the

Diaspora. Internal or community based neo-colonialism is also used to subdue Afrikan communities

in the imperialist heartlands.

Neo-colonialism takes different specific forms in different situations, but the essence - using Afrikan

agents to overtly or covertly assist imperialism’s theft of resources from Afrikan people - remains the

same. In Britain for instance, where the British capitalist state is the mortal enemy of Afrikan people,

the actions of any Afrikan person who unites with the British capitalist state against the interests of

the Afrikan community provide examples of internal or community based neo-colonialism.

Neo-colonialist techniques have been specifically and successfully designed to confuse as well as

control us. Its European imperialist architects have successfully ensured that the majority of Afrikan

people are not even consciously aware that neo-colonialism exists. If we do not know that neo-colonialism exists, then we are likely to be confused by everything that occurs around us.

A case in point is the appointment of Barack Obama to the position of President of US Satan - the

highest possible overt expression of neo-colonialism, taking it onto a completely global level.

Obama’s role is to mislead the gullible, by showing a bogus new ‘kind faced’ imperialism instead of

the exhausted ‘iron fist’ version. He must then: (i) use US Satan’s state power against the interests of

Afrikan people living in US Satan, and; (ii) use US Satan’s imperial power to further subdue Afrikan

and other oppressed people around the world in order to intensify its theft of our resources. Yet many

sincere Afrikan people have been so confused by this neo-colonialist con trick that they are

expressing pride at his overt appointment.

This is because neo-colonialism is a methodology that is used to hide the racism of the system that

oppresses Afrikan nations; the racism is still present, but because it is fronted by co-opted Afrikan

agents the racism loses its visibility. Since US Satan is the leader of imperialism, Obama’s

appointment is an attempt to deceptively and falsely portray US Satan as a nation free from racism.

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When we were oppressed under slavery and colonialism our ancestors knew it; they also knew that

they had to remove these oppressive systems in order to be free. It is a massive contradiction that

despite the fact that we are actually living in the neo-colonial phase of history, most of us do not

know what it is. The problem this poses is that if we do not know it, we cannot understand it; if we

cannot understand it, we cannot consciously do anything to challenge it; if we cannot do anything to

challenge it, we cannot get rid of it; if we cannot get rid of it, we will remain stuck in it; if we remain

stuck in neo-colonialism, Afrika cannot be liberated and we will not be a free and self determining

people. The critical task before us therefore, is to raise our collective level of consciousness of the

nature of neo-colonialism and how to defeat it in Afrikan communities everywhere.

2 Imperialism in the slavery and colonial phases of Afrikan history 2.1 Methods of control in the slavery phase of Afrikan history Since the 15th century, imperialism has imposed slavery, colonialism and currently neo-colonialism

upon us. This means that our wealth is still being stolen with unrelenting vigour. During the

enslavement phase of Afrikan history, Afrikan people experienced the direct theft of our bodies and

our labour; however, Afrikan land still remained under Afrikan people’s control. This meant that

kidnapped Afrikan people were simultaneously living under a system of slavery and colonialism. The

land of the American Indians was colonised and enslaved Afrikan people were forced to labour on it.

Britain and other imperialist nations used a combination of their own national and American colony

based state mechanisms to administer the slave economies.

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2.2 Treaty of Tordesillas: Origin of co-ordinated enslavement The treaty of Tordesillas was essentially an agreement on the allocation of stolen land and the

assumed ‘rights’ of imperialists to steal resources from the peoples of those lands. On 4th May 1493

Pope Alexander VI issued a decree (i.e. Papal Bull). What was to become known as ‘the Americas’

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was to be allocated to Spain with Afrika and India being allocated to Portugal. In return Portugal and

Spain were each to force Christianity onto the peoples of those lands.

The Portuguese King John II was not pleased with the decree. He felt that it did not give him enough

of ‘the Americas’ so he opened negotiations with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain with a

view to getting it changed. Portuguese and Spanish diplomats negotiated a mutually agreeable

allocation of the land they intended to steal and in doing so staved off a potential imperialist war.

What was later to become known as Brazil would be allocated to the Portuguese and Spain would

retain the remainder. On 7th June 1494 the treaty was signed in the Spanish village of Tordesillas –

hence the treaty’s name (Justice, 2005, p. 94; Treaty of Tordesillas). On 2nd July 1494 the treaty was

ratified by Spain, followed by Portugal on 5th September 1494. It was sanctioned by the Catholic

Church via a Papal Bull issued by Pope Julius II on 24th January 1502.

The Roman Catholic Church lent its ‘authority’ to what was really a treaty amongst thieves aimed at

preventing imperial war. Popes Alexander VI and Julius II both lied by pretending that they had been

given the right by God to give away the American Indian’s land. The Spanish and Portuguese

imperialists found it convenient to act as though they believed them. The church also gave the

‘official’ go ahead for European imperialism to enslave Afrikan people; all of the resulting genocide

was apparently sanctified by God. Other European nations were not powerful enough, at the time, to

merit God’s or the popes’ consultation and had to wait their turn. The Catholic Church got its cut of

the stolen proceeds in the form of tributes from both Spanish and Portuguese imperialism.

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Toussaint L’Ouverture, CatherineFlon & Jean Jacques Dessalines

The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas is a critical historical milestone that marks the origin of European

imperialism’s overtly calculated political programme of enslaving Afrikan people. Some Afrikan

people were enslaved before the treaty, but the treaty marks the beginning of imperialism’s co-

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ordinated plan for the enslavement of Afrikan people. Clearly, Afrikan people were not prepared to

put up with this state of affairs. Our resistance, aimed at overcoming this genocidal onslaught,

marked a critical milestone in the development of Pan-Afrikanism. The Haitian revolution is symbolic

of the massive levels of struggle during this historical era.

2.3 Methods in the colonial phase of Afrikan history A similar scenario existed in the colonial phase of Afrikan history where Afrikan people experienced

the theft of our land as well as our bodies and labour. Learning from its own feudal history, European

imperialism realised that stealing the land from under the feet of Afrikan people would be a more

profitable form of enslavement and a more effective mode of control. As was the case with the

enslavement phase, Britain and other imperialist nations used a combination of their own national and

Afrikan based state mechanisms to administer the colonies. In summary, during the slavery and

colonial phases of Afrikan history, imperialism used its individual nation-state apparatus as its main

source of power.

2.4 The Berlin Conference: Origin of the modern day theft of Afrikan land The Berlin Conference was initially requested by Portuguese imperialism and facilitated by German

imperialism. It ran from 15th November 1884 to 27th February 1885 (Legum, 1961, p. 20). Fourteen

European imperialist and other nations met to agree zones of theft on the Afrikan continent. These

thieving nations included: Germany, Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria-Hungary Union,

Sweden – Norway (Union until 1905), Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Russia, US Satan and Turkey

(Ottoman Empire). The meeting took place in Chancellor Otto Von Bismark’s dining room at 77

Wilhelstrasse in Berlin, Germany (Pakenham, 1999, p. 239). The delegates essentially drew lines on

a map, carved up Afrika and ‘legalised’ the result in the so called ‘General Act of the Berlin

Conference’ (Belin Conference). No Afrikan nation participated in these ‘negotiations’ nor were any

consulted.

The purpose of the conference was to prevent war amongst European imperialist nations. This was

achieved by allocating each of the most powerful of them exclusive stealing zones in Afrika -

misleadingly described as ‘spheres of influence’. Whereas in the Americas, the imperialist had fought

each other over the enslavement colonies, now they realised that they did not need to fight amongst

themselves. There was too much wealth for them to handle. They each had literally years of stealing

ahead. There was so much wealth in the vast mineral rich land of Afrika, that they could steal to their

heart’s content without having to get into conflict with each other.

The 1884/5 Berlin Conference is a critical historical milestone that marks the origin of European

imperialism’s overtly calculated political programme of colonising the Afrikan continent. Some areas

of Afrika were colonised before the conference, but the conference marks the beginning of

imperialism’s co-ordinated plan for the colonisation of the Afrikan continent. Afrikan people’s

resistance to this phase of imperialism’s racist genocide, marks another critical milestone in the

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development of Pan-Afrikanism. The birth of Marcus Garvey on 17th August 1887 and the build up to

Henry Sylvester Williams’ first Pan-Afrikan conference (in London from 23rd to 25th July 1900) both

occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Berlin Conference.

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Henry Sylvester Williams, Yaa Asantewaa & Marcus Garvey

3 Imperialism’s transformation in the neo-colonial phase of Afrikan history 3.1 Transformation of controls in Afrika during the neo-colonial phase In the current neo-colonial phase of Afrikan history, the tactics of imperialist control have changed.

Neo-colonialism transformed both the predator and the prey i.e. its centralised global imperialist

structure and the allegedly ‘independent’ Afrikan colonies which it feeds upon. In Afrika it appointed

Afrikan agents to local leading positions and used them as human masks in an attempt to hide or

camouflage the racism inherent within the system. The Afrikan agents overtly or covertly manage or

oversee the process of forcing fellow Afrikan people to use our labour to assist them in stealing our

resources on imperialism’s behalf. When Afrikan agents join with European imperialism against

Afrikan people’s interests, they manifest neo-colonialism.

One of the central roles of any country’s ‘governing’ party is to make national plans. It is important to

clarify the forces acting on a neo-colonial ‘governing’ party’s national plan in order to truly

understand the workings of the neo-colonial process in Afrika. Neo-colonial ‘governing’ parties

generally get on with the task of implementing national plans that are designed to oppress their

people, while they content themselves with stealing as much of the people’s resources as they can.

Even on the rare occasion when a neo-colonial ‘governing’ party attempts to fight against the

corporate capitalists by creating a national plan which genuinely tries to improve the quality of the

lives of its people, it finds itself in a multi-fronted war situation. It is attacked from all sides by Afrikan

neo-colonial agents and their allies with powers over the national planning process, whose interests

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are against those of the people (Hasan, 1987, p. 39). All of these Afrikan neo-colonial agents

ultimately serve the interests of the corporate capitalists in one way or another.

The Afrikan neo-colonial agents are used to bind the neo-colonial ‘governing’ party into a national

plan dictated by the corporate capitalists through their so called ‘aid’ agencies – the IMF and World Bank. For the ‘governing’ party, this means that winning a general election or carrying out a coup is

not enough to genuinely be in charge. This is because real power lies outside the ‘governing’ party in

the hands of Afrikan neo-colonial agents and their allies with power over the neo-colonial planning

process. These Afrikan neo-colonial agents include: (i) the neo-colonial managers, (ii) the neo-colonial opposition parties and (iii) the corporate capitalists.

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For a commission, Afrikan neo-colonial agents keep fellow Afrikans under control to create the conditions for capitalist investors to steal the wealth of Afrika and impoverish the Afrikan people

Neo-colonialism in Afrika

The first group, the Afrikan neo-colonial managers are the ones that have the real power internally;

they are the people that really run the country. They consist of planners, implementers and

administrators of the national plan and their local i.e. internal capitalist allies. They are fighting to

subtly control the actions of the neo-colonial ‘governing’ party and the direction of the national plan

through their role as administrators and implementers of the national plan. Their personal wealth,

influence and power are more important to them than their own people’s welfare. If the ‘governing’

party steps out of line with the dictates of the corporate capitalists, the neo-colonial managers have

the power to subtly disrupt its agenda.

The Afrikan neo-colonial managers will deliberately subvert the ‘governing’ party’s national plan

when called on by their masters. They achieve this by not doing what the ‘governing’ party orders.

For instance: they work slowly on those ‘governing’ party plans that they do not like; they fail to

correctly understand the ‘governing’ party’s instructions when it suits them; they creatively interpret

instructions to do what they want to do; they can leak details of controversial policies that they do not

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like to the press. When they decide not to do what the ‘governing’ party decides, its plans become

impotent. The ‘governing’ party cannot govern without their willing assistance, because the

‘governing’ party is once removed from the actual planning process; everything must go through

them. The neo-colonial managers can therefore force an ‘uppity’ neo-colonial ‘governing’ party to

fall into line with the requirements of corporate capitalism – when the price and other benefits are

right.

The second group, the neo-colonial opposition parties consist of various permutations of land

owners, industrialists, traders, media practitioners, civil servants and military officers etc. (Payer,

1974, p. 43). They are fighting to take over ‘power’ or to place their friends in the role of the current

‘governing’ party so that they can further enrich themselves. Gaining and staying in power is more

important to them than the people’s welfare. Like vultures in the wings, they are constantly in a state

of readiness, ever awaiting the signal from their corporate capitalist masters to take over the political

leadership of the neo-colony – even at a moments notice. Furthermore, the corporate capitalists

hold million dollar budgets in reserve for the specific purpose of funding ‘their’ own national

government’s contingency plans for bringing their chosen neo-colonial opposition parties into power

if and when the need arises (Sampson, 1973, p. 276).

There is an even deeper category of neo-colonial opposition. They are the fake or pseudo

revolutionaries; they do not contest elections as a route to power; they pretend to be fighting for

Afrikan liberation; they pretend that their fight is for the people, the workers, the peasants; they

pretend that they are fighting against the interests of all of the exploiting neo-colonial opposition

parties identified above; meanwhile, they are really on the payroll or under the influence of US

Satan’s CIA or other of the anti-Afrikan groups at the neo-colonial centre (Stockwell, 1978, p. 54-55).

The third group, the corporate capitalists consist of the IMF, World Bank (IBRD) and associated

agencies, trans-national corporations and their imperialist governments in the neo-colonial centres. They are fighting to externally control the neo-colony’s ‘governing’ party and the direction

of the national plan through their role as ‘advisors’. They impose restrictive conditions on the neo-colony’s ‘governing’ party in their capacity as financiers of the national plan (Stiglitz, 2002, p. 43-52).

Extracting the nation’s wealth is more important to them than the people’s welfare.

Even the corporate capitalists are determined to ensure that they have a direct presence ‘on the

inside’. They use their ‘aid’ conditions to enforce the appointment their own employees to work as

planners in key positions in the neo-colony’s administration. All of this is done at a high cost to the

people and the ‘governing’ party because these so called ‘advisors’ are corporate capitalism’s own

highly paid ‘men’, consultancies and organisations. They are placed into strategically important and

sensitive positions, particularly in roles that develop, monitor and implement the national plan (Hasan,

1987, p. 51).

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Their placements allow them to direct, supervise and control the day to day planning and

implementation of the national economic plan; to take over the running of the government (behind the

scenes); to ensure that it is the corporate capitalists’ plans that are being carried out and not the

‘governing’ party’s national plan; to take unreasonably high payments for themselves in the form of

fees and salaries; to rip off the people’s resources and give them to imperialism’s ‘aid’ agencies,

trans-national corporations and NGO’s; to use their positions to spy on the ‘governing’ party and

then provide corporate capitalism with confidential information which is then used to further

undermine the ‘governing’ party and the neo-colony. The secretive and underhanded nature of their

operation ensures that the neo-colonial ‘governing’ party is left to take the full blame for the

‘advisors’ deliberate mismanagement of the economy – all carried out on behalf of their corporate

capitalist masters.

Meanwhile, the corporate capitalists further consolidate their control by chaining ‘governing’ parties,

neo-colonial managers and neo-colonial opposition parties into secret agreements designed to

redirect and control the national plan. If the ‘governing’ party fails to submit to their will, they offer

patronage or bribe neo-colonial managers and oppositions parties to subvert the ‘governing’ party to

make the people openly hostile to the ‘governing’ party. They then threaten to seize all of its national

assets held overseas which adversely affects the ‘governing’ party’s income and reduces the neo-

colony’s capital assets. In the knowledge of the ‘governing’ party’s growing dependence on food

imports, they can also threaten to withhold food credits since the food grown in the neo–colony is all

ear marked for export to pay off the debt. Furthermore, they all know that lack of food leads to hungry

and upset people which in turn leads to rioting in the streets and unstable ‘governing’ party (Hasan,

1987, p. 44; Stigletz, 2002, p. 77).

In a neo-colonial situation, the people are simultaneously the most important and least cared for

stakeholders. It is their labour and resources that provides the wealth that all of the Afrikan neo-colonial agents and their allies to feed on. Despite their central importance, the people are

completely shut out of any and all state positions that can influence the national plan. Amidst all of

this super-exploitation, the people are generally fighting for survival and a better quality of life, with

the more organised elements amongst them fighting for justice and genuine self-determination.

Harassed by a multiplicity of Afrikan neo-colonial agents, the people resist the plans and actions of

the Afrikan neo-colonial establishment at whatever levels of consciousness and organisation they

have reached.

The massive parasitical onslaught of the Afrikan neo-colonial agents causes tremendous suffering

and hardship for the neglected people. The Afrikan neo-colonial agents collude to benefit

themselves by stealing the people’s wealth for their own benefits as well as for the benefit of their

masters. They all collude to impose political and economic restrictions which adversely affect the

people’s quality of life. All of the Afrikan neo-colonial agents i.e. the neo-colonial ‘governing’ party,

the neo-colonial managers, the neo-colonial opposition parties and their allies the trans-national

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corporations gain at their expense. Conversely, the people can only gain at the expense of the

Afrikan neo-colonial agents and allies who organise their control of state mechanisms to quell the

people’s resistance. This system ensures that at the point of conflict, it is Afrikan people that are

oppressing their fellow Afrikan sisters and brothers.

Neo-colonialism is racism in disguise. It is totally unnatural for a sovereign Afrikan state to fail to

defend the material and immaterial interests of Afrikan people within its boarders. However, when a

trans-national corporation faces criticism as a result of its devastating practices, up to and including

systematically killing defenceless Afrikan people, the Afrikan neo-colonial agents of allegedly

‘sovereign’, ‘independent’ governments instinctively seem to side with the trans-national corporation.

Instead of carrying out their obvious duty to defend their Afrikan citizens, Afrikan neo-colonial ‘governing’ party’s and the Afrikan agents employed within them, automatically spring to the defence

of foreign bankers, industrialists and arms dealers. They over-see a neo-colonial state mechanism

that operates as an intermediary and more precisely an instrument of imperialist aggression against

Afrikan people.

In some respects, Afrikan neo-colonial agents are comparable to bus drivers who are in operational

charge of a bus. Everyone on the buses has a level of operational dependency on the drivers; some

may even think that the bus drivers are in charge. However, if bus drivers deviate from the route

dictated by their bus company masters, they may lose their job. What is more, if the bus drivers were

instructed to drive the bus over their own children – killing them in the process – we could reasonably

expect them to refuse. However, Afrikan neo-colonial agents of imperialism actively put class

allegiances before nationalism and in terms of the analogy, ‘run over their own children’ rather than

lose their jobs.

Afrikan neo-colonial agents of imperialism have no strategic power. They have no strategic

economic or financial power, which therefore means that they have no strategic political power.

Whilst they have a degree of operational power, they are under the total strategic control of their

racist masters; they are active tools of imperialism’s racist agenda as well as its economic one. The

racism of the imperialist system is still present, but the role of Afrikan neo-colonial agents is

disguising it at the point of conflict.

Neo-colonialism was specifically designed to throw us off the course of liberation. The very

existence of Afrikan agents of neo-colonialism injects confusion into the minds of the majority of

Afrikan people. Since we have historically been used to Europeans oppressing and enslaving us on

the basis of race, we generally expect all Afrikan people to automatically fight against European

imperialism’s enslavement processes; it can come as a shock to us when we are confronted with

Afrikan people that actively join with the imperialists. When bare faced racism is disguised, we lose

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an important reference point and it takes time for us to re-orientate ourselves. In the meantime,

amidst the confusion, the corporate capitalists continue with their unrelenting theft of our resources.

3.2 The Bretton Woods Conference: Origin of Co-ordinated Neo-colonialism The Bretton Woods system of global financial management was created by 730 delegates from all

44 Allied Second World War nations who attended a United Nations (UN)-hosted Monetary and

Financial Conference at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, US

Satan. The conference ran from 1st to 22nd July 1944. The governments represented were:

Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,

Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece,

Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, The

Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, South

Africa, USSR, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela and Yugoslavia.

The conference had many purposes including: the prevention of future World Wars via mutual

agreements; the reconstruction of a capitalist system virtually destroyed by World War II - which

involved aiding the economic recovery of former capitalist leaders i.e. Britain and France; the

crowning of US Satan as the leader of the capitalist world which required that former leading capitalist

nations gave up control over ‘their colonies’ and; the introduction of controls to contain newly

‘independent’ colonies in order to ensure that their forthcoming ‘independence’ would be

meaningless. These aims required the establishment of key capitalist killer institutions to operate as

the central driving force of neo-colonialism.

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Bretton Woods was the system of rules, institutions and procedures that regulated the international

monetary system, under which were set up the International Bank for Reconstruction and

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Development (IBRD) (now one of five institutions in the World Bank Group) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which came into effect in 1945 (Babu, 1981, p. 33). It also made what was to

become a failed attempt to set up the International Trade Organisation (ITO). The ITO initiative failed

in 1947 when the Havana Charter on world trade could not be ratified due primarily to opposition from

the US Satan Senate. The ITO idea was replaced by an interim set of international trade rules called

the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) which came into effect in 1948. On 1st

January 1995, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) took over from GATT on the basis of an

agreement signed by 125 Nations at Marrakesh in April 1994 (Gulla, 2002, p. 29/30).

The agreements reached at the Bretton Woods Conference marked the beginning of a globally co-

ordinated system of Neo-colonialism under the leadership of US Satan imperialism: All 3 institutions

IBRD, IMF and GATT (later WTO) were dominated by US Satan imperialism. US Satan imperialism

used its dominant position to force Britain and other colonising nations to give ‘independence’ to their

colonies – so that it could assume proxy neo-colonial control over their former colonies. Behind the

scenes, all of the imperialist nations fought amongst themselves for the resources of the former

colonies using indirect i.e. neo-colonial techniques spearheaded by Trans-national corporations

and US Satan imperialism which controlled the key capitalist killer institutions was best placed to win.

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The 1944 Bretton Woods Conference is a critical historical milestone that marks the origin of

European imperialism’s overtly calculated political programme of neo-colonising the Afrikan

continent. Some areas of Afrika, including Liberia and Ethiopia, were neo-colonised before the

conference, but the conference marks the beginning of imperialism’s co-ordinated plan for the neo-colonisation of the Afrikan continent and other previously colonised parts of the world.

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Once again there was resolute resistance to imperialism’s arrogant imposition and this led to yet

another critical milestone in the development of Pan-Afrikanism. The 1945 5th Pan-Afrikan Congress

represented an immediate response. The congress transformed the diluted Pan-Afrikanism of the

time into a force that sanctioned armed struggle as a legitimate means of Afrikan people’s self-

defence. This re-invigorated Pan-Afrikanism spearheaded our movement toward ‘independent’

Afrikan nations.

3.3 The demise of Bretton Woods: Neo-colonialism’s centre expands to survive US Satan’s leadership of imperialism was seriously undermined by its defeat in Vietnam coupled with

an internal revolutionary challenge led by the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence (BPP). The US

Satan dollar was seriously weakened by the failed Vietnam War. So many US Satan dollars had

been printed to pay for the war that US Satan did not have enough gold to back the amounted of

dollars in circulation. Dissatisfied with US Satan’s leadership, France joined with Germany to create

the European Economic Community (EEC) - an economic power block designed to challenge US

Satan hegemony. France, which had a large stockpile of valueless dollars, then demanded that US

Satan take all of its dollars back and supply it with the appropriate amount of gold instead; this tactic

caused a devastating crisis for US Satan which could not pay up (Armstrong, 1984, p. 227-232).

The chief feature of Bretton Woods was an obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy

that maintained the exchange rate of its currency within a fixed value all underpinned by the US

Satan dollar at a fixed value of $35 per ounce of gold. However, this arrangement, which

underpinned capitalism’s neo-colonial centre, began to collapsed when US Satan suspended the

convertibility of the dollar to gold on 15th August 1969. The pressure on the neo-colonial structure

intensified on 15th August 1971 when US Satan broke the link with gold and floated the dollar and

culminated with the floating of all major capitalist currencies on 19th March 1973 (Went, 2000, p. 57;

Armstrong, 1984, p. 292 & 294; Amin, 1976, p. 120/1; Babu, 2002, p. 130).

This multiple floating currency arrangement created the unique situation whereby no currency had a

‘real’ value, but the US dollar became the ‘reserve currency’ for the other countries within Bretton Woods. US Satan then secretly colluded with the Arab countries under its influence and engineered

an international oil crisis. US Satan did this knowing that it had its own oil reserves, whilst France

and other nations challenging it did not (Harvey, 2005, p. 62 & 75-77). It then pegged the dollar to oil

by ensuring that all oil was sold in dollars. This ensured the dollar, once again, had real material

backing and therefore had real value. The switching of the dollar from gold to oil backing is the

reason that oil is sometimes referred to as ‘liquid gold’. This new form of backing brought some

strength back to the dollar and partially buffered the much weakened position of US Satan as the

leader of imperialism.

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However, the very real divisions between the imperialist ‘allies’ created space for revolutionary Pan-

Afrikanist advances in Afrika and other parts of the oppressed world. Added to this were the effects

of the US Satan inspired oil crisis which caused the price of crude oil to shoot up from $1 to $2 per

barrel to $10 or more. Even though the impact was greater on Europe, the oil rises operated to

weaken both sides of the imperialist divide, further dampening their ability to hold the Afrikan

revolution back. Pan-Afrikanist freedom fighters were now breaking the grip of imperialism with their

military victories over Portugal in Angola, Guinea-Bisseau and Mozambique in 1974. Furthermore,

potential revolutionary Pan-Afrikanist victories were in sight in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Azania. Since

Afrikan liberation spells the end for imperialism, unity at its neo-colonial centre became an absolute

necessity – they had no choice but to resume co-operative working.

Brother Omowale

Amilcar Cabral, Josina Machel, Marina Machinuapa & Samora Machel

3.4 G5 to G8: Co-ordinating neo-colonialism’s fight for survival Convened by the French, the first G5 summit meeting took place from 15th to 17th November 1975 in

Rambouillet, France. It was convened following the void created by the collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary agreement in the early to mid-1970’s. It was attended by leaders from France,

Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and US Satan; Italy and Canada joined this original ‘Group of Five’ in 1976-77 and the configuration became known as the ‘Group of Seven’ or ‘G7’. G7 meetings

have been held on an annual basis since then. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early

1990’s, Russia joined and the configuration became known as the ‘Group of Eight’ or ‘G8’. The

European Union is afforded observer status at G8 conferences.

As the information above demonstrates, the true origin of the G8 can be traced to the origins of

imperialism’s enslavement of Afrikan people. The G8 is the latest mechanism of imperialism for

adjudicating and co-ordinating its joint system of stealing other peoples’ resources. It takes over from

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where: the Treaty of Tordesillas (i.e. the original G2 – convened to usher in slavery); the Berlin Conference, (i.e. an earlier G14 – convened to usher in colonialism) and; the Bretton Woods Conference (i.e. an earlier G44 – convened to usher in neo-colonialism) left off. The G5 (later the

G8) is really a reconfiguration of imperialism’s neo-colonial centre which was convened to stabilise

the global capitalist economy in a period of intense crisis.

The purpose of the G8 is to: oversee the corporate takeover of the world’s resources through

globalization - the single global capitalist economy; co-ordinate the various mechanisms of the

imperialist system (IMF/IBRD or World Bank/WTO/UN/Trans-nationals/NGO’s/Intelligence

agencies/Armies/World Media etc.); agree the allocation of the resources stolen by the capitalists

from peoples around the world; prevent World War between the competing capitalist groupings and;

retard the advance of Afrikan and other revolutionary forces around the world.

The ‘group of 8’ industrial countries (G8) dominate the world economy through trans-national corporations that have imperialist nations as their headquarters and cultural base. They have a

controlling influence over the Bretton Woods triplets i.e. the WTO, the IMF and the IBRD (World Bank), sometimes also referred to as the ‘iron triangle’ (Roddick, 2001, p. 222). The G8 ensures that

these institutions exercise their common duty to work together in a co-ordinated way on behalf of

imperialism (Gulla, 2002, p. 79 & 87). They also use these institutions as instruments to further

entrench corporate capitalist domination of the world economy (Danaher, 1994, p. 165).

Long before there was a G5, Nkrumah informed us that imperialism operated an invisible government

comprised of three overarching networks: the Wall Street financial networks, the intelligence agency

networks and the Pentagon and its military networks (Nkrumah, 1974, p. 240). With their activities

shrouded in secrecy, the politicians, business executives, military and intelligence officers present at

G8 annual conferences are controlled by imperialism’s invisible government and are at the same time

part of imperialism’s invisible government. The composition of the G8 is a feature of the open and

hidden tightening of links between the upper echelons of state power and trans-national corporations, with the corporations holding the upper hand (Gulla, 2002, p. 135; Monbiot, 2000, p.

302-330).

The glorious victory of Quito Cuanavale on the boarders of Angola and Namibia on 27th June 1988

was an outstanding example of the solidarity of Cuba with the struggles of Afrikan people. The

victory contributed to pushing back imperialism by sowing the death nail which led to the fall of

apartheid in Azania (South Afrika) – the last bastion of settler-colonialism on the motherland.

Similarly on 4th October 1993, US Satan’s 28,000 military forces were driven out after having been

resoundingly defeated in the Battle of Mogadishu. This great victory followed US Satan’s completely

unprovoked criminal invasion of Somalia on 12th December 1992. However since then, amidst the

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confusion of neo-colonialism’s chicanery the ideological calibre of mass Afrikan resistance has

regressed.

The most ‘progressive’ recent examples of Afrikan resistance to imperialism have focused their

attacks on its real neo-colonial front line i.e. the interests of trans-national corporations within our

sphere of geo-political influence. Attacks have been launched against neo-colonial privatisation

initiatives with Afrikan people boldly reconnecting electricity and water supplies to homes that the

Trans-national corporations disconnected in Azania in the early 2000’s. Again, throughout the

early 2000’s there have been land reclamation action groups in Azania and Zimbabwe boldly

removing the thieving settler colonialists from parts of our land to make space for dispossessed

Afrikan peasants.

Brother Omowale

Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta

In 2008, ships have been seized off the coast of Somalia which Afrikan warriors appear to be holding

as a means of gaining foreign exchange. Also in 2008 as part of their armed struggle against the

excesses of Shell Oil, warriors of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) are

capturing corporate executives and their associates and releasing them in exchange for payments.

However, it must be noted that these actions seem to be more inspired by our legitimate need to

survive rather than a clear ideological understanding of the need to liberate Afrika and the rest of the

oppressed world from the clutches of corporate capitalism.

3.5 Operation of controls at the centre during the neo-colonial phase Imperialism also pre-empted Afrikan ‘independence’ by reorganising itself and uniting on an

international level. This change was specifically calculated and designed to put it in a position to

contain and defeat all nationalist level challenges to its hegemony. At its centre, the imperialists have

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united at a level above the nation-state; at a level more powerful than the nation-state; at a level that

transcends national boarders. It has integrated its own nation-state mechanisms into a much more

powerful infrastructure. Through the ‘granting of independence’, imperialism allowed us to adopt its

prescribed brand of nationalism; a form of nationalism that was devoid of Afrikan self-determination;

that was specifically designed to prevent Afrikan liberation. Trans-national corporations are at the

heart of imperialism’s neo-colonial theft programme – from the late 1940’s, they led a new network

of global organisations as the then updated source of modern upgraded colonial power.

Imperialism has retained the support of its national state mechanisms including its armies and

intelligence agencies which work co-operatively as part of imperialism’s invisible government

(Nkrumah, 1974, p. 240). In addition, it has supported its trans-nationals’ programme of inhumane

theft of Afrikan resources through a web of genocide promoting global capitalist killer institutions. At

the heart of this gangster mechanism we find institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) the founding institution

of the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the United Nations (UN) all

strategically politically co-ordinated via the G8. The modern imperialist attack on Afrika is

implemented, not through slavery or direct colonial governments as happened in the past, but through

the continent’s multiplicity of neo-colonial governments peopled by an Afrikan elite class dominated

by traitors, that colludes with imperialism.

Brother Omowale

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Collectively, these US Satan controlled imperialist institutional monstrosities are responsible for the

wholesale, unwarranted and unprovoked massacre of millions of innocent hard working and

unsuspecting Afrikan people. These thieving capitalist killer institutions each have their particular role

to play in battering the neo-colonial governments into submission. As a general pattern of operation,

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they bully the Afrikan elite class into submission and encourage their treacherous actions against

their own people through a veiled system of intimidation, threats, extortion and bribes as well as

pandering to their egos. The neo-colonial governments are used as a means for creating

devastating mayhem and carnage in the lives of millions of ordinary Afrikan people who are simply

fighting for mere survival.

Under the title of ‘multi-lateral aid’, Imperialism uses the World Bank and associated agencies to

grant loans to neo-colonial governments at exorbitant rates designed to put Afrikan micro nations

into an irretrievable situation of debilitating debt. History clearly demonstrates that it is imperialism

that is in debt to Afrika, since it owes its very existence to its theft of the resources of Afrikans and

other oppressed peoples. Nevertheless, this fictitious debt is designed to leave ordinary Afrikans and

other oppressed peoples at the eternal and constant mercy of those who control imperialism’s

mechanisms.

Once the micro nation is tricked into believing that it is in ‘debt’, the IMF (or imperialism’s murdering

force) is employed to ‘advise’ the neo-colonial government on what to do next. The IMF invariably

dictates to the neo-colonial governments the self crippling actions that they must take in order to

create the best possible conditions for capitalist thieves. These thieves, otherwise known as

investors, act through their savage trans-national corporations, to come in and steal Afrikan

people’s wealth. This inevitably means dismantling the country’s already poor infrastructure of

hospitals, schools and other social amenities, with direct adverse consequences for the quality of life

of ordinary Afrikan people (Payer, 1974, p. 212-4).

The WTO was vomited into existence out of the notorious anti-Afrikan and anti humanity General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1995. It is there to ensure that Afrikans and other

oppressed peoples do not have the option of trading their way out of the catastrophically crippling

dilemma assigned to them by imperialism. Its purpose is to permanently maintain an unequal

international trading situation in favour of countries at the imperialist centres (i.e. US Satan, Britain,

France etc.) and against the interests of the countries at the imperialist periphery (in Afrika, Asia and

South America).

On behalf of imperialism, it sets the biased prices at which Afrikan nations can buy from and sell to

imperialism’s trans-national resource grabbing monstrosities. The imposed unequal trading

arrangement forces Afrikan nations to buy manufactured products at exorbitant prices, whilst selling

Afrika’s abundant resources for a pittance. This leaves the neo-colonial governments in a

permanent and debilitating state of having a balance of payments deficit, created through spending

substantially more money than they receive through trade (Amin, 1976, p. 195-7; M’Buyinga, 1982, p.

73).

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By taking the emphasis away from resources and focusing instead on money, the illusion is created

that Afrikan nations need more money to make ends meet. It is this illusion which creates the

requirement, in the minds of the neo-colonial elite class, dominated by traitors, that they must go

crawling on their knees to beg for further high interest loans from the IMF and World Bank, which

only serve to make their peoples’ situations even worse.

The ultimate purpose of the UN is to police the neo-colonial states on behalf of imperialism. It is a

sad fact that the so called armies and police forces in the Afrikan neo-colonies have been trained by

imperialism to fire their guns at innocent unarmed Afrikan civilians rather than to protect our people

and our land from outside invaders. The UN operates as the external police force that smiles and

fakes friendship as it invades the neo-colonial country when the internal policing institutions (i.e. the

police and the army), through the people’s resistance, have lost control of the neo-colonial state

apparatus.

In this way, the UN supplies imperialism’s rear guard or backup oppressive force that prevents the

neo-colony from breaking away from its master’s controlling clutches. Where necessary, it will

arrange the physical execution of progressive leaders, as happened with Patrice Lumumba, because

he dared to challenge imperialism’s domination of his country (Anon, 1978, p. 183). Prior to its

ultimate role it provides a veil of political justification for a range of more subtle undermining

interventions into the internal affairs of ‘uppity’ neo-colonial regimes. In any event, history allows us

to safely conclude that:

“… the UN is not an arena where small countries can moderate the ambitions and power of the larger ones.” (Ovenden, 1992, p. 48)

In short, in the neo-colonial phase of Afrikan history, imperialism introduced an integrated global

system so powerfully constructed that it could subdue any nation-state. Imperialism - led by US

Satan – currently operates by exploiting Afrikan people through a web of interlocking capitalist trans-national corporations (i.e. oligopolies and monopolies), assisted by a set of global capitalist killer

institutions that subdue Afrikan nation-states in order to maximise profits. The profits are hoarded by

a few greedy ultra wealthy elite families, supported by an equally greedy webbed network of Trans-national corporation executive board members, each holding multiple directorships. Elite family and

board members network to occupy virtually all powerful positions in the capitalist killer institutions and

imperialism’s government and international governmental alliances; together they control the trans-national corporations, the capitalist killer institutions and national and international government

mechanisms - from behind the scenes. They are imperialism’s hidden masters who secretly make up

its invisible government.

4 Second stage neo-colonialism: disguising racism at imperialism’s centre

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4.1 Capitalism in crisis In 2008, we are living in a special transitional period of the neo-colonial phase of Afrikan and world

history. Imperialism i.e. the global capitalist system and its neo-colonial mechanisms are in a state

of serious crisis. In addition to the obvious financial crisis brought about by the cost of the

unprovoked expansionist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is the problem of an economy built on

unsustainable debt levels, leading to a crisis in the real economy – the industrial sector of the

economy that actually produces material things.

The ultra greedy finance capitalists (i.e. elite family and board members), who make no material

contribution to increasing real wealth, have become so powerful that they have subdued all other

groups under capitalism’s domain. Unlike these finance capitalists, industrial capitalists, because of

their proximity to the labour of the workers, are involved in processes that make a tangible

contribution to wealth creation. The parasitical finance capitalist’s greed motivates them to ‘tax’ (in

effect steal) from all other groups in capitalism’s domain, including their allies the industrial capitalist.

The burden of carrying the parasitical finance and industrial capitalists is already great for everybody

else. However, the burden of carrying the finance capitalist who also ‘tax’ the industrial capitalists is

now proving too great for even the industrial capitalists.

Consequently, the greed of the parasitical finance capitalists has stifled the industrial capitalist’s

ability to produce – it has stifled wealth creation. Capitalism is currently suffering from a financially

induced bout of industrial constipation resulting in stagnation in production. Stagnation in production

will lead to a regression of wages; a growth in unemployment and; an aggravation of poverty and

suffering in Afrika and other parts of the colonised world. What is happening is not a recession, but a

depression (Amin, 2008, p. 1). US Satan - imperialism’s leading nation - is at the centre of this

problem. If the entire system does not reconfigure itself, the US Satan economy will collapse or at

the very least, lose its position of pre-eminence.

4.2 The G8 to G20: Neo-colonialism’s last stand? In the early 1990’s, Iraq threatened US Satan’s neo-colonial leadership by seeking to sell its oil in

Euros rather than dollars (Babu, 2002, p. 127-132; Harvey, 2005, p. 77 & 82). US Satan, aware that

this change would have destroyed its economy, launched the first of two colonial wars against Iraq

and eventually occupied it. In the early 2000’s, a similar colonial invasion was launched against

Afghanistan under the guise of US Satan’s so called ‘war on terror’. The massive resistance of the

Iraqi and Afghan people led to equally massive military costs for US Satan imperialism which

completely undermined the US Satan economy. This is what has created the current global crisis for

capitalism and with it a loss of power amongst all G8 nations.

The resulting decline in power of the G8 nations coupled with the relative rise in power of the BRIC

nations (Brazil, Russia – already in the G8, India and China) meant that the BRIC nations could no

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longer be excluded from imperialism’s ‘top table’. As a result of this most recent capitalist crisis

(2008), the G8 has been expanded and now operates with what seems to be a second tier – the G20.

The G8 has no choice but to expand if its domination of the world economy is to survive. The G8

nations remain a part of this extended group which is now joined by 12 other nations: Argentina,

Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Afrika, South Korea, Turkey

and the European Union.

It is now possible to identify a discernable trend at the neo-colonial centre of the capitalist system.

During colonialism, Britain was king. However, after the Second World War, neo-colonialism

ushered in US Satan as the new undisputed king i.e. the capitalist world governor – with Britain

tucked under its wings in a ‘special relationship’. However, the overall trend of US Satan power since

then has been downwards. US Satan’s 1970’s dollar crisis led to the wider capitalist crisis; US Satan

was compelled to join forces with the other imperialist nations in an expanded neo-colonial centre in

order to survive; this is when capitalism’s global government became ‘collective’. At that point US

Satan was no longer outright king, but more like a senior lord amongst lords.

Furthermore, individual imperialist nations ceased to be the base of neo-colonialism. Instead,

collectives of imperialist nations are now supporting trans-national corporations which have taken

over the lead. In the current capitalist crisis, US Satan’s power has been further eroded by its wars in

Iraq and Afghanistan. The G8 inner circle has now been forced to create a G20 outer circle in order

to survive. US Satan is now more like an ordinary lord amongst an even greater number of lords.

Each new set of admissions to the ‘top table’ are confirmation of the weakening position of US Satan

imperialism, the G8 and capitalism’s neo-colonial centre. They are rapidly losing their ability to

compel other nations to do as they wish – they must now seek to persuade rather than bully.

4.3 Imperialism’s adjustments at its centre As predicted by Kwame Nkrumah (Nkrumah, 1974, p. 1), imperialism cannot make any further

substantive changes to its neo-colonial structure in Afrika. From now on, it is limited to tinkering with

its centre in order to preserve its life. Whilst this is not by any means an exhaustive list, the

weakening of US Satan’s imperial power is leading to a number of tactical systemic changes at the

centre, including:

• A reconfiguring of the G8 into the G20 – US Satan is bringing some of its more powerful neo-colonies on to imperialism’s ‘top table’ so that collectively they can politically out manoeuvre

rivals such as China, Russia and India and further isolate the likes of Venezuela, Iran and

Cuba;

• Restructuring or ‘strengthening’ the rules of the WTO to systematically support the trans-national corporations’ campaign of theft of Afrikan and other people’s resources - a process

that was intensified in response to the weakening positions of the IMF and the World Bank;

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• New super theft raids being launched against Afrika to steal massively greater amounts of

our resources in a desperate attempt to hold the capitalist system together;

• Fascist containment techniques being heightened in the capitalist centres in order to deter or

prevent revolution from within;

• A vain attempt to disguise racism at its centre by appointing an Afrikan as president of US

Satan – imperialism’s nominal ‘top job’. Through this move, neo-colonialism is being raised

to its highest possible heights. This tactic is designed to undermine and stifle Afrikan

revolutionary tendencies in US Satan and across the globe.

4.4 Imperialism: attempting to conceal its racist core The most heavily publicised feature of this reconfiguration is the ‘globalising’ as opposed to

‘regionalising’ of neo-colonialism’s use of Afrikan agents to front it. Those Afrikan people that are

motivated by personal ambition become excited and elated by the appointment of Barack Obama to

the position of president of US Satan. To them his appointment symbolises, not the breaking, but the

smashing of the proverbial ‘glass ceiling’ that has for so long been a stumbling block to their ability to

‘advance’ in the capitalist hierarchy. His appointment creates the false illusion of a meritocratic US

Satan society where an Afrikan person from any walk of life can allegedly ‘advance’ to any position in

a capitalist economy – ‘no holds barred’. The most deluded among us see him as a kind of messiah

who is somehow going to rescue us from our exploitation and our commensurate suffering.

Brother Omowale

Uncle Tom holds the reigns for Uncle Sam

At the same time, those Afrikan people that are motivated by the liberation of Afrika and Afrikan

people en mass recognise the appointment of Barack Obama as the highest stage of neo-

colonialism. This is the stage of neo-colonialism that tries to hide, or at least camouflage, the

racism at its centre through the appointment of an Afrikan as its ‘overall head’. His appointment

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becomes yet another barrier to Afrikan liberation because it confuses and disorientates Afrikan

people sufficiently for a substantial number to totally reject or even abandon the Afrikan liberation

agenda in favour of personal ‘advancement’ - for themselves and their families - within the capitalist

system. The confusion created by this toxic tactic provides space for a kind of bogus amnesia that

permits some Afrikan people to pretend that capitalism is not the source of their people’s exploitation,

oppression and consequential suffering.

This shrouded tactic of appointing Barack Obama to the position of president - of the visible

government - in an attempt to hide or disguise racism at the heart of imperialism will not work. The

truth is that no matter how hard imperialism tries, it will never be able to hide its racism, whether at its

European centre or in its Afrikan periphery. The whole system is built on racism, a phenomenon

which is imbedded within its very fabric. Racism is an inextricable part of one of imperialism’s

cardinal principles – elitism – the idea that some people are generically better than others. The racist

characteristics of imperialism will never change, because its principles cannot change; indeed, a

change in principles would mean the death of imperialism.

Furthermore, every entity has a history and the proof of imperialism’s racism is overtly apparent in its

history of slavery and colonialism.

“All knowledge, of course, has a history: every science began somewhere. All knowledge was originally related to solving problems of a society, of a particular group … The international companies always refer to themselves as American, French, Japanese, Swiss etc … the international firm, that major new agent of imperialist aggression, like every other sector of present day capitalist society, starts from a cultural background … For every international firm, for every oppressive technology, one can point to an original cultural background.” (Ziegler, 1981, p. 22).

In addition to the original cultural background, we can also point to the tangible practical support that

nations at the neo-colonial centre give to their trans-national corporations. For instance,

imperialist nation-states such as US Satan have set up government departments with a specific remit

for insuring ‘their’ trans-national corporations against losses incurred in the neo-colonies. The

insurance includes financial cover which is paid out in the event of the trans-national being

nationalised by a progressive government (Sampson, 1973, p. 267). These pieces of evidence help

to demonstrate that trans-national corporations are sponsored by and act on behalf of the racist

nations at the neo-colonial centre.

The critical consideration in proving imperialism’s racism is the identification of its dominant ideas

together with the particular culture that gave rise to them; not the nationality, race or colour of the

individuals that people or lead racist institutions; not even the personal ideas of the individuals that

people or lead racist institutions.

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Furthermore, even those of us that are not clear on the racist history of imperialism are likely to be

aware that the appointment of an Afrikan president of US Satan does not mean that Afrikan nations

will no longer be exploited by imperialism, or that the shorter life expectancy of Afrikan people; the

higher rate of Afrikan people’s imprisonment; the lower rate of Afrikan children’s educational

achievement and; the poor state of Afrikan people’s housing will cease to exist. The racism

imbedded in US Satan capitalism will not cease because of the appointment of an Afrikan person as

the head of its visible governmental institutions.

4.5 Obama: Uncle Tom holds the reigns for Uncle Sam History helps us to uncover a deeper counter-revolutionary motive behind Obama’s appointment. In

the late 1960’s US Satan was in the process of being defeated by the people of Vietnam after

launching an unprovoked war against them. In the height of that external war, US Satan imperialism

made a startling admission in relation to its unprovoked internal war against the Black Panther Party

for Self-Defence (BPP). The head of US Satan’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the time, J

Edgar Hoover declared the BPP:

“… the greatest threat to the internal security of the country [US Satan] …” (Jones, 1998, p. 366).

The US Satan state was admitting that a relatively small group of Afrikan people, committed to

revolution and resolutely acting on that commitment, were the greatest internal threat to the continued

existence of the most powerful nation-state in the world. Sadly, Hoover omitted to inform us of the

reason why the BPP was such a great threat. Fortunately, a former member of the Swiss version of

Parliament, Jean Zeigler, points us in the direction of the unmentioned underlying problem. He

informs us that:

“… the army is social violence institutionalised … it serves both to defend national sovereignty against foreign enemies and to combat ‘the enemy within’ … the enemy within consists of any group, party, movement, trade union or organisation that threatens the political hegemony of the imperialist hierarchy. Maintaining public order also means maintaining the order of monopoly capitalism.” (Ziegler, 1981, p. 113).

The army is the last line of defence against internal revolution. It is the back up to an over stretched

police force. If it is heavily engaged in external wars, thousands of miles away, then as well as

draining the nation’s treasury (Tzu, 1998, p. 17 & 23), it will not be able to carry out its critical task of

putting down intense internal revolts. It follows therefore, that when a nation is fighting an external

war, it must have internal unity.

If a nation has divisions within i.e. a powerful internal enemy, it is almost certainly doomed to lose the

external war and even more significantly, its government and state mechanisms will be in serious

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danger of collapse. This is a fundamental ongoing problem for imperialist nations because, by their

very nature, they are built on divisions between the exploited poor and the exploiting rich. Intense

racism introduces another dimension in the case of US Satan. It keeps the majority of Afrikan people

amongst the poorest of the oppressed poor – putting them amongst those most likely to become the

enemy within. This type of phenomenon is what the British imperial warmonger Field Marshall

Bernard Montgomery was alluding to when he said:

“In war, the enemy is plain and clear. In peace, a nation is confronted with a more insidious foe: the weakness within, from which alone great nations fall … the danger from within is always present [even in wartime] and must be kept in subjection.” (Montgomery, 2000, p. 19)

An example of the destructive power of the ‘enemy within’ came with the fall of the fascist dictatorship

in Portugal on 24th April 1974. Portugal was fighting three colonial wars of aggressions in Afrika:

Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique and was defeated in all of them. However, the final defeat

came when the Portuguese people turned against and overpowered their government, destroying it

from within. It was at that point that Portugal’s imperial allies were forced to pull out their money and

the political system collapsed (Ziegler, 1981, p. 40).

The BPP which was totally committed to opposing the US Satan state, through their militant actions,

threatened to turn the majority of Afrikan US Satan citizen’s into an ‘enemy within’. Furthermore, its

committed opposition to the state, threatened to turn large numbers of European and other non-

Afrikan US Satan citizens into internal enemies of the state also. Through their actions the BPP was

busily reminding everybody in US Satan and beyond, that all US Satan citizens had a constitutional

right to carry fire arms.

Furthermore, the BPP were ‘legally’ pointing their arms in the direction of the police (i.e. the state’s

frontline force or internal army) - a force that was partially disempowered by the untimely absence of

their more powerful army comrades who were being given a hiding, thousands of miles away in

Vietnam. The BPP was advertising the impotence of the state, whilst simultaneously igniting a

ground swell of potentially armed anti-imperialist opinion, which if it was not checked, would have

brought the government and the state down.

Even though it was clearly not his intention, Hoover’s statement is an indication of the level of respect

that US Satan imperialism had for the level of organisation and discipline in the BPP. We can reason

that the state’s concern went beyond the BPP’s militancy to its revolutionary potential because:

“A modern revolution requires the co-incidence of a revolutionary situation and a party or organisation ready to seize power.” (Armstrong, 1984, p. 289).

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US Satan imperialism saw in the BPP a highly committed Afrikan people’s government in waiting.

Along with other participants in the anti-war movement, it had the potential of playing a leading role in

a revolutionary or progressive anti-imperialist governmental alliance capable of taking power in the

US.

The US Satan state is currently in an even more precarious situation because it is simultaneously

fighting two long range wars – one in Iraq and the other in Afghanistan. Its military is being

completely overstretched; it is being defeated externally and cannot effectively do the job required of

it internally. At a cost of $10b per month, US Satan citizens are feeling the pressure in a variety of

ways. The former president George Bush was possibly the most unpopular president in the history of

US Satan. US Satan is now even more vulnerable to the possibility of internal revolution, than it was

during the era of the BPP at its heights. It is therefore indoctrinating and conditioning its citizens as a

result. Recognising that Afrikan people have the most to gain from its fall, it is paying special

attention to us.

Brother Omowale

Black Panther Party(Original Members)

US Satan cannot allow its Afrikan citizen’s loyalty to the state to stray or it may precipitate the

government’s and possibly even the state’s collapse. It cannot allow its Afrikan citizens to turn

against it en mass for fear of a repeat of the major internal threat posed by the BPP. Against the

background of a growing anti-war campaign, it must do all that it can to discourage its citizens from

taking up arms against the state. Its survival strategy has therefore been twofold: firstly, an attack

against Afrikan revolutionary forces within its boarders and; secondly and much more cunningly, the

appointment of an Afrikan person as its head of state.

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The essence of the second tenet of the strategy is to totally confuse and indoctrinate Afrikan people

into falsely believing that they are now accepted, so that they will not bare arms against the state; to

make them feel grateful to their US Satan oppressor state; to make them loyal to US Satan; to deflect

Afrikan people from their naturally antagonistic stance towards US Satan as their oppressor, so as to

avert revolution from within; to deflect them from their rightful Afrikan liberation agenda so as to cut

out the possibility of them assisting the revolutionary activities of their struggling sisters and brothers

on the ground in Afrika; to deflect other groups from gaining courage from the militant leadership of

Afrikan people and joining in physical attacks against the US Satan state; to keep hidden from its

citizens the fact that the state cannot cope with a collective revolt of the people.

From the point of view of US Satan imperialism, the appointment of Barack Obama to the position of

president is a master stroke. It represents a major set back for Afrikan liberation and Afrikan self-

determination; it reduces the prospect of armed revolutionary struggle inside US Satan; it confuses

Afrikan people into serving their oppressor’s interests rather than the interests of their own people; it

encourages Afrikan people into putting their efforts towards fighting for the oppressive state’s

preservation, in the vain hope that they will get a greater share of its spoils. All of this discourages

Afrikan people from actively seeking the destruction of US Satan imperialism. In short, it preserves

the status quo which keeps Afrikan people all over the world, in a state of abject poverty and

corresponding misery.

US Satan imperialism is a dying creature. A dying creature will always try to survive, but it is difficult

to see what other moves still remain for neo-colonialism under the leadership of US Satan. Its

options are virtually exhausted - an epoch of history is coming to an end. The consequences in

heartache, misery and bloodshed, already being experienced at the neo-colonial periphery, will soon

be felt at the heart of the neo-colonial centres.

This new situation raises many questions for those that are truly committed to Afrikan liberation

including: How long will it take for the effects of the Obama con-trick to wear off? What can be done

to shorten the resulting period of our confusion? How do we relay the truth about Obama’s real role

without offending and alienating our people? How do we mobilise and organise our people for Afrikan

liberation during this period of intense confusion? How close are we to Afrikan and world revolution?

What should we be doing in this time of capitalist crisis to bring us closer to freedom? Answers to

these questions are important because when the effects of the con-trick wear off, US Satan

imperialism will be somewhere near its end and outright fascism will reign.

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