Mücadele Birliği (Struggle Unity, Türkiye)
Comrades,
Look at the horizon. The sun is rising over Africa, but the shadows falling on our lands are not of our trees or mountains. They are the long, distorted shadows of a monster that tries to survive: the imperialist-capitalist system.
History is not a collection of dates and events; it is a battlefield. The battlefield of class struggle. Today, just like Africa, the entire world is a battlefield. While the so-called “main stream media” (imperialist media) speaks of “development goals” and “humanitarian aid,” we must look at the reality through the lens of class struggle. We are witnessing the plundering of Africa once again, but this time it is not about redividing the world; it is about propping up the decaying global capitalist system. To put it simply: this is the African front of the global civil war.
Today, we are witnessing a “theatre of the absurd” called the France-Africa Summit. The recent France-Africa Summits are nothing more than the plundering meetings of exploiters. Let us call it by its real name: it is not a summit of cooperation; it is a council of predators. It is an anti-people, against labor, neocolonial masquerade. Today, French and U.S. imperialists are exploiting Africa’s very marrow, then returning the scraps as “aid.” We must reject the lie of “partnership.” There can be no partnership between the parasite and the host. There is no middle ground: you are either with the people or you are with the imperialist war machine.
The geography of exploitation is shifting, but the nature of the beast remains the same. We see the imperialist claws moving from the traditional strongholds of West Africa toward the strategic corridors of East Africa. Why? Because the resistance in the Sahel has shaken the foundations of Françafrique. Now, they seek new lungs in the East to breathe life into their dying hegemony.
France does not come to negotiate; it comes to dictate. But the ground is shaking. From Mali to Burkina Faso, the masses are rejecting the CFA franc and the presence of French boots. This is why we see a strategic shift. As West Africa becomes a furnace of resistance, US and French imperialists are pivoting their focus toward East Africa, seeking new strategic depth and resources.
The giant of Pan-Africanism, Kwame Nkrumah said decades ago: “The result of neocolonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world.”
Comrades,
We stand at a crossroads where the old world refuses to die and the new world is fighting to be born amidst the smoke of gunpowder. It’s not about “geopolitics.” It is about the global class war between the world’s working class and oppressed peoples and the world bourgeoisie. We talk about the class struggle, a global civil war. We talk about a world where the battlefields from Ukraine to Sahel, from Persian Gulf to Caraibien Sea where ongoing the wars between old world and the upcoming one.
From the streets of Nairobi to the defiant towers of Tehran, the message is written in the blood of the fallen: The sun is setting on the imperialist-capitalist system! This is the end of an era. This is the collapsing process of imperialist world.
Look at the map of the world today. What do you see? You see a “wounded beast.” US and French imperialism, in fact imperialist world as whole, are no longer the undisputed masters of the earth. Their retreat from the Sahel—from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger—is not a “repositioning.” It is a defeat! They are being kicked out by the historical will of the African peoples.
But a wounded beast is the most dangerous. This is why we see the escalation against Iran. The Zionist-imperialist aggression in West Asia is the desperate attempt of a dying empire to consolidate its power. They want to turn the Persian Gulf into a private lake of imperialist-Zionist monsters, just as they tried to turn the African continent into their private mine.
The struggle of the Iranian people against imperialist encirclement is the same struggle as the Kenyan workers peoples fighting IMF-imposed starvation, or laboring peoples of the Latin America, or South Korean workers, etc.
“The people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace” said Amilcar Cabral.
When we speak of “bettering lives,” we are not speaking of the crumbs of “philanthropy” or the hollow promises of “sustainable development” drafted in Davos. We are talking about the sovereignty over our existence. Just like the steps taken by the revolutionary governments in the Sahel—which drove out the imperialists—to improve the material lives of the working people.
The material benefits African peoples fight for are concrete:
Land and Bread: The radical redistribution of land from multinational agribusinesses to those who till it. As Thomas Sankara reminded us: “whoever feeds you, controls you.” The peoples fight for groundnut, grain, and water that belong to the people, not to the patent offices of Europe.
Industrial Sovereignty: The end of the “extractivist” model. We will no longer export our raw ores for a pittance only to buy them back as expensive machines. We fight for factories owned by the workers that transform African resources on African soil.
The De-commodification of Life: Education, housing, and healthcare must be removed from the marketplace. A sick worker is a chained worker.
We know that this is not yet an emancipation. However, it is a wake-up call that is shaking entire world to its core. To prevent this awakening, the “Wounded Beast” deploys a sophisticated arsenal. They do not only use bullets; they use Debt as a weapon of mass destruction. Thomas Sankara was right when he said: “Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa.” The IMF and World Bank are the modern-day cavalry, riding into our capitals to dictate our budgets, slash our subsidies, and commodify our dignity.
They use the CFA Franc in the West and Dollarization in the East of the continent to ensure that our labor power is nothing but a milking cow for their central banks. When the financial chains aren’t enough, they deploy AFRICOM, masking their thirst for resources under the guise of “counter-terrorism.”
As Nkrumah said once, “The essence of neocolonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent… In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside”! We must completely eliminate the system of neocolonialism!
Comrades,
As we mentioned earlier, the imperialists are turning their attention to East Africa. Look closely at Kenya. The imperialists have designated it as their “Anchor State” in East Africa—a neoliberal laboratory and a regional police station. But the ground in Nairobi is burning.
The current regime has turned Kenya into a debt-slave, taxing the breath of the poor to pay interest to Wall Street, while positioning the country as a “Non-NATO Ally” to do the bidding of the Pentagon in Haiti and beyond. But the youth of Kenya have seen through the mask. They are not just fighting a finance bill; they are fighting the very logic of neocolonialism.
Kenya is no longer a “stable” outpost for the West; it is becoming a front of the Global Civil War. The resistance in the streets of Nairobi is the echo of the resistance in the jungles of Vietnam and the mountains of Iran. The enemy is one, the system is one, and our resistance must be one!
Remember comrade Samora Machel’s words: “International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective.” That objective is the total destruction of the imperialist-capitalist system.
Our duties are clear:
We must demand the unconditional cancellation of all imperialist debts. As Sankara boldly declared: “Debt cannot be repaid, first because if we don’t pay, the lenders will not die. But if we pay, we will die.”
Every French, US, and British base on African soil is a dagger at our throats. The withdrawal from the Sahel must be followed by a withdrawal from Djibouti, Kenya, and every inch of our continent.
We must move toward a unified revolutionary front—from the Sahel to the Persian Gulf. Our struggle is one. The worker in Mombasa, the miner in Kolwezi, and the student in Tehran are brothers-in-arms against the same monster.
We must replace the neocolonial state apparatus with grassroots councils of workers and peasants. We do not seek to “manage” the capitalist state; we seek to dismantle it. We have to build the People’s Power!
As Amilcar Cabral taught us: “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.” The road is long and blood-stained, but the era of the “Council of Predators” is ending.
The sun is no longer rising for the exploiters; it is rising for the wretched of the earth who have decided to stand up.
Down with Imperialism!
Down with Neocolonialism and its Puppets!
Long Live The Proletarian Internationalism!
Now Is the Time For Revolution!
