Analysis on The State, U.S.-backed counterinsurgencies and successful resistance movements of oppressed, colonized people throughout history. This presentation is based on the political theory of Uhuru Movement Chairman Omali Yeshitela and was developed by Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC), white people organizing solidarity with the African liberation movement. APSC works under the leadership of the Uhuru Movement, led by the African People's Socialist Party. For more information, visit www.APSCuhuru.org and www.UhuruNews.com.

1. Understanding The State as taught by African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela

3. What is The State?

4. What is The State?

9. “ Democracy” is a form of the state that hides the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

13. The state exists to protect the social system that requires the exploitation of African and colonized peoples to maintain white wealth.

18. No Law Against Lynching

19. We grew up playing white people’s state

20. White people’s state

21. Volunteer cavalry: genocide against Indigenous people

22. 1864: Volunteers get horses and plunder from Indigenous victims

23. White mobs destroy “Black Wall Street”

24. Parents taught their children

25. White people’s state

26. White support of genocide against people of the Philippines

27. 1960s: Black Power Pushes Back White People’s State

29. Thus white people in America experience prosperity, democracy Remaining complicit with the force of the State aimed at colonized peoples inside this country and around the world!

33. Counterinsurgency in U.S., abroad, main form of warfare Counterinsurgency: War against those who are struggling for liberation, self-determination

36. Complicity: Apathy to US war, terror against others

37. Abu Ghraib

38. U.S. backed Death Squads Latin America

39. U.S. backed attacks on Palestine

40. There has always been “fascism” against African people in U.S.

44. Counterinsurgency - Nicaragua

46. Counterinsurgency - Vietnam

47. Counterinsurgency - Iraq

48. Economic Crisis of Imperialism

49. With economic crisis white people begin to see the true face of State

52. Now the face of the State is exposed to white people for the first time

53. 20,000 U.S. army troops stationed inside U.S. for first time!

54. FEMA camps

55. White people are afraid White people act like we can’t win, that the state is all powerful

56. The bourgeois State: plays a key role in defining & consolidating the Nation The State creates institutions of the nation: the police, military, the courts, taxes, the bureaucracy, etc. What Diop calls an African State was not the same as Europe

57. But African, colonized peoples have always fought against the State! 1712 and 1741--enslaved Africans waged major organized uprisings in New York city--were well organized. Twenty percent of New York’s residents were enslaved Africans. The white people called them “conspiracies” meaning they were well organized.

58. Oppressed people resist with nothing but united will At least 25 wars of resistance were waged by the Indigenous people against the colonizers between 1622 and 1774. The U.S. waged 40 official “Indian Wars” facing brilliant resistance from Indigenous people between 1775 and 1890. These genocidal wars are said to have slaughtered 45,000 Native people.

59. All around the world oppressed peoples resist State terror At the turn of the 20th century, after hundreds of years of attempting to repel the British and other European attempt to colonize them--including two British Opium Wars in the 1800s. Chinese workers and peasants organized a powerful resistance of tens of thousands of people. In addition to Britain, Russia, Japan, Germany, France and Italy were attempting to partition China as they had Africa. The Boxers targeted the colonial settlers and neocolonial traitors who had converted to Christianity. The Western powers sent in 25,000 troops to put down the rebellion which went on for over a year. The Chinese Revolution under Mao called the Boxer Rebellion the opening salvo of the Chinese peoples revolution.

60. China and Vietnam Mao Zedong led the Chinese workers and peasants revolution beginning in 1911 against the imperial Western-collaboratoring Manchu dynasty. 1949 victory of the Peoples Republic of China.

61. Cuba and Kenya From 1952-1960, the Dedan Kimathi led the courageous Kenyan Land and Freedom Army against British colonialism in Kenya. Called the Mau Mau. British counterinsurgency was vicious--hangings, almost entire Kikuyu population behind barbed wire, slander. Kenya won nominal independence in 1964.

62. Zimbabwe and Azania PAC Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, broke away from the African National Congress (the Party of Nelson Mandela) in 1959. Sharpeville massacre mobilized the people. PAC waged armed struggle against the colonial government calling for Africa for African people.

63. Palestine and Nicaragua Nicaragua FSLN, the Sandinista National Liberation Front fought against US backed dictator Somoza, winning victory in 1979.

64. Venezuela – Resist and Win Venezuela (seized back Chavez after US coup)

65. U.S. Front of the African Revolution Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X. Omali Yeshitela and the African People’s Socialist Party.

66. Black Power Movement of the 60s Black Power Movement of the 1960s shook the U.S. to its very foundations. Was an anti-colonial movement inside this country, struggle for political power after voting and civil rights were won. Defined African people as a colonial people, part of the overall African liberation struggle.

67. JOMO – Omali Yeshitela

68. Black Power Mov’t Recognized The Black Power Movement influenced and gave strength to the revolutionary movements around the world. Revolutionaries everywhere welcomed the leaders of the movement.

69. Black movement pushed back repressive McCarthy era

71. In crisis of imperialism, individual solutions and return to white people’s state won’t work!

72. African, colonized peoples Building “Dual Power” As part of building a new, liberated society

73. Collective farms Venezuela

74. Collective organic farms Cuba

75. Black Power Movement: Collective schools, childcare

76. Collective medical clinics: Barefoot doctors

77. Building the people’s economy in Latin America

78. Uhuru House

79. Reparations Tribunal

80. AAPDEP Rainwater Harvesting

81. AAPDEP

82. Uhuru Radio / Uhuru News

83. ASI – Taking Back Africa’s Wealth People have done it… it’s doable… they’re doing it This is the future!

84. Sinking imperialism no place to be

85. Our future is in solidarity with African and national liberations