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First West Africa Regional Conference of the African Socialist International

UhuruNews.com | 18.10.2008 20:59 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The Africanist Movement will host the first West Africa Regional Conference of the African Socialist International (ASI) in Freetown-Sierra Leone from October 20-22, 2008.

The Conference will bring together African revolutionaries, progressives, individuals and groups from Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia, Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, England, United States of America and other parts of the world involved in the struggle for a free, united Africa to discuss and adopt the strategy and tactics of African Internationalism.

The Conference aims to unite and consolidate the separate efforts of African revolutionary movements and organizations engaged in struggle for African unity and socialism into an international process and organization capable of providing the tactics and strategies necessary to surmount the challenges confronting African unity and liberatio.

The conference will mark the launch of the ASI in West Africa and establish a formidable regional structure or bureau to carry out the administrative and organizing work and activities of the ASI in the region and formalize its operations in West Africa.

It will also examine the question of multinational corporate exploitation in Africa, the challenges of the colonial borders, African identity, the growing Chinese influence in Africa and its implications, the ongoing crisis of imperialism, the dangers of neocolonialism, reparations and the right of return for Africans dispersed around the world due to slavery, colonialism and other accompanying assaults, and other questions related to the struggle for African unity and liberation.

The conference will advance concrete recommendations to forward the uncompromising liberation and unification of Africa and African people around the world, and adopt a comprehensive plan of action for the building and consolidation of the African Socialist International in Africa and other places.

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