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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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Uncle Sam
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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.
Brother Omowale
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
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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George Padmore, Amy AshwoodGarvey & Kwame Nkrumah
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
Trans-NationalTrans-
National
Investmentof Surplus
Investmentof Surplus
DumpManufactured
Produce
DumpManufactured
Produce
Steal Rawmaterials
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Trans-National’s Purpose
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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