ASI: Urgent support needed for freedom struggle in Guinea-Conakry!

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Friday February 16, 2007 22:17

by UhuruRadio.com

African Socialist International (ASI) calls for support in Guinea; Touch One! Touch All!

The African Socialist International (ASI) calls on urgent support for the freedom struggle in Guinea-Conakry; raises the slogan, “Touch One! Touch All!”

Struggle in Guinea-Conakry

The following statement comes from Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the Interim Committee of the African Socialist International (ASI). The African Socialist International is an international party of African revolutionaries. The ASI has as its historical mission the unification and liberation of Africa under an all-African socialist government under the leadership of the African working class and poor peasantry.

The ASI calls on all who receive this document to forward it to as many contacts as possible and distribute it around the world in order to lend support to the just struggles on the ground in Guinea-Conakry, West Africa.

The full story can be found at: http://asiuhuru.org/guinea/
Here's an extract from the opening part:
February 14, 2007

Uhuru! A’mAfrika;

A critical test is upon us. We have the opportunity to directly involve ourselves in the struggle to defend the interests of Africa and forward the international African Revolution for the liberation and unification of Africa and our people worldwide. Our test is to determine whether we will continue on the road of near-meaningless conferences and empty talk fests concerning African unity or whether we will become genuinely involved in determining the future for Our Africa and Our People.

The test is in Guinea-Conakry, where a rotting, repressive, inept and avaricious neocolonial regime is tottering on the brink of extinction in the face of unrelenting protests from the masses of our people. Already government buildings, official centers and institutions have been assaulted and sacked in different sections of the country, including Conakry, the capital.

This follows a several-weeks-long general strike, first called by the trade unions, whose opportunist leadership has vacillated, first one way then the other, after negotiated deals with the Lansana Conte regime proved more or less advantageous for the leadership. However, neither the vacillation of the union leadership nor its subsequent attempts to halt the strikes have been able to stop the motion of the masses whose suffering and growing emiseration have continued to push them forward to the current state of open insurrection.
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