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> African Revolutionary Writers, Part 1 > > > Weapon of Theory – Full Course > > > We will meet at 17h00 on 9 September 2010. The venue will be confirmed > by e-mail on Tuesday. > > > Comrades of the Communist University, > In the previous post you were asked for assistance in compiling a list > of African revolutionary writers, from which to construct a CU course. > I received suggestions from as far away as Argentina; New Jersey, USA; > and East London, South Africa. Please, continue to send suggestions, > and if possible, texts, be they articles, speeches, links to pages on > the Internet, or text files. > We have to begin this course next week Thursday. Therefore to have > something to discuss, please accept today Cabral’s “Weapon of Theory” > (download linked at the bottom), which has to be part of this course > even though we have circulated it only a few weeks ago, as part of the > “Philosophy and Religion” course. > It has to be, because Cabral is the most profound and most sublime of > African revolutionary writers. He is one African (but not the only one) > who contributed indispensable new lessons to the universal > revolutionary legacy. > When there is more time, and at a later stage in this course, we will > return to Amilcar Cabral and to the great single-volume compendium of > his work called “Unity and Struggle”, recently republished in South > Africa (look for it!). > Here is the revised “African Revolutionary Writers” list with some > links, dates and titles of possible works that we might use. (Below it > is the previously-circulated intro to Cabral’s “Weapon of Theory”.) > More suggestions, please! > Name Dates Main Candidate Text Date Olaudah Equiano 1745 - 1797 > Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano 1789 Toussaint L’ouverture 1743 - > 1803 Haiti Constitution 1801 Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895 My Bondage > and My Freedom 1855 Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876 - 1932 Native Life > in South Africa 1916 George Padmore 1903 - 1959 What Must Be Done? 1931 > Moses Mauane Kotane 1905 - 1978 Cradock Letter 1934 CLR James 1901 - > 1989 Notes on Dialectics 1948 Gamal Abdel Nasser 1918 - 1970 Memoirs of > 1st Palestine War 1955 Paul Robeson 1898 - 1976 Here I Stand 1958 WEB > Du Bois 1868 - 1963 Africa in Battle Against Colonialism 1960 Albert > Luthuli 1898 - 1967 Peace Prize acceptance 1960 Ousmane Sembene 1923 - > 2007 God’s Bits of Wood 1960 Patrice Lumumba 1925 - 1961 Speech in > front of Baudouin 1960 Frantz Fanon 1925 - 1961 The Wretched of the > Earth 1961 Govan Mvuyelwa Mbeki 1910 - 2001 The Peasants Revolt 1964 > Kwame Nkrumah 1909 - 1972 Neo-Colonialism, Last Stage of Imperialism > 1965 Oginga Odinga 1911 - 1994 Not Yet Uhuru 1967 Martin Luther King > 1929 - 1968 Beyond Vietnam 1967 Ayi Kwei Armah 1939 - The Beautyful > Ones Are Not Yet Born 1968 Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane 1920 - 1969 The > Struggle for Mozambique 1969 Oliver Tambo 1917 - 1993 Speeches ex ANC > web site 1970 Malcolm X 1925 - 1965 By Any Means Necessary 1970 Alex La > Guma 1925 - 1985 In the Fog of the Season’s End 1972 Ngugi wa Thiong’o > 1938 - Homecoming 1972 Henry Winston 1911 - 1986 Strategy for a Black > Agenda 1973 Walter Rodney 1942 - 1980 How Europe Undeveloped Africa > 1973 Agostinho Neto 1922 - 1979 Sacred Hope 1974 Julius Kambarage > Nyerere 1922 - 1999 Freedom and Development 1974 Samora Machel 1933 - > 1986 Sowing the Seeds of Revolution 1974 Sékou Touré 1922 - 1984 > Strategy and tactics of the revolution 1978 Bantu Stephen Biko 1946 - > 1977 I Write What I Like 1978 Amilcar Cabral 1924 - 1973 Unity and > Struggle 1980 Cheikh Anta Diop 1923 - 1986 Civilisation or Barbarism > 1981 Angela Davis 1944 - Women, Race and Class 1981 Ruth First 1925 - > 1982 Mozambican Miner: Proletarian and Peasant 1983 Jabulani “Mzala” > Nxumalo 1955 - 1991 Cooking the rice inside the pot 1985 Thomas Sankara > 1949 - 1987 Thomas Sankara Speaks 1987 Albert Memmi 1920 - Coloniser > and colonised 1991 Mahmood Mamdani 1947 - Citizen and Subject 1996 > Ahmed Ben Bella 1918 - Cubans aid Algerian revolution 1998 Issa Shivji > 1946 - The Struggle for Democracy 2003 Samir Amin 1931 - The American > Ideology 2004 Muammar Gadaffi 1942 - The One-State Solution 2009 > > > > The Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin > America was held in Havana in January, 1966, 46 years after the Baku > Conference of the Peoples of the East and seven years after the Cuban > Revolution. > Forty-three more years have now passed since the Tricontinental. A lot > has been achieved in that time, including our South African democratic > breakthrough, sixteen years ago, and the unbanning of the ANC, twenty > years ago. > The full defeat of Imperialism has not yet occurred. What we can say is > that from early in the 20th-Century the historical agenda was set by > the liberation movements, and that Imperialism represents the > degeneration and the decline of bourgeois class power, and not its > heyday. > The great political change in the world in the last century was the > taking of sovereign independence by the formerly oppressed people of > the former colonies, affecting the great majority of the population of > the planet and opening the road of democracy for them. > This gigantic movement and huge change was achieved with the weapon of > theory. > 43 years ago Amilcar Cabral [see image, above] in the speech to the > Tricontinental that has always been known by the title “Weapon of > Theory” (please find the link to the download, below) also said the > following: > “It is often said that national liberation is based on the right of > every people to freely control its own destiny and that the objective > of this liberation is national independence. Although we do not > disagree with this vague and subjective way of expressing a complex > reality, we prefer to be objective, since for us the basis of national > liberation, whatever the formulas adopted on the level of international > law, is the inalienable right of every people to have its own history, > and the objective of national liberation is to regain this right > usurped by imperialism, that is to say, to free the process of > development of the national productive forces. > “For this reason, in our opinion, any national liberation movement > which does not take into consideration this basis and this objective > may certainly struggle against imperialism, but will surely not be > struggling for national liberation. > “This means that, bearing in mind the essential characteristics of the > present world economy, as well as experiences already gained in the > field of anti-imperialist struggle, the principal aspect of national > liberation struggle is the struggle against neo-colonialism.” > Amilcar Cabral was a true vanguardist. He was both a great leader, and > a great intellectual. > Please download the document via the link given here. > Please download and read: > The Weapon of Theory, 1966, Amilcar Cabral (7710 words) > > > -- > Posted By DomzaNet to Communist University on 9/03/2010 02:30:00 PM > > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] > . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have > to put anything in the message part. 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