July 24, 2026

Internationalist Meeting
Marxism, Revolution and War

From Black Africa, message by James,
from WIL of Zimbabwe

Comrades: We want to begin by saying that imperialism's plan for the exploited of the entire world is the atrocious genocide being imposed today on our Palestinian brothers and sisters in Gaza. We, the exploited of the African continent, experience this daily because European and US imperialism, with its plunder, is turning Africa into a wasteland.

We do not recognize the "anti-racist" sermons of these imperialist pirates, who have been plundering our continent for centuries, enriching themselves on the slave labor of us and our children. They and the native bourgeoisies do business by imposing hunger and death upon us.

We do not recognize the "anti-racism" of US imperialism. Its mouthpiece for this cynical moral campaign is the same Democratic Party that started the genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, with Trump and his ICE Gestapo, they brutally persecute and imprison thousands of Latino, African, and Asian workers. And now this despot is also encouraging the campaign of anti-migrant pogroms in South Africa to further tear apart the working-class ranks, seeking to return the land to the white bourgeoisie.

We do not recognize the moral lessons that any of the European powers might try to give us. They have turned the Mediterranean into the largest graveyard of exploited Africans on the planet, and their borders into concentration camps for undocumented workers.

Comrades: A system that cannot feed its slaves deserves to die! Therefore, the fundamental task is to defeat imperialism and expel it from Africa in a unified struggle of the entire workers' movement within the imperialist powers!
For this reason, the only anti-racists we recognize are the thousands of workers and combative youth in the US and Europe, who have risen up time and again within the imperialist countries themselves for the Palestinian people, against war, for migrant workers, and for the exploited of the entire world, despite their treacherous leadership. In Africa, too, the anti-imperialist struggle is one and without borders: we must put an end to the treacherous leadership and coordinate workers, poor peasants, and rebellious youth to end the oppressive governments, break with the IMF, and expropriate the transnational corporations. Only in this way can we achieve a dignified life and all our demands.