WHY U.S. AFRICANS REMAIN UNORGANISED

African People's Socialist Party (APSP) Chairman Omali Yeshitela has attempted to build a revolution for decades. You may recognise him from clips of our 2023 interview, where we discussed foreign interference in Haiti, coups in Africa's Sahel region, and the FBI targeting the APSP. Before that, Yeshitela went from being a US military veteran to organising with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Civil Rights Movement. Then, he became a Black Power Advocate and, later, a Pan-Africanist.

In this throwback to 1998, he summarises the conditions African workers face in the US and worldwide. He defines the war imposed on the African community in the United States as a counterinsurgency. Omali explains how the brutal repression of the African revolution in the 1960s and '70s, followed by crack cocaine flooding our communities in the '80s and '90s, derailed the movement for Black self-determination in the United States. Rap group, Dead Prez, later sampled a portion of this speech in their militant 2000 album, 'Let's Get Free.'

In April 2023, the Biden administration charged 82-year-old Yeshitela, as well as three current and former APSP members, with conspiring with Russia to sow domestic discord.

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