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<h1>Message from Luwezi Kinshasa</h1>
<h3>Chair of the ASI Interim Committee</h3>
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  <img src="../images/luwezi.jpg" width="250" height="230" /><br />Luwezi Kinshasa, <br>
  Chair ASI Interim Committee</div>
  <h3 style="color: #FF0000">African Socialist International to lead<br/>
this era of worldwide African Revolution</h3>

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Uhuru Brothers and Sisters,</p><p>

We write you with the understanding that we have entered a new and
most critical phase in world history: the era of the complete defeat
of imperialist white power. The ongoing crisis of imperialism, caused
by the rise of resistance of the vast majority of the peoples of the
world, is deepening. Even neocolonialism, the imperialist strategy of
placing faces that look like us in power to administer our colonial
oppression is failing.

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It is time now that we, the African workers and poor peasants, take
our future into our own hands and liberate our Africa under an
all-African socialist government. With our unity, we will defeat the
opportunist African petty bourgeoisie that has sold us out time and
time again. With the power of the over one billion Africans worldwide
we can forward the legacy of the great Marcus Garvey and realize his
dream of a united and free Africa.

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The many years of work to build the African Socialist International
has been a process to forward that legacy. This 7th Conference to
Build the African Socialist International (ASI) in October opens the
way to the ASI founding Congress. Since August 1999, under the
brilliant leadership of African People’s Socialist Party (APSP)
Chairman Omali Yeshitela, I have been responsible for organising the
effort to build the African Socialist International.

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Today I am proud to inform the African progressive and revolutionary
world that we are closer to achieving our goal; we are anticipating
this ASI conference to be the best ever and the last, but also
representative enough of the African world to allow us to call for the
founding Congress of the African Socialist international.

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I am overwhelmed, as I have never received before so many
communications from African organisers who are showing unity with the
ASI project and want to attend this historical conference in
October. Mails are coming from the Caribbean, South America, North
America, Europe and Africa.

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The ASI is a vision of the future to build a United States of Africa,
free from imperialist-imposed borders and their requisite fractured
nationalities and governments and their dependent economies. This
vision is one that sees our United States of Africa under the
leadership of the workers in alliance with poor peasants. It is a
project to make Africa a powerhouse in the world, where no nation
would be able to steal our resources and labour at our expenses.

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For so long, our riches and talents have shaped, against our own will,
every aspect of modern civilisation in the hands of our
oppressors. With all of the scattered fronts of African resistance
against imperialism throughout the world united into a single fighting
revolutionary organisation, the world would be changed forever. The
power of over one billion African people will free Africa from the
illegitimate rule of the tiny African neo-colonialist class and defeat
imperialism forever on Africa soil.

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This social movement of one billion African workers and peasants, in
control of our own resources, but also sciences and technology, would
show the world, once again, what Africans can do when we work as a
free people for our own benefit.

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We call on Africans around the world who unite with the struggle for
the unification and liberation of Africa to join in this amazing
effort to build the African Socialist International. This year’s
conference activities, to be held in London, England on 6-14 October,
will be a most historical event.

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Africans who are interested in participating should read and unite
with the ASI’s Main Resolution, written by Chairman Omali Yeshitela
and passed by hundreds of Africans in attendance at the 2004
Conference to Build the ASI.

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The reigns of history lie in our hands. We must seize them and thrust
Africa into the forefront of the history as we bring in a new world
free of imperialism’s decaying parasitic grip.

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<b>Build to win!</b><br/>
<b>One Africa! One Nation!</b><br/>
<b>Touch One, Touch All!</b><br/>

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<b>Luwezi Kinshasa, <br/>
Chair, ASI Interim Committee</b>

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