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We have for too long been the victims of foreign domination. For too long we have had no say in the management of our own affairs or in deciding our own destinies. Now times have changed, and today we are the masters of our own fate. ... Freedom is not a commodity which is "given" to the enslaved upon demand. It is a precious reward, the shining trophy of struggle and sacrifice. ... Independence must be free and unfettered, for freedom of action on the part of a sovereign nation is essential. ... Neo-colonialism ... acts covertly, manoeuvring men and governments, free of the stigma attached to political rule. It creates client states, independent in name but in point of fact pawns of the very colonial power which is supposed to have given them independence. (Kwame Nkrumah) No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people. ... For the truth is that it is what a people want for themselves at a particular time which is right for them; no one else is justified in trying to impose a different way of life. ... For the nation self-reliance will come if the individuals and the different communities are self-reliant, and if the citizens altogether recognize that their way forward must be determined by their joint resources and their common efforts. It means choosing the path to development which does not depend upon outsiders. (Julius Nyerere) As a sovereign and non-aligned state Zimbabwe has chosen to follow an independ- ent foreign policy. Zimbabwe will not subject its sovereignty to that of any other state but will remain its own master, fully capable of determining its own destiny. (Robert Mugabe) We are struggling for the independence of our land, for the independence of our people. The first condition for this is that our Party and its leadership should be independent in its way of tackling questions and of answering them, and in its action inside or outside our land. (Amilcar Cabral, Unity and Struggle) THE LEADING ROLE OF THE MOST OPPRESSED The imperialists make every effort to estrange the working class of the metropolitan countries from the peoples of the colonies. They manoeuvre to poison the working class with the stinking ideas of racism and national chauvinism and to disorganise the militant ranks of the working class from within by bribing the labour aristocrats with a portion of the superprofits they have raked in from the colonies. ... Capitalists are very cunning. They leave no stone unturned to maintain their position. They rear labour aristocrats among the working class and put them up to disorganise the ranks of the working-class movement. (Kim Il Sung) We recognize and appreciate the decades of hard, sometimes dangerous work done in the name of revolution by the older socialist parties. ... It is our sincere wish to operate in complete harmony with these older groups. But we must create new impetus and greater intellectual and physical energy if the forces of reaction are not to win another extended reprieve. A joint effort will make the task of overwhelming our common enemy all the simpler. But if our present differences cannot be reconciled by an honest and fearless search for the correct way, then we will be forced to take the foundation of correct ideals and theory into our own hands and build a positive and more practical superstructure applicable to the circumstances surrounding our lives. ... In other words, the old guard must not fail to understand that circumstances change in time and space, that there can be nothing dogmatic about revolutionary theory. It is to be born out of each popular struggle. (George Jackson, Blood in My Eye) 6

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