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countries, and economically developed and underdeveloped peoples in the world, but all parties, all countries and peoples are equal and independent. No one should encroach upon the sovereignty of others and no one should tolerate encroachment on one's sovereignty. Chajusong is not in conflict with internationalism but is the basis of its strengthening. Just as the world revolution is inconceivable without the revo- lution in one's own country, internationalism divorced from Chajusong cannot exist. As a matter of principle, internationalist solidarity must be based on freedom of choice and equality. Only when it is founded on Chajusong will internationalist solidarity become based on free choice and equality and become genuine and durable. (OJI 43-44) The African revolutionary struggle is not an isolated one. It not only forms part of the world socialist revolution, but must be seen in the context of Black Revolution as a whole. In the U.S.A., the Caribbean, and wherever Africans are oppressed, liberation struggles are being fought. In these areas, the Black man is in a condition of domestic colonialism, and suffers both on the grounds of class and colour. (Kwame Nkrumah) The dialectical strengthening that occurs between the movement of liberation of the colonized peoples and the emancipatory struggle of the exploited working classes of the imperialist countries is sometimes neglected and indeed forgotten. ... It is in the national struggle against the oppressor that colonized peoples have discovered, concretely, the solidarity of the colonialist bloc and the necessary interdependence of the liberation movements. ... It is essential that the oppressed peoples join up with the peoples who are already sovereign if a humanism that can be considered valid is to be built to the dimensions of the universe. ... When we Africans say that we are neutral on the relations between East and West, we mean that for the time being the only question that concerns us is our fight against colonialism. This means that we are absolutely not neutral in respect to genocide being carried out by France in Algeria, or to apartheid in South Africa. The African peoples are concretely involved in a total struggle against coloni- alism, and we Algerians do not dissociate the combat we are waging from that of the Rhodesians or the Kenyans. (Frantz Fanon, Towards the African Revolution) One can't really be a true revolutionary without being cognizant of the need to link up with forces all over the world battling with imperialism. (Angela Davis, If They Come in the Morning) 8

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