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(17 We also have an assertion that African people not only are as African no matter where we find ourselves, but that our primer allegiance must be to Africa — and there wa something in one of the bulletins you sent ou comrades, earlier that made this quote [you know] very clearly stated by Kwame Ture, when he was here on his tour in • Britain, and he says it this way: "Are we struggling .... ... scientific socialism!" We make this uncompromising, and there are those of the left in Britain and in America who must come to grips with this, • because objectively many of the people in the left have come to seek out support from the most oppressed — being Africans, and being many times the Asian Community — seek support from the most oppressed to help advance their own organisations.

(16 I would like to, then, move on to mention a couple of other of the principles of Nkrumahism, because I am not making the actual comparison to the Juche idea and Chajusong, but I am sure as we assert - and as I make these assertions - you can understand from all that has been said about the Juche idea and Chajusong - you can understand the parallels and correlations and commonalities of Nkrumah and the Juche idea, which we uphold and respect. And I say that we respect it not only in an ideological sense but we are quite aware, because of our close fraternal ties with the former PDG in Guinea (in fact we had our headquarters in Guinea under the PDG), and the PDG and the Workers' Party of Korea had very close fraternal ties, and we are aware of the role that North Korea has played in assisting the African revolutionaries throughout Africa, so we assert that we know that it is not only theoretic commonality but it has been practical commonality that has bound the African revolution and the revolution of the Korean people.

(15 This view upholds the basic equality of all humanity. For us there can be no questio of our women being inferior. Our women have shared our oppression and have suffered side by side with us as we have struggled to make a new life while carrying the added burden of sexist chauvinism and oppression yes, they have! • In order to better organise our women our Party has made it clear that, for them to play their proper role in the struggle, inside of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party we have organised the internal Women's Wing of the All-African Women's Revolutionary Union. It is an integral part of our Party. The principles of • Nkrumahism endorse the view that the collective is greater than the individual, and they endorse the view that each person is an end in themselves and not merely a means to someone else's end, as so many of our women have often been thought of.

(14 in an abstract fashion. There is no way to deal with socialism and not deal with justice according to history, as well and the land in America belongs to the Red [illegible scribble] People there! Every ideology must have, not only it guiding principles I and I want to touch on some of them, of Nkrumahism; we have three that come out of our traditional • African experience, of humanism, egalitarianism and collectivism. (This was what animated traditional African life. We assert this inside of our party uncompromisingly.) But there is one thing I would like to ad. on that - I have not heard much touches on it today and maybe when I was out somebor • did - but I feel the necessity and the obligation to touch on it, and that is that these three principles also especially addre the [how do you say? the] role and the relationship of women in the revolutionary struggle. When we assert humanism we assert that each human being is endowed with a certain inward dignity, integrity and vale

(13 involved in some of your other national liberation struggles, you would have no nation. Now any nation that suffers a loss of its people and its resources in the numbers that African people have - I am saying has been severely weakened, and Nkruma says this (this is why we know that we ar making progress): "You measure progress, not according only to the heights toward which you aim, but you measure progress according to the depths from which you came." And when we recognise this, and we have been working against these kinds of odds, we say the African revolution is moving forward so fast, as I said, they had the British Empire looking at the moon and we have America, believe it or not, we work closely with the American Indian Movement in America and we intend to help them regain control of their land; it is only dealing with justice. Many peop talk about socialism and talk about it

(12 One of the key things that I would like say, then, also about the social and historic principles of Nkrumahism is, like I say, it takes / it draws its strength from the three Africas: traditional African way of life; the first invasion of Africa which was by the Asian - Islamic experience almost 700 years before the Euro-Christian invasion of Africa - and both of them have significant impacted upon the traditional African way of life; and with the European and Christian invasion of Africa we had not only an invasion but we had a dispersion of the African nation. - So many African people, in fact, during the slave trade - you know of the brutality of it and you know the modern day murders and things that continue in Africa - but so many of our people died, and so many of our people were scattered, that if the same had happened - and I am not saying this in order to diminish the importance of any other nation - but if the same numbers had been

(11 in the sense that we are - one of our philosophic principles is dialectical and historical materialism, as any revolution must be based in /rooted in. But, because of the particular development in history and culture of African people we take a stand that Nkrumah calls "philosophical consciencism", in which he says matter is the - well, not the sole reality of matter, but the primary reality, of matter. He takes this position in order to allow us to not be atheistic, because it is too much a part of the total aspect of African tradition, culture and history, and we have found, in African history, religion has been, yes, a tool for backward exploitation of people, but in African history religion has also been a tool for advancement and upliftment of people. Our people have used religion as a force of social progress, so we have some particular aspects of our ideology that are not mechanical applications of traditional Marxism, and we want to make that clear - and we expect you to respect that right!

(10 have to make this point: unlike many other peoples of the world, we have suffered a colonisation of two different major invasions and impact on our experience. So our ideology as Nkrumahists ha Come to synthetise the most positive aspects of all this experience - becaus there is positive and negative in everythin - but of much of that which is foreign and I don't have to repeat the quotes that some of you quoted so [you know]. Oft today I that anything foreign is brought in well, before you accept it you chew it, y taste it - if it is bitter or if it does not taste right, or you cannot digest it, you - spit it out - well, there are some things that have been, in fact, acceptable out of this experience. The basis of our ideology comes from traditional African way of life and experienc This is what causes us to come into conflict with many traditional Marxist-Leninist

(9 One thing we want to say - and the I will try to move on - briefly about the history of the development of our Party. We understand that the development of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party and Nkrumahism is really the product of centuries of relentless struggle within the African revolution and the Pan-African movement, because we have been struggling to bring some ideological clarity a scientific and precise objective to the African revolution, rather than some of these confused, fragmented kinds of notions. And also a revolutionary mass Pan-African political organisation. We now have it consummated according to the ideas and practices of Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumahism and the All-African People's Revolutionary Party really represent a long qualitative and quantitative development in our long history, as a people, of dealing with class struggle and feudal and slave exploitation inside Africa prior to the invasion. But I

(8 the wealth of England, you know, Britain and Europe and America, we are going to unite the energies, the intellect, the resources and the skill and the labor of African people to advance and redeem and uplift and liberate Africa under Scientific socialism. • Nothing short of that is our task. People say it is a dream. Well, the imperialists - if anybody had told them that they could have scattered us all over the world and have our blood dripping off the buildings of Britain, all • over - every time I walk up and down the street and see these British buildings I [-I] see African blood and I see the path in the street of the chains of African labour that built this empire here Well, they said the sun would never set the British empire, and I have to say, with the advancement of the anticolonial struggle in Africa, they are now looking at the moon