#Amilcar Cabral

[damnesdelamer]

DECOLONIAL ACTION READING

I recently compiled these to add to a comrade’s post about Land Back, but actually I think they deserve their own post as well.

Amílcar Cabral - Return To The Source

Frantz Fanon - The Wretched Of The Earth

Hô Chí Minh - archive via Marxists.org

Thomas King - The Inconvenient Indian

Abdullah Öcalan - Women’s Revolution & Democratic Confederalism

Edward Said - The Question Of Palestine

Thomas Sankara - archive via Marxists.org

Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang - Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor

Other key names in postcolonial theory and its practical application include:

Sara Ahmed

Homi K. Bhabha

Aimé Césaire

Albert Memmi

Jean-Paul Sartre

Léopold Séder Senghor

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

All of these will help you interpret and confront the realities of colonisation, and ideally help us understand and extend solidarity to comrades around the globe. Decolonise your mind, and don't stop there!

#land back #postcolonial #postcolonialism #postcolonial theory #decolonization #decolonize #decolonise #decolonisation #Edward Said #Tuck & Yang #Frantz Fanon #Amilcar Cabral #Free Ocalan #Sankara #Ho Chi Minh #Thomas Sankara #Abdullah Ocalan #original #Thomas King #Eve Tuck #K. Wayne Yang

[probablyasocialecologist]

Agroecology in the global north needs to fully reckon with its position in the global system of imperialism and incorporate that into its analysis and demands. Our global class position as small farmers in the colonial core necessitates reckoning with class as a global phenomenon and hierarchy, before discussing it within regional or national bounds. Imperialism here taken simply as the enforced flow of value from south to north as a result of militarised capital. Agroecology (or food sovereignty movements, either way) needs to recognise how European farmers benefit from the flow of value from the lands, labour and resources of the global south. That’s not to say that capitalist competition can’t undermine efforts towards agroecological farming, but how we parse that challenge matters. It changes our focus from “globalisation” which is a critique now most commonly wielded by the far right, to capitalism. It allows us to name the system’s dynamics. Capitalist competition is what drives down production standards and with it incomes. Our demand should become to stop competing with each other and whatever that takes.

#agroecology #food #farming #agriculture #Amilcar Cabral

[radiofreederry]

Happy birthday, Amilcar Cabral! (September 12, 1924)

A prominent anti-colonial and pan-African revolutionary, intellectual, and leader, Amilcar Cabral was born in what was then the colony of Portuguese Guinea. While a student, Cabral organized protests against the reactionary Estado Novo regime of Portugal, and founded the African Party of Independence (now known as the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) to agitate and struggle for independence from Portugal. Influenced by Marxism and pan-Africanism, Cabral also forged links with other African revolutionary movements, such as in Angola under Agostinho Neto. Beginning in 1963, Cabral led the guerilla struggle against Portugal in Guinea, steadily winning territory with the support of Cuba, China, the Soviet Union, and other countries. In early 1973, with the revolution on the cusp of victory, Cabral was killed by Inocêncio Kani, a rival in the party, likely in an attempt by Portugal to maintain influence of the political leadership after the revolution.

“Let us be precise: for us, African revolution means the transformation of our present life in the direction of progress. The prerequisite for this is the elimination of foreign economic domination, on which every other type of domination is dependent.”

#birthdays #amilcar cabral

[readyforevolution]

#blacktumblr #black history #black liberation #african history #amilcar cabral

[afrotumble]

“Let us be precise: for us, African revolution means the transformation of our present life in the direction of progress. The prerequisite for this is the elimination of foreign economic domination, on which every other type of domination is dependent.”

Amilcar Cabral

#amilcar cabral #african history #freedom fighter #leaders #black history #guinea bissau

[sakuhina]

Cape Verde's independence ceremony on July 1975.

#anti colonialism #cape verde #cabo verde #amilcar cabral

[jafar-panahi]

Nome (2023, Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼) directed by Sana Na N'Hada

#nome 2023 #sana na n'hada #sana na nhada #guinea bissau #world cinema #screencaps #cuba #amilcar cabral

[blackstar1887]

Unmasked Hero: Amilcar Cabral's Courageous Fight for Guinea-Bissau's Freedom

#black power #black excellence #black history #black tik tok #pan africanism #tik tok #africa #african politics #amilcar cabral #guinea bissau #guinea #bissau

[kemetic-dreams]

#amilcar cabral #amilcar #african revolution #panafrican #panafrican thought

[aezterx]

#atheism #sociology #amilcar cabral

[hungrytravellers]

From Boa Vista To Santiago: A Praia Arrangement 

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#African markets #Amilcar Cabral #Boa Vista #Cape Verde #independent travel #Praia #Santiago #Slave Trade #Street Art #Travel journalism #travel photography

[serious2020]

Amilcar Cabral Speaks

twitter.com/jaillawspeak/status/1625148205087219713

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#African/Black experience #Amilcar Cabral #Cape Verde Islands #Guinea Bissau #PAIGC #revolutionary #revolutionary leaders #revolutionary war

[readyforevolution]

#amilcar cabral #blacktumblr #black history #black liberation #african history

[afrotumble]

#amilcar cabral #guinea bissau #leader #freedom fighter

[wilsonportfolio]

The process of creating the Amilcar Cabral Hand painted 3D Figure

#artwork #art culture #amilcar cabral #cape verde #guinea bissau #africa #west africa

[sissa-arrows]

Algiers the revolutionaries’ Mecca. A documentary in French made in 2017 about the role of Algeria helping other countries gain their independence after gaining its own independence in 1962.

“Muslims go to Mecca, Christians go to the Vatican and the revolutionary movement go to Algiers” Amilcar Cabral (the leader of the movement of liberation for Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde)

“A few months only after its independence Algeria open its doors to all the wretched of the earth. […] The first movement of liberation welcomed in Algeria is Nelson Mandela’s ANC. They are joined by representatives of Namibia and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). They all fight against a power held by white people that exclude the Black majority. […] The next year other African movement of liberation join the Algerian capital, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, Angola. An activist solidarity move those groups of liberation all supported financially by Algeria who also give them military and diplomatic support. […] For the Algerian Ben Bella newly Independent African countries must give more support to those still fighting.”

“We fought for 7 and a half year against the most obstinate imperialism that ever existed. We have no right to just think about ourselves when people are dying in Angola, Mozambique and South Africa. But there is a price to pay. If we want our solidarity to be effective then we have to accept to all make sacrifices for African unity to not be a vain word.” Ahmed Ben Bella (first Algerian president)

The documentary also mentions Palestine, Vietnam and the Black Panthers (how they were welcomed and how it eventually ended bitterly (I personally understand both sides I understand why the Black Panthers hijacked a plane but I also understand why Algeria reacted badly because they were not told about it first so they were unable to prepare themselves to the potential violent reaction of the US). Algeria is not perfect we have a lot of issues but when it comes to the support against oppression against imperialism and colonialism I will forever be proud of where Algeria stands.

#Algeria #documentary #decolonization #panafricanism #history