An Open Letter to the People of Zimbabwe

First of all, let us begin by saying thank you. Thank you for demonstrating to and for the people of Africa and the world the courage and conviction that must be had to be self-determining in the face of insurmountable odds of imperialism and their stooges. Odds that would have crushed others with any less will to be free.

The road you chose for national liberation, which was carved through your first and second Chimrengas (armed liberation wars), cut an enduring path for others to follow.

At this moment in time, when all the enemies of Africa have attempted to circle their wagons around you and crush your right to land and sovereignty, your leadership and the veterans of your struggle have rallied you to unite.

The following words of one of Africa’s greatest patriots are so fitting to your struggle at this time:

“No brutality, mistreatment, or torture has ever forced me to ask for grace, for I prefer to die with my head high, my faith steadfast, and my confidence profound in the destiny of my country, rather than to live in submission and scorn of the sacred principles. History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations will teach, but that which they will teach in the countries emancipated from colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history, and it will be, to the north and to the south of the Sahara, a history of glory and dignity.”

Patrice Lumumba’s last letter,
December 1960

Lift the Sanctions Now Against Zimbabwe!

As anti-war movement and other peace activists, Pan Africanists and people of all nationalities inside the US and worldwide, we are declaring our full support and solidarity with the heroic struggle in Zimbabwe to defend the right to full independence and sovereignty. At the heart of this struggle is the ongoing fight for the control of the African land, illegally and brutally stolen at the beginning of the 19th century by the racist British colonizers led by Cecil Rhodes.

The Lancaster House Agreement – signed by the representatives of the ZANU-ZAPU guerilla movements and the British government in 1980 – promised to legally transfer ownership of the millions of acres of arable land from the handful of very privileged British white farmers and give back to the Zimbabwean people. The British reneged on this signed deal while the people of Zimbabwe patiently waited for this land reform. When their patience ran out, after waiting for 20 years for legal justice, the people of Zimbabwe had no other choice or recourse but to expropriate the land by any means that was necessary.

As the result of taking back the land that was theirs by birthright, the people of Zimbabwe had to bear the full brunt of unmitigated disdain on the part of US and British governments, and more recently the tool\ of the West, the European Union governments. This disdain and vicious propaganda and intrigue by the West against the political leaders of Zimbabwe, especially against President Robert Mugabe who has defended the Zimbabwean people’s right to their own land.

The West instigated cruel sanctions against the people of Zimbabwe, which have caused massive unemployment, malnourishment, hyperinflation, deeper poverty, lack of health care and fuel – the deterioration of the infrastructure and much more. The recent cholera epidemic has claimed thousands of lives and could have been prevented if water purification chemicals had not been banned under these Western imposed sanctions.

These genocidal sanctions reminds us of the sanctions imposed on the Palestinian people in Gaza by US backed Zionist Israel state. Let us be very clear on this – President Mugabe is not to blame for this crisis that was purposely imposed on the people of Zimbabwe! These sanctions imposed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are acts of aggression, with the sole purpose of trying to ignite a regime change in Zimbabwe.

We face the same enemies in the world as the people of Zimbabwe – the worldwide clique of bankers and bosses who put their own greed before the needs of the people.

It is a fact that the victory of the people of Zimbabwe is also our victory.

It is in this spirit of international solidarity that we will continue to work hand in hand with our sisters and brothers in Zimbabwe to demand from the US, British and other imperialist governments:

Sign this open letter as NSC-CFSP did at: http://www.iacenter.orh/africa/zimbabweopenletter

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