- The Africanist Movement is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the first West Africa Regional Conference of the African Socialist International (ASI) in Freetown-Sierra Leone from October 15-17, 2008. The Conference will bring together African revolutionaries, progressives, individuals and groups from Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia, Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, England, United States of America and other parts of the world involved in the struggle for a free, united Africa to discuss and adopt the strategy and tactics of African internationalism. The Conference aims to unite and consol…

- The increasing reactionary efforts of the primitive African petty bourgeoisie in this country to defend their class interest have lead to the emergence of vague ideas and arguments purposefully designed to distort our efforts to organize ourselves for genuine liberation and unification of the oppressed masses of our people from neo-colonial and imperialist oppression and exploitation. This is however not strange to us since we know that the African liberation movement in general has often found itself confronted with these obscuring ideas often emanating from the ever-increasing selfish ambitions of the primitive African petty bourgeoisie to accomplish their immediate political and econom…

- A recent statement issued by the British Department for International Development (DFID) revealed that England has provided some US$72 million to support what it refers to as “a new social and economic reform program” in Sierra Leone to be carried out by the newly imposed neocolonial regime of Ernest Bai Koroma. Britain’s Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander, says the money is part of Britain’s “renewed assistance to the government of Sierra Leone now headed by Ernest Bai Koroma” and designed to “help the government carry out the implementation of policies that will maximize revenue as part of a new national recove…

- This year- 2008- marks seventy years since the West African Youth League (WAYL) contested and won the Freetown City Council elections in 1938. And it has been forty-three years since Wallace Johnson himself, founder and leader of the League, died in a mysterious car crash while attending a worker’s conference in Accra , Ghana . But the West African Youth League, the first anti-colonial mass movement in West Africa that demanded the total and unconditional independence of Africa from European colonial domination, has been forgotten. With branches in Ghana , Nigeria and Sierra Leone , the League expressed a working class platform tied to an all-African state power that threatened th…