The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania condemns in the strongest language the racist elements that wish to embark upon the execution of this great son of the soil, Africanist, and humanist: MUMIA ABU-JAMAL.
African blood will not continue to flow in vain. We stand with MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, just as we stand with our political prisoners here in Azania who have yet to be released from the sewers of prison cells in Pretoria, CapeTown, Johannesburg, Durban and many other cities accross Azania. We stand with political prisoners in Peru, Mauritania, Gambia, Nigeria, and the United States of America. We serve a reminder to all lovers of freedom that October 11 must not only be a day of solidarity with political prisoners, but a day when we demand and indeed fight for their release all over the world. The fight for MUMIA's life is the process of liberation of African people world wide. It is a fight for our national dignity; it gives true meaning to the struggle for bread and social dignity. This internal relation is one of the roots of the immense solidarity that unites oppressed peoples to the exploited masses all over the world.
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania and the Azanian people committ themselves to the peoples engaged in struggle, who today are convinced that Africans share their combat and are ready to intervene directly at the first call of the directing bodies towards a FREE MUMIA. We reiterate what Dr. Nkrumah said, Africans have nothing to loose but our chains and we have an immense fight to win. We are brothers and sisters in the same struggle. We in Azania are not willing to accept the lie that we are free, the lie that apartheid and colonialism are over. We are not willing , as a consequence to accept a renovated but continued colonisation. The occupation of the settlers through collaboration within the government of national unity, is the perpetuation of minority rights and freedoms in Azania. The masses go on scratching out a living from the soil, and unemployed man now at 50% who never find employment do not manage, in spite of public holidays and flags, new and brightly colored though they may be, cannot convince themselves that anything has really changed in their lives. The masses have no illusions, the struggle continues. They realise that they have been coopted by those who have refined specialised opportunism. They can no longer believe that demagogues are the answer to freedom.
It is the allies of the same settlers who show contempt for all African people by planning MUMIA's excecution on the birth of one of the true great Pan-Afrianists Marcus Garvey. It imperative that Africanists every where join up, not only to condemn this action against MUMIA, but to have a plan of action that declares to the world: touch an African: touch fire! The truth is that we ought not to accept this contempt. Our challenge to all the oppressors of MUMIA and African people world wide, is not a rational confrontation of point of view. It is not a negotiated settlement, but the untidy affirmation of an original idea propounded as an absolute: MUMIA MUST BE FREE! It is not enough for the imperialist executors of MUMIA to be reminded that their ability to delimit us through the use of their army and police force shows their cowardice. But we must remember what a corrosive element they are, destroying all that comes near them. They are the deforming element, disfiguring all that has to do with beauty or morality; they are depository of maleficient powers, the unconscious and irretrievable instrument of blind forces. MUMIA must not be allowed to be prostituted by these poisoned and diseased executors for their own imperialist aims. MUMIA MUST BE FREE!
Our aim continues to be the same: to put an end to settler occupation, to give the land to the Azanians, to establish a policy of social democracy in which man and women have an equal right to culture, to material well-being and to dignity. WE the people of AZANIA stand with MUMIA towards the triumphant freedom from his executioners.
IZWE LETHU I AFRIKA (THE LAND IS OURS!)
Issued by Z.B. Molete
Secretary for Publicity & Information
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
August 4, 1995
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