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InPDUM Observes the 65th Anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre - InPDUM

The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) is located in 57 cities and 23 states of the United States, no less than eight countries (US, Canada, Grenada, South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Sierra Leone, and England) and three continents (North America, Africa, and Europe, as well as the Caribbean).

APSP National Director of Organization Chimurenga Selembao, then InPDUM President, was a member of the Durban 400. The Durban 400 was a collective of African organizations that helped produce the Durban Declaration and Program of Action (DDPA) at the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa in early September 2001. InPDUM organized and brought the demand for reparations into the international arena.

How the Uhuru Movement grew in South Africa

InPDUM does not attend events as spectators – we always go into events with the intent of organizing. As we say, “Never leave empty-handed.” Even before the trip to the Durban conference, InPDUM had gone to South Africa with the objective of branch building. Upon his return to the U.S. on September 9, 2001, Director Chimurenga successfully organized the first InPDUM branches in Durban and Johannesburg. Some of the members who initially organized InPDUM South Africa were members of the Pan-Africanist Congress Youth League.

In October 2003, Chairman Omali Yeshitela published the article “The Crisis of Pan-Africanism: Unity and Struggle with the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania” in The Burning Spear. This article identified the long history between the APSP and the PAC.These screenings are an important form of anti-colonial work. They take the productions out of the control of the colonial bourgeoisie as well as the purely intellectual arenas of the African petty bourgeoisie in a process that Secretary-General Luwezi Kinshasa has called “de-bourgeoisification.” Organizing anti-colonial film screenings is thus an important part of building the anti-colonial free speech movement. Using these films as outreach tools allows us to break through the colonial superstructure. They build our membership base. These events allow us to point a clear way forward for the masses.

Party influence in Southern Africa extends to the early 1970s

The APSP organized the first Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) support work in the United States in the early 1970s. In May 1974, the APSP and ZANU organized African Liberation Day together in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is through this work that the ZANU slogan “We are our own liberators” came into popularity amongst the African independence movement in the United States.

All of this lays bare the lies that anyone besides ourselves has influenced our struggle for freedom, our demands for reparations to African people, and our intent on charging the US with genocide.

Offices in South and West Africa reflect our history, leadership

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