What is the AAPRP?

What is the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP)?

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) is a permanent, independent, revolutionary, socialist, Pan-African Political Party based in Africa, the just homeland of African People all over the world. It is an integral part of the Pan-African and world socialist revolutionary movement. The AAPRP understands that “all people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any other part of the world, are Africans and belong to the African Nation”. (Kwame Nkrumah, Class Struggle in Africa, page 4).

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party recognizes that African People born and living in over 113 countries are one People, with one identity, one history, one culture, one Nation and one destiny. We have one common enemy – capitalism, in its many forms and manifestations – imperialism, Zionism, racism and neocolonialism. We suffer from disunity, disorganization and ideological confusion. And we all have only one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism.

Historical Origins of the AAPRP

In 1966 noted in the Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare, Kwame Nkrumah called for the formation of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP). Nkrumah understood that Africans could not restrict the bounds of the liberation struggle to the colonialist created borders, but instead must organize a political force that spans not only throughout the African continent, but the larger African world as well. Taking this banner and holding it high, the AAPRP over the last 35+ years has organized work-study circles throughout Africa. Europe, the Caribbean, Canada and the United States. Understanding the historic role that African Women have played throughout the history of the world and the fact that African Women suffer under triple oppression in the form of national oppression (as Africans), class oppression (as workers and peasants) and gender oppression (as women), the AAPRP in 1980 founded the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (AAWRU) as its internal women’s wing.

Ideology and Objective of the AAPRP

The political objective of the AAPRP is Pan-Africanism: The total liberation and unification of Africa under Scientific Socialism. We understand that until the African homeland is free from the forces of imperialism, neo-colonial domination and other reactionary social, political and economic systems, that no African whether he/she lives in the world can be free or respected. The ideology of the AAPRP is Nkrumahism-Tureism. Nkrumahism-Tureism comprises and set of principles, values and morals taking into account the multitude of historical experiences of African people and the most positive elements therein.

The All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party understands that the liberation of African people cannot come to reality without the effective and genuine liberation of African Women. The AAPRP also understands that African Women cannot fight a liberation struggle separate from the broader liberation struggle of African People. The two go hand in hand. The manifestation of this understanding in practical terms gave birth to the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union. The AAWRU is responsible for insuring that all vestiges of sexism are rooted out of our party (and the larger society), that women and men are educated about the revolutionary role of women in the African Revolution and to insure that the voice, interests and energies of African women are completely integrated into every aspect of our work to build the AAPRP and a free African Nation. All women who join the AAPRP are automatically members of the AAWRU.

How to Join the AAPRP

Membership into the AAPRP is open to any and all Africans who understand and accept the objective and ideology of the party. Members voluntarily participate in a continuous political education process through the joining and helping build an AAPRP work-study circle as well as do consistent work to carry out the program of the AAPRP.

Our Political Education Process: Work-Study Circles

This program of the AAPRP is open to any and all Africans interested in collective education about the African revolution and organizational training to prepare one to make their fullest contribution to the Pan-African Revolution. The only requirement to join or help setup a work-study circle is a sincere commitment to helping Africa and African people as well as a willingness to follow the guidelines of the work-study circle program. There are two aspects to this program: work and study.

The work-study circle process is designed to: train and prepare serious, unselfish strugglers for Africa and her people; develop a conscientious attitude towards revolutionary work; cultivate a strong sense of national pride in being African and a revolutionary commitment to actively support the just struggles of other oppressed and exploited peoples in the world. The AAPRP is confident that the most serious Africans that participate in the work-study process will want to commit their lives, talents and energies to the African Revolution and will become cadre of the AAPRP.