To Overthrow the West: Reclaim Our People and Labor

An initial loose blueprint for a global revolution to liberate the working peoples of the worlds once and for all.

More to be added in later pieces in future.

1 - Reclaim the labor of the masses for the masses

Stop laboring for the West and its empires, and instead labor for our own independence, self-reliance and self-determination.

1. We labor to produce fabrics (India), minerals in mines (Congo, Niger), crops and meat (Amazon rainforest) and more for the West.
2. From Michael Parenti's book, Against Empire:

Development Theory

[...] This "development theory” or "modernization theory,” as it is sometimes called, bears little relation to reality. What has emerged in the Third World is an intensely exploitive form of dependent capitalism. Economic conditions have worsened drastically with the growth of transnational corporate investment. The problem is not poor lands or unproductive populations but foreign exploitation and class inequality. Investors go into a country not to uplift it but to enrich themselves. People in these countries do not need to be taught how to farm. They need the land and the implements to farm. They do not need to be taught how to fish. They need the boats and the nets and access to shore frontage, bays, and oceans. They need industrial plants to cease dumping toxic effusions into the waters. They do not need to be convinced that they should use hygienic standards. They do not need a Peace Corps volunteer to tell them to boil their water, especially when they cannot afford fuel or have no access to firewood. They need the conditions that will allow them to have clean drinking water and clean clothes and homes. They do not need advice about balanced diets from North Americans. They usually know what foods best serve their nutritional requirements. They need to be given back their land and labor so that they might work for themselves and grow food for their own consumption.

[pg 10]

Neoimperialism: Skimming the Cream

Sometimes imperial domination is explained as arising from an innate desire for domination and expansion, a ”territorial imperative.” In fact, territorial imperialism is no longer the prevailing mode. Compared to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the European powers carved up the world among themselves, today there is almost no colonial dominion left. Colonel Blimp is dead and buried, replaced by men in business suits. Rather than being directly colonized by the imperial power, the weaker countries have been granted the trappings of sovereignty while Western finance capital retains control of the lion's share of their profitable resources. This relationship has gone under various names: "informal empire,” "colonialism without colonies,” "neocolonialism,” and "neoimperialism.”

U.S. political and business leaders were among the earliest practitioners of this new kind of empire, most notably in Cuba at the beginning of the twentieth century. Having forcibly wrested the island from Spain in the war of 1898, they eventually gave Cuba its formal independence. The Cubans now had their own government, constitution, flag, currency, and security force. But major foreign policy decisions remained in U.S. hands as did the island's wealth, including its sugar, tobacco, and tourist industries, and major imports and exports.

Historically U.S. capitalist interests have been less interested in acquiring more colonies than in acquiring more wealth, preferring to make off with the treasure of other nations without bothering to own and administer the nations themselves. Under neoimperialism, the flag stays home, while the dollar goes everywhere – frequently assisted by the sword.

After World War II, European powers like Britain and France adopted a strategy of neoimperialism. Financially depleted by years of warfare, and facing intensified popular resistance from within the Third World itself, they reluctantly decided that indirect economic hegemony was less costly and politically more expedient than outright colonial rule. They discovered that the removal of a conspiuously intrusive colonial rule made it more difficult for nationalist elements within the previously colonized countries to mobilize anti-imperialist sentiments.

[pg 11]

2 - Stop 'Migration as Economic Imperialism'

Stop migration to the West to form the underclasses of the West

1. Entry-level jobs in the West include retail, hospitality. But Westerners don't make the clothes or the fabric, don't pick the fruit, don't grow the coffee beans, don't labor in the abattoirs. There is a whole underclass of migrants.
2. There is an entire book "Migration As Economic Imperialism" by Professor Immanuel Ness.

3 - Advocate and educate for our own cause

Set up our own institutions for agitations and propaganda to combat the incessant lies of the Western establishment that are used to justify our oppression.

1. This includes for news, books, education.
2. From Noam Chomsky in the book How The World Works:

[Chomsky is referring to Israel.] In a situation of occupation or domination, the occupier, the dominant power, has to justify what it's doing. There is only one way to do it — become a racist. You have to blame the victim. Once you become a raving racist in self-defence, you've lost your capacity to understand what's happening.

The US in Indochina was the same. They never could understand — there are some amazing examples in the internal record. The FBI is the same; they make the most astonishing mistakes, for similar reasons.

[pg 106-107]

There has always been racism. But it developed as a leading principle of thought and perception in the context of colonialism. That's understandable. When you have your boot on someone's neck, you have to justify it. The justification has to be their depravity.

It's very striking to see this in the case of people who aren't very different from one another. Take a look at the British conquest of Ireland, the earliest of the Western colonial conquests. It was described in the same terms as the conquest of Africa. The Irish were a different race. They weren't human. They weren't like us. We had to crush and destroy them.

[pg 118]

4 - Mobilise our own liberation forces

Build up our own liberation armies to fight against the genocides waged against us across generations.

1. Wars have been waged against the peoples of Palestine, Viet Nam, and many, many more. The only liberators for these wars have been armies by the people themselves.
2. From the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) 14-Point Platform:

We believe that true freedom, although often taken away, cannot be given to a people. We believe that African people are our own liberators, and that we have a right and obligation to build an African People’s Liberation Army to defend our political gains, our freedom fighters and communities, and to win our actual freedom from our oppressive slave masters. We believe that neither meaningful freedom nor guaranteed political and social gains, nor genuine liberation are possible without the assuring existence of an African People’s Liberation Army. We believe further that the only legitimate wars are wars of national liberation and wars to oppose imperialist aggression, and that therefore the only legitimate military forces for black people to serve with are military forces which defend liberty and repel imperialist aggression. Such a force would be the African People’s Liberation Army.