Of late the United States has engaged in a Cold War-style struggle against countries like China, its dogged commitment and active involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and its paralysed hand in the Middle East where it is currently supporting Israel’s war on the Innocent Palestinian people in what many around the world have called a genocide against innocent elderly, women and children.
The US’s struggle against the rest of the world has manifested in the frequent hopping around the world by its diplomats who promise nothing constructive but snake oil, empty pie-in-the-sky rhetorics, blackmail and threats. What the United States seeks to preserve in reality is a world in which the global South continues as second-class citizens of the world while the Western world under the leadership of the United States continues to look at itself as the first citizens of the world who deserve and enjoy all the great things.
These great things include the consumption of global Resources by the United States regardless of how small their constitution as a population to the world is. The United States constitutes only 5% of the global population yet this small population consumes up to 25% of the world’s resources. This is the relationship that the United States seeks to preserve yet the majority of global South countries contest a change of what they see as a skewed, uncivilized, and backward relationship that has for long kept them at the bottom of the food chain.
At the very bottom of this food chain is the continent of Africa or at least the majority of African people who have been continuously pushed to the bottom as perpetual producers of raw materials while acting as a market for goods produced by the industrialized world and beggers for the finance capital controlled by the same west through the IMF, World Bank and the International Finance Cooperation.
Since slavery and colonialism, this relationship that was created has not changed that much or at all. The continent continues to produce raw materials while the West and its allies continue to enforce this predatory state of affairs where it uses all the tools at its disposal to prevent Africa and the global South from being industrialized. These tools include its own controlled Britain Woods institutions like the International Monetary Fund IMF, World Bank and the United Nations.
This order which the United States is fighting so hard to maintain was created after World War II from 1944 to 1945 with the creation of these Britain Woods institutions. During the creation of these institutions, the majority of the global South populations and countries were not free, they were not independent states but colonies of the same Western world, which colonial system the United States actively or covertly supported as it participated in slavery and in many cases, colonization in places like Philippines, Guam, supported the apartheid regime in South Africa, and even tried to take over the former French colony of Vietnam, an adventure in which it would later fail miserably.
To someone who is not a student of History or is privileged enough to discount neocolonialism, these statements may sound like a conspiracy theory because the United States has for long presented itself as the ultimate guardian of freedom and democracy. But to someone aware of what is happening globally as in Diego Garcia as well as the many CIA atrocious crimes the world over with Africa being a playground where it participates in installing puppet governments as well as the overthrowing of democratically elected governments for that matter, these realities take on a different meaning.
It is therefore not surprising that the United States seeks to maintain this order which is being hotly contested by the rest of the global South today in what the Chinese political scientist and venture capitalist Eric Li calls the era of warring states. Eric asserts that we have entered a period in which countries and cultures will seek to assert themselves worldwide. During this period he says, it will be difficult for one country to dominate the world as has been in the past in which the United States has sought to arrogantly impose its will upon the rest of the world using coercion and many times by aggressive lethal force.
The US is so accustomed to this injustice that they see it as unfathomable for other countries to follow their own development path or even practice their own cultures far different from the Western world. This outlook while imperialist is also rooted in the long-defeated racism which seeks to raise its ugly head once in a while to test the resolve of the brown and black people of the world.
The US has also sought to retain Monopoly over the most advanced technologies. This struggle in which it uses sanctions against the Chinese automobile industry seeks to entirely put a brake on the penetration of these technologies into the global South. This of course includes technologies such as aircraft manufacturing, semiconductor manufacturing, space, and the manufacturing of trains in which it hopes to retain full Monopoly.
Even in its failure, the US and its European allies seek to fight for the protection of their markets while continuing to coerce the global South to open up its markets for American and European goods. In this as of old, they seek to achieve two things: to secure raw materials as in the case of the Lobito Railway corridor between Angola, DR.Congo and Zambia, to secure markets for its finished products as we have seen the fight against China and Russia in Africa and to finally maintain its control over the finance capital. This is the Essence of the Resurgence of the World Bank and international monetary fund on the African scene.
This is the relationship that the Western world is fighting to keep in Ukraine, Palestine and everywhere where everybody else is opposing its injustices and aggressions.
What this means for Africa is that the revolutionaries and Pan-Africanists must intensify the struggle against imperialism in every of its forms; its propaganda machinery with which it seeks to drown out the African narrative, suppress our worldview, and annihilate the African personality and identity. The struggle must be a fearless one including against the internal traitors and puppets who present themselves as leaders of the African state.
This struggle for African liberation requires constant and relentless organization and reorganization. It requires the Mobilization of all resources but most importantly; the very capable cadres must urgently be identified, sought out and facilitated to carry on the Struggle for Africa’s Total liberation, pushing the African Project to its conclusive end for the benefit of all African people across the world.
Kwame Gonza is an PanAfrican member of the African Continental Unity Party, a Mechanical Engineer, a geopolitical analyst, and the architect of the African Railway Triangle Network Master Plan.
