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AFRICA
22 August 1963
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Aquino Braganca, representative of the Conference of the Nationalist
Organizations of Portuguese Colonies, said:  "No one can separate the
struggle against racial discrimination from tie class struggle." He
added: "We are against racial discrimination; that is to say, we oppose
imperialism, colonialism and the system of e:._ xoitation of man by man."
Hogbe Nlend, permanent representative in Algiers of the Union of the
People of the Cameroons> declared:  "There is no racial discrimination
among the most oppressed stratum of society, because for the suffering
workers, the question of skin does not arise.  He said:  "We welcome
Chairman Mao Tse-tung's statement not as solidarity among races,   but as
solidarity among oppressed classes and nations."
Abilio Duarte, permanent representative in Algiers of the African
Party for the Independence of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)
said:  "By merely analyzing the reality of T^rth America we can reach
the conclusion that the racial problem is essentially a class problem."
Therefore, it is necessary to engage in a common struggle against imperialism and colonialism and for social revolution, he added. These representatives of nationalist parties exposed the so-called "democracy"
and "freedom" advocated by U.S. imperialism, pointing out that U.S
imperialism not only is the enemy of the American Negroes but also the
enemy of the national liberation movement and of the oppressed peoples
and nations of the world.
Hogbe Nlend said:  "The experience of the African peoples and that of the
Cameroons in particular have deeply convinced us that U.S. imperialism is
the greatest danger threatening world peace today and that it is the
principal enemy, against whom all people should be united in order to
achieve complete liberation." He said:  "Kennedy wanted to present himself as a good man offering support to the national liberation movement.
We know that U. S. imperialism, by its very nature, will never become a
friend of the oppressed peoples."
Braganca said he feels that the danger of the policy of U.S. imperialism
lies in its infiltration into Africa according to a carefully conceived
plan and in its attempts to extend its neocolonialism in Africa.
Makiwane enumerated facts to expose the hypocrisy of the U. S. Government
in claiming to have "sympathy" for the African people. He said that
recently he went to the United Nations with his friends to lay open the
fact that the U.S., British, and French imperialists support the South
African authorities with large quantities of arms to suppress the South
African people's struggle.