Editorial Introduction
The following is the first online version of the preface to Shaka A. Shakur’s From the Republic of New Afrika to Palestine: National Liberation in Context. The author is Haki Kweli Shakur, a dedicated activist and historian, is deeply engaged in the struggle for New Afrikan independence and the broader fight against racial injustice. As a Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika and National Spokesman for the August Third Collective, his work spans across various revolutionary and social justice movements, making him a critical voice in the dialogue about resistance, liberation, and transformative change.
The Mandarin translation of this text is available here.
Preface
This pamphlet is a collection of writings by Shaka Shakur on The New Afrikan Independence Movement and the Republic of New Afrika. Shakur provides a historical genesis connecting our colonial bondage and struggle of resistance as descendants of enslaved Afrikans (New Afrikans) to our current neo-klonial bondage, social, economic, political reality.
Shaka Shakur, my comrade-brother, is astute at making the connections to the world struggle of oppressed peoples and nations as he does brilliantly with the current Palestinian, Haitian, Sudan, and other national liberation struggles. At the same time, he reminds the world that there’s a Pro-New Afrikan Liberation struggle that exists in the borders of the amerikkkan empire called the United States.
In Palestine, the same brutal conditions and warfare are being waged on the New Afrikan Nation of peoples struggling for independence, land, and sovereignty.
In the u.s., occupation, troops called the police hold hostage New Afrikan/Black communities with military forts called Kop Cities. These New Afrikan Revolutionary writings are imperative to study to overstand the conditions we face in this material bondage called the Western Front and its connections to the Global Liberation Front!
Haki Kweli Shakur
