This is a proposal for your consideration. It is not meant to be commandments written in stone, just suggestions for discussion. You may question or comment on everything I say and whatever seems appropriate to you, run with it. All I ask is that you read it and hopefully, you will respond with sincerity and understanding.

On Saturday 6th March 2004 at a meeting promoted by the Afruika Bantu Saturday School entitled "200th Anniversary of the Haitian Revolution: Lessons for Today", I put forward an idea which was first mooted by Brother Fundisi in his GlobalEyes talk show on Galaxy Radio in January. At the end of the meeting I was asked to put the idea in writing and present it to the Global African community.

My conviction that we need a global action-plan for our liberation was further strengthened, not only by our apparent lack of response to the recent kidnapping and removal from office of Haiti’s first democratically elected president, but also by comments of Chief Adeleya Adelekan, Vice President of the World Congress of Orisha Tradition and Culture and one of the foremost authorities on the Yoruba way of being. In answer to the question of how/what we can learn from the defeat of the three most powerful European nations of their time by our African Brothers and Sisters in Haiti, he said: "The days of 200 years ago when our people were doing these positive things ... is gone." He continued to explain that we are no longer who we were when we left Africa because we have lost our culture and become undisciplined. He said we should bring up our children to build the revolution. "This revolution must start by us but not with us."

The vast majority of us believe that because we are no longer physically enslaved, we are free. But we are in a worse state today than we were 200 years ago. We are psychomotionally enslaved. We are careless of our future, ignorant of our glorious past, forgetful of our names and we disregard our spirit. We are dying in a state of war. The same war which started with the invasion of our motherland and culminated in the destruction of our civilisation, the kidnapping, transportation, enslavement and killing of hundreds of millions of our people is still raging but we take no notice. We are still at war…

Some of us also believe, rightly, that racism is wrong. But they say the eradication of racism must be our number one social goal. A racist is a person who believes that they are superior to another by virtue of their difference in racial or cultural background and has the institutional and social power to exercise that belief. Taking that definition to its logical conclusion, it becomes clear that fighting racism is a futile, pointless exercise. It can only benefit the racists while consoling their most gullible and co-operative victims. It is impossible for the victim to "eradicate" the racist’s belief, especially where that racist is in control of their own culture and dominates their victim’s culture.

Bearing in mind that just 200 years ago a very small number of African people, together with the native Chemis people, defeated Britain, France and Spain to establish the oldest independent African state outside of the continent; recognising that soon afterwards, Haiti was extorted of billions of dollars in "reparations" to France for thrashing Napoleon’s army; considering that every Global European nation, (including the USA) have since conspired to undermine the independence, integrity and progress of Haiti, thereby making it the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere; I propose that we take Haiti as the basis upon which to set up a global Ten-Year Action-Plan, designed to educate, re-educate, motivate, mobilise and inspire our people to wake up, take control of our lives and determine our own destiny.

I propose, firstly, that we set up Research and Study groups consisting of academics, activists, cultural artists, historians, martial artists, militarists, spiritualists and teachers, paying particular homage to the works of existing organisations such as the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) and, as far as practically possible, incorporating them. These Research and Study groups, would, in the first three to five years:

Secondly, in parallel, we set up other Research and Study groups consisting of all the above and, in addition, economists, financial analysts, international law specialists, political analysts and social scientists, to look closely at:

Thirdly, we look at the current religious practices of the various "spiritualist" organisations to see how many of them, if any, retain much of the teachings of our ancient Ancestors with a view to enhancing them with our research material and then incorporating the result into our preparatory programme for victory.

Fourthly, after the first couple of years of Research and Study, we start promoting regular Pan-Africanist games, festivals, concerts, conferences, competitions, seminars, workshops, sporting tournaments and teach-ins, where we bring updated motivational and inspirational information to our communities in the form of songs, dances, theatrical performances, lectures, quizzes, games, books, records, radio programmes, TV documentaries and feature films.

Fifthly, we find ways to inject our Research and Study information into supplementary schools and wherever possible into religious and "mainstream" schools.

Finally, of course, there has to be a community defence element to this proposal. Our Ancestors did not create Haiti, Palmares, Maroon Town, etc., abolish chattel slavery or gain victory over any of our enemies simply by begging or praying for it, they had to fight. If we want ever to be liberated, we also have to fight for it, sooner or later. So, sooner rather than later, we have to dump the idea that our enemies will give us reparations or they will allow us to be self-determinate, just because it is the right thing to do. We cannot continue turning the other cheek or appealing to the goodness and the humanity of our enemies. We must come to realise that the non-aggressive, non-violent, cap-in-hand strategy does not work.

With that in mind, I propose that we start training/teaching our children through our own computer games, video games, school games, board games, family games, exercises, parables, story telling, etc., in the art of jungle, desert and urban guerrilla warfare and survival tactics, with a clear indication of who they are, who their enemies are and why.

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Contrary to the popular practice of waiting for the Messiah, I propose that we stop thinking of setting up any more "umbrella" organisations, or any visible central command and control structures. It is clear to me that any kind of central command system such as that initiated by our great teacher Marcus Garvey, is likely, as has happened so often in the past, to be corrupted from the inside and/or attacked and destroyed from the outside. Instead, I propose that we form small, independent, self-contained cellular units, similar to those deployed today by the USA’s Special Forces, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the Al Qaida Network, the UK’s SAS and in particular the small groups of guerrilla fighters of the Haitian campaigns. The main differences between those forces and what is being proposed here is the lack of visible centralisation - apparently uncoordinated and invisible but effective.

What I am suggesting is that we concentrate all our powers, individually and collectively, on achieving the singular objective of Global African self-determination, i.e. total and absolute liberation of Africa and African people everywhere. The strategies and tactics we employ would ultimately be determined by the respective individual units as they deal with the local conditions they encounter while moving towards achieving our objective of Global African self-determination.

In summary, I would suggest the following schedule of events:

Year 1, begin and continue holding regular meetings on Haiti, to promote the idea and inspire individuals to commit themselves to the Ten-Year Action-Plan

Year 2, begin assembling individuals, organisations and research materials for the Research and Study groups

Years 3 - 5, begin and continue Research and Study on:

A) pre-Haiti conditions

B) Haiti’s post-revolution realities up to present times

C) comparative analysis of religious and Spiritualist organisations

Year 4, assessment of the Ten-Year Action-Plan up to date

Years 5 - 7, begin promotion/publication of Research and Study findings

Year 8, assessment of the Research and Study programme and the Ten-Year Action-Plan up to date

Year 9, begin and continue setting up community defence cells (though some kind of defence mechanisms should be in place from year one)

Year 10, world conferences in 2015 to assess and celebrate the success of the Ten-Year Plan and its effect on our communities and the rest of the world.

May the Ancestors guide and protect you on our way.

Love and Life

Spartacus R.