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                 ALADAA - LECTURE  (CONTINUATION)

                                     (Translated from Spanish to English, by Iris Bühler,
                                                  kindly assisted by Carl Zimmerman)

                                                                           PART II / III

                              (TO READ THE FIRST PART,  SEE THE PREVIOUS
                                          ISSUE OF  PANDEMONIUM REVIEW)



                                                  (continuation from previous issue)

                                                                           PART  II

    B. Some Noteworthy Aspects of the African Continent and its "Future"

    1. The Economic Destruction

    Currently, the actual population growth rate of Africa is up to a 3%; higher
    than the population growth rate of China. If it would continue increasing like
    that, the African population would surpass within 20 years the population
    number of China. Already for quite a while the whole world is talking about
    the danger of the demographic explosion and about the future nutrition
    crisis. Nearly nobody is worrying about the already existing crisis of misery,
    poverty and hunger.

    There are strong suppositions that in the "International Headquarters" are
    existing plans for reducing the world population of 6 billion to some
    "controllable" 2 billion by the half of this century, approximately in the year
    2050. Amongst many explications and evidences there might be given for
    the existence of such planes, yet nobody mentions with any word, that in
    reality we are dealing here with a dynamism of the very same capitalism in
    its post-industrial, post-physical-labour phase, which, by the exploitation of
    Intellectual Labour-Power, is leaving at the margin of the production
    process billions of workers who don't possess anything else to offer to the market
    than their Physical Labour-Power which is already obsolete.

    The liquidation of a "global reserve army" of physical-labour-forces, which, in the
    present phase of globalization are now worthless, useless, rubbish for the system in
    its totality, will be accomplished in the first place exactly by poverty,
    misery and diseases, to which they necessarily will succumb to, and furthermore by
    food manipulation and the deliberate releasing of diseases like AIDS, which
    is a synthetic "virus" of the US war laboratories, having been delivered to
    Africa precisely by means of the immunization programs of the World
    Health Organization (WHO). (see: New African, October 1999)

    Let us have a brief look at Africa's participation in the world market in
    terms of labour-force and international trade. Africa provides on a world
    scale primarily physical (in this case, agricultural and mining) Labour-Power
    and participates in the commerce of the world market only with a rate of
    1%, which is below Latin America, which participates in the world trade
    with an estimated 2 or 3% of the overall volume. The volume of the
    inter-African commerce, i.e. between the African nations, expressed in
    American dollars is less than the annual profits of a multi-national
    corporation, e.g., the Japan-based Mitsubishi or Exxon Mobile based in the
    USA. (New African, March 2000). In contrast, there is not a single remotely
    competitive multinational corporation based in an African country.

    The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the massive foreign
    debts of the African countries and the economy policy of Neoliberalism, all
    squeezing into the famous globalization, have yet obliterated and ruined all
    African economic exertions already. Within the last decades, finally, these
    organisms, including the formal and legal rules established by the WTO
    (World Trade Organization, formerly GATT - General Agreement on
    Traffics and Trade), completed the destruction of the delicate African
    agricultural and economical bases which ever since had been essentially
    inhibited already by the forced imposition of foreign economic structures
    into the unfortunate African history.


                                                               PART III

    2. The Military Annihilation

It is ironic that in the current crisis of Sierra Leone, the country is flooded by a wide variety of weapons, whilst at the same time it lacks all economic conditions for producing even a single bullet. Furthermore it's equally ironic that the five permanent members of the United Nations' Security Council, supposedly the watchmen and guarantors of "world peace", are the biggest and most important producers and traders of arms and armament on a world scale. Their arms equally attack and defend "democracy" in Africa, thus bringing the business of the new century to blossom on the African continent.

 The very same, post-apartheid, democratic and reconciliatory South Africa has entered this
armament business scenario, producing and trading weapons all over Africa. Nelson Mandela
and Thabo Mbeki, who have so sharply condemned the "arms race" and the increasing armed inter-African conflicts, preside over one of the most important armament producers and traders
on the whole African continent.

Apparently, they have learnt too rapidly from the marvelous world of business á la USA,
France, Germany and Great Britain. Long live the reconciliatory South African democracy!
Long live the dead and assassinated of the age of Apartheid, in the name of capitalist
giga-profits! This is the South Africa for which they have  ruined their precious lives and died!

 In Africa, the military ambition compared to the international panorama has no importance
whatsoever. The overall armament machinery of all national Armed Forces on the African
continent is all for nothing at the hour of a foreign military invasion of any Great Power. The
African people, apart from the myths of Chaka, historically have not been prepared for wars,
neither in Ancient Egypt, nor in the African Empires of Zimbabwe, Ngola, Mali, Bakongo, etc.,
and even less during the epochs of European colonialism and of Yankee neocolonialism.

 Since Ancient Greek and medieval times, war has essentially been a European monopoly.
 For the first time in the history of Africa, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo -- the African José Martí
and Simón Bolívar -- and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, in the 1950’s and 1960’s, proposed the construction of an African continental army, an idea that Europe, the United States and the United  Nations didn’t appreciate. Consequently, by means of their respective intelligence organisms and
covert operations, each effort of this kind has been suffocated by inhibition or assassination of
the promoters of such ideas. Today, the sterile Organization of African Unity (OAU commences recovering its memory of Africa's revolutionary 1960's, and, although it is already too late, it is trying to resurrect the dream of a united African military defense.

However, the OAU does not know that Africa has already lost its quota in the "Challenger" towards the epoch of Informatics, Intellectual Labour and Globalized Militarism. Also, the "sacred" Pan-African desires of Patrice Lumumba and of Kwame Nkrumah to found a United Nations of Africa have vanished into the Nothing of the era of globalized capitalism; the agenda of globalized capitalism excludes the unification of Africa, on the contrary, it includes the disappearance of Africa from the map of the world.


                                                           PART IV

    3. The Political Liquidation

    African Nationalism, which was born after World War I and is
    still surviving in the South Africa of Mandela and Mbeki, was
    always characterized as "anti-imperialist", "pro-capitalist",
    "pro-Stalinist", "pro-liberal", "pro-democratic",
    "pro-Gandhist" and "anti-Trotskyist". Also, today, it is the
    most retarded, obsolete and reactionary African policy.

    After World War II, during the epoch of de-colonization which in
    reality was the era of neocolonization -- on the one side -
    economic independence, but actually Yankee economic
    dependence - and on the other side -- Pan-Africanism with its extreme
    left of African Socialism (Nkrumah, Nasser, Sekou Touré, Obote).
    In his book, "Africa Must Unite," Nkrumah described the following
    essential goals of Pan-Africanism:

    For Africa:

        . A Common Market
        . A Common Currency
        . A Currency Zone
        . A Central Bank
        . A Continental Communication System
        . A Continental Armed Force

    Similar to the case of Lumumba and other radical African leaders, Nkrumah was
    attacked in the bourgeois world press as a megalomaniac and authoritarian politician.
    Finally, in a joint covert operation involving diverse intelligence agencies, including
    the CIA, and various organizations of military conspiracy, he was destituted by
    means of a coup d'etat. Sadly, all liberation movements on the African continent -- in the
    Congo, South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Zimbabwe, Namibia, etc., --
    terminated in the same virulent political, economic and social corruption, against
    which they pretended to fight.

    C.  Conclusion

    Finally, let us conclude with a brief description of the situation in Africa and its
    future vis-a-vis Globalization using the following example:

    In the 1950's, various European and USA multinational corporations
   collaborated with the United Nations, and with the military and
   intelligence services of various countries of the "free world" to
   spoil Patrice Lumumba's emancipatory efforts to liberate the Congo politically
   and economically. Lumumba, the popular leader, was massacred in cold blood,
   and substituted by the notorious imperialist tyrant and puppet, Mobutu Sese Seko,
   who, during the  Cold War, was ordered to suffocate any Communist
   revolutionary intentions in Central Africa.
 

    After more than 30 years of Mobutu's loyal compliance to
    destabilization, and after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, he lost his
    political utility, and his masters dropped him like a hot potato.
    His former European and USA pay-masters operated by military means
    from Rwanda and Uganda in supporting the new substitute, Laurent
    Kabila. When Kabila showed that he wasn't a valid performer of
    the political puppet role, the Western interests turned
    against him, operating once more from and through the same
    countries, Rwanda and Uganda, targeting his overthrow.

    At the end of the millennium,  a Pan-African war broke out,
    involving the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Angola
    (New African, October, 1998). Probably, and similar to the case of Sierra
    Leone, the United Nations' military force of rapid execution (their
    "peace corps" or "blue helmets") will have to intervene in the near
    future. The carefully contrived economic, political, social and
    military chaos which is ruling the African continent may be a
    mirror of what is to be expected in other parts of the formerly named
    "Third World", currently called "Emerging Markets" -  which
    should rather be called "markets in emergency." For Latin America, as well as
    for Africa, it may be too late to review the priorities in its integration
    agenda.

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