Over the years the A-APRP has been honored to work with the IRSP and has experienced first hand there true internationalist nature. The IRSP this year alone have lent expressions of solidarity and have sent representative to participate in African Liberation Day activities in both the USA and England. For this alone, we are extremely grateful.

But even more than this, the IRSP has shown us that by working to strengthen the forces of scientific socialism in the world, we inevitable weaken the demonic and backwards forces of capitalism and its component parts, including its new drive for the globalization of exploitation and oppression. British capitalism is the brother of US capitalism.

The A-APRP stands with the Irish People and the IRSP in their struggle against the British system of disunity, corruption, exploitation, settler-colonialism and oppression. We have observed the IRSP since its emergence in 1974, and while we cannot determine for the Irish People, who their true representatives will be, we are sure that the IRSP will continue its just struggle until that decision is finalized.

The A-APRP follows the tradition of our People in our support for the IRSP and against British colonialism and neo-colonialism. We remember clearly that it was the Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement, who exposed the genocide of King Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo in the early 1900. Here we must also recall that at the UNIA rally at New York's Madison Square Garden in August 1920, The Honorable Marcus Mosia Garvey telegraphed Eamon de Valera in the name of 25,000 black delegates to formally recognize him as president of the Irish Republic. That same year Garvey also sent a telegram to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George asking that Republican hunger striker Terence MacSwiney not be allowed to die, and sent another to MacSwiney's priest which said "Convey to MacSwiney sympathy of 400,000,000 Negroes".

The A-APRP like the Irish also seeks the reunification of our homeland. Pan-Africanism, our objectives as defined by Kwame Nkrumah is the "Total liberation and unification of Africa under an all African' socialist government." This is the objective of our Party the A-APRP. It is an objective that our people have been struggling to achieve in many organized formations since the early 1900's.

Today the A-APRP determination is with our brothers and sisters who are battling those forces of neo-colonialism, created by the imperialist and financed by the World Bank and the IMF. These are the forces, which have contributed to lowering the life expectancy in Africa from 52 years in 1990 to 48 years in 2000. Even while the life expectancy in the capitalist countries are 78 years. The average annual income per head for Africa as a whole is at $665 (annually), lower than it was in 1980, which is 5 times less than the average white worker in the capitalist countries.

We have come to find that so-called tribal fratricide currently plaguing Africa are really legacy' of colonialism, and in some instances the direct result of the policies of World Bank and the IMF. Direct colonial exploitation being now unfashionable, the West have evolve a way of forcing African countries to serve its interest - apparently of their own free will. While the West through the World Bank and the IMF, with their structural adjustment programs have use finance capital and the 'state of debt' that it keeps Africa in, as a means to control Africa. Fidel Castro is correct, the "debt cannot be paid".

This struggle for African unity and socialism and the struggle for the reunification of Ireland and socialism are similar. The ideological struggle and organization building must be waged simultaneous. Our victory is inevitable.

The A-APRP salutes the IRSP and as always, we stand "Ready for the Revolution."