Amilcar Cabral tribute 6/21, Brecht Forum, NYC Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Learning Always:A Tribute to Amilcar Cabral a panel featuring Mary Boger, Humberto Brown & Lincoln Van Sluytman Thursday, June 21 at 7:30 pm at The Brecht Forum 122 West 27 Street 10 floor (between 6 & 7 Aves) New York City 212 242-4201 info@brechtforum.org http://www.brechtforum.org Amilcar Cabral, one of the most lucid and brilliant revolutionary African leaders was the founder of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde and Guinea (PAIGC). A major figure in the struggle against Portuguese colonial rule in Africa, Cabral understood the pivotal role of culture in national liberation and nation building. He saw the task of the national liberation movements as not only to raise a different flag and sing a new anthem but to remove all forms of exploitation from the country. While rejecting dogma, he continually stressed the need for a firm political and ideological base for a revolutionary: "If it is true that a revolution can fail even though it is based on perfectly conceived theories -- nobody has yet made a successful revolution without a revolutionary theory." This panel is a tribute to a freedom fighter who was assassinated on 20th January 1973 by a Portuguese agent. Though the focus of Cabral`s activity was always the struggle against Portuguese colonialism, he was an internationalist who influenced revolutionary movements around the world and saw his people's struggle as merely one front of a common international struggle against imperialism which, as he said, "is trying simultaneously to dominate the working class in all advanced countries and smother the national liberation movements in all the under-developed countries." Panelists include: Mary Boger, Brecht Forum; Humberto Brown, Black Radical Congress; & Lincoln Van Sluytman, Working Peoples Alliance. Sliding Scale: $6/$8/$10 ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytaf-06.19.01-22:44:39-4102