The White Left

“Poor whites have their culture, have their values, have their institutions; ours have been completely destroyed. We need alliances with people who are trying to rebuild their culture, trying to rebuild their history, trying to rebuild their dignity, with people who are trying to rebuild their humanity. Poor white people are not fighting for their humanity, they’re fighting for more money. There are a lot of poor white people in this country, and you haven’t seen them rebel yet, have you? Why is it that black people are rebelling? Do you think it’s only because of poor jobs? Don’t believe that junk the honky is running down. It’s not only poor jobs – it’s a question of a people fighting for their culture and their nature, fighting for their HUMANITY.

We have been so colonized we are ashamed to say we hate, and that is the best example of a person who’s colonized. You sit in your house, a honky walks in your house, beats you up, rapes your wife, beats up your child, and you don’t have the humanity to say, “I hate you.” You don’t have it. That is how dehumanized we are. We are so dehumanized we cannot say “Yes, we hate you for what you have done to us.” – can’t say it. And we are afraid to think beyond that point. Who do you think has more hatred pent up in them, white people for black people or black people for white people? Obviously the hatred has been more from white people for black people. What have we done to them for them to build up this hatred? Absolutely nothing! Yet we don’t want to hate them for what they have done to us.

We have the best justification of all for hating honkies. But we have been so dehumanized, we’re like a dog that the master can throw out the house, that the master can spit on, and whenever he calls, the dog comes running back. We are human beings and we have emotions. We’re fighting for our humanity, and in regaining our humanity we recognize all the emotions that are in us. If you have love, you’ve got to have hate. You don’t have one-sided emotions. That’s a lot of junk. If you don’t have hate, you cannot differentiate love.

That brings us to the point of communism and socialism. The ideologies of communism and socialism speak to class structure, to people who oppress people from the top down to the bottom.  We are not just facing exploitation. We are facing something much more important, because we are victims of racism. Neither communism nor socialism speaks to the problem of race. And to black people in this country, racism comes first. Far more important than exploitation.  No matter how much money you make in the black community, when you go into the white world you are still a nigger. The question of racism must be uppermost in our minds. How do we destroy those institutions that seek to keep us dehumanized? That is all we’re talking about.

Now for the white people who are exploited, the question of communism comes first, because they’re exploited by their own people. If you were exploited by other black people, it would be a question of how we divide the profits. It is not that for us. It is a question of how we regain our humanity and begin to live as a people. We must therefore consciously strive for an ideology which deals with racism first, and if we do that we recognize the necessity of hooking up with the 900 million black people in the world today.”

Kwame Ture

Fuck Marx

Fuck Marx

First of all I just want to make it clear that this is for my people, those of you who are far gone or on the verge of dropping into the abyss of white leftism. If you are white and a Marxist then stop being a masochist get on your bike and go sell those newspapers, this ain’t for you.

I was brought up by lefty parents who were critical of Marx but had not developed or adopted an ideology that was their own. They still explained our oppression with the Marxist idea of a “working class struggle” and the white supremacist power structure at best was called “western imperialism”. The old worn out phrase of the “rich against the poor” was far too common when I was forced to attend lefty meetings with my parents as a young boy.

Even though I was conditioned to be receptive and sympathetic to the proletariats cause, I intuitively understood that what white lefties stood for was far removed from my people’s struggle. My gut feelings were then confirmed when I found the teachings of Malcolm X. There is no place for white people in our struggle. I have been challenged many times for saying this, some argue that he came back from Mecca wanting to hold hands with white people – this is a lie. Malcolm remained a black nationalist and a pan-Africanist. I am still waiting to see evidence of Malcolm working alongside white people in any kind of struggle after coming back from Mecca.

Marxism and all ideologies developed by the European left are not for us in any way. It pretends to be concerned with the struggle of colonized people, but in reality its real interest is to colonize our minds with yet another Euro-centric ideology that ONLY has the interest of the white working class at heart. I must confess that I am extremely embarrassed to have even thought that they were genuinely as sympathetic to my cause as I was to theirs. It is clear that both Marx and Engels were white supremacists* that did not have the interests of our people at heart, why would they? their main concern was for the working class of Europe. On the colonization of our people, Engels wrote:

“Let us not forget, however, that this organization was doomed to extinction. It never developed beyond the tribe…. the gentile constitution in full bloom, as we have seen it in America, presupposed an extremely underdeveloped form of production, that is, an extremely sparse population spread over a wide territory, and therefore the almost complete domination of man by external nature, alien, opposed, incomprehensible to him, a domination reflected in his childish religious ideas.”*

We must understand that what white Marxists really want is to dominate us just as their white capitalist counter-parts have done, they are the jealous colonizers who did not get their share of the colonial pie, but will definitely continue the looting and enslavement of our people if they achieve power.

“Revolutionary Marxism is committed to even further perpetration and perfection of the very industrial process which is destroying us all. It is offering only to “redistribute” the results, the money maybe, of this industrialization to a wider section of the population….the only way  in which American Indian people could participate in a Marxist revolution would be to join the industrial system, to become factory workers or “proletarians” as Marx called them. The man was very clear that his revolution could only occur through the struggle of the proletariat. that the existence of a massive industrial system is a pre-condition of a successful Marxist society”

The story of the great ancestors, Micaela Bastidas and Tupac Amaru II, is very insightful when it comes to working with white people in the “revolutionary” struggle. To begin with they were also willing to work with the poor whites, the ones who had been unsuccessful at making a living from colonizing our people. They believed that they could use the help of some of them to defeat the colonial state of Peru. They quickly realized that these poor whites were nothing but opportunists that were plotting to turn on them like savage animals once they turned their backs. They not only stopped working with the poor whites, they actively sought out to eliminate them.They understood that the poor whites were just as bad as the rich and that given the opportunity they would colonize our people just as the others had done. They realized that there was no room for white people, rich or poor, in Tawantinsuyu.

This lesson should serve as a warning for us all non-whites who are working towards the liberation of our people. White people of all backgrounds are selfish in their motives, even the most progressive circles. They all want a piece of the colonial pie, white communists still need the primary resources on your land to develop their socialist economy. Some of them claim to be international; what they don’t explain to you is that their internationalism is yet another form of colonialism that is not willing to respect independent nations but only those who will submissive to their demands.

We must broaden our view brothers and sisters, this must go far beyond the personal relationships you may have with them. Some may be well meaning, but in the end they are still form part and participate in organizations and structures that only have their white supremacist interests at heart. Our liberation will come through understanding our own problems and developing our own ideologies that deal fully with OUR problems. Working with the white left is not just a stone in your shoe, it’s a rock tied to your leg. There is no moving forward until you untie yourself from their heavy, outdated and useless ideologies.

Let’s move forward free from the mental chains brothers and sisters. Let us create a movement that shakes the foundation of all oppressions. Let us form an ideology that liberates us from foreign struggles, one that allows us to truly defeat that white oppressor who counts on our submissiveness for their continuous reign over us.

If you are of Nican Tlaca (so called Latin Americans) descent then we suggest you look into the work of Olin Tezcatlipoca and the Mexica Movement.

Amaru Pachacutec

Tawantinsuyu Nation

*quotes used can be found in the book; The Tragedy of Progress by David Bedford and Danielle Irving

* According to Dr Neely Fuller Jr white supremacy affects 9 areas of people activity in the present moment, these are:  (1)Economics, (2)Education, (3)Entertainment, (4)Labor, (5)Law, (6)Politics, (7)Religion, (8)Sex and (9)War

Europe’s debt to the Indigenous People of “America”

The following is a letter that has been circulating the internet. It is signed with the name ‘Guaicaipuro’ who was an Indigenous warrior who fought the Spanish colonizers in what is now Venezuela. 

It is It is said that Hugo Chavez recommended this letter to the king of Spain. 

“Here, I, Guacaipuro Cuahtemoc, have come to greet those who attend this solemn reunion.

Here, I, a descendent from those who inhabited America 40,000 years ago,
have come to greet those who found America only 500 years ago.

Here, we all come together. We know who we are, that is sufficient. We will
never possess anything else.

My European brother, the immigration officer, asks me for a visa that will
allow me to discover those that discovered me.

My European brother, the banker, asks me to pay a debt forced upon me by
Judas, who I never authorized to sell me.

My European brother, the lawyer, explains to me that all debts are paid with
interest even if human beings and entire countries need to be sold without
asking their consent.

I am beginning to understand your ways, brothers. But I too can claim debts
and ask for interest.

It is written in the Archives of Indias, paper over paper, receipt over
receipt and signature over signature, that just between 1503 and 1660, 185
thousand kilos of gold and 16 million kilos of silver arrived in San Lucas
de Barrameda from America.

Stolen!? I cannot believe it! For that would mean that our Christian
brothers forgot their Seventh Commandment (Ed. note: “Though shall not
steal”)

Exploitation!? Save me Tanatzin (Ed. note: Aztec goddess, mother of the
earth) from thinking that the Europeans, like Cain, murder and deny the
blood of their brother!

Genocide!? That would be giving credit to alarmists, like Bartolome de las
Casas, who equates the discovery of America with the destruction of the
Indians, or agreeing with ultrosos such as Arturo Uslar Pietri, who state
that the beginning of capitalism and modern European civilization resulted
from the inundation of precious metals from the Americas.

No! Those 185 thousand kilos of gold and 16 million kilos of silver should
be considered as the first of many other loans from America, destined for
the development of Europe. Anything else would presuppose the existence of
war crimes, which would not only demand the immediate return of riches
taken, but also legal payments for damages and injuries sustained.

I, Guaicaipuro Cuatemoc, prefer to believe in the less offensive of these
hypothesis. Such incredible exportation of capital was nothing more than the
initiation of a “Marshalltesuma” Plan to guarantee the reconstruction of a
barbaric Europe, ruined by their deplorable wars against the learned
Muslims, who were the creators of algebra, polygamy, the cleansing bath and
other benchmarks of civilization.

This affirmation allows us to ask ourselves, on this the anniversary of the
Fifth Century of this Loan:

Have our European brothers made responsible and rational, or at the very
least productive use of the funds so generously given by the International
Indo-American Fund?

It is deplorable to say this but no. Geopolitically, they dispersed the
wealth in the battles of Lepanto, in invincible armadas, in third Reich’s
and other forms of mutual extermination, with no other result but to end up
being occupied by the gringo troops of NATO, like in Panama, but without the
canal.

Financially, they have been unable, after a 500 year grace period, to either
cancel their debt and interest with America, nor become less dependent on
the liquid capital, natural resources and cheap energy that the Third World
provides.

This deplorable picture corroborates the observation by Milton Friedman that
a subsidized economy can never function and obliges us, for the Europeans
own good, to call for the payment of the capital loans and interest that we
so generously have waited to collect all these centuries.

As I say this, we would like to qualify that we will not lower ourselves to
charge our European brothers the vile and bloodsucking tariffs of 20 even 30
percent , which our European brothers charge the countries of the Third
World.

We will limit ourselves to demand the payment for the precious metals
initially given at an interest rate of 10 percent accumulated for only the
last three hundred years, the first two hundred years we give as a grace
period.

>From this base, and applying the European formula for accumulated interest,
we inform our discoverers that they owe us, as a first payment of your debt,
185 thousand kilos of gold and 16 million kilos of silver, both amounts
elevated to the power of 300.

In other words, a number that for its total expression would need 300 zeroes
and whose weight in kilos would be much greater than the weight of Planet
Earth. These weights in gold and silver are very heavy. How much would they
weigh measured in blood?

To say that Europe, in half a millennium, has been unable to produce
sufficient riches to cover the accumulated interest, would be like admitting
that Europe’s financial system completely collapsed and/or understanding the
demented irrationality of the foundations of capitalism.

Those 185 thousand kilos of of gold and 16 million kilos of silver should be
considered as the first of many other amicable loans from America for the
development of Europe.

For the record, such metaphysical questions do not bother us Indo-Americans.

However, we do insist on the signing of a Letter of Intention that will
discipline the debtor nations of the Old Continent, and force them to meet
their immediate obligations with a rapid privatization or reconversion of
Europe, which will permit them to pay our initial bill entirely, as their
first down payment of their historic debt…”

Chavez and the Process of Decolonization

The following is a speech read out by Amaru Pachacutec at Tawantinsuyu nation’s event ‘Life and Legacy of Chavez’ on the 22nd March 2013. 

Hugo Chavez Frias, was a man of the people. A brown brother, an Indigenous man or “Indio” as he would of said. A man who came from a humble background and who knew what it was like to feel hunger, humiliation, racism and all the other pains that millions of our people go through on a daily basis.

He, as with many of our people, had no other option but to educate himself through the white colonial education system, that system that erases our Indigenous roots from the pages of history, the same education system that presents to us a history of European greatness and of criollo heroes and revolutions. The education system that imports text books produced in Spain to educate us on the “primitive” lives of our Indigenous ancestors.

They continue to teach us about the supposedly primitive Indigenous people that were wondering tribes in the Amazon or people obsessed with human sacrifices in Tawantinsuyu and Tenochtitlan. They of course, purposefully leave out the true history of our ancestors who were astronomers, philosophers, scientists, doctors and of the great civilizations that practiced communism and socialism before Marx and Engels were even born.

What many don’t want to admit is that the oppression on our continent is more than just economical or political. For us, it’s not just about an elite group having economic control over us i.e “capitalism”. It’s about a political, social and cultural control that a foreign people have over us. It’s not just a material issue…it’s the political, psychological and cultural control Europeans have over us still.

When we dissect the foundations of the problem, we will find that our names, our language, the way we dress, our political ideologies, the religions we practice and so many other factors are also being controlled and dictated by a group of people that have only one interest – the complete domination over our people.

But despite all of these obstacles forced on him, Chavez did not lose his real essence as a man of the people, as a member of a colonized people. Growing up, his parents were forced to send him to live with his grandmother due to poverty. This is not the story of the usual criollo presidents that have never suffered a day in their long, privileged lives. This is a story that all of us in this room can relate to, a story of hardships and sacrifices.

Moving away from home to study in Caracas, he again was met with the poverty he had seen throughout his childhood. Remember that the pain he felt was not the outsider’s unattached pain but the pain that hurt him, his family and his people. He had decided from a very young age that he could not just stand by and allow this injustice to consume his people indefinitely. Thanks to progressive military mentors at his academy, Chavez was being influenced to change the course of history.

In 500 years we had not seen a man of such courage and strength so incorruptible and genuine. We are talking about a man that never fought for the elite minority, but for the millions of people on a continent that has been possessed by the evil ghostly descendants of the European colonialists . He was a warrior that lifted our spirits, a warrior that walked through crowds of our people, embracing them, kissing them, crying and smiling with them. He wasn’t the empty suit that we are so used to. He was one of us.

Many times I have heard people comment “oh, but he is so bad mannered in his speech” – but comandante, every one of your speeches was a poem of liberation for our people. We were so used to criollo suits and puppet vendidos that he shocked us when we heard ourselves in his voice. Such a

shock for some, that they couldn’t accept you. We didn’t accept that it was one of our own up there and not the same old white man with grey hair and a suit.

Chavez was not perfect. He had flaws like every human has flaws. What we can say about him though, is that he was a torch in the dark path towards liberation. Not just for the people of our continent but for the people of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He stood up for justice everywhere he went and wasn’t scared of confronting the United Settlers of America.

There are still many problems in Venezuela. But how can we blame Chavez for the problems that have been brewing on our land for hundreds of years now? It’s easy for us to point to this problem and that problem from afar, but there is no magic wand that will erase the disease of colonialism on our lands just like that. No, Chavez was no magician.

There are entire cities run by the criollo elites in various parts of the country still. There were corrupt governmental officials who betrayed him and the people, there are corrupt police officials as it is common everywhere in the world. A large part of the economy is still run by the wealthy criollo elite. From large corporations to small business, Venezuela just like in every part of our continent is still full of these parasites. What do you think these people were doing for 14 years? Just as Chavez gave them hell, they were giving hell back to him and destabilizing anywhere they could.

Overall, he did what no other had done in 500 years. He gave us back our dignity. He encouraged the participation of the masses of the people in politics and during his time in office they set up barrio assemblies where people would have a voice and power over what happened in their communities.

He paved the way to a true democracy within a system that was built on racism, slavery and greed, imagine what else he would have achieved if he had not gone so soon.

Chavez, like many of us in this room today, was a descendant of greatness. There was Indigenous blood running through his veins. A descendant of a great people who built pyramids that were aligned to the stars, of geniuses that mapped the stars and planets and who had calendars more accurate than Europeans, of doctors who performed successful brain surgeries and of a people whose main goal was the eradication of poverty, like the people of Tawantinsuyu.

We will never forget that great man, that great hero of our people…COMANDANTE HUGO CHAVEZ. KAWSACHUM HUGO CHAVEZ!

Unspoken struggles – Wretched of the Earth

“Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical significance today.” Frantz Fanon

The following is a speech read by Amaru at our event ‘Unspoken Struggles – Wretched of the Earth’ on Friday the 5th April 2013

In order to understand what my people have suffered in the last 5 centuries of our history, we must look at our world before European contact. While Europe was in the Dark Ages, the people of my continent were in the very bright ages. In 1492, when Columbus disastrously first stumbled into our world, there were about 25 million people living in the valley of Mexico. That is a population 7 times greater than the population of the whole of England. While the empire of Rome was collapsing the great city of Teotihuacan was up and running and had a population of about a quarter of a million people – making it the biggest city of its time.

Writing this, it saddens me to have to compare the great feats of my ancestors to the unjust empire of the Europeans. See, my people built their civilizations with their own sweat and with their own effort and genius. Our great ancestors the Maya, built their cities lined up exactly to celestial movements and patterns. Their calendars and astronomical observations were so precise that Europeans with the most advanced technology today still can’t fully decipher their achievements.

The beautiful city of Tenochtitlan was built on a stony island by our great Mexica ancestors. The population of Tenochtitlan is estimated to be around 50,000 to 100,000 at least 5 times larger in population than London or Seville or any European city of its time. Single and multi-story structures covered this great city that was painted white by its citizens. Imagine the glory of it. Imagine the brown children running around playfully in the city squares and in the well looked after gardens. Imagine men and women working the land, buying and selling goods in the huge city markets, studying and teaching philosophy, astronomy and science.

Now imagine the stunning city-state Cuzco of Tawantinsuyu Nation, to the South of our continent, with a population of around 200,000 at its peak. Imagine the ruling class of this city working the land themselves; the road system that was 14 thousand miles long. Imagine the great massive buildings that are still there after 500 years of earthquakes. Imagine a political programme that set out to include everyone. That managed to eliminate poverty and that offered all the basic necessities and more to its people.

We must imagine all of this today because it was all destroyed by an evil force, by an alien force. The white uncivilized man committed the largest genocide in human history against my people.  100 million of my ancestors were systematically killed out of greed. The remaining population, 5% of the original people of our continent were raped and enslaved. They inflicted a physical wound on my people that cannot be described in words. But they did not stop there. These savages also stripped us off our identity and our whole culture as the Indigenous people of our land.

Today I have been forced to talk about Latino’s and Latin Americans in order for you to understand me. These terms I am forced to use, are like the slave brands that were burnt into the backs of my people by our colonial masters. We are now drifted so far into the sphere of colonialism that we have lost our original names and languages. Here I must quote Frantz Fanon on the importance of language.

 ”To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization”

We the Indigenous people of our continent dominated by the white man we have lost our original tongue. We have lost our original culture and have had our civilizations destroyed and replaced by a maniacal world that makes us servants to the white man and his family – this includes the white woman who has been the accomplice of the white man.

I have had to refer to what was done to our people so that I can explain properly what is happening on my continent now. Without fully grasping what was done to us by this foreign body, we will not be able to read the political, economic and social situation my people find themselves in today.

First, let us look and detect who has control on our lands today. In the North of my continent which we call Anahuac – we have been invaded by white settlers of Northern Europe, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Later on France, Italy and Eastern Europe also helped to exclude and displace my people the Indigenous Nican Tlaca of Anahuac. Canada and the United States are illegally occupied lands.

The Central part of our continent and the Caribbean islands were of course invaded by Europeans from Spain, England and France.

 From Mexico to lowest tip of Argentina we were invaded by Spanish and Portuguese settlers.

Today, with the exception of countries like Venezuela and Bolivia we are still governed by the white man. The descendants of the European colonizers have total control over the descendants of the Indigenous people that were raped, enslaved and killed. It’s no shock then that my people have lived under continuous appalling hardship from that time until today. It shouldn’t shock us at all, that Europeans who now have created nation-states such as the USA, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and other such states are top-listed for the world’s worst human rights records.

The North Western part of Tawantinsuyu, which is now known as Colombia is a place where Europeans relish in power. Juan Manuel Santos the president of Colombia, is a descendant of the Santos family that can be traced to Andalucia, Spain. This family has held countless positions of power and the present Santos is not the first in his family that ascended to the presidency.

Since 1499, when Spanish pirate gangs first landed there, that land has been cursed with violence and oppression against our people. Bolivar, the liberator of the white people on our continent was born into a wealthy family who made their living from enslaving my ancestors into their gold and silver mines. Bolivar, contrary to popular belief, had no interest in the liberation of the Indigenous and African people on our land. He was motivated firstly by dreams of achieving similar prestige to his idol Napoleon Bonaparte in Europe and secondly by dreams of power for his own white criollo race in the occupied lands of Tawantinsuyu.

Today, the city squares and governmental buildings of the settlers on our continent have statues and portraits of their liberator Bolivar. Our own people, even those who call themselves lefties still worship him. This of course, is not to be held responsible on them. We have established that white settlers still have political control over our continent. Now we should look at the question of social control they have over us. The education system is obviously there to keep our people’s minds directed only to the interests of the white ruling class. National anthems, colonial flags and criollo heroes are of daily and minute importance in our schools. We are brought up singing the national anthems of our colonial masters before every class, we must salute the flag in daily ceremonies and we are made to recite the life-stories of national heroes. This environment produces loyal slaves of a country and a government that hardly represents us as a people.

 So even when our people decide to stand up against daily injustices of hunger and violent repression, they begin their fight with their European lenses focused on symptoms of the root problem. They begin to demand better distribution of wealth among the people – not fully understanding that the economy is run by a government that has no interest in feeding them. They begin to demand better education from a government that has no interest in truly educating them, because that would mean suicide. They even form their own political parties to challenge the white elite only to find that the police and the military are there to eliminate anyone who poses a threat to the established white order.

The anniversary of the murder of Jorge Eliecer Gaitain, a great leader our people is coming up in the next few days. He had the misfortune of being born in the region of the Colonial State of Colombia.  He was an Indigenous man, not just in complexion but in his ideas. In 1948, he became the first indigenous candidate since the colonial republic was born. He exposed corporate crimes, governmental corruption and destructive policies. He very naturally stood up against the oppressive white class of Colombia. With huge support behind him he was set to win the elections. The old colonial ruling class tried to corrupt him as they have historically done with our leaders, but Gaitan refused to betray his people. The dream of handing political power to the oppressed of that colonial republic of Colombia was shattered with a shot to Gaitan’s head.

Since his death, the colonial class have successfully controlled the government between themselves. These bloodsucking parasites are the cancer of our nation. They are the root problem. Until these malicious roots are pulled out and exterminated, the lands of our continent will continue in these dark ages they have pushed our people into. When we have successfully defeated white supremacy which according to Neely Fuller Jr, is a SYSTEM which operates in the following major areas of people activity – Economics, Education, Entertainment, Labour, Language, Law, Politics, Religion, Sex and War – when all of these are in the hands of our own people we can truly say we have achieved liberation.

“The appearance of the settler has meant in the terms of syncretism the death of the aboriginal society, cultural lethargy, and the petrification of individuals. For the native, life can only spring up again out of the rotting corpse of the settler.” Frantz Fanon

Jorge Eliecer Gaitan: A Nican Tlaca Warrior

The colonial Republic of Colombia has been in the hands of foreign invaders since the arrival of the pirate gang of Alonso de Ojeda in 1499.  Ever since the Spanish took control of the region our people have lived a miserable life of servitude to our inhuman white rulers. In this, they are no different to the rest of the continent. The very fact that we still call our lands by their colonial names (Colombia: Christopher Columbus) is testimony to the continued control outsiders have on our region.

In order to understand the situation of the present day Colonial Republic, we must understand where its origins lie. From the moment Europeans set foot on our land, they have shared it among themselves as if it were a cake. The beautiful rich lands of North Western Tawantinsuyu (Colombia) were not only in the hands of Spanish colonizers, but German colonizers too (Tock, 1994) and even British invaders have had a less known presence that has been destructive to our land and our people.

The continent we now call the “Americas” and which those of us who are more in tune with our Indigenous roots would call Abya Yala, has been the mother of many children who have fought to liberate her from the tyranny of the Euro-pee-on-us.  The names of emancipators such as Michaela Bastidas, Tupac Amaru II and others are often pushed out of history books so that criollo heroes like Simon Bolivar and Francisco de Miranda can have full blown chapters dedicated to them with elegant portraits of themselves wearing prestigious European military attire of their time.

This of course should not come as a shock since it is fact that Spain still produces most of our continents children’s education literature (Fuentes, 2008). The control Europe and her descendants has on our population should not be underestimated.

Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a candidate for the presidency of Colombia in 1948, came from a poor background. Like many of us, he was mixed-blood Indigenous or what the Spanish termed “mestizo” or mixed which is a code name for those of us whose ancestors were raped by Euro-pee-on-us.  His story is remarkably similar to that of Hugo Chavez. For the first time since the founding of the Colonial Republic, the Indigenous population living under colonial rule had a candidate to the presidency who was one of our own. He of course was educated within the colonial system but with time, he became rebellious to the system imposed on our people.

Gaitan was a dissident of the Liberal party that was run by elite criollos. He proclaimed himself the new leader or “jefe” of the party and challenged the white elite in the party as well as the white elite in the opposition party of the conservatives.  When debating with the conservatives he would taunt his white opponents by asking them where they had inherited their land from, knowing that their ancestors had stolen that land from our ancestors. After forcing them to admit this, he would point out that the lands needed to be given back to their rightful owners. The rightful owners being the mixed-blood and full-blood Indigenous people of Abya Yala.

In his prime, with the majority of the population supporting him, Gaitan was shot dead in Bogota. His death marked the beginning of one of the most violent periods in the modern history of our continent. Out of desperation, our people began a militant uprising that saw them take over police stations, radio stations and other institutions that were usually used by the white elite to control us. Keeping to their traditions, the white elite began to massacre our freedom fighters that had risen to take control of their political destiny. In just a matter of days, thousands of our people had become martyrs in the war against the white man’s state. Out of this war, the bastard child of the Bogotazo was born: the FARC. To this day Colombia is run by the descendants of the rich white criollo families. Juan Manuel Santos, the current president of Colombia, comes from the wealthy Santos family who are originally from Andalucia, Spain.

The fight of our people put up was so fierce that the president who was elected after Gaitan’s death, Laureano Gomez was forced to flee the country and go back to his motherland, Spain. The political fate of the country was then planned out in a meeting held in Spain by the two dominant political parties; they agreed to alternate the power between themselves every four years. This alternation of power between them lasted until 1978.

This vicious and continuous claw of oppression inflicted on our people by these invaders has gone on for too long. The true emancipation of the mixed-blood and full-blood Indigenous population of the colonial republic known as Colombia will only come about when a new Gaitan is born. The white oligarchy of that country is running on their last legs. Freedom is on the horizon and these perpetrators of crimes against our humanity will be chased out and forced back on the ships of oppression that they so happily arrived in 521 years ago.

Amaru Pachacutec

Sources:

German Immigration and Adaptation in Latin America (David Tock, 1994)

El Comercio de Libros entre Espana y America Latina (Elena Enriquez Fuentes, 2008)

Manual for “Latino” Decolonization in London

-Colonization is: “to establish control over the indigenous people of an area and force them to give up their culture, traditions and values”

- First we must understand who we are as a people and what our position is in this current global system. A people without land and a proper identity are a homeless and lost people.

- Read books that will educate you about the process of decolonization. Read about your people’s history, their great achievements and how our great civilizations were completely destroyed by Europeans.

- We are down but we are not out. While reading don’t fall into the trap of feeling helpless and accepting what was done to us as our “fate”. The idea that we are a people destined to be the servants of other people is degrading. We are what we make of ourselves. 

- The more we study about decolonization the more we will see through the colonial “matrix” - we will begin to take pride in our Indigenous identity and let go of identities such as “Latin American”, “latino” and “hispanic”. You will also let go of national identities such as “Colombian”, “Ecuadorian” , “Bolivian” and “Peruvian” Etc because these identities tie us to the colonial world that we are trying to shake off. You will begin to use terms such as *Nican Tlaca to describe who you really are.

- While studying about our history and politics we will come to the conclusion that the Spanish names we currently have are names forced on us by the oppressor. Gradually you will want to look for an Indigenous name that suits you. You will start to see how answering to Spanish names is a reminder of the hold colonization has on us. You will also realize that certain practices such as cutting your hair short is also a product of colonialism. (applies to males and females).

- After studying and becoming aware of the condition we are in as a colonized people, we will want to become active in our community. We will feel that it is our responsability to spread the word about decolonization. We will organize meetings, events, campaigns and schools to help our people understand our situation. We will also get involved in protests that demand for justice for our people and other colonized and oppressed people.

- Decolonization not only gives us back our true history, names, traditions and cultures - but it also gives us back our homeland. The process of decolonization will help us understand the political situation on our continent. “corrupt” governments on our continent are the same European descendants who first colonized our people. There are European (The US state is made up of Europeans) multinationals looting our lands and enslaving our people. Decolonization will train us and motivate us to participate in the political process ofliberation of our continent.

*Nican Tlaca means Indigenous. It literally means “We the people here” in the Nahuatl language – one of the many Indigenous langauges of our people.

For details on books for study please message us. 

We also recommend you watch lectures by our teacher Olin Tezcatlipoca on youtube.