Oliver Tambo: Bitter Battles to Come
(Extracts from a Message of Support from Oliver Tambo, Acting President of the ANC, to the AAPSO – Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organisation – Council Meeting, January 1971)
“ … This Council meets at a time when, as never before, the strongholds of imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism and racism are being challenged, harassed and attacked in a global anti-imperialist offensive, which, even in the short space of time since the last meeting of the Council, has assumed a new intensity and a new ferocity, precisely because of the resolute determination of the peace-loving peoples of the world to seize, and retain, their dignity and independence – a determination which is matched by the equally resolute determination of the imperialists not only to retain what remains of their shrunken empires, but also to re-conquer and nullify the hard-won gains of the national liberation movement, the world Socialist System and the toiling workers and peasants of the world.”
“There is clear evidence that imperialism is losing ground, but it is also clear that the bitterest battles have yet to be fought in the course of Africa and Asia and for the complete defeat of imperialism.”
“It follows from what I have said that the Afro-Asian revolution which AAPSO – Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organisation – was formed to accelerate remains, and will yet remain, an unfinished revolution, especially if the mighty anti-imp
