Since CHALLENGE OF THE CONGO was first published in 1957, conflict between progressive and reactionary forces in Africa has sharpened. A point has now been reached where armed struggle is the only way through which African revolutionaries can achieve their objectives. Recent events in Africa have exposed the fallacy of trying to banish imperialism, neocolonialism and settler regimes from our continent by peaceful means. The aggression of the enemies of the African masses continues, and has become more ruthless and insidious. The evidence is all around us.
There has been a succession of military coups detat in which some of our few remaining progressive leaders have been removed from the political scene. In Nigeria, a civil war fanned by the imperialists and neocolonialists for their own interests, is sapping vital energy which should be directed to the building up of Africas political and economic strength. In Rhodesia, the fascist settler government is still imposing its reactionary policies on the African majority, and the claim that the imposition of economic sanctions would topple the regime has been proved false. As for the Congo, the murderers of Patrice Lumumba still go unpunished, and Pierre Mulele one of the Africas most experienced freedom fighters, who has tricked into returning to Kinshasa, has been executed by the agents of neocolonialist aggression are too much numerous to mention.
And so the challenge of the Congo remains, and crises continues to occur as the African revolutionary struggle gains more momentum, It is a call to arms, and a call for the co-ordination and the centralization of all our efforts in a fight to the death against an aggressive and determined enemy.
We must contribute strategy and tactics, and establish political and military machinery for the prosecution of the African revolutionary war. It is only in this way that the aspirations of the revolutionary war. It is only this way that the aspirations of the African masses can be achieved, and an all-African union government be established in a totally free and united Africa.
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