The International African Militant 
Vol. 1 Number 2, February 2003 $1
Official Journal of the African Revolutionary Action Movement (ARAM) 
liberate_africa2002@yahoo.com 
405 N. Salford St. 
Philadelphia PA 19151

We were worried about this publication, because 
usually newspapers with the word "militant" in the 
title and lots of exclamation points are 
Trotskyist. From this issue of the paper, we 
gather that Garveyite might be closer to the 
truth.

Where we point to the Black Panther Party as the 
greatest advance of Blacks in u.$. history, ARAM 
points to Garvey's movement: "The most successful 
movement for the unification and liberation of 
Africa and African people was the Universal Negro 
Improvement Association (UNIA) which was founded 
in 1916 by the great visionary and freedom 
fighter, Marcus Garvey."(p. 18)

With regard to the Black Panthers, ARAM says, "The 
Black Panther Party was the closest to a 
revolutionary vanguard to emerge out of the Black 
Revolution. However, it never worked out a 
coherent strategy and ideology, and it strayed 
from Malcolm's Pan-African revolutionary 
internationalism by adopting a philosophy that 
negated our struggle for national liberation and 
reunification with the oppressed African 
population dispersed throughout the world."(p. 11)

ARAM also links this line to the Malcolm X line 
bringing focus on liberating and strengthening 
Africa as a means for all Blacks to obtain 
international respect. As MIM said in its review 
of the African People's Socialist Party, linking 
to Africa and rejecting the "Afro-American" 
designation is one way to keep linked to the 
exploited and oppressed majority of the world. MIM 
surely recognizes the progressive thrust of aiming 
at "reunification with the oppressed African 
population."

ARAM also quotes from Mao and W.E.B. DuBois in 
this issue. The particular 1922 quotation from 
Garvey that ARAM publishes is not something MIM 
particularly objects to. It is Garvey's overall 
line that we cannot overlook.

The International African Militant also criticizes 
Sharpton's campaign for president and accurately 
indicts the power structure for allowing Trent 
Lott in the first place and for using him to cover 
up other white nationalist attacks by the u.$. 
government.

The ARAM is calling for "scientific anti-
imperialism" and opposition to capitalism. 
Nonetheless, we do not see it claiming Marx and 
Lenin. Since ARAM claims Garvey and Malcolm X--and 
in ways that we can see the accuracy to--we have 
fewer quarrels with ARAM than with organizations
that claim to be "Marxist-Leninist" and deliver 
up white nationalism as some kind of class struggle.