If you dont stand for something you will fall for everything - Malcom X

"If you dont stand for something you will fall for everything" - Malcom X

May 2025 marks 100 years since the birth of the revolutionary organiser Omowale Malcolm X which we wanted to mark with a mural promoting his legacy and in particular profiling the struggles for decolonisation taking place today.

During the last years of his life, Malcolm X was establishing the Organisation of Afro-American Unity in order to join up the struggle against imperialism across continents, knowing that that was the only way to achieve meaningful change.

On the 30th April this year demonstrations took place around the world as a show of solidarity with the revolution taking place in Burkina Faso and the progressive government headed by Ibrahim Traore. From West Afrika, to London and even Bristol, people went out into the streets on the same day which also marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, celebrated glocally as Peace Lotus Day.

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), established by the progressive governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger and drawing on the legacies of anti-colonial leaders of the region such as Thomas Sankara, Kwame Nkrumah, Modibo Keita, Sarrounia Mangou, Nkuleno Ocloo, Sekou Toure, Djibo Bakary and others, is one expression of the fight for decolonisation led by grassroots and indigenous communities and taking place across all levels of society.

As the quote from Malcolm X reminds us, if we dont stand up alongside our siblings around the world who are taking the matters of their communities into their own hands then we will be helplessly drifting and giving up on our humanity.

Internationalist solidarity organising is taking place at a number of levels. At the end of February 2025 The Afrika-Europe People-to-People’s Planet Repairs Action Dialogue Internationalist Forum (AEPPRADIF) convened successfully in Berlin, with simultaneous satellite groundings in South Africa, Ghana, and the AES, marking a powerful moment of international solidarity, reflection, action, and bringing together communities from across Afrika, Abya Yala, Oceania, Asia, and Europe. In November 2024 the Decolonial Open Communiversity was launched In a number of cities across the UK, including in Bristol where on the 9th November we hosted a panel discussion featuring community delegations from Peru, Mexico South Africa/Azania and Ghana.

In 2025 we are continuing the building of the Decolonial Open Communiversity alongside communities in the Sahel and across the world, get in touch with us through bristolcollsag@proton.me or register as a contributor-advocate with the PRALER Fund if you want to get involved.

In response to the AEPPPRADIF, heeding the call to continue to stop the erasure of the Indigenous fight back against occupation, we will also be supporting Conventions addressing the legacy of the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference.

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The Peoples United will never be defeated!