It is not a date to remember in vain, it is a date to examine the level reached and verify the application of fundamental guidelines in the anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-exploitative struggles. The past does not rest, the present does not rest, the future comes and will give us proof of the lethargy, the successes, the errors and the attitude with which we have moved and we find ourselves in the face of social contradictions.
December 6 marked the 64th anniversary of the death of the great Algerian anti-colonialist Frantz Fanon. The following year, 1962, the Algerian people and their military-political leadership, the National Liberation Front, would achieve independence from France.
It is necessary to remember here the importance of reading his books, works on colonial exploitation, the political consciousness of leaders, the necessary cultural and social decolonization of the working people, and the formation of national consciousness. From his works we extract the raw material to correct and promote the unity and strength of the organization liberating from exploitation.
His books:
Black skin, white masks.
A dying colonialism.
The wretched of the earth.
I leave you here some words from the great Algerian anti-colonial fighter Frantz Fanon.
“The classic, almost congenital weakness of the national consciousness of underdeveloped countries is not only the consequence of the mutilation of colonized man by the colonial regime. It is also the result of the laziness of the national bourgeoisie, its indigence and the profoundly cosmopolitan formation of its mentality.”
“After independence, the party plunges into a great lethargy. The militants only mobilize for popular demonstrations, international conferences and independence festivities. Local party leaders are appointed to administrative positions, the party becomes an administration and the militants abandon the struggle and receive the empty title of citizen.
Now that they have fulfilled their historic mission of bringing the bourgeoisie to power, they are invited to withdraw so that the bourgeoisie can carry out its own mission with peace of mind. However, we have seen that the national bourgeoisie of underdeveloped countries is incapable of fulfilling any mission. After a few years, the disintegration of the party becomes evident and any observer, even superficial, can realize that the old party, which has now become skeletal, only serves to immobilize the people.
The party, which during the combat had attracted the entire nation to it, broke down. The intellectuals, who on the eve of independence had joined the party, confirm with their current behavior that this affiliation had no other purpose than to participate in the distribution of the cake of independence. The party becomes a means to individual success.”
“When the people are invited to lead the country, it does not delay the movement, but rather accelerates it. … In fact, the time invested in explaining, the time “lost” in humanizing the worker will be recovered in the execution. The people must know where they are going and why. The politician must be aware that the future will remain blocked as long as the consciousness of the people is rudimentary, primary and opaque.”
“Vulgar racism in its biological form coincides with the period of brutal exploitation of human beings.”
“Logically, human beings cannot be oppressed without undervaluing them in every possible way. Racism is only the emotional, affective and, sometimes, intellectual explanation of this undervaluation. Let us repeat it: any colonialist group is racist. … It is, as we have seen, a disposition inscribed in a certain system. And Jewish racism does not differ from black racism. A society is racist or it is not. There is no degree of racism.”
The continuation of the reading is the objective observation of the current moment in the fight against colonialism and imperialism, in view is Gaza Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, the entire Middle East, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, all of Latin America, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, the Sahel, all of Africa, and all nations and peoples without a State. December 6, 1961 – December 6, 2025, Frantz Fanon accompanies the national and class liberation struggles.
Ramón Pedregal Casanova /África en Resumen, December 11, 2025.