WHAT IS PASMA RIGHT? It is the Pan African Student Movement of Azania. It is a national revolutionary student movement born on the 19th of June 1997 at the University of Western Cape, which is the is a product of long and hard organization and mobilization of those whom have been oppressed and still suffering under the old apartheid regime and current oppressive system.
We understand and believe that suffering of the Africans is not accidental, but designed machinery to exploitation by the capitalist system. It is very important to understand what we mean by an African. It is not only those that have born in Africa and whose roots/origin cannot be traced anywhere else but Africa. It is any person who owes his/her loyalty only to Africa and abides by the rules, values, traditions, and culture of Africa. Our organizations are concepts of non-racialism and non-racist but because of historic political classification of apartheid regime, one cannot cease to use these concepts for better understanding. In our vocabulary we therefore condemn words like: “Blacks, Whites, Coloureds and Purple”. The name Azania means the land of the indigenous people, every country has a name and it also rhymes with African names like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Congo, Ghana, Tanzania, Namibia, Nigeria, Ethiopia etc. South Africa is just a geographical location of the country.
IDEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
PASMA is guided by the philosophy of Pan Africanism, which is total unification of the people of Africa at home and abroad under scientific socialism.
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES IN OUR STRUGGLE
SOCIALIST EDUCATION We stand for an absolutely free education as a right to members of society. An education that develops individuals so as to reconstruct and transform our world to suite our needs.
TRANSFORMATION
We stand for a revolutionary approach in transforming our institution for students and workers democratic control and decision making.
ANTI-EXCLUSIONS We condemn the privatization and commercialization of education. We believe and are convinced that these monsters make education inaccessible to poor students. These evils are combined with fee increments and fat cat administrative bosses and management.