Provide fresh approaches to counter Western domination-Mumbengegwi

Joseph Madzimure Senior Reporter

PROGRESSIVE political parties across the globe must provide fresh approaches to counter the latest methods of Western domination that stifle sovereignty and self-determination, Zanu PF secretary for External Relations Cde Simbarashe Mumbengegwi has said.

Cde Mumbengegwi, who was representing the Zanu PF National Chairman Cde Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri during a virtual meeting of the Regulations of the Organising Committee session held with other progressive political parties across the globe.

Speaking during the session today, Cde Mumbengegwi highlighted that political parties need to be united more than ever.

“Comrades and friends, our meeting has been convened in response to the growing twin threat of neo-colonialism and neo-imperialism. Having once conquered and colonised other regions, the Western world has aspired to dictate the direction of international affairs and to rewrite the history of humanity as they willed and according to their own narrative,” Cde Mumbengegwi said.

“We must consistently challenge the viewpoints of Western rationalists and universalist who claimed that their systems of reasoning were superior and that morality, reason, and the law were better developed in the Western world.

“The strategies used by the West to conquer and expand have changed with time and space. In the past, European colonisation of the Americas, Africa, and Asia was achieved via conquest, but, in the present, socio-economic and political control are achieved through various neo-colonial strategies. Neo-colonial strategies of dominance are increasingly articulated not through the language of the civilizing mission as in the 19th century, or through the American-driven narrative of modernization, but through a new universalist ethics of human rights, labour standards, environmental standards, and intellectual property rights. In this emerging Western-sponsored order, neo-colonial power operates not only through military action but also through economic and cultural hegemony,” said Cde Mumbengegwi

The virtual political parties’ meeting was attended by the Communist Party of China (CPC), Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, (Lao People’s Democratic Republic) United Russia Party, Communist Party of Cuba, the African National Congress party (South Africa), Frelimo and the Belaya Rus Party (Belarus), among others.