The Sankofa Communist Party: Our Foundation
The Sankofa Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political organization founded to build a party of professional revolutionaries who understand the necessity of dismantling capitalism and securing a future of human dignity for all. We recognize a world in profound crisis: a system where a handful of billionaires hoard wealth sufficient enough to end global poverty many times over, while the vast majority of humanity is denied basic needs such as housing, food, clean water, healthcare, and education. This intolerable inequality is not an accident, but the direct result of capitalism—an unreformable system that must be overthrown by the working class.
We advocate for socialism, a system in which every human being is guaranteed the necessities of life. To achieve this, we are building both a cadre party and an academy of Marxists rooted firmly in the working class. We wage class struggle to expropriate the billionaires, abolish capitalism, and form a democratically planned workers’ economy, end all wars, cancel all debt, end colonialism, reduce the working hour week, implement guaranteed free healthcare and education, affordable and free housing, high-quality jobs, nationalization of the banks, key industries, and Fortune 500 companies.
We also wish to carry out social justice by ending racism, sexism, gender-based violence, xenophobia, homophobia, and transphobia. We understand the working class to be multiracial, international, and united by its shared exploitation under capitalism. At the same time, we recognize that within this class, (PGM) People of The Global Majority (Black people, Indigenous people, and Brown People), have been subjected to the most intense and sustained forms of oppression due to imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and racialized super-exploitation.
For this reason, our party affirms that the liberation struggles of the most oppressed layers of the working class must play a leading role in the struggle against capitalism and the ruling class. This is not a departure from class unity, but a deepening of it. History has shown that when the most oppressed are organized, empowered, and placed at the forefront of class struggle, the entire working class advances. The struggle against national and racial oppression is therefore not separate from the class struggle—it is one of its central driving forces.
Our party offers a political academy and a cadre training ground for workers committed to revolutionary change. We develop disciplined cadre from all backgrounds, races, sexes, and genders through collective study, principled organizing, and practical struggle. We aim to build a principled party guided by socialist science and a genuine Marxist program, capable of uniting workers across divisions imposed by capitalism and demonstrating how society can be reorganized once political and economic power is captured by the working class.
Founded by PGM (People of The Global Majority) organizers in the heart of Minneapolis, and consciously open to all workers, we honor the revolutionary legacy of the Black Panther Party and the Bolsheviks while standing as an independent organization shaped by the conditions of today. We carry forward the wisdom of Chairperson Fred Hampton, who taught that “you can’t fight racism with racism.” and Lenin “without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.” We extend this insight by recognizing that a system built on both class exploitation and racial oppression cannot be defeated through class reductionism alone. Only a conscious, organized unity of the working class—armed with a clear understanding of how racism functions as a pillar of capitalism—can bring about genuine liberation for the masses.
We struggle with roots in the revolutionary traditions and self-determination of oppressed peoples, and with hands joined in international solidarity with workers of all races, nations, and backgrounds, each committed to the liberation of the other. Our goal is nothing less than the abolition of exploitation and oppression worldwide and the realization of a socialist workers’ democracy in our lifetimes.
Workers of the world, unite!