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| Ivor Greenstreet |
Ivor
Greenstreet, the newly elected presidential candidate of the Convention Peoples
Party (CPP) will deliver a lecture at the Freedom Centre in Accra on Wednesday
10th February, 2016 at 6.00pm.
The
lecture will focus on the vision of the CPP and his own role in the realization
of that vision.
It is expected that progressives, Nkrumaists
and Socialists from all walks of life will throng the Freedom Centre to listen
to Ivor’s very first lecture after winning the Presidential contest in his
party.
The
lecture will be chaired by Comrade Kwesi Pratt, Jnr who doubles as a member of
both the CPP and the Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) which is sponsoring the
lecture.
Members
of the “Green Revolution” a youth group which is working on the Greenstreet
agenda
is expected to participate actively in the event.
Organisers
say that youth and student groups as well as faith-based and gender oriented
groups have been invited to the lecture.
Ivor
was elected twice as the General Secretary of the CPP.
He
is a lawyer, businessman and politician.
He
got more than 60 per cent of the votes at the Congress which elected him as
presidential candidate of the CPP.
Ivor
insists that the CPP ought to remain independent and pursue an Nkrumaist
agenda.
Editorial
50 years Ago
50 years ago on February 24, 1966, the forces of imperialism
and neo-colonialism teamed up with their local agents and overthrew the
Government of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah a Pan-African socialist.
From the historical records, it is clear that Nkrumah was
overthrown only because his government had taken firm steps to free the
national economy from the control of powerful forces in the colonial and
capitalist metropolis.
Soon after the Coup,
these forces set out to deliberately undo what Nkrumah and others had done over
15 years in Ghana and Africa.
The state sector of the national economy was consciously
dismantled through doctrinaire privatization and access to health, education
and other social service were limited.
Over a 50 year period and through a systematic destruction
of the pillar of Ghanaian independence, Ghana’s resources are today owned and
exploited solely for the benefit of predatory from the west.
As we mark the 50th anniversary of the
reactionary coup of 1966, we must not forget the remarkable progress had made
under the Nkrumah Government in all spheres of endeavor.
It’s still possible to return to the glorious days 50years
ago by using the ideas and methods which formed the basis of national
transformation.
We will succeed again!
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