Every night has its morning

32 Views By Fred M’membe It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Every night has its morning. Let’s not lose hope. Let’s not give up. Let’s keep our principles and use them to keep hope and as an ethical compass to navigate the storm. Hope makes us stronger and bigger than we really are. […]

32 Views By Fred M’membe It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Every night has its morning. Let’s not lose hope. Let’s not give up. Let’s keep our principles and use them to keep hope and as an ethical compass to navigate the storm. Hope makes us stronger and bigger than we really are. This is because hope is an active, collective resolve rooted in unity, discipline, and the courage to build a more just, fair, and humane nation. Hope is not passive waiting, but the daily courage and quiet determination of working people standing together to change their conditions. Let’s reject pessimism and despair. Let’s dream of a more humane society where human dignity comes before anything else. Our collective strength lies in mutual solidarity and discipline. Rather than sugarcoating difficult realities, we should champion revolutionary optimism, which treats hope as a muscle trained through organising against repression, abuse and oppression. Hope as a product of resistance. Optimism is grounded in the basic human instinct to reject humiliation and subordination. Humans never accept humiliation, abuse, repression, and oppression quietly. Action defeats despair. Despair is a political tool used by the powerful to paralyse people. Active resistance is the only structural antidote. Organizing hope is a collective responsibility. The misery of the humiliating, exploitative, dehumanising, repressive, and oppressive system under which we live requires people to actively organise hope through shared struggle. Changing this situation requires a battle of emotions that begins with rebuilding basic human connections. The future is made today. The future is not built in the future; it is built on the threshold of the decisions and actions we take today. A better future is not guaranteed and will not arrive on its own. We have to struggle for it. The future contains what we put into it today. Struggle makes us human. Difficult times shouldn’t be an excuse for paralysis, but the crucible in which true revolutionaries are forged. In difficult times the number of waverers increases, but it is also when men and women are truly tested and greater effort, courage, intelligence, efficient organisation, as well as an unshakeable morale, are required. Far from being a call to blind stubbornness, this perspective is an invitation to conscious and organised action to turn adversities into struggle and victory. This thought is anchored in a profound humanism and a firm anti-imperialist conviction. Let’s learn how to turn our drama into dignity and demonstrate that resistance is not only possible but also the path to victory. It is not a question of how long this drama will last, but of questioning how much longer we will endure a course that seems headed for self-destruction. There’s a need for us to build a different future, in which the guide of politics is, unwaveringly, human well-being, and where dignity, always collective, is the standard of struggle. In short, in times of uncertainty and national challenges like this, turning to principles is not an act of nostalgia but an operation of political and ethical survival. This approach, forged in adversity and struggle, serves as an antidote against discouragement and resignation, reminding us that history is not written and that it is always possible to conceive the noblest ideas and give life for what one feels and thinks. Even in the face of the impossible, let’s always bet on victory. Changing what needs to be changed should never mean abandoning core humane principles of social justice. Hard times should be framed as a collective test of national dignity, where survival and resistance superseded individual comfort. New ideas to prepare the people for the future are needed. We must start building a new awareness. A complex era as this one requires principles and awareness more than ever. Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of a nation that aspires, despite all its tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better nation. The nation is increasingly misinformed amidst the chaos of events unfolding at pace never before imagined. Those of us who have lived a few more years and are avidly interested in information can testify to the extent of ignorance with which we confront events. Personally, I did not become aware of these realities simply by accident. The experiences I lived through led me to the conclusion that good human beings, regardless of their ideological, political, and religious beliefs, should, and could, struggle for justice, fairness, humaness and peace among human beings. This is what I have said and what I maintain, with no vacillation whatsoever. Fred M’membe is a Journalist and President of the Socialist Party