The Convention People’s Party, as the January the 8th 60th anniversary of Positive Action approaches, calls upon all Ghanaians to be guided by the principles of its declaration in carrying out their activities.

Positive Action is the tool of the masses and the downtrodden and must be used anytime the will of the people is being threatened or subverted.

The C.P.P. therefore urges all working people to return to the liberating principles that guided the struggle for national independence. Positive Action was an affirmation of the right of the citizens to protest against the actions and inactions of Governments and the right of workers to strike to back their legitimate political and economic demands.

The C.P.P. calls upon all Ghanaians to recognize the day as an expression of people’s power against the elitist intrigue; Positive Action shook the complacency and burst the arrogance of the elite and consequently the ordinary fisherman, worker, clerical officer, farmer, teacher among others took the destiny of this country into their own hands.

Despite vile propaganda, mass arrests and sacking of workers Positive Action was a resounding success. The lessons are therefore that when an oppressed people are awakened they recapture their self-confidence and no matter how mighty or powerful the enemy, it would be defeated.

The C.P.P. therefore calls upon all Ghanaians to repossess their birthright in its full richness and abundance and resume popular radical struggles to provide greater opportunity for indigenous business and ensure the rights of the people to jobs, housing, health and education. We in the C.P.P. commit ourselves once more to working assiduously to relight the spirit of mass activism towards a new popular struggle aimed at achieving greater economic democracy.

*KOBINA GREENSTREET *

*GENERAL SECRETARY*