Newsletter 07/24 - Independence for the remaining colonies

On January 29, 2024 the Council of Ministers of France approves a constitutional bill aimed at changing the electoral body for the elections to the Congress and Provincial Assemblies of New Caledonia, to try to maintain colonial control over Kanaky territory after the holding of the referendum of December 12, 2021, farcical consultation of self-determination without the colonized population.

On May 13, 2024 the Congress of New Caledonia approves resolution 405 asking the French Government to withdraw the constitutional bill aimed at changing the electoral body.

On May 14, 2024 the National Assembly approves the constitutional bill, already approved the previous month by the Senate, unleashing the protests of the Kanaky population violently repressed by the colonizing forces that go so far as the deportation of some independence militants.

On June 8, 2024 the President of the Union calédonienne Daniel Goa proposes September 24, 2024, the one hundred and seventy-first anniversary of the beginning of French colonization, as the date for the declaration of independence of the Kanaky, while in the following days the President of France Emmanuel Macron announces the suspension of the constitutional bill.

Independence claims also continue in the other territories that are not yet self-governing, both in those already on the United Nations list such as Sahrawi (Western Sahara), Fenua (French Polynesia) or Guåhan (Guam) and in those not yet present such as Boriken (Puerto Rico), La Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique or French Guiana.

Colonialism Reparation asks that the United Nations, as also foreseen by the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (2021 – 2030), recognize the independence of the territories that are not yet self-governing, adding the last remnants of the former colonial empires to the list.