People around the world have been demonstrating and campaigning in all sorts of ways to stop the genocide in occupied Palestine by the imperialist-created ‘Israel’. The International Court of Justice…
Trade Unions have played a crucial role in Kenya’s anti-colonial, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles in Kenya. This assessment is confirmed by several studies including one from 1998 and the other…
The social media is an important resource for oppression — or resistance, depending on who you are and where you stand. A recent posting on Facebook from Khatija Suleman asked…
The struggle of the people of the global South has gone through many phases in response to the changing nature of the enemy they faces. The people’s enemy has put…
Written for the reprint of Ambu H. Patel (Ed): Struggle for ‘Release Jomo & Colleagues’. Nairobi: Vita Books (Forthcoming). The book, Struggle for Release of Jomo and his Colleagues…
Europe and USA, under their colonial and imperialist policies, have massacred millions of people around the world and taken over their land on a massive scale in the last and…
Kenya faces critical times today as the government of President Ruto moves full speed towards the agenda set by USA via IMF directives. The push on Kenya to turn ‘West”…
The attacks by ‘Israel’ on the people and the country of Palestine have increased in intensity in the last month. Palestinian resistance has once again forced the attention of the…
The official or ‘normal’ history of Kenya ignores or downplays resistance to capitalism and imperialism by the people of Kenya. Mostly ignored are organisations of those who opposed the rule…
Photo Credit: Amarjit Chandan and Manmit S. Jabbal This is an extract from a revised version of earlier articles on Makhan Singh. It will be published in Reflections on…
Preface to the book by Durrani, Nazmi: Tunakataa! We Say No! Resistance Poems in Kiswahili and English Reflecting Life in Kenya in the 1980s. Forthcoming: Nairobi: Vita Books. [Tunakataa: Kiswahili…
There are no walls in this prison It is built on a foundation of fear, intimidation, and threats. Keep the history book closed Keep the historian in prison The prison…
Capitalism destroys every attempt by working class to end the exploitation and oppression created by capitalism itself. That is the only way capitalism has survived over generations. Workers have organised…
Look back at the history of Africa. That is where the need for socialism comes from. One of the recommended readings on Pan-Africanism in the Kenya Political Study Guide records…
Image the situation in Kenya in the 1930s. The most powerful imperialist country in the world was in total control of land, life and future of the country. Not only in…
Workers in many parts of the world face similar challenges and advances as in Kenya. The situation for trade unions in many countries are also similar. In Britain, there is…
It is instructive to compare the role of trade unions in Kenya’s War of Independence under Mau Mau with the situation under Maji Maji, the Tanzanian people’s war of liberation…
Trade Unions in Kenya and globally in the 2020s are very different from those in the 1950s. First, the global situation has changed a lot in the last 50 years…
An important feature of life in Kenya, as in other capitalist countries, is the ever-present exploitation of labour and resources in every aspect of life. It is so prevalent that…
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