Solidarity with the Marxist Communist Party – Kenya: Regarding the assassination attempt on comrade Booker Omole
On the night of January 9-10, 2025, a hit squad equipped with lethal weapons and state-of-the-art equipment such as night-vision goggles broke into the home of our comrade Booker Omole, General Secretary of the CPK-M.
We express our solidarity with our Kenyan comrades, who have been harassed for several months by the Kenyan Ruto/IMF government. The assassination attempt on January 10 is only the culmination of this harassment, which targets the CPK-M because of its objective role as vanguard of the Kenyan popular masses on the move since last summer against the neo-liberal policies of the neo-colonial Ruto/IMF government. At the same time, the Party’s national president, Mwaivu Kaluka, and other comrades were abducted in Monbasa. These comrades were freed thanks to popular mobilization and legal recourse.
Symmetrically, we condemn in the strongest possible terms the attempted assassination of our comrade, and express our contempt for these methods of intimidation, which are reminiscent of the White Terror. Of course, the precise origin of this attack remains to be clarified, and our comrades have, with a great sense of responsibility, announced that they will cooperate fully with the police to this end. Nevertheless, this event, added to the numerous attempts at intimidation and the repression of our Kenyan comrades, is a remarkable admission on the part of the ruling clique in Nairobi, which takes shameful pride in being described by the imperialists as “the best non-NATO ally in the region”, and slavishly consents to the project of making Kenyan national territory the main base for imperialist redeployment in the north of the continent: today, as in the past, communists who do not renounce their heritage or apologize for their past are the most effective and relevant opponents of imperialism, colonialism and their bourgeois or feudal puppets.
Proletarians of all countries, oppressed peoples of the world, unite!
International Commission of the Pôle de Renaissance Communiste in France, Boris Differ and Aymeric Monville, secretaries
