On May 9, Victory Day, the historic 10th International Anti-Imperialist Conference of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform was held in Nairobi, Kenya.
Formed in October 2022 in Paris by a gathering of anti-imperialist and revolutionary political organizations from around the world, the World Anti-Imperialist Platform has established and actively pursued three major goals: the global anti-imperialist struggle, the ideological warfare, and the strengthening of the international communist movement. As of May 2026, more than 130 political organizations worldwide have participated in the Platform by signing its program, the Paris Declaration.
Since its launch at the Paris International Conference in October 2022, the Platform has organized International Anti-Imperialist Conferences in Belgrade (December 2022), Caracas (March 2023), Seoul (May 2023), Athens (November 2023), Washington (July 2024), Dakar (October 2024), Amsterdam (June 2025), and Caracas (October 2025), while organizing popular practical struggles such as the World Anti-Imperialist Joint Struggle.
The International Anti-Imperialist Conference currently being held in Nairobi, Kenya, marks the second time this event has taken place on the African continent, following the one held in Dakar, Senegal, in October 2024. While the previous conference was hosted in Francophone West Africa, the present conference is being convened in Anglophone East Africa.
Jointly organized in Nairobi by the World Anti-Imperialist Platform and the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPMK), this conference stands as a historic milestone, bringing together revolutionary organizations from across the globe to wage a decisive struggle against neo-colonial oppression and exploitation throughout Africa, ahead of the Africa–France Summit scheduled for May 11–12.
The International Anti-Imperialist Conference was attended by approximately 36 political parties and organizations from across the globe, including Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
Against the backdrop of intensifying imperialist war maneuvers aimed at escalating World War 3, participants engaged in profound deliberations. They conducted a scientific analysis of the current situation—where US imperialism and European imperialist powers like France, having been dealt a severe blow by the African people following the Sahel Revolution, are now locked in a fierce neo-colonial scramble over Kenya. Furthermore, they held in-depth discussions on strategies to advance the joint anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggle.
The international conference consisted of three main sessions.
The first session featured a solidarity message from the Venezuelan Ambassador in Kenya and a video screening by the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPMK). This was followed by onsite presentations from Booker Omole, General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPMK); Philippe Noudjènoumè from the Western Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO); Gadam Kadzo from Pan-Africanism Today (PAT); Dynamique Unitaire Panafricaine (DUP); Vanogodé Dosso from Ligue Panafricaine Umoja (LP-U); the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP); and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). These were followed by video presentations from Paolo Babini of the International Department of the Party of Committees to Support Resistance–for Communism (CARC Party, Italy); Carlos D. Coloma H. of the Communist Party of Ecuador; and Aleksandar Đenić, Executive Secretary of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (Serbia). Written statements were also submitted by Aleksandar Đenić of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia; Eastern Initiative; Aymeric Monville of the Communist Organization of France (OCF); Jozef Bossuyt, Political Bureau Member of the Communist Party of Belgium; Saïd Bakkali, Head of International Relations for the Party of Progress and Socialism (Morocco); Miguel Alexander De Escobar, Representative of the Rafael Aguinada Carranza Inter-Union Coordinating Committee (CIRAC, El Salvador); Jorge Gálvez, General Secretary of the Workers Party of Chile; and Eduardo Hernández of the Communist Party (Mexico).
The second session opened with video presentations from Struggle Unity (Turkiye); and Stefan Petrov, International Committee Member of the September 23 Movement (Bulgaria). These were followed by onsite presentations from Eleonore Koffi, Central Committee Member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB-ML); Lea-Sophia Wagner of Communist Organization (KO, Germany); Frédéric Arthur Guerrier of the Union for Communist Reconstruction (URC, France); the Communist Party of South Sudan (SSCP); the Communist League of Uganda; the Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists; and the Communist Party of Benin. Furthermore, Alassane Aboubakar of the Western Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) delivered a solidarity statement for Mali, followed by a solidarity statement from the Communist Party Marxist Kenya regarding political repression against the party.
In the third session, video presentations were delivered by Alexander Babakov, First Deputy Chairman of A Just Russia and Chairman of the SOVINTERN Organizing Committee; Dmitrii Kuzmin, Leningrad Party Secretary of the Russian Communist Workers Party (RCWP); and Alexey Albu of Borotba (Ukraine). Written presentations were provided by Klara Azhybekova, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan; the Baltic Platform; the Union of Communists of Ukraine; and Miguel Ángel, Representative of Unión Proletaria (Spain). These were followed by onsite presentations from the Antifascist Former Resistance Fighters Netherlands (AFVN) and Dimitrios Patelis, founding member of the Revolutionary Theory Group (Greece). Finally, the session concluded with a presentation by Stephen Cho, Organizer of the World Anti-imperialist Platform and Coordinator of the Korean International Forum.
At the International Anti-Imperialist Conference, the historic <Nairobi Declaration: Down with Imperialism and Fascism!> was proclaimed, reflecting the collective will of all participants.
The international conference concluded amidst a powerful standing ovation. Together, the participants joined in a stirring rendition of “The International.”
The following is the full text of the declaration:
[Nairobi Declaration]
Down with Imperialism and Fascism!
As we meet in Nairobi, the flames of a world war ignited by imperialism are sweeping across West Asia. In February 2026, US imperialism and its Israeli Zionist proxies attacked Iran, escalating a regional war into an all-out conflict. The Iran war and the broader West Asian war are fueling wars in other regions, moving the world toward a full-scale escalation of the Third World War that could bring unprecedented disaster to humanity.
Until recently, the imperialists have preferred to use Zionist fascists as their main instruments of aggression in West Asia, but they have now reached a dangerous stage of directly engaging in an all-out war. The desperate war drive of monopoly capitalism, undertaken in an attempt to escape its worst-ever political and economic crisis, is only deepening its contradictions and hastening its ultimate downfall. It is no coincidence that, all over the world, movements for anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggle are rapidly growing.
The peoples of Africa, who have long waged courageous struggles to liberate themselves from imperialist oppression, have in recent years achieved notable victories, particularly in the Sahel region, and advanced forcefully toward people-centered societies. Having been driven out in humiliation from the Sahel, the imperialist beast is roaming across Africa in search of new prey. The “Africa–France Summit (Africa Forward)” being held in Nairobi, Kenya in May 2026 is nothing more than a last-ditch attempt by a decaying imperialism to retain its grip over the continent’s vast riches and tremendous labour-power.
Together with the ongoing “Lobito Corridor” project, this summit represents a typical maneuver and cunning scheme of imperialism aimed at blocking the anti-imperialist revolutionary influence of both South Africa—one of the founding members of BRICS—and the newly emerging liberated regions of the Sahel. However, for the African people who are fighting under the banner of militant Pan-Africanism and anti-imperialist internationalism, such barriers are of no consequence. The giant of the continent is now rising like a mountain, shattering the chains of slavery imposed by imperialism and fascism as it does so.
The unity of the anti-imperialist camp and the division of the imperialist camp are defining features of the present era. The Iran war has further intensified this trend, which can also be observed here in Kenya and across the African continent.
Today, contradictions between US imperialism and French imperialists over Kenya are sharpening. The anachronistic struggle for hegemony between US imperialism—seeking to establish new military footholds in East Africa as part of its “Indo-Pacific Strategy”—and French imperialism—attempting to implement an African “neocolonialism 2.0” after being driven out of the Sahel—is powerfully awakening the Kenyan people, who are the true masters of this land. At the same time, public anger toward the puppet regime in Nairobi that enforces imperialist policies on the ground is erupting like a volcano.
Imperialism and its local stooges are attempting to evade their African crisis by deceiving the people with reformist inducements. At the same time, they are working hard to crush resistance by carrying out the ruthless fascist repression of the vanguard political organization of the Kenyan people, the CPMK. But history has shown that, with class-conscious leadership, reformist deceptions can ultimately be used to dispel the people’s illusions, while fascist repression only tempers and strengthens them for the next phase of their liberation struggle. The global anti-imperialist movement is paying close attention to the heroic struggle of the Kenyan people, and is further strengthening the bonds of international solidarity with their vanguard organization.
The World Anti-imperialist Platform, a solid coalition of more than 130 anti-imperialist political organizations worldwide, is taking the Africa–France Summit—the latest act of imperialist aggression against the African continent—as an opportunity to deepen and develop its anti-imperialist and anti-fascist solidarity with the Kenyan and other peoples of Africa.
As we are now witnessing, the imperialists are incapable of achieving a real victory on any battlefield where the opposition to their domination is determined. A people united against imperialism will never be defeated. Workers and peoples of all countries are increasingly uniting against imperialism. We must learn to coordinate our efforts so that the Third Word War is transformed into a historic turning point in which we ensure the ultimate downfall of the bloodthirsty imperialist system.
Although the imperialist forces targeting Africa may differ amongst themselves, the African people resisting them are as one. The fate of Kenya will be decided by the Kenyan people, and the fate of Africa by the African people. In Kenyan and across Africa, the masses are bound to emerge as the final victors in their just struggle to defeat imperialism and fascism and to build a new society centered on the people.
One Africa, One People, One Destiny!
Workers and peoples of the world, unite!
End Zionism and fascism!
Down with imperialism!
Victory to the resistance!
