The Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Fascist Struggle of the Kenyan and African Peoples Will Surely Triumph
With the flames of the Iran war and the wider West Asian war leaping ever higher, the world now faces the extremely dangerous prospect of seeing the flames spread further still.
Having devastated Gaza and committed unprecedented massacre, Israel is desperate not only to destroy Iran’s oil and gas fields but even to strike its nuclear facilities. Moreover, in an effort to conceal its strategic defeats in Palestine and Iran and reunite its fracturing society, it is attempting a territorial expansion war that is turning southern Lebanon into a “second Gaza”. With such reckless and bloodthirsty gambles, the zionists imagine they will be able to bring about a permanent defeat for the regional―and even for the global―forces of anti-imperialist resistance.
At the same time, Israel is maneuvering to establish diplomatic relations with (and a military presence on) Somaliland, in the hopes of forcibly relocating Palestinians there while also gaining physical control over the critical Bab el-Mandeb Strait. It is thus only a matter of time before the war frenzy of Anglo-American imperialism and its fascistic Zionist proxy engulfs Africa.
Imperialist aggression aimed at occupying, dominating, and plundering Africa is being carried out with increasing desperation. French, US and British imperialism, which are being pushed out of many regions across Africa, continue to create, fund, arm and direct terrorist proxy armies to wage wars that destabilise governments, undermine development and keep the local people poor and desperate.
The latest coup attempt against Mali is one in a long line of such vicious interventions, but one which has been defeated by the united efforts of the sovereign Sahel peoples.
Alongside the use of terrorist warfare, the imperialists continue to rely on comprador regimes to help them keep the people of Africa down. These regimes are tasked with carrying out the brutal fascist repression of their own people in order to keep the continent ‘safe’ for western neocolonial looting.
Having been driven back from the Sahel, France has been left with Côte d’Ivoire as its last “strategic bridgehead” in Africa. By linking Ivory Coast with Benin and Ghana, it has constructed a “Gulf of Guinea defense line” with the aim of encircling the southern edge of the Sahel.
France has also shifted its strategy toward what is described as a “refined form of invasion,” or “neocolonialism 2.0,” by fostering pro-Western elites through the establishment of supposedly “educational” hubs. The France–Kenya defense treaty (DCA), ratified in April 2026 and containing provisions for stationing French troops in Mombasa and extraterritorial rights, is a typically unequal treaty that forms part of France’s re-invasion strategy and aims to expand French imperialist influence into the Anglophone sphere.
Meanwhile, large-scale military exercises led by US imperialism’s Africa Command are intensifying tensions on the continent. Africom’s “Flintlock 2026” exercise in Libya and Côte d’Ivoire aims to create intelligence networks in the northern Sahel and to train special forces from the coastal states as a block to the southward advance of the anti-imperialist and independence movement. Similarly, the USA’s “African Lion 2026” exercises in Morocco are nothing more than a tool for securing the northern gateway into the Sahel region and exerting military pressure over the sovereign Sahel states of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso (AES).
The USA, having designated Kenya as a “Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA)”, has provided itself with the necessary “legal” foundation for ensuring its military mobility across East Africa. From this base, it hopes to maintain maritime dominance at the strategic junction linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden via its “Cutlass Express” naval exercise, soon to be conducted along the Indian Ocean coast. In addition, by synchronizing its communication systems with those of the Kenyan military and a multinational ground force through the upcoming “Justified Accord” integration exercise, the USA is attempting to transform Kenya into a strategic “mercenary state.”
Kenya’s territory has thus become the site of fierce competition between French and US imperialism for the establishment of a new central foothold from which to dominate the African continent. Both powers are deepening Kenya’s military subordination by designating it respectively as a ‘strategic defense treaty partner’ and a ‘Major Non-NATO Ally’.
The USA is also seeking to monopolize the extraction of critical minerals by linking Kenya to its “Lobito Corridor”, which is aimed both at dividing Africa into north and south and at containing China. France’s attempt to have the Ruto government sign up to its “clean minerals” certification system is a cunning method of plunder designed to keep African resources under French monopoly control.
Under these circumstances, it is no coincidence that the Ruto government―serving as a subordinate force of imperialism―is carrying out fascistic repression against those Kenyan people who have risen in anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggle, as well as against their vanguard organization, the Communist Party Marxist Kenya. We in the World Anti-imperialist Platform, on the occasion of the Africa–France Summit―part of the ongoing imperialist aggression against Africa―stand shoulder to shoulder with the Kenyan and African peoples, and we pledge ourselves to continue this struggle together until the day of victory.
For over 600 years, Africa has been denied a single day of peace, having been subjected to ceaseless domination, plunder, and territorial division by colonialism and imperialism. At the present moment, NATO―the headquarters of the united imperialist war machine―is designating Africa as a “southern strategic stronghold” within the context of its widening third world war, revealing yet another front of its global aggression. The flames of World War 3 that have been ignited by imperialism have been spreading from Ukraine to West Asia, East Asia and Central America. Across Africa, large and small wars driven by imperialism and its fascist proxies are continuously unfolding, and are all too likely to escalate further.
Now is the time for all the forces for liberation and socialism to unite more firmly and struggle more powerfully against aggression and plunder under the banner of anti-imperialism and anti-fascism. Militant Pan-Africanism, anti-imperialism, and internationalism are one. The Kenyan people, the African people, and people around the world are advancing vigorously in the just struggle to defeat imperialism and fascism, raising the slogans: “One Africa, One People, One Destiny!”, “The people united will never be defeated!”, and “Workers of the world, unite!”
History has proven that the final victory will belong to the united people; to the people who struggle for their freedom from capitalist-imperialist exploitation.
Down with imperialism!
End Zionism and fascism!
Victory to the Kenyan people!
Victory to the African people!
May 12, 2026
World Anti-imperialist Platform
