On hearing the news of this heinous attack on a fraternal organisation, communists and anti-imperialists around the world, particularly those involved in the World Anti-imperialist Platform, responded with messages of solidarity and support.
CPGB-ML vice-chair Joti Brar wrote a short message on behalf of our party:
Solidarity to Booker Omole and all the comrades of the Communist Party Marxist of Kenya. We salute your resolve and stand with you, knowing well that this attack is a sign of the fear your work has instilled in the comprador clique who rule Kenya in the interests of imperialism.
We must redouble our efforts to bring an awareness to British workers of the motivations and methods of their own ruling class; their willingness to perpetrate any crime in aid of their continued dominance over the resources and people of the world.
The blood money that still flows from Kenya to Britain is a stain on the honour of the British working class that we must work to remove.
Comrade Ranjeet Brar recorded a short video message reaffirming our party’s solidarity and calling on our Kenyan comrades to guard their revolutionary leadership in the face of imperialist plots to remove them:
We send you our solidarity, our respect, our love and our great admiration for the leadership you are giving to the Kenyan people. But we must also advise you to be cautious.
The imperialists know the value of leadership. And the CPM-K is showing incredible leadership to the people of Kenya against the comprador bourgeois puppet government of William Ruto.
Precisely for that reason, our (British) government, the US government – the imperialists – will not protest. They will not show any sign of disquiet at the assassination attempt that this regime has made upon your life.
But we must tell you to guard your life and the Kenyan people to guard you as the apple of its eye for the same reason. We also know that leadership is so important to the liberation of a people. That’s why the imperialists came for Laurent Kabila. That’s why they came for Patrice Lumumba. That’s why they came for Pio Gama Punto.
So we send you love, respect and solidarity. We wish you well. And we implore your comrades and the Communist Party Marxist of Kenya: Yes, engage in the struggle. Yes, be brave. Yes, be heroic.
But still, guard your leadership as you would the apple of your eye. You need them to navigate this difficult period.
We wish you every success in the liberation of Kenya, comrades.
Our party stands firmly with our targeted comrade, CPM-K general secretary Booker Ngesa Omole. We stand with all the valiant class fighters of the CPM-K, and with the Kenyan masses in their just struggle for national liberation and true sovereignty. We are sure that the tide of history is with them, and that no plots of the imperialists or their local stooges will succeed in turning it back.
This dastardly attempt to once more foil the will of the people serves to highlight the fact that Kenya’s communists are becoming a real force in the country. A force that the comprador elites have every reason to fear.
Victory to the Kenyan people’s national-democratic revolution!
Long live the CPM-K! Long live proletarian internationalism!
