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Kenya - Suppressed or Restricted Information
In recent years, the struggle in Kenya has intensified due to neoliberal austerity and neocolonial domination. Most recently, proposed tax increases resulted in the Kenya Finance Bill protests which was a mass uprising aimed at fighting against this bill. The younger generation of progressive- and revolutionary-minded Kenyans has resulted in two organizations playing a major role in these protests: the Communist Party of Kenya (CPK) and the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPM-K), which split with the CPK in 2022. While the CPK has sought to maintain alliances with other parties in the Kenya Kwanza coalition (which includes President William Ruto and his United Democratic Alliance party), the CPM-K has maintained it's independence and aligned itself with younger progressives and revolutionaries, as well as the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU-K).
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Communist Party of Kenya
Swahili: Chama cha Kikomunisti cha Kenya; (founded in 1992 as the Social Democratic Party SDP])
- "Manifesto", 15 pages. English: PDF format (417 KB)
- "Charter", 4 pages. English: PDF format (285 KB)
- "Constitution", 18 pages. English: PDF format (334 KB)
Communist Party Marxist - Kenya
Swahili: Chama Cha Kikomunisti Marxist Kenya; (split from Communist Party of Kenya in 2022)
- "Constitution and Manifesto", 48 pages. English: PDF format (417 KB)
- "ITIKADI: Socialism, Theory and Practice" - the theoretical journal of Communist Party Marxist - Kenya
- Volume 1, No. 1 [September 2020], 56 pages. English: PDF format (4,839 KB)
- Volume 1, No. 2 [March 2021], 33 pages. English: PDF format (5,506 KB)
- Volume 1, No. 3 [July-September 2021], 56 pages. English: PDF format (2,783 KB)
- Volume 1, No. 4 [February 2023], 112 pages. English: PDF format (19,387 KB)
- Volume 1, No. 5 [December 2023], 117 pages. English: PDF format (33,791 KB)
- Special Edition, International Statements to the Communist Party Marxist - Kenya During the 2nd National Congress [November 2024], 42 pages. English: PDF format (918 KB)
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