On the evening of Tuesday the 24th of February, the General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist – Kenya (CPMK) Booker Ngesa Omole was kidnapped by Kenyan police. According to reports from Omole’s comrades, the police were particularly violent when abducting him, and as of the time of writing this statement he is still being held in custody by the Kenyan state without any actual charge or update as to when he will be released. 

This is but the most recent attack against Kenyan communists and anti-imperialists overseen by the Kenyan security state. In the 20th century, communists and anti-imperialists faced continuous harassment in the post-independence period, descending into an outright dictatorial comprador regime under Daniel arap Moi in 1978 who ushered in a new wave of liberalisation overseen by the IMF to the detriment of the Kenyan people. More recently in 2019, communists and anti-imperialists faced petty legal warfare by the state trying to prevent the formation of a new Kenyan communist party which was soundly defeated following a period of campaigning and mobilising against the legal harassment they faced. 

Following the victory in 2019 for communists to organise together, the Communist Party of Kenya would continue to develop theoretically and embed itself amongst the workers, peasants and oppressed poor of Kenya, ultimately emerging as the CPMK. The harassment of the CPMK by Kenyan security services still continued from this point onward, escalating into an assassination attempt by armed and heavily equipped attackers  against comrade Omole and others in January 2025. The assassination attempt and recent kidnapping without charge of comrade Omole points to an increasingly worrying trend in bourgeois repression. Unable to cut off the support communists and anti-imperialists have amongst the people, the bourgeois compradors of Kenya shift to a policy of encouraging targeted assassinations and draconian policing (no doubt inspired by actions undertaken by America and the zionist entity in the Arab World and Latin America) against those struggling for national liberation and an end to the neo-colonial regime Kenya has been ruled under since independence. 

The current Kenyan comprador state emerged out of British colonial rule over Kenya, engineered in such a way to maintain the economic rule of the nation without the cost of military occupation. The struggles against British rule in Kenya have a long history dating back to a myriad of colonial revolts in the 19th century, and by the 1950s had developed into the revolutionary Mau Mau Uprising, which waged a heroic struggle to end British colonial rule. The British state responded to this utilising concentration camps, torture, forced labour and collective punishment, which later served as a model for other colonial powers on how to deal with those struggling for freedom against colonialism. Seeing that Kenyans would continue to resist British rule no matter the violence inflicted upon them, the British developed a new strategy to maintain the benefits of colonialism, reconciling various comprador elites who would safeguard the imperial ventures of British colonialism against the revolutionary forces within the nation that sought to end the political, economic and social domination of Kenya. Ever since, the Kenyan comprador state continues to maintain the vampirism of neo-colonialism to the detriment of the Kenyan people, and continues to wage an undeclared war against communists and anti-imperialists who remain integral to the struggle against imperialism in Kenya. 

The CPMK are heirs to a long and proud history of resistance and struggle against imperialism and neo-colonial rule at the behest of Euro-American imperialism. Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru joins other communists and anti-imperialists across the world in condemning the harassment and attacks against comrade Omole, and echo the calls for his immediate release. 

The Kenyan state is now attempting to silence a revolutionary, but will find that the revolution can neither be imprisoned or killed. The people of Kenya are united in their struggle against the bourgeois compradors who rule over them and sell the resources of Kenya to the highest bidder, and we have no doubt that just as they have struggled and triumphed over the Kenyan compradors before they will do so again. Victory to the Communist Party Marxist – Kenya! Hands off Booker!