Communist Party Marxist - CPM Kenya

16/08/2026

The Malindi Ruling and the Class Character of the Kenyan State

Reflection of General Secretary Booker Omole

16 August 2026

The recent ruling of the High Court in Malindi concerning the date of Kenya’s next presidential election has generated considerable public debate. But we must refuse to view this question merely through the narrow lens of constitutional law.

Kenya is not facing a constitutional crisis. What we are witnessing is a crisis of the neocolonial state, rooted in the deeper and systemic crisis of imperialism and capitalism.

The Constitution does not exist above society. It is part of the political superstructure of a class divided society. Like the other institutions of the bourgeois state, it operates within definite material relations and ultimately serves to preserve the existing order of class domination.

This does not mean that democratic rights contained within the Constitution are meaningless. On the contrary, the working people must defend every democratic right won through struggle. We defend the right of the people to vote. We defend political freedoms. We defend constitutional protections against arbitrary State power.

But we must simultaneously reject constitutional illusions.

The fundamental question before Kenya is not simply whether the next election should be held in 2026 or 2027. The deeper question is: who holds political power, in whose interests is that power exercised, and who controls the wealth and productive forces of Kenya?

The present crisis cannot be separated from the growing crisis of legitimacy of the neocolonial State. The government has lost considerable confidence among the people. Parliament has suffered a profound crisis of credibility. The judiciary, too, faces a growing crisis of public trust.

Within such conditions, institutions of the bourgeois State inevitably seek to restore their legitimacy before a population increasingly questioning the existing political order. The judiciary is not an institution suspended above class society. It is itself part of the State and therefore operates within the contradictions of the neocolonial system.

The Malindi ruling should consequently be understood within this broader crisis.

We must be careful not to allow either the neocolonial government or the comprador opposition to reduce this matter to a technical contest over constitutional interpretation while the material conditions confronting the masses remain untouched.

The workers and poor peasants of Kenya are not suffering because of an incorrect interpretation of an electoral calendar.

They are suffering from exploitation, unemployment, landlessness, poverty, debt, imperialist domination and the concentration of wealth and political power in the hands of a minority.

This is why we must approach the question from the standpoint of class struggle.

We defend the democratic rights of the people, but we do not tell the working class that changing the date of an election will transform their social condition.

We defend constitutional rights, but we do not pretend that the bourgeois Constitution abolishes the class character of the State.

We participate in electoral struggles, but we do not reduce the historical struggle of the working class to the ballot box.

Changing the government does not necessarily change the system. Changing the personnel occupying State offices does not transfer political power to the working class and poor peasantry.

The deeper question remains:

Who shall rule?

In whose interests shall the State operate?

Who shall control Kenya’s land, wealth and productive forces?

And ultimately:

Shall political power remain in the hands of the exploiting classes and their imperialist allies, or shall political power belong to the working people?

This is the real democratic question facing Kenya.

The ballot is important.

Constitutional rights are important.

Democratic freedoms are important.

But the struggle cannot end at the ballot box.

The working class and poor peasantry must organise themselves as an independent political force and fight for political power.

Only through such organised class struggle can we break the chains of neocolonialism and establish a political and economic order in which the wealth created by the working people serves the working people.

The crisis of the neocolonial order is not the crisis of the Constitution alone. It is the crisis of the entire system of imperialist domination and capitalist exploitation.

Our task is therefore not merely to repair the machinery of the old order.

Our task is to organise the people to transform it.

16/08/2026

BOOKER OMOLE BANNED FROM ENTERING GERMANY

The German ruling class has banned CPMK General Secretary Booker Omole from entering the country.

Why? Because he is a communist, and they are terrified of his ideas, his solidarity, and the power of the working class.

You can try to block borders, but you cannot ban the truth.

Free movement for revolutionaries! ✊🏽🚩

16/08/2026

BOOKER OMOLE BANNED FROM ENTERING GERMANY

The German ruling class has banned CPMK General Secretary Booker Omole from entering the country.

Why? Because he is a communist, and they are terrified of his ideas, his solidarity, and the power of the working class.

You can try to block borders, but you cannot ban the truth.

Free movement for revolutionaries! ✊🏽🚩

13/08/2026

11/08/2026

KENYANS LOVE CLEAN THIEVES IN SUITS

Kenyans have been taught to celebrate the clean thief.

They dance for them. They sing for them. They praise them. They build political careers around them. The powerful steal from the public purse and are still presented as respectable leaders.

But let a poor person steal a loaf of bread, food or a small item from a shop, and suddenly the language changes. The poor person becomes a criminal. The mob becomes judge, jury and executioner.

Ruto and the political thieves deserve praise, while the poor shoplifter is beaten and killed.

This is not morality. It is class society.

The system teaches us to worship theft when it is committed in a suit and condemn it when it is committed by the hungry.

The real question is not simply, who stole?

The question is:

Who owns the wealth? Who controls the State? Who steals millions and who steals because they are hungry?

A society that protects the powerful thief while killing the desperate poor person has not defeated crime.

It has organised crime according to class.

11/08/2026

DAILY REFLECTION OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY

WHO MUST CHANGE: THE PEOPLE OR THE SYSTEM?

11 AUGUST 2026

Booker Omole
General Secretary
Communist Party Marxist Kenya

A young Kenyan is unemployed.

The Ruto administration and its neoliberal politics ask:

How do we make the young person more employable?

CPMK asks:

Why does Kenya, with its enormous productive potential, systematically fail to provide socially necessary employment for millions of its young people?

A peasant is poor.

The Ruto administration asks:

How do we turn the peasant into an entrepreneur and integrate them into the market?

CPMK asks:

Who owns the land? Who controls agricultural inputs? Who controls credit? Who determines prices? Who controls the markets? Who appropriates the surplus produced by the peasant?

A university graduate cannot find work.

The Ruto administration offers skills training, entrepreneurship, mentorship, networking, digital opportunities and “global exposure”.

CPMK asks:

What mode of production is generating educated surplus labour?

Why does Kenya educate millions of young people while its economic structure cannot provide them with socially necessary and dignified employment?

This is the fundamental difference.

Ruto’s neoliberal politics individualises social problems. CPMK analyses them as social and class problems.

The Ruto administration tells the unemployed young person to acquire more skills.

CPMK asks who owns and controls the means of production.

The Ruto administration tells the peasant to become an entrepreneur.

CPMK asks who owns the land, who controls agricultural production and who appropriates the agricultural surplus.

The Ruto administration tells the graduate to become more competitive.

CPMK asks why the economy produces educated workers whom it cannot productively employ.

The neoliberal question is:

How can the individual adapt to the existing system?

The CPMK question is:

Why should the working people adapt to a system whose social relations reproduce unemployment, poverty and inequality?

The question before the Kenyan people is therefore not merely how to survive within the existing order.

The question is who controls the productive forces, who owns the wealth and in whose interests society is organised.

We must move beyond teaching the oppressed how to survive their oppression.

We must organise the working class and poor peasants to transform the conditions that reproduce their oppression.

We do not want a Kenya where the poor are merely taught how to survive poverty.

We want a Kenya where the productive forces are organised to abolish poverty.

We do not want a Kenya where young people are endlessly trained to become employable for someone else’s profit.

We want a Kenya where the labour, knowledge and creativity of our youth are organised for the development of the whole people.

That is the difference between managing the crisis of the existing order and building the forces necessary to transform it.

The system asks the people to change.

CPMK asks: change the system.

From the masses, to the masses.

Study society. Understand its contradictions. Organise the people. Transform society.

07/08/2026

Professor Larry Gumbe, chair of Kenya’s Nuclear Power and Energy Agency, is threatening people simply asking for information on nuclear energy.
When the man running the nuclear authority treats transparency as a threat, the public has every reason to demand answers.