Class War 16/2024: Proletarian revolt in Kenya – Against all bourgeois falsifications! The text we present here on the very recent wave of class struggle that swept Kenya (and is still…
Makhan Singh: British colonial office report A declassified British government report on Kenyan Asian revolutionary Makhan Singh, discussing the end of his deportation order in 1961.
International News and Anarcho Quiz - Black Flag #216 Some of the short international new items from Black Flag #216. And the quiz.
Jomo Kenyatta, post-war Labour Party, strikes and the pass system - Makhan Singh Annotated excerpt from Makhan Singh's History of Kenya's Trade Union Movement to 1952, describing…
An African “Homeland” for the Jewish Refugees? - CLR James Written in 1938 while he was still a Trotskyist, CLR James writes about the plan to create a Jewish…
1964: British troops put down mutinies in post-colonial Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda Just one month following Kenya's official independence, Jomo Kenyatta invited British troops to put…
Reflections on the Kisumu Massacre, 1969 In October 1969 Jomo Kenyatta visited the Russia-built Nyanza Provincial General Hospital in Kisumu. During a protest against the visit, the…
Wartime strikes in Kenya - Makhan Singh Makhan Singh on wartime strikes in Kenya, including struggles against conscript labour, railway strikes, and a general strike in Uganda in…
Singh, Makhan (1913 – 1973) Biography of Makhan Singh, who translated Marx's Capital while in detention in India, was a central figure in Kenya's early trade union movement…
The post-war strike wave in East, West, and Southern Africa From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East…
The Nairobi General Strike, 1950: From Protest to Insurgency The Nairobi General Strike [1950] was the culmination of Kenya’s post war strike wave and urban…