The Kenya Socialist

Author : Durrani, Shiraz,Waweru, Kimani
Publisher : Vita Books
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789966133816

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The Kenya Socialist exists to: Promote socialist ideas, experiences and world outlook; Increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current; Expose the damage done by capitalism and imperialism in Kenya and Africa; Offer solidarity to working class, peasants and other working people and communities in their struggles for equality and justice; Promote internationalism and work in solidarity with people in Africa and around the world in their resistance to imperialism; Make explicit the politics of information and communication as tools of repression and also of resistance in Kenya. This first issue covers several areas that remain neglected in public discourse in Kenya. The study of class remains one such topic and Kimani Waweru’s article, Class and Class Struggle in Kenya, fills this gap. Waweru also contributes a briefing on ideology as a weapon of oppression or liberation. He will continue his theoretical explorations in the next issue with an article on gender and women’s oppression and liberation. History is never far from any liberation struggle. Nicholas Mwangi looks at Mau Mau and the origin and meaning of the term ‘Mau Mau’. Njoki Wamai’s contribution is her presentation at the All African Peoples’ Conference in Accra in 2018. Linking up with the launch of the Ukombozi Library, the question arises, ‘What is the role of information in liberation?’ Shiraz Durrani answers some question from Julian Jaravata on various aspects of information. Finally, Durrani looks at the challenge by Wakamba wood carvers to the information embargo under President Moi.

Author : Shiraz Durrani
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789914962147

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The Kenya Socialist Volume 6 by Shiraz Durrani Pdf

The Kenya Socialist is published by Vita Books, Nairobi and is edited by Shiraz Durrani and Kimani Waweru. It aims to encourage free flow of information, knowledge and discussion which can lead to a better understanding of socialism. It seeks to promote socialist ideas, experiences, and world outlook and to increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current. The latest issue (No. 6, August 2023) carries articles on class struggle in Kenya, primitive accumulation of capital and an essay on understanding socialism through literature. Other articles are on the history of UMOJA and the role of trade unions as a force for resistance in Kenya. A Kiswahili section is also included, as is a section on ‘Remembering Pio Gama Pinto’. A short Poems section ends this issue.

Author : Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru
Publisher : Kenya Socialist
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9914700896

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The Kenya Socialist Vol. 2 by Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru Pdf

The Kenya Socialist exists to: Promote socialist ideas, experiences and world outlook; Increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current; Expose the damage done by capitalism and imperialism in Kenya and Africa; Offer solidarity to working class, peasants and other working people and communities in their struggles for equality and justice; Promote internationalism and work in solidarity with people in Africa and around the world in their resistance to imperialism; Make explicit the politics of information and communication as tools of repression and also of resistance in Kenya. The second issue is dedicated to issues of gender equality and carries three articles on the topic. Other articles in this issue include Other articles in this issue include the first part of Battle of Ideologies in Kenya by Shiraz Durrani. In the final article, Kimani Waweru shows how capitalism cannot meet the needs of working class. Also included is a reproduction of the review of the first issue of The Kenya Socialist carried in the Communist Review (CR) No 94, Winter 2019/2020.

Author : Shiraz Durrani
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789914992151

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The Kenya Socialist Vol 3 by Shiraz Durrani Pdf

The Kenya Socialist exists to: Promote socialist ideas, experiences and world outlook; Increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current; Expose the damage done by capitalism and imperialism in Kenya and Africa; Offer solidarity to working class, peasants and other working people and communities in their struggles for equality and justice; Promote internationalism and work in solidarity with people in Africa and around the world in their resistance to imperialism; Make explicit the politics of information and communication as tools of repression and also of resistance in Kenya. This issue, No. 3, is devoted mainly to an extended article by Shiraz Durrani and Kimani Waweru, under the title, Kenya: Repression and Resistance: from Colony to Neo-colony, 1948-1990.

Author : Shiraz Durrani
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789914970142

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The Kenya Socialist Volume 7 by Shiraz Durrani Pdf

The year 2023 saw one of the latest genocides in modern times - that of the people of Palestine by Israel. People born in the last or this century find it difficult to understand how such genocides in the past were allowed to take place at all, so barbarous an action this is. Yet the current genocide continues unabated, despite the millions of people around the world demanding an end to it. This exposes the real nature of capitalism and imperialism. It is in this situation that issue no 7 of The Kenya Socialist focuses on the Palestine Question. Articles include The Palestine Question, Claim to be Pan-Africanist? Until Everyone is Free, Zionism and the Myth of Democracy. The title of the Editorial is ‘We are all Palestinians’. Another article examines why ‘the struggle for Palestine is the struggle of working people worldwide’, showing the class and imperialist background to the genocide. The issue ends with solidarity statements from Kenyan organisations and a book review. It carries a number of illustrations on the struggle.

Author : Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru
Publisher : Kenya Socialist
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9914992145

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The Kenya Socialist Vol. 4 by Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru Pdf

The Kenya Socialist exists to: Promote socialist ideas, experiences and world outlook; Increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current; Expose the damage done by capitalism and imperialism in Kenya and Africa; Offer solidarity to working class, peasants and other working people and communities in their struggles for equality and justice; Promote internationalism and work in solidarity with people in Africa and around the world in their resistance to imperialism; Make explicit the politics of information and communication as tools of repression and also of resistance in Kenya. This issue has four papers that were presented during a seminar on bourgeois elections which was held at the Kenya National Theatre on 28th July 2021.

Author : Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru
Publisher : Vita
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9914992110

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The Kenya Socialist by Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru Pdf

The Kenya Socialist exists to: Promote socialist ideas, experiences and world outlook; Increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current; Expose the damage done by capitalism and imperialism in Kenya and Africa; Offer solidarity to working class, peasants and other working people and communities in their struggles for equality and justice; Promote internationalism and work in solidarity with people in Africa and around the world in their resistance to imperialism; Make explicit the politics of information and communication as tools of repression and also of resistance in Kenya. This issue, No. 3, is devoted mainly to an extended article by Shiraz Durrani and Kimani Waweru, under the title, Kenya: Repression and Resistance: from Colony to Neo-colony, 1948-1990.

Author : Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru
Publisher : Vita
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9914992161

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The Kenyan Socialist Vol. 5 by Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru Pdf

The Kenya Socialist exists to promote socialist ideas, experiences and world outlook; increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current; expose the damage done by capitalism and imperialism in Kenya and Africa; offer solidarity to working class, peasants and other working people and communities in their struggles for equality and justice; promote internationalism and work in solidarity with people in Africa and around the world in their resistance to imperialism; and make explicit the politics of information and communication as tools of repression and also of resistance in Kenya. Vol. 5 includes nine articles: Editorial; Lessons from the Underground; Linked Theory with Practice in Kenya; The 59th African Liberation Day; Is Women's Household-Labour a Form of Exploitation?; Revolutionary Rhetoric and Populist Politics; Welcome Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School; The Ukombozi Library; Kiswahili Section.

Author : Joel D. Barkan
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555875300

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Beyond Capitalism Vs. Socialism in Kenya and Tanzania by Joel D. Barkan Pdf

Explores how Tanzania and Kenya, often regarded as paradigms of capitalist and socialist development in Africa, have responded to the challenges they face, such as population growth, mounting external debt and structural adjustment, by modifying their original approach to development.

Author : Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru
Publisher : Vita
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9914962106

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The Kenya Socialist Vol. 6 by Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru Pdf

The Kenya Socialist is published by Vita Books, Nairobi and is edited by Shiraz Durrani and Kimani Waweru. It aims to encourage free flow of information, knowledge and discussion which can lead to a better understanding of socialism. It seeks to promote socialist ideas, experiences, and world outlook and to increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current. The latest issue (No. 6, August 2023) carries articles on class struggle in Kenya, primitive accumulation of capital and an essay on understanding socialism through literature. Other articles are on the history of UMOJA and the role of trade unions as a force for resistance in Kenya. A Kiswahili section is also included, as is a section on 'Remembering Pio Gama Pinto'. A short Poems section ends this issue.

Author : Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru
Publisher : Vita
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 991497015X

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The Kenya Socialist Vol. 7 by Shiraz Durrani,Kimani Waweru Pdf

The year 2023 saw one of the latest genocides in modern times - that of the people of Palestine by Israel. People born in the last or this century find it difficult to understand how such genocides in the past were allowed to take place at all, so barbarous an action this is. Yet the current genocide continues unabated, despite the millions of people around the world demanding an end to it. This exposes the real nature of capitalism and imperialism. It is in this situation that issue no 7 of The Kenya Socialist focuses on the Palestine Question. Articles include The Palestine Question, Claim to be Pan-Africanist? Until Everyone is Free, Zionism and the Myth of Democracy. The title of the Editorial is 'We are all Palestinians'. Another article examines why 'the struggle for Palestine is the struggle of working people worldwide', showing the class and imperialist background to the genocide. The issue ends with solidarity statements from Kenyan organisations and a book review. It carries a number of illustrations on the struggle.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Vita
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9966133119

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Crimes of Capitalism in Kenya by Anonim Pdf

This is the first number in the Research and Documentation (R&D) series from Vita Books and Ukombozi Library. It covers a shameful period of Kenya's past under the government of President Daniel arap Moi (1978-2002) who ruled Kenya with an iron fist and conducted his reign of terror on those opposed to his dictatorship. He stifled violently people's desire for change, equality and justice. He sought to drown the call of the independence movement for land and freedom in blood, torture and loot of national resources. The wounds inflicted on people cannot even begin to be healed unless the full extent of the problem is first brought out in the public domain. But the same comprador regime that instigated these horrors then went on to suppress information about its terrorist rule over unarmed workers, peasants, students, professionals and other progressive people and their underground movements such as the December Twelve Movement and Mwakenya. It is no surprise that young Kenyans today are unaware of the full extent of Moi's Reign of Terror. Crimes of Capitalism provides a glimpse of this period through contemporary press cuttings. It also highlights the fact that the crimes of Kenya's first two Presidents should be understood not only as evil actions of the individuals concerned. The ruling class and their party, KANU, that they nurtured became the agents of imperialism which sought to impose capitalism on the country and to suppress the growing calls for socialism. The material from which these cuttings are taken are available in Nairobi's Ukombozi Library, 'Kenya's First Socialist Library' as Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung describes it. Vita Books and the Ukombozi Library will continue to use such documents to highlight other hidden aspects of Kenya's history in future issues of the Research and Documentation Series.

Author : Joel D. Barkan
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9966464883

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Beyond Capitalism versus Socialism in Kenya and Tanzania by Joel D. Barkan Pdf

Author : Shiraz Durrani
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789914987591

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Two Paths Ahead by Shiraz Durrani Pdf

The struggle between socialism and capitalism in Kenya has been long, bitter and violent. Capitalism won with the active support of USA and UK governments at the time of independence in 1963. Yet the original (1960) Kenya African National Union (KANU) Party was in favour of socialism. It was Presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi who used violence to suppress those advocating socialism. They used their power to massacre, assassinate, exile, imprison and disappear people and created a state of terror to silence their opponents. Capitalism became the unstated state policy. Thus, imperialism won and the aims of Mau Mau were brutally suppressed. However, the desire for socialism never died. Resistance movements and opposition parties made socialism their aim, reflecting peoples desire for justice, equality and empowerment. Many studies on Kenya focus on personalities or tribes' or race as driver of events, ignoring the all-important class and ideological positions of leaders and their Parties. Two Paths Ahead reproduces and comments on the documents from the opposing sides in the battles between capitalism and socialism the original Kenya African National Union (KANU), its successor, KANU-B, and the Kenya Peoples Union (KPU) on economy, land, labour, and social policy. It also touches upon the demands of the organisers of the 1982 Coup and traces the political stand of key leaders as proponents of capitalism or socialism. The final section reproduces some of the documents on this ideological struggle. The book exposes the hidden hand of imperialism in the countrys rush to capitalism. It fills a gap in understanding the real contradictions that divide Kenya to this day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1368608952

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African socialism and its application to planning in Kenya by Anonim Pdf

Socialist ideas as expressed by African trade unions are applied to national planning in Kenya. The government wants to avoid the hardships of industrial development by keeping African traditions.