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The 2024 strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z–led uprising, reflected deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund–backed austerity measures. Workers and young people must forge a new path, grounded in Leon Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution—the programme that inspired the October 1917 Russian Revolution. This pamphlet provides a brief history of the colonial oppression of Kenya and the treachery of the bourgeois-nationalist regimes that succeeded British rule. Ochieng examines the role of pseudo-socialist and Stalinist forces in the contemporary political upheaval in Kenya.
