By John Kariuki
Beneath the resolute walls of the United Kenya Club, the 62nd African Liberation Day transformed from a mere observance into a battlefield of ideology. Booker Omole, the indomitable General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPMK), delivered a seismic address ,a political offensive against the chains of neocolonial domination and the architecture of global imperialism.
“We do not gather here to remember,” he declared, piercing through the expectant silence of the assembly. “We gather to awaken, to agitate, to mobilise. African Liberation Day is not nostalgia. It is a declaration of war. A red banner of defiance, a thunderous drumbeat for insurrection.” With clenched fists raised high, Omole ignited the air with revolutionary urgency. The message was unmistakable: the continent remains shackled not by foreign flags but by internal traitors neocolonial agents and comprador elites who masquerade in African names while auctioning the continent to imperialist predators.
“What Kenya inherited in 1963 was not emancipation but betrayal!” he thundered. “It was not Uhuru but the elevation of collaborators , a deceitful transition brokered in the boardrooms of colonial finance capital.” He denounced the so called independence as a neofeudal spectacle that betrayed the spilled blood of genuine freedom fighters. “The land remains stolen. The worker remains enchained. The African woman remains doubly colonised by patriarchy and capital. And our youth are still being trained not to liberate Africa but to serve empire.”
With militant clarity, Omole called for the unmasking of the comprador bureaucrat bourgeoisie , “those spineless lackeys of imperialism who trade African sovereignty for loans, accolades, and crumbs.” He branded them traitors to the cause of African redemption and declared open ideological warfare on all reactionary forces. “These imperialist dogs, who have turned Africa into a brothel of exploitation, must be crashed without mercy.”
The hall erupted into revolutionary chants as Omole invoked the immortal spirit of Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi, declaring him the eternal standard bearer of Kenya’s National Democratic Revolution. “Kimathi did not die for a flag. He died for total rupture ,for a socialist horizon unburdened by colonial logic. His blood irrigates the future we must now fight to claim.”
The audience was soon swept into a tide of chant and commitment:
“Wafanyi kazi nyakua mashamba Nyakua
Wafanyi kazi komboa chakula Komboa
Wafanyi kazi pigania uhuru Pigania”
Omole’s voice then thundered across the auditorium, invoking one of the titans of global socialism Fidel Castro Ruz. “Be like Fidel!” he commanded. “He was not a man but a movement forged in fire and fidelity to the oppressed. When the African continent called he did not hesitate. He sent not debt but dignity. Not financiers but fighters. He armed not tyrants but liberation movements. He taught us that revolution is not charity. It is duty!”
Fidel Omole declared lives on in every peasant who resists eviction in every student who rejects colonial curriculum in every worker who refuses exploitation. “Fidel is not gone. Fidel lives in the clenched fists of Africa’s awakening.”
The speech then turned to the militarised siege of Africa under US imperialism. “AFRICOM is not about security. It is the armed wing of global capital — a machinery of death masquerading as protection,” he asserted. “They build bases train assassins and install puppet regimes in the name of democracy. But their bullets do not protect the Congolese farmer. Their bombs do not feed the Sudanese mother. AFRICOM must be dismantled. Africa will not be a launchpad for America’s military fascism!”
The general secretary directly confronted the reactionary machinery of the United States denouncing its ruling class now represented again by Donald Trump. “Africa is not the backyard of Western bigots. Africa is the cradle of resistance. The womb of revolt.”
With revolutionary certitude Omole identified the Alliance of Sahel States and Palestine as the fault lines in the crumbling empire of US hegemony. “They are the weakest links. The burial sites of imperial arrogance. From the red soils of Africa to the bloodied stones of Gaza we are digging the grave of empire!”
He raised his voice in solidarity with revolutionary organisations holding the line of resistance — the AAPRP Wahenga Youth Revolutionary Youth League Revolutionary Students Commission Revolutionary Women League Pio Gama Pinto Institute and Kasarani Social Justice Centre. These he said are the “vanguard battalions of people’s war waging ideological cultural and material resistance in every trench of society.”
Marking the conclusion of the Fourth Theoretical Conference (Theocon) Omole emphasised that theory is not academic luxury but revolutionary armament. “Theory is our weapon forged to pierce the illusions of neocolonial democracy. We are not spectators. We are the gravediggers of imperialism. The vanguard of Africa’s Second and Final Liberation!”
He closed with a renewed call to action his voice now a war cry:
“Wafanyi kazi nyakua mashamba Nyakua
Wafanyi kazi komboa chakula Komboa
Wafanyi kazi pigania uhuru Pigania”
And with a final crescendo of defiance:
“Until we crash the big landlords Mapambano Bado Yanaendelea
Until we crash the comprador class Mapambano Bado Yanaendelea
Until we crash the bureaucrat elite Mapambano Bado Yanaendelea
Until we win Mapambano Bado Yanaendelea”
Let the capitalists tremble. The hammer has been raised. The sickle is sharpened. Communism is not coming. It is here. Africa is red.
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