The 2024 strike wave by workers in Kenya, following the Gen Z-led uprising, reflects deep-seated anger towards the regime of President William Ruto and its International Monetary Fund-backed austerity measures. Workers and the youth 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 the pseudo-left and Stalinist forces in the contemporary political upheaval in Kenya.