Mwakenya: The Unfinished Revolution

This volume represents the development of the
WPK/DTM-Mwakenya’s anti-imperialist line in Kenya from1974 to 2002. The
Mwakenya Movement (Muungano wa Wazalendo wa Kenya/ Union of Patriotic
Kenyans) was an underground socialist movement in Kenya in the 1980s
formed to fight for multi-party democracy.

Independence means
self-determination and self-government. An independent nation is one
with the autonomy to make decisions, which will advance the welfare of
its people. It is a nation that controls its own resources, and has the
political and economic scope to utilise these resources, human and
natural, free of foreign interference.

Independence in this sense
has little relevance to the current Kenyan situation. Citizens find
themselves in a dependent neocolonial country, wholly subservient to
foreign interests. The country’s economy is geared to the needs of
foreigners, both to the ex-colonial masters and other Western
imperialist nations. Neocolonialism is not merely an academic debate in
Kenya, it is a condition in which the people live day-by-day, a form of
oppression and exploitation every bit as effective as that practiced by
the British imperialist powers.

Mwakenya believes that only a open-access
revolutionary democratic system, controlled by Kenyans can bring
fundamental changes in the country and liberate the people from foreign
domination and national oppression, overhaul the corrupt neocolonial
system, and establish an egalitarian system for the Kenyan people.