Kenya Socialist Web Site
ABOUT THIS SITE
Kenya Socialist Web site is published by the Kenya Socialist Democratic
Alliance (KSDA) that was launched in 1998. The purpose of launching the
site is to help promote, popularise and put forward Socialist ideas as an
alternative to the deformed capitalist system of government that has continued
to stagnate Kenya since the country gained “Flag independence” from British
colonialists in 1963 after a protracted armed struggle.
The site is intended to act as a reference point for revolutionary Kenyans
who believe that the solution to the crisis facing our country is a democratic
socialist revolution led by Kenyan workers and the oppressed majority of
the population. The idea is to help explain why and how socialist ideas can
help bring to a permanent end the untold human suffering of 30 million Kenyans
under a rotten capitalist system of government which subsequent dictators
have utilised to deceive the suffering Kenyan population for four decades.
The site is also intended to enlighten other revolutionaries around the
world about the political situation in Kenya and the state of the revolutionary
struggle in the country. The site will mainly carry news and analysis from
a socialist perspective while KSDA will use it to intervene in the struggle
and to take revolutionary positions as the search for a solution to the
political and economic crisis in Kenya continues.
KSDA believes that there are many Kenyan revolutionaries who are looking
for alternative ways and ideas of waging struggle for genuine change in
our country. Ethnic politics that has characterised political discourse
in Kenya for 4 decades, needs to give way to class politics as the general
political consciousness of Kenyans (especially the youth) changes with the
objective situation on the ground.
It is not easy to introduce class politics in Kenya without first outlining
the class aspects of the Kenyan society. It is not possible to effectively
struggle for a change of the system without exposing the weaknesses of the
existing system. In a country where Socialist ideas are not so popular and
where anti-socialist propaganda has existed for more than 40 years, it takes
time, clarity, patience and consistency to outline socialism as a real alternative
to capitalism in Kenya. KSDA will use this site to systematically demolish
the anti-Socialist propaganda that has dominated the Kenyan political scene
for decades while at the same time challenging the pro-capitalist opportunists
in power in Kenya from a clear revolutionary stand-point.
Tribalism in Kenya is not a “cancer” as bourgeoisie political commentators
have been suggesting but a political tool consciously used by the ruling
elite to split the struggle against the real enemy in the country – capitalism.
KSDA believes that it is not possible to effectively advocate for the abolition
of tribalism in the country without a convincing alternative to tribalism.
Through this web site and other outlets, it will be the task of KSDA to
address the issue of ideological education of Kenyans especially the youth
and to convince the population about the need for a socialist revolution
in the country as the struggle for change in our country continues.
KSDA welcomes contributions to this site from all Kenyan revolutionaries
and progressives alike. We hope that the site will grow to inspire Kenyans
disillusioned with the plethora of bourgeoisie parties that continue to
fail Kenyan workers and the oppressed with the passing of each and every
election. Our position is that a real political alternative is possible
but only through a revolutionary struggle with Kenyan workers taking a leading
role in the struggle. We believe that Kenyans should stop pinning their
hopes on individual personalities who continue to fail the population after
every election and instead, pin their hope on a political alternative. Through
this website, the task of KSDA will be to demonstrate convincingly how a
political alternative can be converted into a weapon for powerful revolutionary
change in a hopeless situation where the oppressed are increasingly becoming
frustrated by election rituals which have consistently benefited the ruling
class and their allies and where majority of the population have notoriously
emerged as the real losers.
KSDA Executive
29th December 2002
Published by Kenya Socialist Democratic Alliance
(KSDA)
email: harakatips@hotmail.com
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