KRA’s Mission Statement Continued…
The positive aspect is that political consciousness in Kenya has, over the past decade, undergone rapid and tremendous growth as a result of systematic capitalist decay in Kenya and collapse of the system internationally. This development has created a volatile situation that has sustained sporadic social explosions that, in turn, desperately calls for a revolutionary outfit like KRA to give hope in a hopeless situation and to direct the struggle against the rich which has held the poor hostage in their own country.
The intention of KRA’s initiative takers is not to pursue a rigid line of struggle or opt for a sectarian line of politics closed to open debate and stuck with dogma. The intention is to gather all individuals and forces who believe that the country is ripe for revolution, honestly access the gains of the Kenya democratic movement since the betrayal of the Mau Mau following the “Colonial revolution”, expose the ravages of neo-colonialism and imperialist domination of our country over the past decades and to chart out a clear and workable revolutionary solution that has evaded several progressive Movements whose leaderships believed in the concept of liberation within the framework of a rotten system that has been entering into one crisis after another both locally and internationally. The country is in decay because the system has literally grinded to a halt.
There is no doubt that protracted struggles by “Post-independence Movements” led by very courageous compatriots have led to massive democratic gains in Kenya. Huge sacrifices in terms of life and blood have been made by thousands of Kenyans for the sake of our country’s freedom and emancipation. The democratic gains Kenyans enjoy today were not won accidentally or without a fight. They came about as a result of commitment to the liberation struggle by Kenyan freedom fighters who struggled tirelessly under impossible conditions to realize these gains following the colonization of Kenya and the emergence of the Kenyatta, Moi and, lately, Kibaki dictatorships under the neo-colonial arrangement supervised by imperialist powers.
However, the democratic gains over the past decades have, at the same time, been overshadowed by a “permanent status quo” characterized by the country’s resources and wealth producing institutions having been left on the hands of multi-national companies and local bourgeoisie whose agents constitute the corrupt ruling classes which have and continue to control the Kenya State machine to perpetuate both their personal interests and the interests of their imperialist masters. The problem in Kenya is not about the constitution but wealth distribution. It is about the struggle between the rich and the poor, the haves and the have nots, the exploiter and the exploited.
In other words, the general stand-still of Kenya’s political, economic and social progress is a result of decades of control of the country’s wealth and resources by foreign agents working in cahoots with local stooges in control of the State machine which they utilize to contain the struggle against the system as reform politics is put forward to dupe the masses that the solution to the crisis is reform and not revolution.
KRA initiative takers believe that constitutional and other reforms are a step in the right direction but that the Constitution is a piece of paper that will never put food on the table. Kenyans are not starving because of a defective Constitution but because of looting of the country’s resources by thieves in control of a rich man’s system of government which needs to be vanquished to open the way for sharing of the national cake currently in the custody of a committee of wealth grabbers calling themselves “government”.
From the Kenyan experience, there is ample evidence that the rich and powerful will never institute political changes in the interest of the poor but in their own personal interests and to further their own endless wealth-grabbing agendas. KRA seeks to break the gridlock where Movements and politicians have entered into politics with reform agendas to sustain the status quo, not to overturn the very system that is at the center of the suffering of millions of Kenyans who have been living under dehumanizing conditions since the days of flag independence in 1963.
Our position is that while political reforms are vital and important for the country’s democratization process, the system of capitalism under which millions of Kenyans are and continue to suffer “is rotten beyond reform” and consequently, “ripe for overthrow”. Any sane Kenyan who does not understand this fundamental point is politically unconscious.
It is a fact that the reform process has been stuck because of competing interests of various capitalist factions within the coalition’s ruling classes whose members continue to loot the economy, grab land and execute Kenyans using security forces under their firm control.
Initiative takers of KRA believe that the emergence of the Alliance at this critical point in the history of our country is a bold step towards creating the “subjective factor” currently missing in Kenya to help speed up the revolutionary process that will liberate our country from neo-colonialism, imperialist control and capitalist class rule that has, over the years, guaranteed mass poverty, mass unemployment and “hell on earth” for millions of Kenyans already starving to death.
We take this opportunity to appeal to Kenyans who may be interested in the Alliance to take contact for further discussions and coordination for purposes of emancipating our country.
Okoth Osewe
Interim Secretary
Kenya Red Alliance (KRA)
kenyaredalliance(at)mapambano.com
About the Author
I’m honoured and feel very proud to be associated with such a movement.I’m a former police Inspector ( a prosecutor) and i resigned from the force w.e.f 2017 because my conscience was’nt at peace with the direction of things both in the force and the entire government set up.Strangely,four years down the line,those criminals haven’t paid me.I always ask myself: ‘Which other drug can one use to cure these patients other than revolution?’.I thank God that I’ve finally received a feedback from your movement and I’m a hundred percent behind you in this.Meanwhile,there’re certain very secretive things which i’ve been researching and working on,along those same lines for quite a while now.They’re currently nearing fruition.I’ll continue to keep them to myself for now,but when they begin to penetrate your ears,don’t be left out.Thanks.