Leninism is Marxism in the era of imperialism and Proletarian revolution. More precisely, it is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general and the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular. (Stalin, 1924) With the understanding of this definition of Leninism, it becomes easy to see the relevance […]

Prologue. This reflection of ‘Mwakenya: The Unfinished Revolution’ follows a thorough discussion on the same in our Ukombozi Library – Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) cell meeting. A book review on the same was the subject of our discussion when we met to specifically discuss this material, and it was thence generally agreed that further reflections […]

It is often understood that students constitute a very important section of the population in any country, and Kenya is no exception. As a country, many of the progressive leaps forward we have made as regards the increase of our democratic space have indeed occurred as a result of heavy participation of university students in […]

The ever tightening stranglehold of the people of the world by the owners of capital based in the North, the ever increasing cost of living, the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the advent of neoliberal capitalism all go hand in hand with the increased militarization of politico-economic relations; an inherent […]

The philosophical basis of Socialism is dialectical materialism, so called because its view of phenomena, its way of studying and understanding them, its method of apprehending them, is dialectical, whereas its method of interpreting them and internalizing them, is materialistic. Dialectical materialism is created by the fusing together of two major concepts of philosophy; dialectics […]