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Nov 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Wangui Kimari |Shiraz Durrani |Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng
Since June’s anti-finance bill protests, dozens of people remain unaccounted for—a stark reminder of the Kenyan state’s long history of abductions and assassinations. Ruto’s government is abducting people every day. Literally. There is not one day that has passed since the anti–finance bill protests started in June when Kenyans are not being bundled into unmarked Subaru cars by unidentified persons understood as plainclothes police officers (in all of their shades of vigilantism).
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng |Richard Heinberg
Events in Kenya are moving at a fast pace in the year 2024. Resistance to capitalism and imperialism under another comprador government had given birth to a new upsurge in resistance by working people, joined by professionals and activist individuals and organisations. It is sometimes difficult to see fast moving events in their historical and political perspectives.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng |Bharat Dogra
The on-going resistance in Kenya is sometimes referred to as a revolution. This is perhaps because the hope for change from the status quo is stronger than the reality. It perhaps shows a lack of understanding of relative strengths of the opposing forces in the class war. It is indeed a class war that is taking place in Kenya today, although this aspect is often hidden or not clearly understood. That then leads to not basing one’s thinking on the reality on the ground.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng |Robert Hunziker
Comparing war of independence with people’s resistance todayNote: This is a companion article to the author’s ‘Historical Perspective on the Resistance of Gen Z in Kenya’ published in countercurrents.org on 14-07-2024 . Available at https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/historical-perspective-on-the-resistance-of-gen-z-in-kenya/——While there may be many similarities between events from history and current ones, the two are never the same.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng |Shiraz Durrani |Phil Pasquini
Before the mass revolt in Kenya spread countrywide in June, it had started in the informal settlement area of Mathare, in Nairobi, following forced evictions after flooding in the area. Wairimu Gathimba writes about how this wave of brutal action in the city was simply the latest in a long history of brutal evictions. Gathimba looks at the long struggle by residents to remain in the city in the face of such evictions, and what we can learn from their battle to keep their homes.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kipchumba Ochieng |Maryam Sakeenah |Tom Engelhardt |Bharat Dogra
The much-coveted Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has been in the limelight for the past two weeks after trainee IAS officer Ms. Pooja Khedkar hit the headlines for her irregular and illegitimate demands during probation. While UPSC is the only examination-conducting body that enjoys impeccable public trust, the time has come to ask whether this trust is justified or merely an illusion, derived out of aggressive perception management.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Subhash Gatade |Kipchumba Ochieng |Maryam Sakeenah |Tom Engelhardt
Calls for immediate release of all advocates and end to repression !19th July, 2024: National Alliance for Justice, Accountability & Rights (NAJAR), a collective of progressive legal professionals for democratic causes, vehemently condemns the recent crackdown on multiple advocates in Kashmir. The arrests of four lawyers, part of Jammu & Kashmir High Court Bar Association, has sparked outrage and concern both within Kashmir and outside.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kipchumba Ochieng |Shiraz Durrani |Maryam Sakeenah |Tom Engelhardt
Yesterday, the Kenyan government of William Ruto banned protests in the heart of the capital Nairobi indefinitely. The move targets the continued mass protests across the country against austerity, mass unemployment and the soaring of cost of living but has a much wider application, as sections of the working class enter the struggle.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Kipchumba Ochieng |Binoy Kampmark |Bharat Dogra
PART 1: The StoryVolcanoes do not erupt suddenly, although they seem to do so. It may take years or decades of underground activities which build up the pressure to push lava out of the ground. In the same way, social ‘eruptions’ do not happen without years and decades of underground and overground work by those most affected by the bourgeois mis-rule in countries under capitalism and imperialism.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kipchumba Ochieng |Shiraz Durrani |Mohd Khan |Marwan Asmar
Yesterday, Kenya’s anti-austerity protesters staged the #OccupyEverywhere shutdown of Nairobi and other major cities. In Nairobi, where schools and most of the central business district remained closed, thousands of youth engaged in running battles with police while chanting “Ruto must go.” Early in the morning, protesters placed coffins along Moi Avenue to hold a vigil for those killed in last week’s protests.
