ON THE ONGOING GENERAL STRIKE AND THE ESCALATING STATE TERROR AGAINST THE MASSES

STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY MARXIST KENYA (CPMK)

May 19th, 2026


The Central Committee of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya extends its highest revolutionary salute to the workers, students, boda boda riders, matatu workers, peasants, unemployed youth, and oppressed masses currently engaged in the ongoing General Strike and nationwide resistance against the unbearable conditions imposed upon the people by imperialism and its local comprador agents.

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Today Kenya stands at a historic turning point.

The masses can no longer live in the old way.
The ruling classes can no longer govern in the old way.

The sharp increase in fuel prices, transport costs, and the price of basic commodities is not an accident. It is not a temporary crisis. It is the inevitable outcome of a neocolonial capitalist system subordinated to imperialism, foreign finance capital, and the dictatorship of profit over human life.

The ongoing strike has paralysed transport and sections of economic activity across Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret, and other towns as workers and the urban poor reject the crushing burden imposed upon them. Reports from international and local media confirm that the current fuel crisis has already driven transport fares and food prices to intolerable levels for ordinary Kenyans.

The Central Committee particularly recognises and salutes the heroic role being played by CPMK cadres and organisers on the frontlines of the struggle.

Across the streets, estates, campuses, factories, transport stages, and working class neighbourhoods, Party cadres have stood firmly among the masses directing political consciousness toward the real enemy: imperialism, comprador capitalism, and the reactionary ruling class that protects foreign interests while condemning millions to hunger, unemployment, and misery.

At a moment when opportunists, liberals, tribalists, and reformists attempt to divert the anger of the people into confusion and empty slogans, CPMK has consistently provided revolutionary clarity, organisation, discipline, and ideological direction rooted in Marxism Leninism and the mass line.

The Party has not stood outside the struggle.
The Party has stood inside the struggle.
Among the masses.
With the masses.
Leading the masses.

The Kenyan comprador state, unable to solve the contradictions of the system it serves, has once again resorted to naked violence.

The Central Committee condemns in the strongest possible terms the murder of one CPMK comrade and the killing of at least three other protesters by the armed forces of the state. We equally condemn the injuries, arrests, intimidation, and terror unleashed against the masses in struggle.

The blood of the martyrs shall not be forgotten.
Their sacrifice shall water the tree of liberation.

Reuters, AP, and international observers have confirmed that police forces opened violent repression against protesters while the regime deployed tear gas, mass arrests, and armed force against the people.

This brutality exposes the true character of the Kenyan state.

When workers demand bread, the state answers with bullets.
When youth demand dignity, the state answers with prisons.
When the poor resist exploitation, the ruling class unleashes fascism.

This is not democracy.
This is the dictatorship of comprador capitalism defended through organised violence.

The current crisis must be understood scientifically and historically.