Our Tasks

The practical tasks facing us at the moment are immense. As revolutionaries, and as members of a revolutionary party, it is our duty to day and night toil for the preparation of the revolution by all means necessary. Whether the future of Kenyans, Africans and the human society in general will remain full of poverty, want and exploitation or otherwise will depend on how fast and steadfastly we organize for their liberation. But this is needless to mention.

Foremost, we are a workers' party. The interests of the workers, their welfare and their ultimate emancipation from wage slavery should therefore be our guiding principle primarily. With this in mind, it follows that the cadres of our party must engage the workers with a view to arouse their political consciousness and generally make the working class a class for itself, not just in itself. Efforts must be made to make the workers aware of their relationship with capital, their place as the generators of wealth in the economy, and their potential as the movers and shakers of political events in the country. Most importantly, we must make them aware of their historic role as the bedrock upon which the future of humanity rests. We must make them understand that it is them that will push the human race forward and abolish exploitation forever. Further, they must know that billions of their counterparts throughout the world undergo the same plight, and are eagerly awaiting revolution.

But how do we achieve this? The logical responsibility arising from these tasks is building a well organized propaganda machine. An information outlet through which to articulate our messages and through which the workers can raise the issues affecting them. Towards this, steps are being made already. The Red Flag publication is intended to work towards achieving consciousness for the masses and prepare them for the revolution. Borrowing a leaf from Lenin;

In a word, the plan for a ... political newspaper does not represent the fruits of the armchair work of doctrinaire and literary persons (as some people thought who did not study it carefully). On the contrary, it was a practical plan to begin immediately and everywhere to make preparations for the rebellion, while not for a single moment forgetting the everyday immediate questions.
-LENIN, What is to be done? (1903)

Quite clearly, a political newspaper is important in that it forms part of the practical plan for the preparation of the workers' revolution. Through the newspaper, we shall reach scores of workers in their workplaces, such as EPZ's and other industrial zones. With time, many of these workers will be raised to the level of revolutionaries after receiving enough sensitization and class consciousness. We therefore have the responsibility of not only distributing our publication but also engaging in political sensitization with the workers with a view of arousing them to their historic task. Logically, a class conscious proletariat will then be recruited into our party, and the advance towards the revolution hastened.

Further, in a bid to win the support of the rest of the people, including the peasants, our struggle must be associated with the historical struggle of our glorious liberation movements of the past century. The fight waged by Mekatilili wa Menza, for example, against colonial occupation should be compared to our struggle against the forces of imperialism and neocolonialism. The ambition and aspirations of our brave traditional leaders such as Koitalel arap Samoei and Waiyaki wa Hinga should be portrayed as the basis upon which our struggle to liberate the people is hinged. Most importantly, the people must know that by extension, our tasks towards emancipating our country and our continent are in line with the revolutionary efforts of the Land and Freedom Army, the Mau Mau. They set the precedence; we are here to fulfill and continue their struggle for the liberation of Africa. They fought for the equitable sharing of resources and the freedom for each; our tasks are primarily an extension of these.

Special attention must be paid to the international character of our struggle. As a socialist party, our ambition is, expectedly, a world wide proletarian revolution to crush exploitation forever. As African revolutionaries, in the spirit of pan africanist anti-imperialism, it is our goal to foremost achieve a continental victory over the forces of imperialism and neocolonialism and, by extension, capitalism. In our activities, therefore, we should bear in mind that the victory of socialism in one country alone in Africa would not ensure the full emancipation of all Africans; this has to be followed by a quick victory of socialism in other areas of the continent. This will ensure that the entire people of Africa are on course towards the bright future they have always dreamt of. Nay more, it will provide security and generally greater potential for a world wide socialist revolution. For this, therefore, we must link up with other revolutionaries throughout Africa. We must centralize our activities, in order to move at the same pace. Not a single region, from Egypt to Namibia to the Gambia to Djibouti should be left behind in the preparation for our liberation.

Let's remember that ours is a movement for progress; a struggle to take humanity to the next level of development and prosperity. Our efforts represent the struggle for the future; the efforts of the exploiters represent the struggle for the past. Onward to the future! Onward to prosperity and freedom for all of mankind!