This year, 2021, marks a hundred years since the founding of the great Communist Party of China (CPC).
In the name of Socialist Internationalism, the Communist Party of Kenya (CPK) takes this opportunity to extend this message of congratulations, friendship and revolutionary solidarity to the leadership and membership of CPC as you commemorate the long and rich history of your Party that led the people of China to liberate themselves and nation from feudalism, brutal Japanese colonialism and imperialism led by the United States of America.
Through the leadership of CPC, China has succeeded to make immense economic, cultural, scientific, technological, diplomatic and military achievements that have transformed your Country from a poor, hungry, underdeveloped, colonial, imperialist dominated and exploited Country into a World superpower in all fronts.
In Africa, we do not forget the moral and material support that was provided by CPC and China in the anti-colonial, anti-apartheid and anti-imperialist national liberation struggles that led to the independence of our nations. Thanks to CPC and China, imperialism is today impeded from imposing a unipolar World of driving developing countries deeper and deeper in the quagmire of imperialist economic, political, ideological, diplomatic and military slavery.
The CPC led China continues to play one of the significant deterrent roles against the predatory tendencies of the USA and its imperialist allies in their planned destruction of Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Venezuela and other countries that it regards as its enemies. CPK also recognises the contribution of China under the guidance of CPC in the economic and infrastructural development of Kenya and African countries.
In the course of the hundred years of its dynamic life, CPC has made significant contributions to the development of the theory and ideology of communism and the fight for national liberation. As we build our Party, we benefit from the ideological works of the leaders of CPC, from those of Chairman Mao Tse Tung and others. We learn how CPC creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to deal with specific problems of China under specific historical and material circumstances until the triumph of the socialist revolution in 1949. It is this creative application of socialism that CPC continues to apply that enables China to continue developing the largest nation of the World and to progressively deal with current emerging national and global issues and problems. We single out the invaluable role and contribution of China in the fight against the Covid-19 World pandemic.
CPK is proud of the good relations between the governments and peoples of Kenya and China that have led to the growth of trade, economic, cultural and diplomatic relations. When Kenya was under British colonialism, publications of the CPC - Peking Publications - were banned in our Country. Even after independence, the revolutionary publications continued to be proscribed to prevent the Kenyan masses from accessing the liberating socialist ideology propagated by CPC. Many Kenyans were arrested, tortured, detained, and imprisoned for being in possession of CPC publications that were regarded as dangerous sedition by the ruling regimes. It wasn’t until 1997 that the legal reforms brought about by the struggle of the Kenyan masses removed the most reactionary clauses in the national laws that banned the CPC publications in the Country.
We note that different Kenyan political parties of various ideological orientations have relations with CPC. CPK hopes that this development will help to expose Kenyan leaders and politicians to progressive and anti-imperialist ideas.
Finally, CPK which is a registered political party in accordance with the laws of Kenya, is committed towards establishing fraternal relations with CPC in the name of Socialist Internationalism, world peace and anti-imperialist solidarity and for mutual benefit of our parties. While doing so we will continue to expose and condemn the anti-China propaganda being published by imperialism in Kenya and the World.
Hongera sana CPC kwa kuadhimisha miaka mia moja ya mapinduzi.
Long live CPC!
Long live good relations between Kenya and China!
Long live socialist Internationalism!
Long live socialism!
Mwandawiro Mghanga, National Chairperson of Communist Party of Kenya
April 22, 2021