[CIRAC]

In the face of the repression by the neocolonial regime of Kenya against the delegation of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform. The Rafael Aguiñada Carranza Inter-Union Coordinating Committee (CIRAC), a Salvadoran organization that brings together trade union, cooperative, women’s, youth, and social activist sectors defending human rights, grounded in the principles of internationalist solidarity, anti-imperialism, and the defense of the self-determination of peoples, addresses the national and international community to express the following:

1. We strongly condemn the violent and arbitrary detentions perpetrated on May 12th in Nairobi, Kenya, by the military and police forces of the William Ruto regime, against 19 local and international activists belonging to the World Anti-Imperialist Platform and the Marxist Communist Party of Kenya, who were peacefully participating in a demonstration rejecting the neocolonial summit “Africa Forward,” organized by France and the Kenyan government to deepen imperialist domination in East Africa.
2. We demand that the physical integrity and human rights guarantees of the detainees be respected, as well as their immediate and unconditional release.
3. We demand that the Kenyan authorities immediately cease any form of mistreatment, psychological torture, incommunicado detention, or pressure against the detained comrades, as well as the unrestricted respect for their rights to communicate with their families, lawyers, and consulates, and to due process.
4. We support the demands put forward by the Marxist Communist Party of Kenya, which include:
   1. The immediate and unconditional release of all arrested comrades.
   2. An end to police harassment, kidnappings, and repression against activists, organizers, and progressive movements in Kenya.
   3. Respect for the democratic rights of all participants in anti-imperialist and pan-African gatherings.
5. We denounce the fact that the government of William Ruto acts as a neocolonial and comprador administration that criminalizes anti-imperialist solidarity while serving the interests of foreign capital, particularly French imperialism. These events reveal the true character of the regime: it fears the international unity of revolutionary and progressive forces.
6. We remind the Kenyan authorities that repression has never subdued peoples who struggle for their liberation. As the Marxist Communist Party of Kenya has stated: “Their only crime is to stand on the side of the oppressed. Their only crime is to reject imperialist domination. Their only crime is to declare that Africa is not for sale.”

Freedom now for the detainees!

International solidarity with the World Anti-Imperialist Platform and the Marxist Communist Party of Kenya!

Long live the anti-imperialist struggle!

San Salvador, El Salvador, May 12, 2026

[Tanzania Socialist Forum]

We stand with Kenyans: Together Against France’s Imperialist Encroachment.

In Nairobi, Kenya, a cooperation summit between Africa and France is currently taking place. Branded as “Africa Forward”, it is not common for such a summit to be held outside a country that isn’t Francophone.

Its convening in Kenya signals a shift in the nature of relations between France and its former colonies, particularly in the Sahel region, where France’s influence has dwarfed to the choking and so shocking levels.

What is deeply troubling is that Kenyan security forces, in a country that prides itself on being democratic, have suppressed demonstrations by Kenyan citizens opposing the summit, citing the long historical record of exploitative relations between France and its former colonies.

These Kenyans have made it clear that they will not allow Kenya to become a safe haven for France to continue its paternalistic policies in Africa, and that France’s defeat in the Sahel, it should mean a one way trip to Paris rather than resettlement to Kenya or elsewhere in the African continent.

We are in solidarity with all Kenyans of that thought, especially social movements, socialist and communist political parties, and representatives of progressive organizations who have taken up the responsibility of resisting France’s deceptive agenda aimed at entrenching imperial domination in East Africa.

Promises made by President Emmanuel Macron, particularly investment pledges estimated at more than 20 billion US dollars, are a continuation of a long-standing pattern of priorities that neither indicate nor genuinely aim to advance the liberation of the majority of people on our continent.

What is happening today in many former French colonies in Africa is a clear example of the consequences of “French investment,” which is centered on protecting French corporations that extract and plunder African resources, while at the same time supporting dictatorial leaders who enable such exploitation.

We therefore, strongly condemn France’s imperialist agenda toward Africa.

We also condemn and criticize African rulers for their complicity, and by doing little or nothing to confront France’s sinister agenda on the continent.

We commend the Kenyan people and citizens of other nations who have risen up against this imperialist project cooked in Nairobi.

We further salute our brothers and sisters in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, who continue to standing up against imperialist schemes and provocations, including terrorism linked to foreign interests.

We call upon Africans across the continent to continue confronting these imperialist machinations and to build solidarity aimed at genuine liberation, rather than kneeling in search of aid and programs whose ultimate effect is to enrich a few while impoverishing the majority.

We demand that Kenyan security authorities immediately and unconditionally release all demonstrators detained for opposing these schemes and policies associated with French influence in Africa.

[OCF]

Arrest of several members of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform (WAP) in Nairobi!

We have learned with dismay of the arrest this May 12 of several members of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform (WAP) in Nairobi, during the protest against the France-Africa Summit. Among those detained are Lee Sang-hun, former president of the People’s Democracy Party of South Korea; Joti Brar, chair of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist); Dimitris Patelis, founding member of the Revolutionary Theory Group of Greece; and Song Dan-bee, director of the International Department of the People’s Democratic Party of South Korea.

The demonstration on May 12, although peaceful, was harshly repressed by the Kenyan armed forces and police, who used tear gas. In addition to the arrests, the police confiscated the cameras of journalists.

The reason for this repression? French imperialism, severely weakened in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, is trying to maintain its presence on the continent through Kenya. The summit in Nairobi, with the presence of the sinister Emmanuel Macron, is an attempt for this imperialism to avoid sinking. Yet, people are fed up with economic and political neocolonialism, and with the French military presence on the continent. We want this imperialism to sink as quickly as possible!

We denounce the scandalous arrests of the peaceful protesters of the Platform. We call for the immediate release of our comrades. But above all, we call to finally bury Françafrique!

Declaration of the OCF – May 12, 2026