(From left to right: Morning Star International Editor Roger McKenzie, Black Liberation Alliance’s Fiona Sim, Pan-African activist Cecil Guzmore, Communist Party of Kenya vice-chairman Booker, and Ngesa Omole, and International Manifesto Group's Radhika Desai
CHINA is a “counterforce” to US exploitation, a Kenyan communist leader told a central London meeting on Saturday evening.
Communist Party of Kenya vice-chairman and organising secretary Booker Ngesa Omole was the keynote speaker for a packed meeting on Africa, China and the Rise of the Global South at the historic Marx Memorial Library in London.
The meeting, organised by the Friends of Socialist China, also heard powerful contributions from Black Liberation Alliance’s Fiona Sim, Pan-African activist Cecil Gutzmore and RMT president Alex Gordon.
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