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(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.
Anyone who criticises those in power in Kenya risks their freedom or worse. The brutal abduction of Booker Omole marks a new escalation in a country sliding toward authoritarian rule, says MARC VANDEPITTE
JENNY CLEGG reports from a Chinese peace conference bringing together defence ministers, US think tanks and global South leaders, where speakers warned that the erosion of multilateralism risks regional hotspots exploding into wider war
