Solidarity with Booker Omole at Mavoko Law Courts
Call to Action from the Communist Party Marxist - Kenya
Comrades, workers, peasants, students, and all progressive and democratic forces, we issue this urgent call to assemble in firm and militant solidarity with Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya, who is being unlawfully detained and persecuted by the state.
‘Booker is accused of attempting to kill the police, assaulting the police and having connections with the now jailed President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in the US drug cartel. This is as a result of organising a demonstration at the US Embassy demanding the release of Nicolás Maduro.’
This grotesque slander is a political fabrication and a transparent attempt to criminalise dissent and political struggle. After abduction, torture, and illegal confinement, Comrade Booker is now being brought before the courts under heavy police control. They deny access. They isolate him. They attempt to break his spirit and intimidate the movement. But they forget one truth. A revolutionary is never alone. The people stand behind him. This is not a legal matter. This is political repression. This is an attack on the organised working class. This is an attempt to silence the voice of the poor and the oppressed.
An injury to one is an injury to all. Touch one communist, and you awaken thousands. We therefore call upon all comrades and democratic forces to gather at the court in numbers, with discipline and unity, to:
Demand his immediate and unconditional release.
Demand an end to police brutality and harassment.
Defend democratic rights and the right to organise.
Expose the lies and political machinations of the state.
Show the state that the Party stands firm and the masses stand taller.
Let them see the people. Let them hear the people. Let them know that fear has changed sides.
Where they isolate one, we gather many.
Where they threaten, we resist.
Where they repress, we advance.
Come early. Come organised. Come united.
Solidarity is our weapon. Victory belongs to the people.
Signed, Central Committee Communist Party Marxist Kenya
Solidarity forever. Forward to people’s power.
Photo: Booker Ngesa Omole after his abduction. Photo: _James041/X