Booker Omole of the Communist Party of Kenya - History and Class Analysis of Kenyan Elections Dispatch

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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In this tremendous conversation, we talk with Comrade Booker Omole of the Communist Party of Kenya for the history and class analysis of the recent elections in Kenya. An absolutely fascinating and enlightening discussion, we could not hope for a better guest than Comrade Booker!

Booker Omole is the National Vice Chairperson and National Organizing Secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya. He can be found on Twitter @BookerBiro.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Bamboo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.9	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:38.8	I'm your host, Henry Huckmacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan
0:43.9	Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada.
0:48.9	Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today?
0:50.9	I'm really well, Henry. It's great to be with you.
0:53.3	Absolutely. It's always nice to see you. And also joined by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you? I just saw an episode of Rev Left come out today. And I can say today, because we'll be releasing this episode today on the French Revolution. And I'm very excited to listen to that. Yeah, I'm doing really good. And I'm really proud of that episode. We just released on the French Revolution. It's over two hours. So if you're interested and you want a uniquely communist spin on that fundamentally bourgeois revolution, check out the French Revolution episode on Revla. Yeah. Unfortunately, it only came out like 20 minutes before we hit record, so I haven't
1:29.8	been able to listen yet, but I am very excited to do so. I'm also very excited to speak to our
1:35.2	guests today. Our guest is Comrade Booker Amole from the Communist Party of Kenya. He's
1:41.1	the National Vice Chairperson and National Organizing Secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya. And today we National Vice Chairperson and National Organizing Secretary
1:44.4	of the Communist Party of Kenya. And today we'll be talking about the recent elections in Kenya.
1:50.1	Hello, Comrade Booker. It's a pleasure to have you on the show. Thanks for coming on.
1:54.1	Yeah. Thank you very much, Comrades. And it's also a pleasure to be in the midst of comrades.
2:00.6	You know, every time we're in Kenya here,
2:03.8	normally the corporate media is quite hostile, but we are glad that, you know, people like you
2:10.1	are getting the message out to the, not just to the Kenyan working class, but the global
2:16.3	working place. Absolutely. So it would be interesting to have. We, not just to the Kenyan working class, but the global working place.
2:17.9	Absolutely.
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