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Guerrilla History

Building the Communist Party of Kenya w/ Comrade Booker Omole

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8622 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In this excellent conversation, we talk with Comrade Booker Omole of the Communist Party of Kenya about their new book release - The Building of the Communist Party of Kenya!  A great conversation about building a Communist Party, the book is a tremendous resource, and all proceeds of it go towards supporting the CPK!

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

Support the Communist Party of Kenya!  You can contribute to their fundraising drive on PayPal.  You can follow them on Twitter @CommunistsKe, on Facebook, YouTube, or on Instagram.  You can also support them by buying something from their Propaganda Shop or getting the book we talked about today!  You can also check out their website at https://www.communistpartyofkenya.org/.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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0:00.0

You remember Den Ben-Boo?

0:09.0

No!

0:10.0

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

0:14.0

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.

0:27.1

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.

1:14.7

I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckamaki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing great, Henry. It's wonderful to be with you. Absolutely. I just saw you yesterday, but of course, I'm still very happy that we get to do two days in a row. Also joined by our other co-host, Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing? I'm doing good, and I'm super excited to talk to Booker today. I learn a lot from him, and, you know, great role model for those of us in the West to learn from. So, very excited about today's episode. Yeah, absolutely. So the episode that we have today is going to be featuring an outstanding

1:20.2

guests and a brand new book. But before I introduced the guests and the book, I will mention

1:27.1

that this is a continuation of our Sources and Methods series.

1:31.3

This is a series that we recently started, and Adnan, why don't I pass it over to you to remind the listeners of the Sources and Methods series, which we started with the book about the Black Liberation Army.

1:43.9

That's right.

1:44.5

We started a series called Sources and Methods.

1:47.1

This is the history podcast and one of the most useful things that we could do in educating people about history is also the methods of studying history and the importance of historical sources and documents and approaches to

2:04.4

historical consciousness. And so we had a couple of great conversations about collections of

2:10.3

documents and writings from the struggles. As Henry just mentioned, the first edition of

2:17.3

this new series was the collected writings of the Black Liberation Army, Volume 1. And then we also had a discussion on a new collection, organized, fight, and win about black communist women's writings, political writings. And so this is a real appropriate third

2:36.4

edition in that this book that we're going to be discussing includes an awful lot of party

2:43.4

documents and statements that reflect the political organizing and analysis of the Communist Party of Kenya. And so we can learn a lot

2:53.5

from looking at these documents to understand the history, evolution, and activism of the

3:00.3

Communist Party. So I'm looking forward to speaking with one of the figures involved very soon in putting this book together.

3:10.1

Yeah, absolutely.

3:11.2

I think that this, as Adnan mentioned, is a perfect continuation of the sources and methods series.

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