SEVENTEEN Kenyan communist activists will appear in court in the Nairobi district court today after being arrested while planning an anti-government protest.
The Communist Party of Kenya (CPK) members were detained on Wednesday as party activists prepared for the Unlock Democracy demonstration against the government’s “disastrous and anti-scientific” approach to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to party sources, police raided the CPK offices without a warrant and tried to enter a secure room where documents and crucial records are held.
International organisation Black Hammer offered support and solidarity, describing the activists’ arrests and persecution as “an obvious reaction to the mass support the Communist Party of Kenya is receiving by the poor working masses.”
COMMENT
The media glee over Nicola Sturgeon s recent experiences is in stark contrast to the treatment of the PM COME away aboard a wee flight of fancy. We land in a country where the First Minister is found to have had a four-year affair whilst still married to the father of most of their children. Her fancy man says he’s a bit of a techie, so the FM wheechs him off on a series of trade trips, where doubtless the evenings are spent in earnest conversation about the digital revolution. He picks up assorted grants from the public purse to oil the wheels of his entrepreneurial spirit. Later on, when his lover casts him into outer darkness, he acquires another fat cheque from a tabloid newspaper with the traditional “kiss and tell” story.
By Billy Briggs and Sean Rankin
Two people who campaigned against Jeremy Corbyn through opaque social media groups are now running Facebook campaigns targeting the SNP A UK Government adviser and senior figure at the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) has funded adverts for a campaign group called Businesses For The Union, prompting concerns over so-called “dark money” political activity in Scotland’s election campaign. An investigation by The Ferret and The Free Press also found that two people who campaigned against Jeremy Corbyn through opaque social media groups are now running Facebook campaigns targeting the SNP. Although the above political activism is perfectly legal, campaigners have raised concerns over a lack of transparency over funding and called for new legislation to combat the influence of so-called dark money in politics.
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