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Features

Free Palestine: Why we say by any means necessary

Back the resistance of the oppressed

14 October 2023

International

Kenyan protesters face ‘extreme violence’ from the police

Kenyan activist speaks out

26 July 2023

News

Where’s the help for climate refugees?

Climate refugees not treated equally

25 July 2023

Starbucks strikers in Buffallo, New York, on the picket line outside a Starbucks

International

Workers in the United States strike as Omicron spreads

Workers’ are fighting back for better pay and conditions

10 January 2022

News

Stand against state crackdown on Insulate Britain

The jailings are an attack on all of us

18 November 2021

British soldiers aim machine guns from a trench in a training exercise in Kenya.

Background Check

British troops murder, burn and kidnap in Kenya

The British Army commits brutal crimes in Kenya

08 November 2021

The Troublemaker

An abusive police officer is allowed to keep name secret

A male police officer who harassed a female domestic abuse victim has been granted lifelong anonymity to “protect his welfare”.

25 October 2021

Reviews & Culture

New stand-up show already feels like outdated humour

Sam Jay’s new Netflix special 3 In The Morning is refreshing in some ways. But there are too many jokes that leave you cold, says Jasmine Fischer

11 August 2020

International

Locust devastation in East Africa is linked to climate change

Some 40 percent of the 160 million people in the region are already undernourished

25 April 2020

International

International round-up – quarantine for refugees, food riot and pause in Yemen war

Italy has quarantined refugees on a boat, police sparked a food riot in Nairobi and the bloody war in Yemen is paused

14 April 2020

Coronavirus means ‘survival of richest’ in Global South, say South African shack dwellers

International

Lockdowns lead to police brutality and repression in many African countries

Widespread poverty and lack of public health services make coronavirus a huge threat to people in Africa. But they also face ferocious attacks from state forces

06 April 2020

International

Strikes and repression spread across the African continent

Workers have suffered repression and evictions to try and stop the spread of the virus, but there has also been fightback in the form of strikes.

30 March 2020

Reviews & Culture

City of Thorns—the forgotten refugee camp where lives are left in limbo

New book City of Thorns uses interviews to build a powerful picture of the lives of refugees in the world’s largest camp in Kenya, writes?Ken Olende

09 February 2016

Alex Callinicos

Obama leads a new scramble for Africa

Barack Obama has economic as well as strategic motivations in mind for his extended interest in Africa, writes Alex Callinicos

28 July 2015

International

The roots of Al Shabaab

The killing of 148 students at Kenya’s Garissa University College by Somali Islamist insurgents Al Shabaab marks the latest episode of bloodletting in a cycle of violence into which the region has been locked for some time.

07 April 2015

International

Kenya bombs Somalia after university assault kills 148

Kenya’s regular air attacks on Somalia and Al Shabaab's frequent terror attacks are part of an ongoing conflict, explains Ken Olende

07 April 2015

Socialist Review Archive

Old-fashioned Western hypocrisy

He stabbed the first prisoner, leaving him to die in agony from the wound, shot the second in the stomach so he could watch him die as well, and the third he set on fire with a phosphorous grenade so he could watch him burn to death. This was not the work of a sadistic...

30 March 2015

International

Kenya attacks Islamist fighters in Somalia

The Kenyan government claims that its forces in Somalia, east Africa, have killed more than 100 Islamist fighters, in retaliation for attacking a bus in Kenya. But the Islamist Al Shabaab group has dismissed this as “absurd”.

25 November 2014

News

40,000 Kenyans demand compensation for British atrocities in Mau Mau war

04 November 2014

International

Somalis held in custody in Kenya

Around 4,000 Somalis were rounded up in Kenya last week and held in a football stadium for processing.

15 April 2014

Features

Britain’s brutal legacy in Kenya

Fifty years after Kenyan independence Ken Olende looks at the crimes of British colonialism, the Mau Mau rebels who fought back, and their betrayal by Kenya’s new rulers

17 December 2013