 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. A political realignment has been completed in Kenya. The current President Uhuru Kenyatta and his former arch-rival Raela Odinga are officially allies. Odinga is said to contest the presidential election, which will be held in August. Meanwhile, William Ruto, who Kenyatta had earlier declared his successor, has been expelled from the latter's Jubilee party. Kenyatta and Odinga have contested against each other several times in the past and each time has been followed by violence. What explains the coming together of these former rivals and what does the political situation in Kenya look like now? Bukkar Omole of the Communist Party of Kenya talks about some of these issues. This is not unprecedented in our politics, especially in Kenya and particularly where we have, of course, differences between Comprada Bujozi and what you call the nationalist Bujozi, that at times they try to form alliances and also, you know, sometimes they pretend to be antagonistic. But what we can say is that the difference between Mr. Raela and Mr. Kenyatta, both of them, we can qualify them as only Comprada Bujozi here. There are differences, be it in personality or there are differences in terms of the political formations that they have formulated before. They are different only, we could say, in form, but in terms of essence and content, they are the same people. In fact, they drive divisive agenda when it favors their political interest or their class political interest. So when they are facing the polls, for example, if you look at the history of the last two elections, where Mr. Kenyatta has, you know, been pronounced as the winner and then Raela contested the results. There are few nasty things that happens in our country because when that happens, then there is a drive of violence and that violence is majorly sponsored by either the private militia that is run by the opposition or the other side is basically the police or the government thugs. Then we have a few people being slaughtered or sacrificed and then there is a pronunciation where they do a handshake and then they try to find some centre ground for them to share, you know, government. And that has taken place now for the last, let us say, 20 years in our country where the opposition and the people in government are basically capitalists, you know, and when they are approaching elections, they competing but mounting each other. They call each other, you know, you are corrupt and the other person says you are more corrupt and then when the other person is in government, the same thing still happens. Yes, but if you look at the current institution in our country, then you will realise that the only political party that has stayed away from that kind of marriage between two people that actually are fighting for their individual interests and they are using their two most tools. One of them is money and the second is tribal mobilisation and then they have the media to deliver that kind of little propaganda against the people. But the Communist Party of Kenya, of course, where I serve as the National Organising Secretary of the Vice Chairperson has been addressing those issues from below and in fact there is a lot of pressure from the Kenyan population that our politics should take, you know, not just a class character but should be informed by certain political ideas and we should be having a battle of ideas other than having a competition based on tribal arrangement or individual self-interest. So we don't expect any change even after, you know, Rayela and Guru come together because they are there to defend certain interests and a day ago we saw the former First Lady Mamangina who is the president, the mother to the president now going on a national broadcast and telling the Kenyan people that he indeed supports, you know, Rayela's presidency at the moment. So if we look at it by and large, what we could probably just say that there are two people, you know, representing the same class interest and they have no agenda, you know, to drive any progressive development on behalf of the Kenyan poor or the masses. What interests do the Kenyatta-Odinga combined represent? What kind of policy frameworks are they likely to implement if they continue to remain in power and what is their economic philosophy? In fact, if you remember a few months ago the president of Kenyan that calls his family members while the people were mentioned in what you call the Panama Papers and that means what they have been doing is to, you know, say that they are building confidence in the Kenyan economy but indeed they are, you know, they are the people who are facilitating the capital flight from the country to try and hide them, you know, just in case they are out of power. But what kind of representation are we going to see? Of course you are going to see Kenya going to be entrenched even much further into the global capitalist system and there will be a new colonial rule that will be furthered by the two, of course to advance their class interest and the class that represents, of course, is the national bourgeoisie by and large because Mr. Kenyatta owns a few businesses but those businesses are actually brokerage on behalf of multinationals who own quite a bit of shares in them. So the class that we can see that pretend to actually, you know, compete for political power only comes from the comparative bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie and their own differences are actually, they reconcile them by, you know, sacrificing a few poor people in the name of trying to compete among themselves. So we don't have any hopes about it. In fact, they are rhetoric because they are trying to merge up and say that now they are going to advance what is called a state welfareism. In fact, they are promising young Kenyan people that they will be giving them 6,000 shillings for the unemployed. But the truth of the matter is they do not have any single intention to advance any state welfareism that can be able to ameliorate the lives of the poor Kenyan people. And finally, what alternative vision for the country does the left, especially the Communist Party of Kenya present to the people? What is the agenda and the demands that they are taking to the people ahead of the elections? First of all, in terms of constitutional issues, we are actively involved in the parliamentary processes because we are informed that even within the Neocolonial system we can still fight for certain reforms through the parliament to try and improve the lives of the poor people. So we have published a minimum program for participating in these general and parliamentary elections. And what we want to do is to drive a people's agenda from below and put much more pressure from the establishment to be able to implement certain reforms even within the Neocolonial state. Because remember last year, if it were not for the Communist Party of Kenya and other progressive people that were united, we would have not stopped a total obliteration of our constitution, the 2010 constitution. So the Communist Party is pushing a people's agenda from below to try and become in the national political discourse and also fielding candidates in the parliament to be able to not carry out just representation but also do oversight and legislation role within the bourgeois democracy that we currently have. But even if we do that, we will also want to take advantage of this political moment when the people are highly activated politically to drive our propaganda work and try to bring different ideas around the populist ideas that is being advanced by the bourgeois political parties being led by the opposition, the so-called opposition, and now the president against his duty. So we have published a program and we are hoping that we got real chances and we're working towards winning those political seats and also directly participating in the campaign discourse that will end in August this year, 2022. But we are also making people ready that even though these main political protagonists that are pretending to be protagonists are actually one and the same. And we are warning them that in the event that the election is done and there is a violence that is intentioned to sacrifice the poor people on behalf of only a few in significant rich people that run our country's politics, then the Communist Party of Kenya will reject side processes just like we have done before with the now defunct BBI that was mooted by Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Udinga at that time. We are also trying to expand our organization within the working class and the peace and areas that we have been strong at most. And we are hoping that winning seats in those areas that we have a bigger support base will be able to lessen or make the life of the poor people more bearable as we actively organize and expand the party in readiness for a new offensive, for a new revolutionary process and of course to the ultimate victory that we all look for which is the toppling of the bourgeoisie and installing a government for the people and for the workers.