November 2, 2025
The Communist Party Marxist Kenya stands with the people of Tanzania in this moment of heightened danger. The ruling class across East Africa is tightening the chains of monopoly finance capital. The mask of liberal democracy is falling. Behind it stands naked reaction. Behind it stands fascism in African colours.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan has presided over political developments marked by aggressive interference from foreign capital. We are witnessing new assaults by the corporations and financial institutions headquartered in the old imperial centres. They want to seize control of the resources of the United Republic of Tanzania. They want to dictate the fate of her people. When imperialism pushes forward, the local ruling elite either bows down or resorts to violence against its own citizens in order to maintain the system of exploitation.
Let it be understood clearly: the escalation of state repression in Tanzania is not merely a domestic crisis; it is a regional strategy of United States imperialism. Everywhere in East Africa, the empire tightens its grip. Kenya is transformed into the gendarme of AFRICOM. Uganda becomes the hired executioner of imperialist interests in the Great Lakes. Tanzania is now being integrated deeper into the economic and security network of Washington’s domination. In other parts of the world, Bangladesh, Nepal, imperialism has manipulated civic unrest to replace one corrupt faction with another under the guise of “democracy.” But here in East Africa, the neocolonial regimes remain too valuable to the empire to be sacrificed. So, when the people protest, the imperialists do not cheer; they supply weapons. They do not call for democracy; they call for order. They do not support the oppressed; they shield the oppressors.
This is why mass uprisings in East Africa face brutal suppression. This is why the bullets never stop. This is why justice is denied. Where imperialism sees opportunity, it pretends to love democracy. Where imperialism sees danger, it supports fascism.
Political repression and lethal force against unarmed civilians in Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and other parts of Tanzania are no longer matters of allegation. They are facts etched in blood that no propaganda can erase. Irrefutable evidence shows citizens beaten, detained and silenced for exercising the most basic democratic rights. Every bullet fired into the masses exposes the alliance between imperialism and local reaction. This is the same old truth of class struggle. When the oppressed rise to claim dignity and justice, the system retaliates with cold steel and fear. The bourgeoisie trembles before the awakened people. It abandons its pretence of democracy. It rushes into the arms of fascism. This is imperialism at its most desperate and violent.
Finance capital brings chains. Finance capital brings hunger. Finance capital brings war. And when people resist, finance capital brings new forms of dictatorship to protect its profits. Fascism is not an aberration. Fascism is monopoly capital grown fearful. Fascism is imperialism in crisis. Fascism intensifies the exploitation of workers, peasants and the urban poor while selling our sovereignty to the highest bidder.
To the working class and the peasants of Tanzania we send our message of solidarity and revolutionary clarity. Beware the liberal politicians who shout about democracy but never speak of imperialism. Beware the opposition which fights only for a different set of elites to sit in the high offices while the same foreign corporations plunder the land. Beware those who offer reforms that leave the system intact. Reforms cannot save the people. Reforms cannot break the colonial chains. Reforms are the gymnastics of the bourgeoisie.
African liberation demands struggle. African liberation demands rupture. African liberation demands that the workers and peasants take power. The urgent task before the people of Tanzania is to defeat imperialism within their national borders and establish truly sovereign Tanzania people’s republic. Not cosmetic change. Not another reshuffle among the ruling class. Only revolutionary transformation shall deliver independence in substance. Only socialism shall turn political freedom into social and economic liberation.
As the struggles in Tanzania intensify, the CPMK declares:
The people united shall overcome.
The people organised shall triumph.
The people conscious shall sweep away the enemies of Africa.
Let the spirit of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere rise again in revolutionary form. Let the workers and peasants declare their own destiny. Let Tanzania stand firmly with the front line against imperialism. The hour is calling. The future demands boldness. Forward in the struggle for true sovereignty. Forward in the struggle for socialism.
Long live the workers and peasants of Tanzania.
Down with imperialist domination.
Down with fascist repression.
Long live African liberation.
Long live proletarian internationalism.
Central Organizing Committee
Communist Party Marxist Kenya
Serve the People.
Forward Ever.