Our Origins
The Permanent Revolutionary Congress was founded in the informal settlements of Kenya by a collective of workers, youth, and activists determined to build a revolutionary organization with clear, uncompromising politics.
We emerged as a breakaway from the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) after deep ideological contradictions over the role of permanent revolution, the rejection of reformism, and the necessity of disciplined, democratic-centralist organization.
"While others chose compromise, we chose clarity — clarity that the working class must lead the fight to the end, without concessions to bourgeois forces or opportunism."
From our founding, we established working groups in the former 8 provinces of Kenya, connecting grassroots struggles across the country with the global fight against capitalism.
Our Foundation
- Workers, youth, and activists united
- Working groups in 8 provinces
- Clear, uncompromising politics
- Democratic-centralist organization
Why Permanent Revolution?
The theory of permanent revolution, developed by Leon Trotsky, is the backbone of our politics.
In Kenya, as across Africa, the capitalist class is tied by a thousand threads to imperialism. They cannot deliver land reform, industrial development, or national liberation without threatening their own profits and alliances with foreign capital.
Working Class Leadership
The working class must lead the revolution, uniting the poor peasantry and oppressed urban masses.
Democratic to Socialist
The fight for democratic demands cannot be separated from the fight for socialism.
International Revolution
The revolution must be permanent — spreading internationally or being crushed.
Our Opposition
×Stalinism — which betrayed revolutions by confining them to "socialism in one country"
×Reformism — which seeks compromise with the capitalist class
Workers' Democracy
We fight for workers' democracy — direct control of the economy and state by elected representatives of workers, subject to immediate recall, earning no more than a worker's wage.
"Without revolutionary leadership, the heroism of the masses will be wasted. Our task is to build that leadership now."
— Leon Trotsky
Party Program
A comprehensive revolutionary program for socialist transformation in Kenya and beyond
The Crisis of Capitalism
The world capitalist system faces one of its deepest crises. Kenya is trapped in the stranglehold of foreign debt and IMF dictates.
- •Economic stagnation and recurring financial collapses
- •Austerity measures protecting elite wealth
- •Rising unemployment and stagnant wages
Our Revolutionary Objective
Replace the capitalist state with a workers' state based on democratic councils of workers, peasants and oppressed sectors.
- •Expropriation of banks and strategic industries
- •Democratic workers' control of production
- •Planned economy for human needs
Working Class Rights
The working class is the central force of the Kenyan revolution, producing society's wealth while condemned to poverty.
- •Minimum wage indexed to cost of living
- •Reduced working hours without wage cuts
- •Workers' committees with inspection rights
Women and Youth
Liberation of women and emancipation of youth cannot be separated from the struggle for socialist revolution.
- •Equal pay and six months paid maternity leave
- •Free scientific education at all levels
- •Full employment as state responsibility
Fight Against Oppression
We oppose all forms of oppression: ethnic chauvinism, patriarchy, homophobia, religious sectarianism and xenophobia.
- •Complete equality of all nationalities
- •Full rights for LGBTQ+ people
- •End to ethnic manipulation by ruling class
Internationalism
The Kenyan struggle is inseparable from the global fight against imperialist capitalism.
- •Solidarity with Palestinian resistance
- •Continental socialist movement for Africa
- •Member of International Socialist League
Key Transitional Demands
Economic Justice
- • Salaries indexed to inflation
- • Free education and healthcare
- • Emergency housing plan for workers
- • End all privatization
- • Nationalization of banks and key industries
- • Expropriation of imperialist assets
Democratic Rights
- • Constituent assembly of working people
- • Full transparency of international agreements
- • End restrictions on unionization
- • Voting rights at age 16
- • Elected officers in armed forces
- • Separation of religion from state
Social Justice
- • Abolish all reactionary laws against women
- • Equal rights for all minorities
- • Six months fully paid maternity leave
- • Socialization of household work
- • Right of oppressed nations to self-determination
- • Equal pay for equal work
Land & Environment
- • Nationalization of all landed estates
- • Scientific agricultural revolution
- • Collective farming promotion
- • End harmful production practices
- • Comprehensive public transport system
- • Abolish child labor completely
For a Workers' Government Through Democratically Elected Workers' Councils
"The tasks before us are immense, but so is the potential of the Kenyan working class and the oppressed masses."
Join the Struggle
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