It has been a few days since we arrived here in Kenya. We have come to conduct training for the comrades who have taken upon their shoulders the responsibility to build the African Socialist International (ASI) in this area.
Things here in Kenya are relatively calm at the moment compared to the last time I was here. Last year, crisis and instability were thick in the air, and government repression was obvious.
At that time two student activists had just been assassinated in broad daylight a month or so before we arrived. The coalition government that had been formed off the back of the fraudulent elections that spawned widespread violence was shaky and struggling within itself.
Two ministers resigned within a few days of our arrival and another former minister had held a press conference saying the government was trying to kill him.
The instability and repression were extremely overt then, but that is not to say that they are not present now.
One can still walk down the street and see police troops carrying AK-47s and other automatic weapons.
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