The 4th International Theoretical Conference Convenes
Press Statement from the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPM-K)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
21st May 2025
A Historic Revolutionary Gathering in Nairobi: The 4th International Theoretical Conference Convenes
The Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPM-K) wishes to inform the public and all progressive forces across the country and continent that the city of Nairobi will, for the first time in history, host a decisive and historic convergence of internationalist revolutionaries from around the globe.
From the 23rd to the 24th of May 2025, 57 international delegates from radical, anti-imperialist movements across the world will convene in Nairobi to meet with 53 local Kenyan delegates, representing workers, peasants, youth, and progressive intelligentsia. This total of 110 revolutionary delegates will gather for the 4th International Theoretical Conference (Theocon) under the theme:
“Bureaucratic and Comprador Capitalist in the Neocolonies.”
Co-organised by the Communist Party Marxist Kenya and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) at its core, this marks the first time such a theoretical convergence of this magnitude is being held on African soil.
This Conference is not symbolic, it is strategic. It is not academic, it is revolutionary. Delegates will engage in concrete class analysis, develop common positions, and refine strategies to intensify the global struggle against imperialism, comprador capitalism, and neocolonialism. The Conference will generate clear resolutions for programmatic and militant action across different countries and contexts, rooted in the scientific method of Marxism-Leninism and guided by the legacy of national democratic revolutions.
At a time of escalating imperialist crisis, brutal economic repression, growing militarisation, and deepening class contradictions across the neo-colonies, the 4th Theocon is a declaration of intent: that the forces of global proletarian revolution are organising, theorising, and preparing to act in greater unity and clarity.
Nairobi, the epicentre of finance capital in Eastern Africa, now becomes the meeting point for revolutionaries whose aim is to dismantle the very structures of neocolonial dependency imposed on the people of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and beyond.
This historic gathering precedes the African Liberation Day 2025 celebrations, which will take place on 25th May, deepening the ideological and programmatic unity of the struggles against imperialist domination and advancing the agenda of socialist transformation across the continent.
The Communist Party Marxist Kenya salutes all delegates and partner organisations involved. We reaffirm our commitment to proletarian internationalism and the complete liberation of all oppressed peoples.
No fortress can withstand the power of a people awakened and organised.
Long live international solidarity!
Long live the struggle for socialism!
Forward ever, backward never!
Issued by:
Booker Omole
The Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPM-K)
General Secretary’s Office
21 May 2025