Red Flags at Lake Victoria – Another Interview with the Communist League of Uganda (February 2026)

1. It has been one year since our last interview. Your Party went through a rapid development. How would you describe the current state of the CLU? Thanks, comrades, for this opportunity again. Currently the state of our development can be described in three phases. But first of all, the progress we have achieved: The progress of the organization manifest in different ways, majorly, ideology, mass mobilization and organization, and lastly expansion and legality. In the ideological area, study cells

SOLIDARITY STATEMENT TO THE WORKING PEOPLE OF KENYA, THE CPMK AND AFRICA AT LARGE, CONDEMNING THE BRUTAL AND ILLEGAL ARREST AND DETENTION OF COMRADE BOOKER NGESA OMOLE

The Communist League of Uganda stands in unwavering solidarity with our Comrades in the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPMK) and the Working People of Kenya and condemns in the strongest terms the barbaric kidnapping, torture, and illegal detention of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, the steadfast leader and General Secretary of the CPMK. This outrageous act of state-sponsored violence is not merely an attack on one individual but a direct assault on the revolutionary struggle of the Kenyan working class against

Regarding Collectivity and Discipline

The Communist League of Uganda is already existing for over one year. We have advanced in the construction of branches and cells, still the organization is somewhat disjointed. The reason is the simultaneous growth of central and local organs. Collectivity is needed as the “grout” among our members. This is what differs a communist party from a bourgeois party like the NRM or NUP which might have a common identity as party members but lack a collectivist spirit. But what

The “Five Primary Tasks” of the CPMK and their meaning for us

The CPMK has recently published an article on the website of the Progressive International which is a pre-print of the soon to be published book “Building the Vanguard Party in Kenya”. What it contains are “Five Primary Tasks”. They are not only valid for the Kenyan communists, but for us Ugandan communists as well. Let’s take a look at them: “As a vanguard party, the CPMK has five primary tasks: It builds cadre consciousness through Marxist-Leninist education, so that every

SOLIDARITY STATEMENT TO VENEZUELA BY THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE OF UGANDA

SOLIDARITY STATEMENT TO VENEZUELA BY THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE OF UGANDA 22/01/2026 In 1884–1885, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck of Germany chaired the Berlin Conference, where European imperial powers partitioned Africa without regard for its peoples or borders. Africans subsequently endured a century of colonial rule marked by torture, exploitation, and relentless suffering. Although the end of colonialism was marked by so-called “independence,” many African nations continue to live under the shadow of neo-imperialism perpetuated by global superpowers such as the United

The Ugandan Communists need to know Uganda´s national conditions well

Marxism-Leninism is a scientific world outlook, therefore universal. That is a truism. The universality is the generality meaning that it can be internationally applied; the particular implementation on the national conditions of a single country is the concrete. Both exist in a dialectical connection, inseparable. Stalin once said: “Theory becomes purposeless if it is not connected with revolutionary practice, just as practice gropes in the dark if its path is not illumined by revolutionary theory.”1 If there would be no

Was Jesus really born on Christmas Day?

Ugandan Christians majorly believe that Jesus was actually born on the 25th December. They don’t know that neither in the Bible a concrete date for his birth is given nor that there is even a coherent story surrounding his birth. The birth of Jesus according to the Bible The Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John contain no story of Jesus’ birth at all. It is only the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew that deliver a

What is Marxism?

Marxism is no ideology that newly emerged, but it is one of the most misunderstood ideologies in human history. It is the ideology we root our thinking in as communists, so we need to get a clear understanding of what Marxism means by definition. Confucius once said: “If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.”1

Key Arguments against Anarchism

At the moment there are no known anarchist groups in Uganda. That might be the case because anarchism is an individualistic idea of bourgeois urban intellectuals. The rate of urbanization in Uganda is not very high (yet) and the rural peasants’ society is very collectivistic. Therefore anarchism in Uganda does not have much soil to grow on. Despite that, it doesn’t mean that the issue of anarchism would leave Uganda out. Anarchist views could occur in the future. For the

Is “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” really just socialism?

Also available as a PDF. So called “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” is leading to confusion among many comrades. There is a harsh debate going on about it for many years already between revisionist apologists and Marxist-Leninist critics. Let us look into the facts. Xi Jinping claimed in January 2013 in a study session in front of the back then newly elected 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China: “Socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism and nothing else. The

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