Speech by the Chairman of the CLU on the WAP Conference in Nairobi (9th May 2026)

Revolutionary greetings to you comrades, distinguished guests and delegates! My name is Sozzi Joseph from the Communist League of Uganda. As we gather here today to discuss Imperialism and fascism in Africa, we gather in international and pan-Africanist solidarity due to their severe consequences and the out comes that affect the proletariat and peasants class mainly. Comrade Lenin in his famous book “Imperialism the highest Stage of Capitalism” provides a concrete analysis of Imperialism and gives it’s major features, namely

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

Idi Amin’s fascism and its lessons

“People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.”1 – V. I. Lenin Many Ugandans still see Idi Amin positively, foremost Muslim Ugandans. Many Ugandans were deceived by Idi Amin’s “economic war” against the Indians. But especially the anti-socialist forces were happy when they heard about

The Feudal Mode of Production in pre-colonial Uganda

The class analysis of the Ugandan society today contains a sentence that caused some requests. It is this one: “Before the arrival of the British colonialists most of Uganda already was a class society, a feudal one under the rule of local kings, such as the Kabaka of Buganda.”1 I will clarify this passage more in the following. Confusions about the essence of feudalism It is obvious that in East Africa class societies were already existing. The romanticization of the

Pan-Africanism or Proletarian Internationalism?

The pan-Africanist idea is far spread in Africa. That is an obvious truism like that there is much water in the seas of the world. This idea used to be connected to the socialist cause but increasingly turned into a vague phrase. No name is more connected to the term of pan-Africanism than Kwame Nkrumah, the Marxist-Leninist first president of independent Ghana. He already said in his independence speech in 1957 that Ghana’s independence would be “meaningless unless it is

The Pioneer of Uhuru and Socialism – On the 20th anniversary of A. M. Obote´s demise

“Obote had long been an advocate of socialism.”1 – Xavier Ogena The 10th October marks the day on which our dear Apollo Milton Obote died two decades ago. He was the one who led Uganda into independence. He was the one who first tried to lead Uganda on a socialist path of development. He was truly a pioneer of Uhuru and socialism in Uganda. Uhuru and socialism are inseparable. On the eve of independence Obote delivered a speech on 8th

Dumping the Common Man’s Charter? – A reply to Comrade Yoga Adhola

The Common Man’s Charter is until today seen by the Ugandan left as a major document, especially among the left wing of the UPC. In a statement from 2023, which can not be called a thorough analysis at all, Yoga Adhola addresses this matter. He claims that there is no need to study it just because “the author regretted it”1. Yes, Obote in his last years of life said that he regretted the Move to the Left. He said in

The Class Composition of the Ugandan Society

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”1 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Uganda’s society is divided in classes. Before the arrival of the British colonialists most of Uganda already was a class society, a feudal one under the rule of local kings, such as the Kabaka of Buganda. The society of today’s Uganda is a capitalist one. Therefore the class structure is mainly divided between the bourgeoisie, the capitalist class, and the proletariat,

How to organize our study?

It is a truism to say: Marxism needs efforts to be studied. But that mere fact does not help, only concrete ways to organize that study help. Self-study can work, but it is mostly without structure. The best would be of course establishing Marxism courses or even an ideological school, like the UPC operates one. That needs a plan of course. First of all, the content of the study. We need to set up a curriculum suiting the Ugandan national

Thoughts about the Language Question in Uganda

It is obvious that Uganda, despite its country name that is derived from Buganda, is not a national state of the Baganda. On Uganda these biblical words are not applying: “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language.”1 Instead Uganda is more like Babylon after the Confusion of Tongues2: There is no native language that could even closely claim to be a majority language. I agree with most points of Comrade Joseph´s important interview on fundamental questions.

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