Solidarity with the anti-austerity protests in Kenya

Cancel IMF debt, which is crushing the people

No to US-financed invasion of Haiti

Thousands have taken to the streets of Nairobi to protest an austerity bill being pushed by Kenya’s neocolonial government at the behest of the US-controlled IMF. The hated Finance Bill raises taxes on basic commodities like food and gas and slashes important social programs like support for pregnant mothers. These cuts are being carried out to pay interest on IMF loans which are used to prop up the rule of a corrupt Kenyan elite. Protestors have been brutally repressed, including likely more than a dozen killed.

The same Kenyan police being used to shoot, maim, and kill the protestors in Nairobi are today being deployed to Haiti as part of a US-led invasion financed by $300 million US taxpayer dollars. The US-financed Kenyan police forces are being used to put down the Haitian people’s revolt against their own corrupt elite, who, like Kenya’s, have sold out their country to US corporations and banks.

Workers in Haiti, Kenya, and the United States have a common cause. We want to be able to feed our families. We don’t want our tax dollars funding fortresses for the ultra-rich. Take inspiration from the brave people of Kenya who taking their future into their own hands.

Workers Voice Socialist Movement (New Orleans)

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