Shiraz Durrani

Trade unions in Kenya's war of independence.

Volume 2: Nairobi, Kenya: Vita Books , 2018. 118 p., il. Soft. ISBN 9789966189097.  In English

It is due to the success of the trade union movement in the national liberation movement that the colonial government suppressed prominent trade unions and attacked TU leaders like Makhan Singh, Fred Kubai, Pio Gama Pinto and Bildad Kaggia. It also passed on colonial laws to the independent Kenya government so as to ensure that future trade unions were forced to take the non-radical approach to meet worker needs. They thus created imperialist-oriented and led trade unions that bedevil working class politics to this day.

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