The Kenya Left Alliance (KLA), a newly formed coalition of social justice organizations and progressive movements, has announced plans to contest all elective positions in the 2027 general elections, positioning itself as a radical alternative to Kenya’s dominant political parties.
The announcement was made during KLA’s first National Delegates Congress held on Saturday, where leaders framed the alliance as a bold response to what they termed “decades of misrule” by the country’s political elite blaming successive regimes for widespread poverty, inequality, and youth unemployment.
“KLA is a bold, ambitious, and urgent call to action for a national democratic revolution,” said Nduko o’Matigere, National Chairperson and Party Leader of the Ukweli Party, one of the coalition’s founding members.
“Our ballot revolution signals a new era of leftist political organizing in Kenya.”
Describing itself as a socialist, feminist, pan-Africanist, and anti-imperialist front, KLA brings together multiple grassroots movements and political organizations, including the Ukweli Party, Kongamano La Mapinduzi, and the Social Justice Centre movement.
Wanjira Wanjiru, co-founder of the Mathare Social Justice Centre, said the congress marked the beginning of a national campaign for “liberation from the anti-people politics of oppression and inequality.”
KLA leaders strongly criticized the political alliance between President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza and Raila Odinga’s ODM party in the aftermath of the June 2024 Gen Z uprising, claiming the pact undermined democratic accountability and further entrenched elite interests.
“In response to the people’s rebellion, Kenya’s two most powerful and corrupt political cartels Kenya Kwanza and ODM united in their shared greed for power and wealth, only differing in the targets of their ethnicity-based politics,” said activist Sungu Oyoo.
The alliance said its platform would transcend ethnic and generational divides, with a focus on core public demands such as job creation, access to healthcare, education, land, water, and food security.
“This ballot revolution is the only way to permanently dismantle the caretakers of imperialism and neocolonialism who have governed us for six decades,” said social justice advocate Sefu Sanni.
The coalition’s proposed manifesto also emphasizes rebuilding Kenya’s industrial and agricultural sectors to tackle youth unemployment and economic dependency.
KLA is now calling on citizens to register as members, volunteers, mobilizers, and candidates at all levels from ward representatives to the presidency under the Ukweli Party, which was originally founded by activist Boniface Mwangi.
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