The Kenya Socialist exists to promote socialist ideas, experiences and world outlook, increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current, expose the damage done by capitalism and imperialism in Kenya and Africa, offer solidarity to working class, peasants and other working people and communities in their struggles for equality and justice, promote internationalism and work in solidarity with people in Africa and around the world in their resistance to imperialism, and make explicit the politics of information and communication as tools of repression and also of resistance in Kenya. Vol. 5 includes nine articles: Editorial, Lessons from the Underground, Linked Theory with Practice in Kenya, The 59th African Liberation Day, Is Women's Household-Labour a Form of Exploitation?, Revolutionary Rhetoric and Populist Politics, Welcome Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School, The Ukombozi Library, Kiswahili Section.