Burkina Faso

This article was originally published in early November 2025, in issue #2 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Socialist Alternative. Click here to

Thomas Sankara

Africa is alive with discussion on how to achieve genuine independence and freedom. Many decades on from “flag independence”, little has fundamentally changed for poor and working people. Grinding poverty,

The uprising defeated a dictator, and waged a deeper struggle against neoliberalism, imperialism, and capitalism. A decade has passed since the uprising, however, and Burkina Faso is once again under
Neither coup d’etat nor war is the solution to the crisis in the Sahel region. Only the working masses can come to their own rescue.

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the profound social inequalities prevailing under modern capitalism. Nowhere more than in Africa. The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is a measured

This document is one of the resolutions from the 12th World Congress of ISA (formerly the CWI), which took place in January-February 2020. Following a certain delay due to pressing