STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Some 25 students and teachers at a Somali night school in the Rinkeby suburb of Stockholm participated in a video showing and discussion on the Burkina Faso revolution of 1983-87 led by Thomas Sankara. Catharina Tirsén of the Communist League in Sweden (at left) introduced the film. Standing next to her is teacher Mahamed Abdulle.

The revolution in the West African country was one of the most profound on the continent. Under Sankara’s leadership working people organized themselves to deal with infant mortality, vaccination, building of schools, and irrigation in a country not very different from Somalia.

Several of the participants in the meeting had taken part in a successful fight early last year to release two leaders of the Somali Peace and Development organization, who were framed up on terrorist charges by the Swedish government.

—DAG TIRSÉN