To mark International Women’s Day, the Militant is running this excerpt from a speech by Thomas Sankara, leader of the popular democratic revolution in Burkina Faso, to a rally of several thousand women on March 8, 1987. It is from…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is the French edition of We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara. In August 1983 a popular revolutionary government arose from…
Thomas Sankara Speaks is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. Sankara was the outstanding leader of a revolution in Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, from 1983 to 1987. His speeches explain how the…
The course led by Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso is a powerful example to working people across Africa, in the U.S. and worldwide. Tens of millions confront social and economic crises, the deadly consequences of Moscow’s war in Ukraine and…
WASHINGTON — Some 30 people, many originally from Africa, came together here Oct. 17 to discuss the political legacy of Thomas Sankara, the central leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso and the country’s president. This is the 35th…
The French edition of Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Sankara led an uprising in the former French colony of Upper Volta in 1983, bringing to power a…
Thirty-five years after a counterrevolutionary coup in 1987, a court in Burkina Faso, West Africa, rendered guilty verdicts April 6 after a six-month trial for the assassination of President Thomas Sankara, and 12 of his comrades and guards. Blaise Compaore,…
To mark International Women’s Month, the Militant is featuring the French edition of Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara. Sankara led a popular uprising in August 1983 that established a revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, in…
We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. In August 1983 Sankara led a revolution in the former French colony of…
MONTREAL — Thomas Sankara was the central leader of the 1983-87 revolution in the West African country of Burkina Faso, Michel Prairie, the editor of Thomas Sankara Speaks and a leader of the Communist League, told 25 people at a…
