France

After 35 years, killers of African hero Thomas Sankara condemned

The trial of the Burkinabè soldiers who in 1987 killed Thomas Sankara, the president of Burkina Faso, and some of…

April 18, 2022

Class struggle and the French elections  

Emmanuel Macron, from the party En Marche, whose job history as a banker primed him for his current role as…

April 15, 2022

France agrees to withdraw troops from Mali

President Emmanuel Macron of France announced that French troops will be pulling out of their bases in Gossi, Menaka and…

February 25, 2022

Mali: Mass anti-imperialist mobilizations win Pan-African solidarity

An historic mobilization of the Malian people by the hundreds of thousands in support of the transitional government in Mali…

January 26, 2022

People of the Sahel oppose imperialism

After two weeks of struggle — burning barricades, smashed windows and mirrors, Molotov cocktails, masses of people on the road,…

December 10, 2021

Mali’s people mobilize against imperialism

Although French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that his government is winding down its intervention in Mali, French imperialism is…

November 16, 2021

Laid-off McDonald’s workers in France take over restaurant, feed the hungry

Marseille is the second largest city in France. It is a very old city, founded around 500 BCE because it…

June 29, 2021

Chad: Resistance to the coup, opposition to France

May 2 — U.S. and French imperialism have competing interests in how an ongoing crisis in Chad is resolved. They…

May 5, 2021

Chad’s president’s death upsets imperialists

Idriss Déby, president of Chad, died April 19 in the Tibesti mountains, weapons in hand, as Chad troops fought an…

April 28, 2021

The Paris Commune’s 150th anniversary – A blueprint for revolution

An uprising in Paris on March 18, 1871, toward the end of the Franco-Prussian War, burst open the structure of…

March 19, 2021