Michael Laxer
From the Kremlin to Kilimanjaro: Commemorating the October Revolution
This past Tuesday, November 7 marked the 106th anniversary of the beginning of the Great October Socialist Revolution. This statement,...
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Michael Laxer
- Oct 6
- 1 min
Burkina Faso names Thomas Sankara a "hero of the nation"
In an historic move Burkina Faso's new transitional government and President Captain Ibrahim Traoré has chosen to pay tribute to the...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #686
The great revolutionary Thomas Sankara plays guitar -- Daily LIFT #686 On April 6, 2022 some of those involved in the killing of Sankara...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
Justice for Sankara as Blaise Compaoré convicted
Image via Twitter While he is in exile due to being brought down by protests in 2014, Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaoré was...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 16, 2021
- 9 min
Striketober: Red Review #27 -- International Left and Labour News
The twenty-seventh edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from the United States, the UK,...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
Thomas Sankara murdered October 15, 1987
Comrades Thomas Sankara and Fidel Castro. Castro is Awarding Sankara the Order of Jose Marti, 1984 The great revolutionary leader Thomas...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 21, 2020
- 1 min
Thomas Sankara b. December 21, 1949.
The great revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara was born December 21, 1949. Sankara became the first president of Burkina Faso in 1983. His...
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