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Today marks the anniversary of the CIA-backed assassination of Burkina Faso's President Thomas Sankara. Rumors of his assassination point to the forces of his former colleague Blaise Compaoré backed by the social-democratic president of France François Mitterrand, and also to the US backed Charles Taylor of the Settler-colonial state of Liberia. In either case, Imperialism's reaction to Sankara is a testament to his Revolutionary fervor.

He was one of the most successful Marxists-Leninists Africa has ever seen, in terms of what he accomplished for and with his people.

Within four years, Sankara transformed Burkina Faso from a poor country Neo-colonial nation, dependent on Western imperialism, to an economically independent and socially progressive nation. By redistributing land from the feudal landlords who sided with Imperialism and giving it directly to local peasants revolution in rural areas made leaps in social relations. Sankara nationalized oil wealth and used the money to double school attendance and half infant mortality.

Sankara's feminist policies propelled women into the forefront of the struggle in a patriarchal neo-colonial society, unleashing women as a mighty force for the revolution. While taking many commandist errors, and not separating the party from the gun, Still Sankara is a testament to the overlapping of National Liberation, Anti-colonial Resistance success with Communist leadership.

Free Dr. G.N. Saibaba!

  Dr. G. N. Saibaba in 2010, courtesy of Masslijn.

  The police in the Indian state of Maharashtra have abducted university professor and human rights activist Dr. G.N. Saibaba. Dr. Saibaba is a well known leader of the Revolutionary Democratic Front, and an esteemed academic.

In 2010, he was interviewed and explained the nature of his political activism:

What are the activities of the…

Maosoleum is now an organ of the NCP(LC)

The Liaison Committee for the New Communist Party-NCP(LC), formed after a split with the NCP(OC) on the basis of a line struggle between a Gonzaloite deviation and Maoism proper, has been announced.

We now span several cities and are leading mass work in NYC guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism through our student mass organization, the Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee(RSCC) and internet…

Preliminary Statement of the NCP(LC) Regarding The Split With The NCP(OC)

This an official statement of the New Communist Party (Liaison Committee). We will publish more statements in the coming days. On February 17th, our faction resigned its membership in the New Communist Party (Organizing Committee). Our resignations came with the sharpening of the line struggle in the OC to its sharpest point, in an attempt to resolve contradictions which we believe will not…