Thomas Sankara

“There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women,” explains the leader of the 1983–87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to combat the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination.

Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

The leader of the Burkina Faso revolution recounts how peasants and workers in this West African country began confronting hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness prior to the 1987 coup in which Sankara was murdered.

The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87

Thomas Sankara Speaks

Nelson Mandela

Frantz Fanon

bell hooks

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

Arundhati Roy

James Baldwin

Malala Yousafzai

Toni Morrison

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Malcolm X

Mao Tse-Tung

Che Guevara

Frederick Douglass

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Joseph Stalin

Paulo Freire

Frida Kahlo

Grace Lee Boggs

George Jackson

Walter Rodney

Michael Parenti

Vladimir Lenin

Kwame Ture

Assata Shakur

Audre Lorde

Tupac Shakur

Fidel Castro

Bhagat Singh

Angela Y. Davis

Rosa Luxemburg

Bobby Seale

Combahee River Collective

Harry Haywood

Huey P. Newton

Jonathan Jackson

Enver Hoxha

Xi Jinping

Kwame Nkrumah

Nina Simone

Amilcar Cabral

Paul Robeson

Claudia Jones

Chief Seattle

Sundiata Acoli

Anuradha Ghandy

Marsha P. Johnson

Alexandra Kollantai

Carlos Marighella

Dimitrov

Leila Khaled

Chico Mendes

Fred Hampton

Les Feinberg

Ho Chi Min

Dolores Ibarruri

Ghasson Kanafani

Sub Marcos

José Mariátegui

Evo Morales

 Kevin Rashid Johnson

Sukarno

Inspired by Mao's Little Red Book, this work is full of quotes to inspire and teach revolution. With quotes from the Combahee River Collective, Mao, Lenin, bell hooks, Assata Shakur, 2pac, Malcolm X, Stalin, Les Feinberg, Fred Hampton, Fanon, and more, this book is bound to inspire the revolutionary spirit inside you and your comrades to organize, educate, and revolt! Full list of authors: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin Mumia Abu-Jamal Sundiata Acoli James Baldwin Amilcar Cabral Fidel Castro Che Guevara Combahee River Collective Angela Davis Dimitrov Frederick Douglass Friedrich Engels Frantz Fanon Les Feinberg Paulo Freire Anuradha Ghandy Fred Hampton Harry Haywood Ho Chi Min bell hooks Enver Hoxha Dolores Ibarruri Kim Il-Sung George Jackson Jonathan Jackson Marsha P. Johnson Claudia Jones Frida Kahlo Ghasson Kanafani Leila Khaled Martin Luther King, Jr. Alexandra Kollantai James and Grace Lee Boggs Vladimir Lenin Audre Lorde Rosa Luxemburg Nelson Mandela Mao Tse-Tung Sub Marcos José Mariátegui Carlos Marighella Karl Marx Chico Mendes Evo Morales Toni Morrison Huey P. Newton Kwame Nkrumah Michael Parenti Rashid Paul Robeson Walter Rodney Arundhati Roy Thomas Sankara Bobby Seale Chief Seattle Assata Shakur Tupac Shakur Nina Simone Bhagat Singh Joseph Stalin Sukarno Kwame Ture Malcolm X Xi Jinping Malala Yousafzai

The Proletarian's Pocketbook

speeches from the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87

We are heirs of the world's revolutions

"There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to combat the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination.

Thomas Sankara Speaks, The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983- 87

Jean Ziegler

Figure révolutionnaire messianique, Thomas Sankara fut le premier président du Burkina Faso, de 1983 à 1987. Il fit baisser la mortalité infantile, promut l'instruction, améliora la condition féminine et rendit son pays autosuffisant en essayant de le détacher de la tutelle des grandes puissances. Le discours sur la dette qu'il prononça à Addis-Abeba en 1987 est emblématique car il proposait de renégocier l'ensemble de la dette, jugée inique, des pays endettés du continent africain. Thomas Sankara sera assassiné quelques mois plus tard. Jean Ziegler, sociologue de notoriété internationale, rencontra le chef d'Etat à plusieurs reprises et devint son ami. Nous parlant de cet homme atypique, il nous présente ici la situation de tutelle à laquelle les organismes financiers soumettent les pays endettés.

Discours sur la dette

"Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of man's experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution. The French revolution taught us the rights of man. The great October revolution brought victory to the proletariat and made possible the realization of the Paris Commune's dreams of justice."--Thomas Sankara, October 1984 Thomas Sankara led the revolution of 1983 to 1987 in Burkina Faso. In the five speeches contained in this pamphlet, he explains how the peasants and workers of this West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to fight the hunger, illiteracy and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination, and the oppression of women inherited from millennia of class society. In so doing, they have provided an example not only to the workers and small farmers of Africa, but to those of the entire world.

Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87

We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions

Sous la direction de Thomas Sankara, le gouvernement revolutionnaire du Burkina Faso en Afrique de l'Ouest a mobilise les paysans, les travailleurs, les femmes et les jeunes pour mener des campagnes d'alphabetisation et de vaccination ; creuser des puits, planter des arbres, construire des barrages et des logements ; combattre l'oppression des femmes et transformer les relations d'exploitation a la campagne ; se liberer du joug imperialiste et pratiquer la solidarite internationale. Dans ce recueil de 30 discours et entrevues, Thomas Sankara parle comme un remarquable dirigeant revolutionnaire des travailleurs, des agriculteurs et des jeunes du monde entier. La deuxieme edition comprend une nouvelle introduction par l'editeur, Michel Prairie, ainsi qu'une preface, des cartes, une chronologie, un glossaire et un index. Le cahier de photos de 32 pages contient beaucoup de photos inedites de la revolution au Burkina Faso. Parlant de la premiere edition en anglais, publiee par Pathfinder en 1988, Victoria Brittain a ecrit dans le Guardian de Londres: L'originalite de sa pensee, [...] sa connaissance des realites socio-economiques du pays, sa comprehension des rapports de force internationaux [...] font de ce recueil de textes un outil tres utile. Exprimees avec passion et lucidite, ses vues sur le necessaire reequilibrage entre villes et campagnes, sur l'importance cruciale de l'emancipation de la femme [...] sont en parfaite syntonie avec les revendications des populations africaines actuelles.?Le Monde diplomatiqueThomas Sankara led the revolution that took place in the West African country Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. In this collection of speeches and interviews, Sankara explains how during those years the peasants and workers of Burkina Faso: *established a popular revolutionary government; *started to fight the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination; *and began to combat the oppression of women inherited from thousands of years of class society. Their actions set an example not only for the workers and peasants of Africa but for those of the whole world, then and now. Sankara was assassinated October 15, 1987, in a coup carried out by the country?s current president, Blaise Compaore. Second edition includes a new introduction by editor Michel Prairie, foreword, maps, chronology and glossary, as well as an index. Thirty-two page photo section features many unpublished photos of the Burkina Faso revolution. Of the first edition, published by Pathfinder in 1988, Victoria Brittain wrote in the London Guardian, ?The courage and originality which made him and Burkina Faso the inspiration they were to so many Africans shine out of this collection of his most important speeches.? ?The originality of Sankara?s ideas ? along with his awareness of the social and economic realities of his country, his understanding of the international relations of forces ? make this collection a highly useful tool. Expressed with passion and clarity, his views on the necessity of a new balance between the city and the countryside, on the crucial importance of the emancipation of women ? are in perfect keeping with the demands of the peoples of Africa today.??Le Monde diplomatique

Thomas Sankara parle

"Nuestra revolucion en Burkina Faso se inspira en todas las experiencias de los hombres desde el primer aliento de la humanidad. Queremos ser los herederos de todas las revoluciones del mundo, de todas las luchas de liberacion de los pueblos del Tercer Mundo. Sacamos lecciones de la Revolucion Americana. La Revolucion Francesa nos ense?o; los derechos del hombre. La gran Revolucion de Octubre permitio la victoria del proletariado e hizo posibles los sue?os de justicia de la Comuna de Paris." --Thomas Sankara Thomas Sankara dirigio la revolucion de 1983 a 1987 en Burkina Faso. En los cinco discursos aqui incluidos, explica como los campesinos y trabajadores de este pais de Africa occidental establecieron un gobierno popular revolucionario y comenzaron a combatir el hambre, el analfabetismo y el atraso economico impuestos por la dominacion imperialista, asi como la opresion de la mujer heredada de milenios de sociedad de clases. Al hacerlo, han ofrecido un ejemplo no solo a los trabajadores y peque?os agricultores de Africa, sino a los del mundo entero."Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of man's experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution. The French revolution taught us the rights of man. The great October revolution brought victory to the proletariat and made possible the realization of the Paris Commune's dreams of justice." --Thomas Sankara, October 1984 Thomas Sankara led the revolution of 1983 to 1987 in Burkina Faso. In the five speeches contained in this pamphlet, he explains how the peasants and workers of this West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to fight the hunger, illiteracy and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination, and the oppression of women inherited from millennia of class society. In so doing, they have provided an example not only to the workers and small farmers of Africa, but to those of the entire world.

Discursos de la revolución de Burkina Faso, 1983-87

Somos herederos de las revoluciones del Mundo

"No existe una verdadera revolucion social sin la liberacion de la mujer," explica Sankara, dirigente central de la revolucion de 1983-87 en Burkina Faso. Los trabajadores y campesinos de ese pais de Africa occidental establecieron un gobierno popular revolucionario y comenzaron a combatir el hambre, el analfabetismo y el atraso economico impuestos por el dominio imperialista."There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to combat the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination.

La emancipación de la mujer y la lucha africana por la libertad

L'émancipation des femmes et la lutte de libération de l'Afrique

Thomas Sankara

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