THE SPIRIT OF MEN OF INTEGRITY HAUNTS AFRICA
Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary Leader Who Transformed Burkina Faso Until recently, there was a country in the Sahel that the French colonialists called Upper Volta and that theoretically gained independence in 1960. Theoretically, as the result of imperialist policies, as in most African countries, its government has been corrupted by military juntas that have continued the plunder of natural resources in the service of colonialism. However, in this land the will of some men of integrity like Thomas Sankara changed the course of history. In 1983, Sankara, son of a humble family of the Simil-Mossi ethnic group –one of the poorest in that land– kept his roots very much in mind when making decisions as prime minister of the country, which shortly after his presidency was renamed Burkina Faso (homeland of men of integrity). He began a revolutionary government of only 4 years that endures in the memory and dignity…
HISTORY CLASS WITH MARGA PROHENS (AND OTHER DISTRACTED MINDS)
Since Marga Prohens took office at the Consolat de Mar two years ago, Holocaust Remembrance Day in Mallorca has become an event that shamefully justifies the occupation and genocide perpetrated by Zionism in Palestine for over 75 years. By linking the recent global wave of pro-Palestinian solidarity to an alleged resurgence of past levels of antisemitism (which is not even supported anecdotally), last year the president used the institutional ceremony of lighting six candles in honor of the millions of Jews annihilated by Nazism to add a seventh. This out-of-context seventh candle was dedicated to the memory of Israelis killed or kidnapped during the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, a response operation by the Palestinian resistance against the intensification of dispossession, blockade (political and economic), and dehumanization of their people in the 21st century. Alongside fanatics, misogynists, and racists like Ari Molina, Miquel Segura, or the Zionist apprentice Laura…
‘’THE BATTLE OF GAZA IS THE BATTLE OF ALL OF US, AS THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, BEIRUT IN 1982, OR LEBANON IN 2006’’
Translation into English of the interview with the Lebanese anthropologist and communist leader Leila Ghanem, originally conducted by Nines Maestro and published in the magazine Con-Ciencia de Clase (issue 1, winter, 2024). 1. Why did Hamas’ military operation on October 7th shock the Middle East and the world? What is the historical impact of that event on resistance movements in the Middle East? There is no doubt that for the Palestinian people, and indeed for the Arab people, the “Al-Aqsa Flood” of October 7 was a military operation of mythical proportions; in any case, unprecedented since the occupation of Palestine in 1948, a kind of legendary epic in the eyes of the Arab peoples. Some writers go back to Homer to evoke the image of the Iliad, a heroic legend “in which the weak manages to defeat their colonizer in an unimaginable balance of forces”. In just two hours, the greatest…