Since coming to power in September 2022, the leader of Burkina Faso’s military government, Ibrahim Traore, has attracted attention all over the world. In this talk, Josh Holroyd discuses what has been achieved in Burkina Faso since Traore came to power, and the way forward for the fight against imperialism in West Africa.

Britain’s latest Prime Minister Andy Burnham will soon have to contend with the reality that Britain is a feeble, third-rate power in an increasingly unstable, hostile word. With every pillar of its former strength eroded, British imperialism’s heyday lies long in the past.

War criminal and careerist Suella Braverman recently said that Britain’s ‘former colonies should pay the British back’ for the good that the Empire did. Meanwhile, these countries continue to be bled dry by imperialism.