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.

The Socialist Workers Party and its fronts have held a monopoly on the anti-racist struggle for decades. Yet they have nothing to show for this. We examine why: because of their theoretical mistakes on racism, fascism, tactics, and the method of Marxism.

The main slogan of the ‘leaders’ of Britain’s anti-racist movement is “refugees are welcome here”. But this impotent, liberal slogan is devoid of class content – it actively demobilises the anti-racist movement. We must fight the right with class war!