170 killed in Burkina Faso massacre as French-Russian rivalry grows in Sahel
Burkina Faso, a former French colony, was plunged into bloody internal fighting by French imperialism’s 2013-2021 war in neighboring Mali.
•Athiyan Silva
Athiyan Silva
Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists line up with Netanyahu genocidal’s war in Gaza
The Tamil nationalists have ended their long silence on the Israeli war on Gaza by making hypocritical statements of concern combined with statements of support for Israel.
•Athiyan Silva
Burkinabè junta arrests top officers over Burkina Faso coup attempt
The conflicts in the Burkina Faso military are deeply entwined with the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, as the Burkinabè junta led by Traoré develops ties with the Kremlin.
•Athiyan Silva
Macron announces pull-out of French troops from Niger
Amid massive protests in Niger against French imperialism, French President Macron announced the withdrawal of the French ambassador to Niamey on Sunday.
•Athiyan Silva
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso form alliance against French invasion threat
As Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso develop ties with Russia, the danger is mounting that the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine will explode across Africa.
•Athiyan Silva
US resumes drone flights amid mass protests in Niger
The backdoor maneuvering of the Nigerien junta with Washington exposes its posture of opposition to French imperialism as a fraud.
•Athiyan Silva
Military junta accuses France of preparing invasion of Niger
Macron replied to the Niger junta's remarks by again insisting that the massively unpopular French troop presence in Niger is "legitimate."
•Athiyan Silva
Russia strengthens ties with African military juntas calling to expel French troops
Bitter historical experience, including the 1987 toppling of pro-Soviet Burkinabè president Thomas Sankara, shows African workers cannot rely on military alliances with Moscow to oppose imperialism.
•Athiyan Silva, Alex Lantier
Military coup ousts Bongo political dynasty in Gabon
On Wednesday, a month after a military coup in Niger, the military ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba in Gabon, an oil-rich former French colony in central Africa.
•Athiyan Silva
Macron threatens war as Niger’s junta calls to expel French ambassador
Last Friday, Niger's military junta in Niamey gave French ambassador to Niger, Sylvain Itté, a 48-hour deadline to leave the country.
•Athiyan Silva
French troops ordered out of Niger
France has already been forced to withdraw 2,400 soldiers from Mali and 400 from Burkina Faso following military coups in May 2021 and September 2022, drastically reducing its military presence in its former colonial territories.
•Athiyan Silva, Thomas Scripps
European powers and ECOWAS threaten military intervention after coup in Niger
Behind the threats of the imperialist powers and Niger’s former colonial master who has no compunctions about crushing opposition to his rule in the interests of France’s financial elite, there is considerable apprehension that the coup will endanger their predatory interests in the region.
•Athiyan Silva, Jean Shaoul
Modi’s visit to France highlights India’s military build-up amid imperialist war drive
Modi’s authoritarian record only recommends him to his counterparts internationally. Indeed, on Thursday evening Macron presented him with the Legion of Honor.
•Athiyan Silva
Tamil nationalists back austerity, police-state measures against Sri Lankan workers
The alternative to the Tamil nationalists’ orientation to the unitary state and executive presidency is the SEP’s struggle for a Democratic and Socialist Congress of the Workers and Rural Masses.
•Athiyan Silva
As Sri Lankan protests grow, Ceylon Workers Congress courts India’s Hindu-supremacist BJP
BJP officials attended the CWC union’s May Day meeting in Nuwara Eliya as envoys of India’s Hindu-supremacist government.
•Athiyan Silva
COVID-19 spreads rapidly among children in India
The spread of the delta variant in India is sickening ever-larger numbers of adolescents and children who had been less affected in the previous wave of the pandemic.
•Athiyan Silva
We Tamil Party tries to divide Indian auto workers along ethnic lines
Amid mass protests demanding a social-distancing policy in Indian auto factories, the We Tamil party is suddenly expressing concern for ethnic Tamil workers.
•Athiyan Silva
New Tamil Nadu state government keeps India’s disastrous pandemic policy
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s government is keeping workers on the job, letting the virus spread unchecked while protecting the wealth of the region’s billionaires.
•Athiyan Silva
Tamil Nadu election rallies disregard social distancing as COVID-19 ravages India
Tamil-nationalist parties’ rallies held without even minimal social distancing reflect the bourgeoisie’s murderous “herd immunity” policy on the pandemic.
•Athiyan Silva
Tamil Nadu assembly elections held amid worsening social crisis in India
These elections take place amid an unprecedented fall in living standards of India’s working population due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and war tensions with China.
•V. Jayasakthi, Athiyan Silva