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Hadjara Ali Soumaila, Confederation of Women Combatants and Pan-African Leaders (Niger). Photograph by Pedro Stropasolas for Peoples Dispatch. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A cascade of anti-French sentiment continues to sweep across the belt of the Sahel in Africa: joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Chad and Senegal demanded in November that the French government withdraw its military from their territories. From the western border of Sudan to the Atlantic Ocean, French armed forces, which have been in the area since 1659, will no longer have a base. The statement by the foreign minister of Chad, Abderaman Koulamallah, is exemplary: ‘France… must now also consider that Chad has grown up, matured, and that Chad is a sov...

La Marx International A nationwide uprising in Georgia against the rule of the capitalist oligarchy of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili and his Georgian Dream party that responds to Vladimir Putin's dictatorship is once again convulsing this ancient Caucasus country, which is at a crossroads between Slavic, Turkish and Persian cultures. For 4 days mass mobilizations have been going through the capital of Georgia, the Georgian people have been fighting for several decades to become independent from the prison of peoples that the Russian Federation represents. The capitalist oligarchy headed by Putin cannot allow any sovereignty or national independence because its class privileges depend on it. As we have been explaining in various works, [1] Putin's dictatorship represents the oligarc...