In Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali, the imperial powers have been confronted with the most irrecoverable losses they’ve ever encountered throughout the African continent. With the formal decolonization of Africa, the imperialists were able to set up a new mode of colonial exploitation via coercing the former colonies into complying with the whims of international capital; whereas with these new developments, such a backup plan isn’t feasible. A growing number of post-colonial countries are deciding to form relationships of solidarity with one another to ensure that the imperialists can no longer invade any one of them, and therefore no longer steal their resources. Ultimately, the outcome can only be that international capital is made no longer able to extract the labor of these countries either; as these disruptions weaken the global monopolies, while bringing closer a new wave of workers revolutions.
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