Almost six months ago, on the evening of 26th July 2023, Amadou Abderrahmane the Colonel in Niger Air Forces broadcast statement number one on state television. “The corrupt President Mohamed Bazoum must resign immediately to prevent bloodshed,” Amadou said in the statement. He called on foreign countries supporting the president to stop interfering in the country immediately. The ruling political coalition (affiliated with Bazoum) in Niger denounced the coup and described it as crazy act. The Economical Community of West African States (ECOWAS) also condemned the coup. The World Bank, the African Union, the United Nations, and the European Union all condemned the coup and threatened to withhold aid. France itself moved up the Community of West African States - ECOWAS - for military intervention. Paris tried for months to rally support for the blood option. But the military council, at least Amadou Abderrahmane and Abderrahmane Tchiani (commander of the presidential guard), maintained their position, relying on the support of the poor sectors. On August 3, Niger's independence anniversary, military junta member Colonel Ibroh Amadou addressed the "barefoot" revelers in Niamey's stadium, saying, "The struggle will not stop until the last French soldier leaves Niger... and you are the ones who will get them out." In late 2023, with the limited horizon of the military option and its cost with respect to France, Macron announced that he had withdrawn the last French soldier from Niger’s land. Simply put, France yielded to the “madness” of the military junta and Niamey won with the will of its poor and patriotic military personnel.

Niger wasn’t a distinctive case in its African context. Almost a year ago, on September 30, 2022, Ibrahim Traoré, a young Diola Muslim man, led a military coup against the corrupt Roch Kabore regime in Burkina Faso. Traoré's coup was clear in its revolutionary nature. “Our battle against imperialism is long and difficult, but it is not impossible,” Traoré said in a speech on August 12, 2023: “The battle we are waging is not only for Burkina Faso, but it is a battle for all of Africa.”

The coup models were not the only ones who declared their rebellion against European colonialism. About five years ago, during the visit of Norbert Lammert (former German Parliament Speaker) to Namibia, Namibian President Hage Geingob directed harsh words at the German official who came to denounce the Chinese presence in Namibia by saying: Namibia facilitated the Germans and granted them entry visas to its territory. However, the outlook between Germany for Namibia didn’t changed. Namibian people are still subjected to racist harassment in Germany. Geingob said that China is building roads, factories and ports for the state in Namibia, while the Germans treat the black community in Berlin with racism and inferiority. “Don’t underestimate our ability in Africa,” the Namibian president said. Shortly after, the Germans apologized to the Namibians, and then German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced a request for amnesty and an initiative worth $1.35 billion to Windhoek (the capital of Namibia).

Something is changing in this world. I am not speaking here from the standpoint of the loud rhetoric of “the decline of unipolarity and the changing into multipolarity world order” (personally, I don’t see in any of the current opponents of the United States the ability to play the role of the pole, in addition that most of these powers seek nothing more than to increase their share of the capitalist system), Also i don’t speak from the standpoint of the left dreaming of the return of the Fourth International revolutions and the fall of capitalism. All that matters is that there is a change in a specific form of capitalist relations. We can describe it as the decline of the colonial model of capital. When we talk about capital, there is no need to remember that we are talking about social relationships and not a something in itself (people imagine capital as a value, while in reality, it is the social relationships that produces this value in this form of distribution and concentration). When we talk about the decline of the colonial model of capital, we are talking about a change in relations between a network that represents the interests of old colonialism and another unclear network that is now being constructed. These transformations will appear in a group of separate events that we may see, such as: the coup in Niger against Mohamed Bazoum, the end of Roch Kabore’s regime in Burkina Faso, Hamas’s announcement of its attack on “Israel” on 7th October, NATO’s announcement of the end of the Ukrainian attack and the necessity to find a peaceful solution. There are two main participants in all these events: capital linked to colonialism that does not recognize people’s rights, and a “crazy” rebellion that decided to challenge this capital.

In an explanation of the mobility of capital, Irish theorist John Holloway considers that escaping rebellion is precisely the essence of the class relationship ruling the world today. There is a huge flight to freedom sought by oppressed people today (much like the flight of feudal serfs/slaves to the cities in the nineteenth century), and there is a great flight from rebellion sought at the same time by capital (much like the flight of feudal serfs to the cities also to get rid of The rebellion and objections of the serfs, and to accumulate their huge wealth in the cities as well). We can observe this complex process in the movement of Western capital since the mid 80s. Western capital was fleeing into China in hopes of increasing profits and escaping the high cost of workers’ wages in Europe and the United States. This escape provided him with a greater ability to subjugate the “serfs” and weaken the people in the world. The United States is now able to extract the surplus value of people's labor from our region as it pleases. It struck Iraq twice, deployed its bases in the Gulf, impoverished Yemen, occupied Afghanistan, besieged Iran, and blackmailed Egypt throughout the 1990s and the beginning of the millennium. However, within two decades, the flight of capital to China led to Chinese growth that was quickly translated into economic power that enabled Beijing to break into African markets, for example. This matter specifically allowed the African labor force - represented by some national regimes - to escape from European capitalism to China And Russia. It is the escape of serfs or vulnerable people towards freedom, even if it turns into a new type of dependency. This explains the chaos we are experiencing in the heart of the current capitalist control of the world.

It is precisely at this stage of flight that capital's ability to subjugate becomes more fragile. It is very similar to a feudal lord in the nineteenth century who decided to flee to the city to invest his money and accumulate his profits there. At first, his hopes of accumulating his investment led him to humiliate the serfs working on his land in the countryside in a way that was exhausting for them. However, due to his collision with the complex conditions of the labor market and the rise of competitors among city workers, he decided to return to taking care of his land and reorganize his relationship with the rural serfs. It is true that he will be more cunning this time, but at the same time he will be more fragile in challenging their objection and rebellion. This is exactly what happened with American and Western capital in the last three decades. The hopes of globalization, and the talk about turning the world into a small village, in which capital transfers its investment from market to market, and from one country to another according to its terms, have led it to greatly weaken people. In our region, the West proceeded to give all of Palestine to the Israelis through the Oslo process. The final solution negotiations were nothing more than a living humiliation, the effects of which we see every day. An insult to the dignity of the Palestinian person in settlement, in work, in water and food, in his identity, history, culture and sanctity. Today, the situation is no longer the same. The Americans insist on a two-state solution immediately after the end of this war. He is the feudalist returning from the dream of the city/globalization to the reality of his land, as he thinks. The feudal lord is trying to reorganize his relationship with the serfs. True, he will be more cunning this time, but at the same time he will be more fragile in challenging any rebellion he faces.

“wallaat – It was burned up”:

On the eve of December 9, people saw a video release by the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine, in which a Palestinian resistance fighter on the outskirts of the Jabalia refugee camp was shooting at an Israeli tank. The video shows a young man with nothing more than an RBG launcher on a completely destroyed street. He emerges from the destroyed buildings alone, facing a military convoy, cheers “Allahu Akbar,” then throws a Merkava tank and hits it. The young man returns to his companions, “running in the air” with joy, and cheers loudly the word “wallaat – it was burned.” The video that people memorized by heart sums up a lot. The vulnerable, with simple capabilities, can burn a tank co-manufactured by at least four major technology companies (the German company MTU, the American companies General Dynamics Land Systems and Electro-Optic Industries, and the Israeli company Elbit Systems). Most importantly, the oppressed can provide evidence that the subjugating relationship that the United States practices with our people is not destiny if we have the will.

This young man is not alone. He had “brothers” before in Fallujah/ Iraq 2003, Al-Kadhimiya/ Baghdad 2005, Wadi Al-Hujar 2006, and in many other regions of our world. It's just that many of us have never paid attention to their faces before. Leaving the issue of the oppressed in favor of thinking about politics based on “state/capitalist” approaches has always led to major losses that we have not paid attention to. Iran's power - as an example - in the region didn’t came from its state presence (from Iran's presence as a state). On the contrary, its presence as a state was often overwhelming even for some of its allies. Iran's strong presence has always been thanks to the title of the oppressed that this revolution raised at 1979. Hamas itself did not have a strong presence in our region because of the leverage of the Brotherhood’s presence in power. Hamas has gained this presence (which will inflame the region in the future) thanks to its determination to challenge the American will, its decision to choose confrontation with "Israel", and its victory over the choice of the weak among us.

Today, our region is engaged in a confrontation in the name of five billion vulnerable people on this earth. We must be aware of this issue, regardless of our biases and the differences in our affiliations. Let us always remember that colonial capital is more fragile than ever before, and is less daring to confront us than ever before. Don't believe the fleets. Believe the oppressed, they are the only ones capable of raising the sign of victory and restoring our dignity in all our devastating reality. Believe the madness of the poor of Niger and the dreams of the revolutionaries against colonialism in Burkina Faso. Believe the barefooted Yemenis, the adventurous and honest people of Iraq in their confrontation with America. Believe Sinwar in his promise to liberate Al-Aqsa. Believe the resistance fighter who shouted, “wallaat”... This is the time of the oppressed peoples.