Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (Burkina Faso)

The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (French: Comités de Défense de la Révolution, CDRs) were systems of local revolutionary cells, established in Burkina Faso by the Marxist-Leninist and pan-Africanist leader Thomas Sankara, President of the country from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. Committees were established in each workplace.