[2] Entering the revolutionary process of 1983 with the support from the student movement, Somé came to play an important role in the political life of the country during the rule of the Revolutionary National Council led by Thomas Sankara.
Somé and another ULC-R leader, Basile Guissou, largely functioned as the 'ideologues' of the revolutionary government.
[3] In January 1985 ULC-R won the elections in the University of Ouagadougou Committee for the Defense of the Revolution.
But another faction, the Union of Burkinabè Communists (UCB), controlled the university administration through the principal Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo.
Later the same month, Sankara gave Somé the task of drafting a programme for the unification of the different revolutionary organizations.