Patrice Lumumba and the Permanent Revolution
Friday 17th January 2014 marks the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first democratically elected Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, who after being beaten and tortured for days, was finally shot. The assassination was the work of US and Belgian imperialism with the United Nations playing a complicit role. Lumumba led a movement for the liberation of the Congo and had a vision of national and pan-African Read more…