Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Kongo

  • David Cameron: Zaire: Mobutu on the Brink

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    [Socialism Today, No 18, May 1997, p. 21-24] Seven months after the outbreak of the rebellion in Eastern Zaire, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of the Congo (Zaire), led by Laurent Kabila, is on the verge of power. David Cameron writes. The seven-month campaign by Laurent Kabila has taken his Alliance forces…

  • David Cameron: East Africa in turmoil

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    [Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 2-3] The crisis simmering in Zaire for two years has finally come to a head. In 1994, with the victory of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front in neighbouring Rwanda, the ex-Rwandan army and Interahamwe militias, who were responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis, fled…

  • Tony Saunois: Kabila and Crocodile Shoes

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    [Socialism Today, No 19, June 1998, p. 5] The overthrow of Mobutu in the renamed Congo by the forces of Laurent Kabila has undoubtedly been seen as a victory in defeating a ruthless and corrupt dictatorship. French imperialism is lamenting its loss of influence to the US, which recently gave its backing to the Congo’s…

  • Lynn Walsh: Zaire – Warum Frankreich die Fremdenlegion schickte

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    (Militant, Nr. 409, 9. Juni 1978, S. 10-11) In der Vergangenheit haben sich die herrschenden Klassen Europas mit ihrer „zivilisierenden“ Rolle in Afrika gebrüstet und damit, wie sie „aufstrebenden Nationen“ ihre Unabhängigkeit gewährten, als „die Zeit reif war“. Die Ereignisse in Zaire enthüllen jedoch, wie sehr die direkte koloniale Herrschaft durch indirekte Ausbeutung ersetzt wurde…