News and Analysis: Democratic Republic of the Congo

UN panel reveals effects of imperialist exploitation of Africa

Report details plunder of resources and growing inequality

May 15, 2013

Global capitalism’s exploitation of Africa has made a rare appearance in the dominant media, thanks to former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Africa Progress Panel, which he chairs.

The African Union, Algeria and Mali

The West’s war against African development continues

February 22, 2013

Africa’s classic depiction in the mainstream media, as a giant basket case full of endless war, famine and helpless children creates an illusion of a continent utterly dependent on Western handouts.

As price of gold skyrockets, Congo miners face harsh existence

In brief

April 17, 2009

The price of gold recently rose to over $1,000 per ounce. Yet in the super-rich goldmines of the Democratic Republic of Congo 1.5 million workers, including young children, trudge through chemical-infested soil for little or no pay.

The arrest of Nkunda and the future of the Congo

Imperialist competition for resources brings misery to people

February 24, 2009

International capitalist competition for resources continues to fuel a conflict in the Congo that has claimed at least 5 million lives in the past 10 years alone. Rwanda's dramatic arrest of Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda in late January was the first in a string of events that have brought world attention back to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Remembering Patrice Lumumba

'We are proud of this struggle of tears, of fire and of blood'

January 1, 2006

Forty-five years ago, Congolese liberation leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in a CIA-organized death trap. He was 43 years old. Patrice Lumumba was born in 1925, in the Kasai province of what was then known as Belgian Congo.

On the barricades

Around the world

July 1, 2005

Bolivian masses shut down Congress, oust president Revolution is in the air in Bolivia. The massive intervention of a determined people has led to the ouster of the president. As of early June, the entire social and political order is in grave crisis.

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