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🔻Stones of David🔻A Tribute to All Those Who Fought for a Better World and Died So Young: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2025)<a href="https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/fanon-young-revolutionaries/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/fanon-young-revolutionaries/</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fanon</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumumba</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#africa</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/decolonize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decolonize</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/antiimperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antiimperialism</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marxism</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tesistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tesistance</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@BLKNewsNow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@BLKNewsNow</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/blackmastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@blackmastodon</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antifa</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antifascism</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanrights</a>

🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-StiftungHeute vor 100 Jahren: Patrice <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a> wird am 2.7.1925 als Tasumbu Tawosa in der damaligen Kolonie Belgisch Kongo geboren. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnDiesemTag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnDiesemTag</a> 🧵

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History June 30, 1960: Congo won independence from Belgium after years of brutal colonial rule which slaughtered up to 10 million people, or half its entire population. However, imperial powers continued to exploit the people of Congo, even after independence. In 1961, the CIA orchestrated a coup that tortured, murdered, and overthrew its first democratically elected president, Patrice Lumumba, after a failed coup against him by Mobutu Sese Seku, who would later become dictator from 1971 until 1997. President Eisenhower authorized the assassination because of Lumumba’s ties with the Soviet Union. The U.S., and its European allies, wanted control over Congo’s resources, particularly its rich uranium deposits, both to fuel their civilian and military nuclear programs, and, in particular, to keep them out of the hands of the Soviet Union, which was allied with Lumumba. The wonderful 2024 documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” does a really great job of uncovering the concealed history of the 1961 assassination of Lumumba and the coup d’etat in Congo. But it’s really about so much more: Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. There’s even a “slumber party” with Fidel Castro at Malcolm X’s home, in New York, after the U.S. authorities convince all the hotels in New York to refuse Castro a place to sleep during a UN conference, and he attempts to camp out on the sidewalk with his contingent.One of the people the CIA used in its early attempts to assassinate Lumumba was chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who ran the agencies secret MKULTRA mind control program. Gottlieb tried, but failed, to kill Lumumba with poisoned toothpaste. He also tried, and failed, to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar and with radioactively poisoned shoes. MKULTRA was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The program gave hallucinogenic drugs, like LSD and Mescaline, to 7,000 unwitting U.S. war veterans, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#congo</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#belgium</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumumba</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coup</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/malcomx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#malcomx</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fidelcastro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fidelcastro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soviet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ussr</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#imperialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atomic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coldwar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jazz</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mkultra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mkultra</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hallucinogens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hallucinogens</a>

LibbyNiks te vroeg: ‘Beter laat dan nooit’: parket vraagt doorverwijzing <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Davignon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Davignon</a> (92) wegens betrokkenheid bij moord op Patrice <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a> in 1961 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Congo</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Colonialisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Colonialisme</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/neocolonialisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#neocolonialisme</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/onderdrukking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#onderdrukking</a> <a href="https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/beter-laat-dan-nooit-parket-vraagt-doorverwijzing-davignon-92-wegens-betrokkenheid-bij-moord-op-patrice-lumumba-in-1961~b3b4f278/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/beter-laat-dan-nooit-parket-vraagt-doorverwijzing-davignon-92-wegens-betrokkenheid-bij-moord-op-patrice-lumumba-in-1961~b3b4f278/</a><a href="https://archive.ph/cdwuj" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/cdwuj</a>

FarhadIt's amazing that young Africans are learning about Patrice <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Lumumba?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a> for the first time because of <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/TikTok?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TikTok</a>. <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/US?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a> and <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/France?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#France</a> want to repeat the <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/history?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> and force a regime change in <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/BurkinaFaso?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BurkinaFaso</a> but they are losing the whole <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Africa?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Africa</a> because of it <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Colonialism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/SocialMedia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Congo?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Congo</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/PatriceLumumba?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PatriceLumumba</a>

Farhad<a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Africa</a> have learned their lesson to not trust Americans.<a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a> and <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#France</a> are working together to take back control of <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=BurkinaFaso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BurkinaFaso</a> after they demand return of their gold from France.<a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a> and <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#imperialism</a> is now openly showing what they used to hide.They don't want to be the next <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Libya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Libya</a> unless the US repeats they treat their leader like they did with <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger. For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mindcontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mindcontrol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#torture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lsd</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mkultra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mkultra</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/castro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#castro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nazis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oss</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/allenginsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#allenginsberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumumba</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/malcolmx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#malcolmx</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coltrane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coltrane</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jazz</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#imperialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kenkesey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kenkesey</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/margaretmead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#margaretmead</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/charlesmanson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#charlesmanson</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mescaline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mescaline</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/castro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#castro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soviet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coldwar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ussr</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#documentary</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

abolitionmediaWhat Does Lumumba Represent, 64 Years After his Assassination? What do the Congolese know about him? Why was he never tried for Lumumba’s assassination? What did he really do to deserve desecration and humiliation? Is he really a hero? Is there a legendary concept that one should be proud of for belonging to one’s nation? It is the DRC’s greatest legacy. A touching word that signifies love of one’s homeland to the point of supreme sacrifice. He was the first politician to demystify the UN by breaking with Dag Hammarskjöld. On American soil, he refused to bow to Yankee diktat, because during the Cold War, the man wanted the DRC not to be a satellite of any power. The author of political neutralism. He symbolizes the people’s struggle for their independence, as well as a man of freedom and dignity. His assassination was no accident, as it fit with the Western plan to recolonize the Congo and Africa.He is a source of inspiration for all political parties that aspire to lead the nation for the well-being of the people. Lumumba’s courage is a political lesson for the African political class. He is the compass and the light of theories focused on human emancipation. He was the hope of free Africa; he embodies hope yesterday, today, and tomorrow. A beacon of Black struggle against racial discrimination. He is a political light that illuminates the darkness and the mediocre. His light will never be extinguished.A symbol of the struggle of young African leaders for the decolonization of the continent, he embodied the hope for a free Africa. Lumumba remains a question mark for all the puppets of the West who cannot find a correct answer regarding his political thinking. He did not like independence as a gift; it was the fruit of struggle. A visionary, he knew how to read the signs of the times and anticipate events.Patrice Emery Lumumba’s character can be explained by his lack of vanity, firmness in principles, love of country, rectitude, vitality of spirit, passion for Africa, generosity, faith in man and nation, hence his greatness. He was not afraid of death; he simply wanted the happiness of Congo and Africa. He is an ideal man with a generous heart. He is a conscience that acts. He was endowed with a brilliant intelligence. He was the first Congolese to hold the position of commercial director under the colonial regime. He was the first Black person to live in the residential area of Gombe with white people.He was the first Congolese to write a political essay, the first to advocate for the education of Congolese girls and the emancipation of black women. He was the first Congolese to create a trans-ethnic party, the first Congolese politician to think of the Congo as a unitary nation, and the first Congolese leader to popularize the concept of “independence.”He is also the first Congolese to have successfully organized a political rally in the annals of the Congo. He is the first Congolese leader to demand the holding of a Belgian-Congolese round table to accelerate the political independence of the Congo. He is the first Congolese politician to have called the Congolese people to civil disobedience against the colonial order. He is also the first Third World leader to have stayed at Blair House.Lumumba enters history through the front door, that of bravery and heroism. An incorruptible man, he did not become a national hero because of his death, but thanks to his exemplary life, his honorable struggle, and his assassination, which only reinforced his myth. Why is Lumumba’s political history not taught in our schools?Lumumba’s heroism is a crime for the West, because knowledge of his struggle allows Congolese youth to fight imperialism to regain political and ideological independence, and rebuild our national sovereignty. Lumumba’s political history is linked to the founding of the United States of Africa. Lumumba’s story must be hidden to keep Africans enslaved by the West.Thus, the mystery surrounding his assassination and the place of his torture became a state secret for Belgium and its local lackeys. There was no trial for Lumumba, so that Africans would not discover the West’s modus operandi against Africa’s happiness.The High Council of the Republic, the transitional parliament under the leadership of Cardinal Mosengwo, had taken three decisions on the Lumumba case:1. A parliamentary commission must go to Lubumbashi to exhume and identify the tomb of Lumumba, Lumbala and Okito;2. Parliament instructs the government to organize a proper funeral for Lumumba and his companions, and then to compensate their families.3. Demand the return to the Lumumba family of all the deceased’s property seized from the ITB Bogaert boat.To date, the Lumumba family has never received the end-of-career allowance as Prime Minister or Minister of Defense. This problem must also be resolved.Why is the Congolese government silent on Lumumba’s rights?Lumumba does not have a tomb; the DRC, with the economic independence advocated by Lumumba, should be a great power. Moreover, 1 FCFA was equivalent to 2 US dollars. Canadians and people from other African countries came to the DRC for treatment. Unemployed Europeans came to this country to look for work. The Lumumba case is a state secret. It takes great courage to open this page in Congo’s history. Lumumba’s tomb bothers the West, which therefore cannot honor him in his own country.Gérard Soete, one of Lumumba’s assassins, showed on Belgian television the two teeth removed from Lumumba’s mouth after his assassination. This crime against humanity left the Belgian justice system blind and unable to open a judicial investigation against this individual. No statement has been made by the Congolese government demanding the return of the two teeth.An assassin presents the remains of the prime minister who paved the way for Congo’s independence, but the Belgian and Congolese governments remain silent. No summons has been issued. François and Roland Lumumba filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office, but the latter refused to open this Pandora’s box.Juliana Lumumba recently left the court system, but she wrote to the Belgian king asking for the return of her father’s remains so that she could grieve and organize a dignified funeral for her late father. The Belgian king accepted her request. The Belgian and Congolese governments agreed to organize Lumumba’s funeral.President Félix Tshisekedi receives the Lumumba children several times. The Belgian king also receives the Lumumba children. Gérard Soete presented two teeth. Curiously, Belgium will return only one tooth, without any explanation, but we have videos of Gérard Soete on Lumumba’s remains. Where is Lumumba’s other tooth? The Congolese parliament, under the presidency of Bishop Mosengwo, had recommended compensation for the Lumumba family.Why did the Belgian and Congolese governments not plan to compensate the Lumumba children? This is another enigma. An equation to be solved. Even Lumumba remains shrouded in mystery. Today, the desecration of the Lumumba mausoleum is a heavy burden for the Congolese government.Unfortunately, the culture of honoring symbols does not yet exist in the DRC. Another equation to solve. The Congolese and Belgian governments are civilly and criminally liable for organizing the funeral, and therefore for the desecration of the Lumumba mausoleum. Add to that the desecration, which is also a case against the Congolese government.Some gestures not to forget1. In 1966, Mobutu publicly proclaimed Lumumba a national hero.2. In 1997, President Laurent Kabila appointed Juliana Lumumba Minister of Culture.In 2002, a monument to Lumumba was erected in Kinshasa by President Joseph Kabila.In 2018, President Félix Tshisekedi erected a mausoleum in Shilatembo in honor of Lumumba. President Félix Tshisekedi held a proper funeral for Lumumba and erected a mausoleum in his honor in Kinshasa, in recognition of his role in winning the country’s independence.In 2002, the Belgian king apologized to the Congolese people and the Lumumba family for Belgium’s role in Lumumba’s assassination.Why the hatred against Lumumba?The West wants the DRC to be ruled from the outside. Congo’s independence must remain empty. However, in his speech of June 30, 1960, Lumumba demanded that the Congolese people teach the glorious history of their struggle for independence.To speak of Lumumba is to agree to take up the torch of his struggle to regain the independence and sovereignty of the DRC, which explains why his political history remained secret for so long. For the West, the Congo must remain under the yoke of the 1885 regime, established after the Berlin Conference. The Congo’s minerals remain the property of the West.In 2007, Congo dared to sign a mining agreement with China worth nine billion US dollars. Curiously, the IMF, the World Bank, the British NGOs Global Witness and Witness, the United States, and France demanded that China disengage from the Congo. President Joseph Kabila was warned by Louis Michel and Karel De Gucht for his rapprochement with China. These people believe that the DRC is their private boutique and that other continents have no right to the Congo’s riches. Today, Rwanda is supported by the West to occupy and plunder the Congo’s wealth. This is the tragic story of the DRC after Lumumba’s assassination.A mental revolution is needed to escape this situation. Nothing is free; colonization continues in another form. To escape poverty and misery, one must work, which is why the Lumumba government’s program is a great lesson. Congo’s minerals have elevated several Western countries to the ranks of powers, but have left the country prey to wars of aggression, the proliferation of foreign armed groups, and genocide. The richest country in the world, yet its people live in poverty. With 34 categories of minerals, the DRC holds all the cards to become a great power. The country must be equipped with better policies to achieve a flourishing economy. By marrying the political class and the scientific world, Congo will easily take off. Lumumba, Africa and the Free World: A Glorious History.On June 30, 1960, Lumumba declared that the independence of the Congo marked a decisive step toward the total liberation of an entire African continent. From the collapse of apartheid, youth across Africa rose; the AES space is the true image of Lumumba’s struggle.Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, had two types of cabinet. Kandolo was chief of staff, Mobutu, secretary for the DRC, but Comrade Moumié, leader of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon, and Andrée Blouin, head of public relations for the Cabinet of African States, were also part of the cabinet.It must be understood that Kandolo, Mobutu, and Holden Roberto were bribed by the CIA to extract state secrets. The CIA concluded that Lumumba was a Congolese political figure hostile to Western interests. He could not be manipulated; his body had to be made to disappear. After his assassination, and during the Cold War period, the Congolese were forbidden to discuss the history of the Congo and Lumumba. Lumumba is an African hero, and the founding of the United States of Africa was a major provocation for Westerners. This country will not be the West’s flagship.Lumumba, an international heroLumumba University in Moscow (Russia); a Lumumba Boulevard in an upscale neighborhood in Tehran; in Windhoek, Dar es Salaam, and Dakar. A Lumumba Street in kyiv (Ukraine), a Lumumba Square in Beijing, a Lumumba monument in Leipzig (Germany), a Lumumba Square in Algiers, a stone dedicated to Lumumba in Catania (Italy), a Lumumba Avenue in Lusaka, Luanda, Bucharest, and Rabat (France), a Lumumba monument in Bamako, Ouagadougou, and Sfax (Tunisia). Lumumba High School in Brazzaville, a monument in Havana (Cuba), and Lumumba Square in Nairobi.Many countries around the world, including Egypt, Russia, Bulgaria, Guinea, and Sri Lanka, have issued stamps featuring Lumumba. Students at major universities around the world demonstrate with photos or banners featuring Lumumba’s image.Lumumba’s ideas circulate globally, with people defending their doctoral theses at major universities around the world, notably in France, at the Sorbonne. Lumumba entered the political science teaching programs at the Free University of Brussels between 1962 and 1964, thanks to the study of his essay “Congo, Land of the Future, Is It Threatened?”It should be noted that many countries, in several continents, proclaimed Lumumba a national hero, such as Ghana in 1961, Guinea in 1961, Egypt in 1961, Mali in 1961, Morocco in 1961, Sudan in 1961, Algeria in 1962, and honored on a large scale in Congo-Brazzaville.In Europe, the USSR under Khrushchev, Yugoslavia in 1961, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Albania and Romania.Asia: China by Mao himself, India by Nehru himself in July 1961.Latin America: Argentina by René Barrientos, Mexico by national opinion and Cuba.United States: Civil Rights Movement in 1961; Martin Luther King in 1962; Malcolm X in 1964. The CIA will assassinate this great Black American revolutionary who had mobilized Black Americans to create an army and come avenge Lumumba in the Congo.The entire world recognizes Lumumba’s worth, except in the DRC, because the country is prey to international imperialism. The West loves the Congo’s riches, but not the Congolese. Lumumba is a political figure of historic stature, a universal hero, a great spirit who must be respected and honored. Lumumba is a school, a political religion, a doctrine, a political movement, a fighting philosophy. We will explain all of this in another column.Homeland or death, we will win!Boswa Isekombe Sylvere Secretary General of the Congolese Communist Party The Lion with the Red Heart <a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18192" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18192</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/africa/" target="_blank">#africa</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/congo/" target="_blank">#congo</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/democratic-republic-of-congo/" target="_blank">#democraticRepublicOfCongo</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/lumumba/" target="_blank">#lumumba</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/socialism/" target="_blank">#socialism</a>

Robert HeinzeI feel like I should write something about <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Grimonprez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Grimonprez</a>' formally masterful documentary, which it seems to me continues to push a version of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a>'s murder that was established by Ludo de Witte and popularised by Raoul Peck; namely, one that underplays Lumumbas own tactical and political errors, presents Kasavubu and Tshombe as mostly pawns and Mobutu as the evil presence in the shadows and in general underplays Africans' agency. In contrast, Hammarskjöld seems more a traitor to the cause than a tragic figure in which the structural problems of the UN itself played out.I've taught about the history of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DRC</a> several times. Each time, we would watch Raoul Peck's "Lumumba" at the end and take apart its heroic narrative. This doesn't mean downplaying the imperialist violence at the center of the story; it does mean taking African politicians' decisions seriously.

Achim ReinkeHabt Ihr alle gesehen, dass dieser großartige (Oscar-nominierte) Dokumentarfilm jetzt auf arte läuft?!? Der Kampf zwischen der machtbasierten und der regelbasierten Weltordnung im Kalten Krieg am Schauplatz Kongo. Ein Meisterwerk, phantastisch montiert und geschnitten. Unvergessliche Zitate, ein tiefer Einblick in Handeln und Denken der politischen Weltmächte. Ein Film wie guter Jazz! So dicht, so aufregend…<a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/kino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kino</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/afrika" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#afrika</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/kongo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kongo</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumumba</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jazz</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/fernsehen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fernsehen</a> Soundtrack für einen Staatsstreich - Die ganze Doku | ARTE <a href="https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/109338-000-A/soundtrack-fuer-einen-staatsstreich/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/109338-000-A/soundtrack-fuer-einen-staatsstreich/</a>

Jean-Jacques BirgéSOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT <a href="https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-jacques-birge/blog/120225/soundtrack-coup-detat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-jacques-birge/blog/120225/soundtrack-coup-detat</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jazz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#congo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumumba</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/documentaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#documentaire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jeanjacquesbirge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jeanjacquesbirge</a>

Brian DearFinally saw SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT, an unusual <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#documentary</a> on what led to a Western assassination of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Congo</a> leader <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a> in 1960. I learned a lot. Worth seeing.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#movies</a>

abolitionmediaLumumba, Symbol of Global Anti-Imperialism Central Africa remains the bastion of counter-revolution in Africa, due to its blind submission to Western imperialism. Several political leaders play a major disastrous role in the series of genocides in the Great Lakes region. What to do? The DRC is flooded with anti-Lumumba propaganda. In December 1960, individuals mandated by American imperialism decided to deport Lumumba to Katanga to assassinate him. Lumumba, an anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist and anti-fascist, became the symbol of world anti-imperialism thanks to his political struggle.It should be noted that anti-Lumumbism in the DRC is a major project of the imperialist systems to stifle the independence of the country. Anti-Lumumbism is an anti-communist ideology. On October 2, 1968, the prestigious communist leader Pierre Mulele will be physically liquidated in an extraordinary bestial barbarity.Comrade Pierre Mulele was killed at Camp Kokolo with a bestial cruelty that will forever shame the regime that ordered this savagery. While alive, his ears were torn off, his nose cut off, his eyes were pulled out of their sockets. While still alive, his arms were amputated, then his legs. While still alive, his arms were amputated, then his legs. The human remains were thrown into a bag and immersed in the Congo River. The Lumumbist ideologue, Comrade Théodore Bengila, will also be liquidated in the same barbaric manner.In the eyes of US imperialism, the DRC cannot succeed and prevent Africa from taking off. Thus, it has become a major area of turbulence in Africa.The DRC is the bastion of assassinations of progressive leaders. It is an imperialist strategy to block the development of our country. The land of our ancestors is perfumed by the blood of martyrs who fought for the independence and sovereignty of our country. On June 2, 1966, the hanging of Mahamba, Kimba, Anany and Bamba. An action that led to the establishment of a totalitarian system in the DRC.No one will forget the secession of Katanga and South Kasai, a CIA action to prevent Lumumba’s government from functioning properly. The Belgian aggression against Congolese territory was supported by the UN and several Western powers.The hunt for Lumumbists was validated by several Western powers to take the political and economic independence of the Congo hostage. Anti-Lumumba is a form of bloodthirsty ideology.On February 9, 1961, seven prominent Lumumbist ideologues were savagely murdered. They were comrades Jean Finant, Christophe Muzungu, Jacques Lumbala, Fataki, Mbuyi, Yangala and Léopold Elengesa. They were buried alive in front of a common grave after their mutilation, to the great delight of the anti-Lumumba who witnessed this macabre spectacle. An unbearable scene, but one that the Lumumbists experienced in the DRC.It should be noted that the Lumumbist cadres of great value were liquidated during the period of persecution of the Lumumbists, such as Thomas Mukwidi, Antoine TSHIMANGA, Albert Bushiri, Emmanuel Nzuzi, Pierre Elengesa, Jean Finant, etc. We have seen many others fall, often through poverty, while others have run out of steam through suffering and other deprivations of their rights.You don’t cut a flame with scissors. Thus, the mystique of Lumumba crossed the oceans to America. The famous black American revolutionary, Malcolm X, identified with Lumumba, his idol, by taking on his look: his glasses and his beard. He was called the “Lumumba of Africa”. He had also given the name Lumumba to his only daughter as a testimony to his admiration for the leader of the Congolese revolution whose assassination had devastated him.Malcolm X wanted to raise an army of black Americans to fight in the Congo alongside Congolese nationalists to avenge Lumumba’s assassination. The CIA brutally prevented him from doing so, as he was assassinated on February 25, 1965.On December 11, 1964, Commander Ernesto Che Guevara declared at the UN podium: “All free men of the world must be ready to avenge the crimes committed in the Congo. […] The statue that commemorates Lumumba, destroyed today but which will be rebuilt tomorrow, also reminds us, through the tragic history of this martyr of the world revolution, that we cannot trust imperialism…”Therefore, we note that Lumumbism, like Pan-Africanism, is a current that promotes unity and solidarity between Africans, American resisters and the African diaspora in America, for the decolonization of Africa and the emancipation of Africans. It is a movement that acts against international imperialism. It defends the democracy of the peoples. It eliminates colonialism or neocolonialism.Malcolm X had not arrived in the DRC, but Ernesto Che Guevara left his Ministry of Industry to join the Congolese nationalist movement in Fizi Baraka. This clearly shows that Lumumba’s political ideas are circulating all over the world, except in the DRC, because the members of his government are under the control of imperialist powers hostile to the happiness of the Congolese people.Desecrating the mausoleum of Patrice Lumumba is a crime against the world revolution. The Congolese government has an obligation to organize a public trial against those who desecrated the mausoleum of Lumumba. Sabotaging the memory of Lumumba is a way of tarnishing the image of our country and our people. The petty bourgeois reformists are on the wrong train and the wrong wagons, and it is difficult, if not impossible, to politically liquidate the mystique of Lumumba. The revolt against the reason of the Wazalendos’ fight is a form of Patrice Emery Lumumba’s politics. Their fight for the defense of the homeland clearly shows that Lumumbism is not running out of steam.Lumumbism is not a political party, but a movement, a school, a doctrine, a movement, a political philosophy, a project of hope, a thought of national construction. It is both a theory and a method. Lumumbism, like Pan-Africanism, is not a dogmatic doctrine. It is a guide to action or a salutary and liberating spiritual nourishment. Lumumbism is a state of mind and not a political party.Homeland or death, we will win!Boswa Isekombe Sylvere, Secretary General of the PCCO. The lion with the red heart <a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=13959" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=13959</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/africa/" target="_blank">#africa</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-colonialism/" target="_blank">#antiColonialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-imperialism/" target="_blank">#antiImperialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/congo/" target="_blank">#congo</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/lumumba/" target="_blank">#lumumba</a>

IXIAssassination of Patrice Lumumba, European colonialism, genocide, US foreign policy, Cold War

Godd<a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/@repo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@repo</a> De man was hoe dan ook verantwoordelijk voor de moord op <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a> die minstens vanuit zijn paleisdiensten gesteund werd. Als de betrokkenheid van die diensten al niet groter was. En als hij er al niet persoonlijk van op de hoogte was ...

Norbert_R 🐘:mastodon:🦣<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Belltowernews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Belltowernews</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/@BelltowerNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@BelltowerNews</a> Patrice Lumumba: Rassistischer Name für Kakaogetränk mit „Schuss“Auf <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Weihnachtsm%C3%A4rkte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Weihnachtsmärkte</a>n in ganz Deutschland trinken Menschen ein <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kakaogetr%C3%A4nk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kakaogetränk</a> mit Schuss, das vielerorts noch immer den Namen „<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a>“ trägt. Doch diese Bezeichnung ist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rassistisch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rassistisch</a> und verdeutlicht, wie allgegenwärtig rassistische und koloniale Weltbilder noch in unserer Sprache vorhanden sind.Von Kira <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ayyadi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ayyadi</a><a href="https://www.belltower.news/patrice-lumumba-rassistischer-name-fuer-kakaogetraenk-mit-schuss-157335/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.belltower.news/patrice-lumumba-rassistischer-name-fuer-kakaogetraenk-mit-schuss-157335/</a>

Seniorïnnen mit Biss ✊Auch die Erinnerung an Patrice <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a> und die antikolonialen Kämpfe wird ausgelöscht, wenn dieser Name von Weihnachtsmärkten wie in Frankfurt am Main verschwindet. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#woke</a>Wir haben den kongolesischen Freiheitskämpfer als Jugendliche kennengelernt, als wir über den Namen eines Cocktails, der nach ihm benannt war, in unserem Jugendclub informiert wurden.

DJM (freelance for hire)Satchmo in Congo - Updated post<a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/grand-kalle-african-jazz-satchmo-okuka-lokole/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://amf.didiermary.fr/grand-kalle-african-jazz-satchmo-okuka-lokole/</a>With info on the new documentary by Johan Grimonprez "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat"<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jazz</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Congo</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Soundtrack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Soundtrack</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OST</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LouisArmstrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LouisArmstrong</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CIA</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Independence</a>

Kriszta Satori<a href="https://journa.host/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBCNews</a> - False alarm over DR Congo hero's golden tooth <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04l233zg15o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04l233zg15o</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/DRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DRC</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a>

Daniel Carkner🥀One of the unexpectedly good films I saw at VIFF this year -- wouldn't have seen it if my dad wasn't intent on it -- was Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat. You wouldn't think it would be watchable to have a feature length film of headlines, live music clips, archival interviews, and old newsreels cut together at a quick pace, but it was amazing. To the degree I felt it told the story in a way a conventional slow narrative couldn't. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/13/coups-colonialism-and-all-that-jazz-new-film-unravels-cold-war-truths-johan-grimonprez-soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/13/coups-colonialism-and-all-that-jazz-new-film-unravels-cold-war-truths-johan-grimonprez-soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat</a><a href="https://historians.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumumba</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#documentary</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Belgium</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Congo</a>

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