On this day in 1959, Congolese residents of Stanleyville rebelled against Belgian colonizers, demanding independence after a speech by Patrice Lumumba. Police suppressed the riot, killing ~70, imposing martial law, and arresting Lumumba.
The day prior, Lumumba called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience in a speech to the MNC congress, also ordering Congolese people to not collaborate with the Belgian colonial government and announcing that the party would not take part in the upcoming December elections.
The rebellion began on October 30th when the police arrived at the suburb of Mangoba to arrest Lumumba. The uprising was suppressed with military force, including two companies of infantry.
In total, approximately 70 people were killed in the fighting, and up to 200 were wounded. Lumumba himself was arrested by police as the government imposed martial law and banned gatherings of more than five people.
Congo would achieve independence from Belgium on June 30th, 1960, with Lumumba serving as its first Prime Minister. He was assassinated by Belgian forces and their collaborators on January 17th, 1961.
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Sanders is a lib so yes. But he was still useful in teaching a very important and necessary lesson for folks in the West: a better world is possible and the capitalists will never let you have it, not even by their own “rules”.
I don’t think a SocDem is going to have that agitational power for a while. Maybe in 5-10 years when there’s a generation that hasn’t been told to hope gets an injection by some grifter (AOC) and then they eat shit.
On the plus side we can hoover them up into organizing. SocDem failures fuel our orgs.