People's Revolution Party (Congo)
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The People's Revolution Party (French: Parti de la révolution du peuple, PRP) was a clandestine political party that existed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Zaire. The PDP was a Marxist political movement born in the convulsions of the Congolese crisis, being founded in 1967 in Fizi by Laurent-Désiré Kabila, who decades later would overthrow Mobutu and take control of the country.
History
Former militant of Patrice Lumumba's Congolese National Movement and supporter of Pierre Mulele's short-lived People's Republic of the Congo, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, withdrew with his men in 1965 to the mountains of the Fizi region, east of the Democratic Republic Republic of Congo. Gaining limited control of the mountain towns, they organized a people's commune, Hewa Bora, on the Chinese model. On December 24, 1967,[1] they founded the People's Revolution Party (PRP) in an attempt to establish a mass party that would overthrow Mobutu and spread the revolution throughout the country, establishing a socialist Congo. The PRP was Maoist in inspiration and received support from China and Julius Nyerere's Tanzania.
Inspired by the 1979 overthrow of
References
- ^ "Fondation du Parti révolutionnaire du peuple au Congo".
- ^ De Villers, Gauthier. "Identifications et mobilisations politiques au Congo-Kinshasa". Politique africaine. 72: 85–86.
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