Progressive Congolese Students
The Progressive Congolese Students (
Université catholique de Louvain based in Louvain-la-Neuve. Politically, it had a Lumumbist orientation. It had relations with the Progressive Reform Party. The ECP was frequently plagued by infiltrations by agents of the Mobutist regime.[1] ECP published a magazine entitled Congo-Libération.[2]
Following the
Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FLNC) sought contact with ECP. ECP members went to Angola between July and November 1977, and where incorporated into the FLNC Central Committee. Nevertheless, relations between ECP members and the FLNC leader Mbumba were strained.[3]
In July 1980, the ECP, together with the FLNC and other exiled opposition groups, founded the Council for the Liberation of the Congo-Kinshasa (Conseil pour la Libération du Congo-Kinshasa, CLC) in Brussels.[1][4]
References
- ^ a b Ray, Donald I. Dictionary of the African Left: Parties, Movements and Groups. Aldershot, Hants u.a: Dartmouth, 1989. p. 84
- ^ "CSD lijst periodieken België". Archived from the original on 2007-07-26. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
- ISBN 978-0-253-02150-2.
- ISBN 978-0-230-28648-1.
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