By SAM RUSSELL

African leaders all over the

‘| Continent are up in arms at the

latest move by imperialism to

interfere in the Congo, to get its

hands more securely on the

Tiches of the country and enslave
its inhabitants,

Denouncing the actions of “cer-
ain powers” in the Congo the ,
Other day, President Ben Bella
Of Algeria said: “The actions of

€se powers are clear as day-
light in a country that has suf-
fered and is dear to our hearts
~ the Congo, where they seek
© impose a de facto situation
Which would constitute an insult
{0 the whole of Africa,”

And President Ben Bella add-
“The real threat to African
untries, the threat of certain
Powers attempting to reduce in-
€pendence to a mere facade, ob-
8€s us to close ranks and re-
Main vigilant,”

There is no doubt who these
Certain powers” are, for it is
© collusion of the U,S, with Bel-
lan Big Business that has foisted
n the unhappy people of the
Ngo, the man of the mammoth
Monopoly, Union Miniere, Moise
Shombe, now Premier, Foreign
Minister, Planning Minister‘ and
yormation Minister. of the Con-
6

Itis interesting to notethat the

York Herald Tribune wel-
ming the arrival of Tshombe
“ld the other day: “Mr, Tshombe

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is a fighter against great odds,
as his record in Katanga proves,
and in this battle he can count
this time on the support both of
the United States and the United
Nations,”

As for the United Nations, this
paper is in no position to speak
and there are already indications
that the African, Asian andSocia-
list countries will not welcome a
man who has shown himself to be
prepared to act as the tool ofim-
perialism,

In Nigeria, the Lagos Daily
Telegraph declared that it saw
no good coming to the Congo if
“this stooge of imperialism be-
comes the head of the country,”
and added that “it is impossible to
understand how this murderer
and traiter who destroyed the
shoots of good will and trust in
the Congo had now become Prime
Minister, Foreign Minister, etc,”

It has to be noted that among
the men in Tshombe’s Govern-
ment are Munongo — the Katanga
strong man held responsible for
the murder of the Congo’s first
patriot-Premier, Patrice Lum-
umba -- as well as Albert Kal-
onji, held responsible for the
murder of five of Lumumba’s
comrades,

From the moment that he ar-
rived back in Leopoldville from
Madrid, via Brussels, Tshombe
talked a lot about forming a so-
called “Government of Reconci-
lation” and releasing the thous-
ands of political prisoners who
have been held by the Adoula

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government, almost all Left-
Wingers,
It was even claimed that

Tshombe had the Support of Con-
go’s National Liberation Council,
which has its headquarters in
Brazzaville, but which has since
made it clear that it is opposed
to Tshombe and his backers,
while the Congo’s trade unions
have also refused to serve with
Tshombe,

As for the release of political
prisoners, news finally came of
the release of the leading poli-
tical prisoner Antoine Gizenga,
Deputy Premier under Lumumba,
who has been held for the past
25 years on the disease-ridden
island of Bolabemba in the mouth
of the Congo River,

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But within 24 hours of taking
over as Prime Minister, Foreign
Minister, etc,, Tshombe has or-
dered the return to the Congo of
the 3,000 Katanga gendarmerie
and their white mercenary “ad-
visers,” mostly. Belgian, who
were the troops used by Tshombe
during his adventure in Katanga
against the U.N,

These forces have for the past
year or more been given shelter
and training facilities by the Por-
tuguese colonialists who rule in
nearby Angola, So with such back-
ihg as well as that of the U.S, a
good idea can be obtained of the
character of the Tshombe gOv-
ernment now set up in Leopold-
ville,

And it is significant that one of

-Tshombe’s first statements on

taking power was that he would
aim at the “pacification” of the
Congo. With such forces, backed

by Belgium mercenaries and the
American T-28 planes it is ob-
vious what this “pacification”
would mean,

Recently the U.S, Commander
in the Middle East, General
Adams was in Leopoldville on a
private look around and there
is increasing evidence that in
preparation for the final with-
drawal of the U.N, forces from
the Congo, the U, S, was mov-
ing in,

Thus the U.S, News and World
Report reported recently from
Leopoldville: “Looking around
this capital of the stormy Congo,
it is easy to get the impression,
that the U,S, with little Belgium,
is taking over a dangerous re-
sponsibility in the heart of Africa,

“You now actually see Ameri-
can soldiers in uniform on the
streets of Leopoldville, They are
members of ‘Comish’, abbrevia-
tion for U.S, Congo Mission, This
group is a minor version of the
American military mission now
playing a major role in South
Vietnam’s shooting war,”,

The magazine declares that
this military mission is now * ad--
vising” the Congo Army on “lo-
gistics, guerilla warfare and par-
atroop operations,” as well as
Providing equipment “designed
to help the Congolese Army get
around quickly to put down up-
risings,”

Working with the Americans
are the first 110 Belgains as-
signed to fly and maintain war-
planes supplied by the U, S,

Recently it was discovered that
the U, S. Central Intelligence
Agency was flying planes in the
Congo on punitive missions
against Congo guerilla forces who
are fighting against the betrayal
of their country to big business,
from whom they had been freed by
Premier Lumumba, murdered
because of this,

After the murder of Lumumba,
the creatures ofthe U.S, andBel-
gain monopolies seized power,
Parliament Opposed them and
was dissolved in September,
1963 and it has not met since,

The Congolese National Move-

Congo

ment, the Party of African Soli-
darity, the People’s Convention
Party and the African Democratic
Union, all of which remainedtrue
to Lumumba’s policies, were
banned,

So they grouped themselves
together in the National Libera-
tion Council which is leading the
popular armed struggle against
the increasing domination of the

Congo by U, S, imperialism,

In North Katanga, Kwilu, Kivu
and Kwango provinces, although
poorly armed, mostly only with
spears and bows and arrows, li-
beration forces have already
scored striking successes and
whole areas of the country are
now being freed,

That is the reason why the
U, S, masters decided that it
was necessary to replace their
existing agents by stronger and
tougher men, That is why the
Americans: have now decided to
come out in the open and begin
open armed intervention as they
have done in South Vietnam,

Since the murder of Lum-
umba, the U, S, has been increas-
ing its financial stake inthe Con-
go, intent on ousting its British
and Belgian rivals for control
over the vast mineral wealth, and
other natural resources of the
Congo,

While the Rockefeller group is
working to take over the Anglo-
Belgian Union Miniere mono-
poly, the Morgan Guaranty Trust
has acquired a major interest in
the Belgian Societe Generale
which controls about 70 per cent
of the economy of the Congo,

And while vast profits are made
from the Congo’s copper and
uranium, its gold, diamonds and
ivory, the conditions of the peo-
ple have become steadily worse
over the past four years with the
cost of living rocketing and the
country sliding into economic
chaos as the colonialists and their
stooges plunder the Congo,

The events of the past

months show that despite the
odds against them, the people of
the Congo are determined that
their future shall not be decided
in Washington, Wall Street or
Brussels.

Congolese children in Stanleyville

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