Jozef Bossuyt | Communist Party of Belgium
World War III has begun. It was planned, launched, organized, financed, coordinated and armed by NATO, the main instrument of US imperialism. This NATO war is one war, which is taking place on several fronts:
Against this NATO war offensive, the anti-imperialist coalition, built around countries as China, the DPR of Korea and Russia is gaining allies over the world. Countries as Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, and Iran, Eritrea, South Africa, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Venezuela, Nicaragua joined this anti-imperialist front. Many African countries take the side of this coalition.
ERITREA
On March 2, 2022 in the UN General Assembly vote on a US resolution condemning Russia and demanding withdrawal of Russia military forces from Ukraine. 114 countries sustained the resolution, 52 countries expressed their resistance by abstaining or not taking part in the vote, five countries voted against: Russia, Belarus, Syria, the socialist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and Eritrea. 26 of the 54 African countries have not voted in favor of the US resolution.
SOUTH AFRICA
South africa brought Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas war, that resulted in a humanitarian crisis and mass killings, before the International Court of Justice on 29 December 2023.
South Africa stated that Israel had committed and was committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, contravening the Genocide Convention, including what South Africa described as Israel’s 75-year apartheid, 56-year occupation, and 16-year blockade of the Strip. Many countries have expressed their support for the South African resolution for the International Court of Justice.
MALI
Mali has expelled the French colonial occupying military from the country since 2020. August 8th, 2024, Mali condemned the Ukrainian fascist regime, that had supported Tuareg forces, who fight to overthrow the Mali government, instructing them how to use drones.
NIGER
In July 2023, the actual president of Niger, Abdourahamae Tchiani came to power and stopped relations with the French colonial structures. In 2024 Niger withdrew, together with Mali and Burkina Faso, from the “communauté économique des états Ouest-Africains”, that imposed as monetary unit the CFA Franc (organized and guaranteed by France : €1 = 655.957 CFA Franc).
CONGO
Congo, Rwanda and Burundi have been colonies of Belgium from 1885 until 1960. In 1885 Congo became the personal property of the Belgian king Leopold II.
The Belgian king Leopold II was only interested in plundering the rubber and ivory of Congo. Congolese people were forced to collect the rubber from the trees. If at the end of a day they had not collected enough rubber, their hands were cut off with an axe. In Belgium there are still statues in honor to king Leopold II. The Belgian anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist movement has commemorated this by cutting off the hands of one of these statues. By forced labor, and by conquering every village in Congo with violence, the Belgian colonial regime killed nearly 4 million people by genocide.
Congo became an independent country on June 30th 1960. Patrice Lumumba, whose MNC party had won the elections, became prime minister and started anti-colonial measures. He was one of the great historic African leaders of the struggle for independence, together with Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso), Amilcar Cabral (Guinea-Bissau), Samora Machel (Mozambique) and Julius Nyerere (Tanzania). Patrice Lumumba was killed, executed by representatives of the Belgian government in 1961, on January 17th.
Many family members of Patrice Lumumba still live in Belgium, among whom is his grandson Yvan Lumumba. They have demanded and obtained on March 17th that the Brussels Justice Council has decided to appeal Etienne Davignon, who in 1961 in Congo on behalf of the Belgian government participated in the organization of the execution of Patrice Lumumba, will appear before the Correctional Court of Justice and will have to respond for his role in crimes of war.
Nowadays the regime in Ruanda is controlled by American imperialism, and they protect the theft of resources in Ruanda and Congo by Western countries. For this the Ruanda regime of Kagame is waging a war in East Congo, that makes millions of victims.
Congo is turning to China to have an alternative for the colonial relations with western countries and in order to invest and develop its economy on a basis of mutual advantage.
The anti-imperialist struggle in Africa will overcome!