People's Revolution Party (Congo)
Political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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People's Revolution Party Parti de la Révolution du Peuple | |
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Leader | Laurent-Désiré Kabila |
Founded | December 24, 1967 (1967-12-24) |
Dissolved | 1996 |
Split from | MNC-L |
Preceded by | Kabila-Massengo faction of the Simba Rebels |
Merged into | AFDL |
Headquarters | Hewa Bora |
Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-colonialism Anti-Mobutism Congolese nationalism |
Political position | Far-left |
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