The Congo: What does your organization do?

[getfiscal]

The terrible strife in the Congo, which has clear material roots in resource extraction, has claimed the lives of millions in a series of brutal conflicts in which much of Africa has been involved.

How does your organization intervene on this matter? What more could we do to organize Congolese workers?

I ask because I haven't seen many Western organizations protest much about the Congo, even though it is arguably more important (in some senses) than the Middle East. Why is this so? Some, like Slavoj Zizek, have said this is because much of the left indulges in antisemitism - when Israel blows up hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza, it is on the news for weeks and there are major protests. When a few hundred people die in the Congo, it's a Tuesday.

Let's say 10,000 Syrians are dying a month due to the violence there. By one estimate, it would be February 2057 before the war lead to as many deaths as the Second Congo War. That seems like an important comparison.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Some, like Slavoj Zizek, have said this is because much of the left indulges in antisemitism - when Israel blows up hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza, it is on the news for weeks and there are major protests. When a few hundred people die in the Congo, it's a Tuesday.
You could claim Zizek has it backwards: people are racist towards black people. When they look at Africa and see its bloody conflicts, they just shrug it off and say "That's Africa for ya..."

As for the original intent of the topic, I'm not touching that with a 10-foot stick because honestly I have no clue. You would need a massive militia/army to have make head-way into taking down all those bosses and security guards enslaving the masses in those mines and towns.

[getfiscal]

I've been looking around online for socialist groups that are active in the Congo-Kinshasa. Apparently there are members in the Fourth International (USFI/Mandelite) but no formal organization. I couldn't find formalized sections in any Trotskyist faction.

Both the leading governing party (Kabila's PPRD) and its opposition (UDPS) are described as social-democratic, with Kabila's party considered more left-leaning. The UDPS is an observer in the center-left Socialist International and also the center-right International Democratic Union.

The leading socialist party is PALU (the Lumumbists), with the current Prime Minister coming from this party. There are a number of smaller socialist parties. I see one called the parti socialiste progresiste (PSP) which largely appears to be connected to overseas members in France and Belgium connected to the PS in each of those countries (reformists, in other words).

There is a Revolutionary Organization in the Congo according to the Maoist ICMLPO.

I assume that some of the Africa-oriented organizations like the Uhuru movement have contacts in the Congo.