https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Patrice-Lumumba-1925-1961 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Patrice-Lumumba-1925-1961 2017-01-26T11:08:07Z text/html en Sean Jacobs Obituary Historical events and figures Congo <p>Patrice Lumumba was prime minister of a newly independent Congo for only seven months between 1960 and 1961 before he was murdered, fifty-six years ago<span class="spip_note_ref"> [<a href="#nb1" class="spip_note" rel="appendix" title="The original article, published in Jacobin on January 17 2017 said 56 years (…)" id="nh1">1</a>]</span>. He was thirty-six.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV504-January-2017-" rel="directory">IV504 - January 2017</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Obituary-+" rel="tag">Obituary</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Historical-events-and-figures-+" rel="tag">Historical events and figures</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Congo-+" rel="tag">Congo</a>