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Day: 24 July 2013

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DR Congo

Congo: A history of capitalist looting

July 24, 2013 Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden), first published in Socialism Today

Since 1997, wars have claimed six million lives in the Congo, where life expectancy is 46 years. Yet this horrific situation receives little media attention in the west.

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