MANIA Last week South African troops, having already occupied the Cunene River basin (the site of the hydroelectric dam), advanced further into Angola supported by helicopters and the forces of the fascist Portuguese Liberation Army (ELP) in an offensive that was directed specifically at ousting the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) from the regions under its control.
Needless to say, they were fully aided in this task by the puppets of imperialism - the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). This reactionary well develop into the spark that could light the South African powder keg.
It is in the light of these factors that the present situation in Angola EMPLA perialism - FNLA and UNITA -the MPLA leadership has thus been forced to take a more correct postit has completely disregarded the fact that the present unfavourable of these compromises. The leadership has continued to offer the masses a moralistic analysis that speaks of wicked people who refuse to keep their word.
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CHIMICTL tion towards these movements. But balance of forces is precisely a result ibility of our working together within the government....... we still hope that UNITA will take the path of conciliation, the path of real peace (interview in Sempre Fixe, 3 May It is also worth looking into the meaning of MPLA's declared intention to 'seize power'. Its continual reference to 'people's power' has been broadly ambiguous in that it defines people's power as simply having a practical function, and not as a strategy for the development of self-organisation and self-defence as the first form of state power of the working masses. The relationship between the MPLA and the state apparatus remains especially obscure because respect for the Alvor Accords is asserted repeatedly, and that means respect for a form of bourgeois govIt is this fundamental contradiction that injects the worst illusions into the mass-movement, and confirms clearly the leadership's own characterisation of its politics as 'progressive nationalism'. Such politics, no matter how progressive, can only disarm the masses when faced with the present civil war and the intervention into it by the forces of imperialism. the broadest possible campaign against the intervention of imperialist forces in Angola, in solidarity with the MPLA, and in solidarity with the Angolan revolution. The victory in Vietnam has demonstrated the indisputable value of a worldwide mobilisation against the intervention of American imperialism... this must be done again against imperialist intervention in Angola today!
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The revolution that has threatened the entire stability of imper- ialist strategy in southern and central Africa is today faced by a reactionary onslaught that is determined to bring it to its knees.