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for the Portuguese to go by car from one post to another, the roads and the bridges having been destroyed or sabotaged by our militants. There are still Portuguese in these areas; only, their capacity for action, their freedom of movement has been extremely curtailed. For example, when the Portuguese colonialists have to travel by • car, they put the African employees in the front seats and .hide themselves in the back seats; they expect that, seeing only Africans, our militants will abstain from attacking the car. Every evening- whole Por tuguese families go in procession to the nearest military post, where they sleep under the protection of Portuguese soldiers. Only next morning do they return to their houses, to their shops, to their occupations. On the other hand, as the African population live in the forests, the Portuguese are deprived of the manual labour necessary to the repair and construction of roads and bridges, to the cultivation of the crops. All the colonialist economic structures have begun to founder for the lack of the element on which they are based: forced labour. By May of this year our armed struggle had become solidly structured through the co-ordination and the frequency of our attacks, and the capture of important war-material from the enemy, but it was in July that O'jrv victories multiplied. The Portuguese authorities themselves recognised this, in a declaration they made to the New York Herald Tribune. ; . . • ■•.. •■ However, not everything is easy in our revolution. There are weak points. Our inexperience in the struggle against Pide led to the arrest of several political and military leaders. On the other, hand, preoccupied with the military and political action, we did not pay enough attention to other aspects equally important. For" example, we still were not able to establish an efficient administrative organisation in the half-liberated regions. We still had not created our own judicial system to substitute for the colonialist one. Medical assistance for the population, for which we are responsible, is not satisfactory, .• - •"•'.' But all the people understand our difficulties. Our people understand that, to destroy a colonialist structure of centuries and to : -,: substitute for it a socialist structure adequate to the needs of the people, is not an easy task and cannot be done in a short time. This is the actual situation in Mozambique. For how much longer will the struggle last? For how long will we have to fight, until we get our independence? We do not know. One thing is certains we shall fight until the end; we shall never turn back. Objectively,' the successes we have reached in our last attacks, the high morale of our militants, the absolute support of the people make us fore- ■:-: see our victory as being not far off. Especially if we consider that the morale of the enemy is extremely low, as is proved by the
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Full text | for the Portuguese to go by car from one post to another, the roads and the bridges having been destroyed or sabotaged by our militants. There are still Portuguese in these areas; only, their capacity for action, their freedom of movement has been extremely curtailed. For example, when the Portuguese colonialists have to travel by • car, they put the African employees in the front seats and .hide themselves in the back seats; they expect that, seeing only Africans, our militants will abstain from attacking the car. Every evening- whole Por tuguese families go in procession to the nearest military post, where they sleep under the protection of Portuguese soldiers. Only next morning do they return to their houses, to their shops, to their occupations. On the other hand, as the African population live in the forests, the Portuguese are deprived of the manual labour necessary to the repair and construction of roads and bridges, to the cultivation of the crops. All the colonialist economic structures have begun to founder for the lack of the element on which they are based: forced labour. By May of this year our armed struggle had become solidly structured through the co-ordination and the frequency of our attacks, and the capture of important war-material from the enemy, but it was in July that O'jrv victories multiplied. The Portuguese authorities themselves recognised this, in a declaration they made to the New York Herald Tribune. ; . . • ■•.. •■ However, not everything is easy in our revolution. There are weak points. Our inexperience in the struggle against Pide led to the arrest of several political and military leaders. On the other, hand, preoccupied with the military and political action, we did not pay enough attention to other aspects equally important. For" example, we still were not able to establish an efficient administrative organisation in the half-liberated regions. We still had not created our own judicial system to substitute for the colonialist one. Medical assistance for the population, for which we are responsible, is not satisfactory, .• - •"•'.' But all the people understand our difficulties. Our people understand that, to destroy a colonialist structure of centuries and to : -,: substitute for it a socialist structure adequate to the needs of the people, is not an easy task and cannot be done in a short time. This is the actual situation in Mozambique. For how much longer will the struggle last? For how long will we have to fight, until we get our independence? We do not know. One thing is certains we shall fight until the end; we shall never turn back. Objectively,' the successes we have reached in our last attacks, the high morale of our militants, the absolute support of the people make us fore- ■:-: see our victory as being not far off. Especially if we consider that the morale of the enemy is extremely low, as is proved by the |
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