of all activities to the armed struggle..
Almost from the very beginning of FRELIMO there had been comrades v/ith
those erroneous conceptions. Some of them deserted in the course of the
Revolution:  they formed splinter organisations, through which they
hoped to satisfy their personal interests; or, because they were weak,
they surrendered to the Portuguese; or yet again, because their ambitions or greed for money could not be satisfied in the Revolution, they
chose an easier way of life and sought employment in the neighbouring
countries or gave themselves up to the Portuguese as did Lazaro Nkavandame.  Gradually, therefore, it was seen that "the Revolution itself
ensures the rejection of the impure load it carries".  But other elements remained amongst us carrying their mistaken ideas.  It was on
the latter that the last meeting of the Central Committee had a decisive influence, bringing them back again to the Revolutionary path.
This action was the work of a group of comrades v/ho have always kept
themselves faithful to the interests of the masses, respecting collective values and fighting individualism and personal ambition that
foment opportunism, comrades linked with the concrete reality and immersed in the realisation of the principal tasks of the struggle.
Through criticism and self-criticism each one of us vowed to correct our
conceptions and behaviour that do not conform to the exigencies of the
Revolution.  This is why we say that this meeting of the Central Committee had extremely important results, and has opened a new page in
the history of our struggle for National Liberation.
Of course, we arc aware of the difficulties that lie ahead of us.  This
unity we have now achieved will have to be implemented each day, with
all its difficult implications.  We shall need all our attention and all
our strength.  We shall have setbacks, but we shall know how to learn
from them, how to improve ourselves and our work.  We do not deceive
ourselves with false hopes of an easy paths  because it is not a mechanical process, it needs our complete and active engagement, our constant efforts.  Our experience has shown us that it takes an endless
process of criticism and self-criticism to eliminate the residue of the
colonial system that still persists in us, for us to place ourselves
decisively on the right side of history, for us to discover and imple-.
ment the necessity of the Revolution.
While reaffirming our decision to fight with more determination, based
on a new understanding of the situation and in the certainty of expressing more fully the will of the people, we wiaih to stress that all
these innovations are in fact a continuation;  and that all of them are
linked with the policy of our late President, Comrade Eduardo Mondlane,
whose work is not only being continued, but is being taken to greater
heights by the Movement.  The unity he came to represent has now'
reached a higher stages  it is unity at the service of the Revolution
A LUTA CONTINUAo
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