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vtfsWstefc - THE STRUGGLE IN GUINEA-BISSAU With the growing alliance of the forces of reaction, the NATO-Portuguese collaboration in the colonies, the cooperation of the Caetano, Vorster and Smith regimes, it is imperative that the national liberation movements close ranks against the common enemy. The fighting peoples of the Portuguese colonies constitute one such front. Since the establishment of the Conference of Nationalist Organisations from the Portuguese Colonies(CONCP) in 1963t solidarity among the peoples of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands through their respective representative organisations, namely, the MPLA, FRELIMO and the PAIGC has been growing steadily. Recently, the Secretary-General of PAIGC(African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cabo Verde Islands), Comrade Cabral, who is also currently President of the CONCP, paid a short visit to Tanzania and held extensive talks with the representatives of the other two movements. One evening he addressed a meeting of the FRELIMO and MPLA militants, in which he outlined the progress of the struggle in Guinea-Bissau. He illustrated his talks by showing two films on the struggle: one made by British Granada Television and the other by a Soviet team. The enemy's military activities are daily aerial and naval bombardments, vain attempts to invade and reconquer certain liberated areas by combined land, air, and naval forces, and mopping up operations by helicopters, often supported by marines. Apart from the small conventional weapons, they are intensifying the use of fragmentation, napalm and phosphorous bombs. Hov/ever, the nationalist forces are fighting vigorously and successfully on three fronts and have already liberated two thirds of their country. Accurate shooting by anti-aircraft gunners has destroyed about 40 percent of the Portuguese air power and forced them to discontinue the use of their slow B-26, Dornier DO-27 and P2V bombers in favour of jets - Fiat 91 and Sabre. Systematic attacks with cannon and bazookas are carried out against Portuguese fortified camps. One of the few means of transport left is by river, and there are intensive attacks against boats carrying troops and merchandise. Commando operations against urban centres, airports, dock installations stc. are particularly significant as they greatly increase demoralisation among the enemy and discredit the colonialist troops in those areas. In one such attack, against an airbase only 10 kms. from the centre of Bissau, the control tower, barracks, and planes were destroyed. Inreasing amounts of important war material are being captured, most of it NATO issue: West German G—3's, Fall machine guns, American machine guns, Mauser rifles etc. -22-
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Full text | vtfsWstefc - THE STRUGGLE IN GUINEA-BISSAU With the growing alliance of the forces of reaction, the NATO-Portuguese collaboration in the colonies, the cooperation of the Caetano, Vorster and Smith regimes, it is imperative that the national liberation movements close ranks against the common enemy. The fighting peoples of the Portuguese colonies constitute one such front. Since the establishment of the Conference of Nationalist Organisations from the Portuguese Colonies(CONCP) in 1963t solidarity among the peoples of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands through their respective representative organisations, namely, the MPLA, FRELIMO and the PAIGC has been growing steadily. Recently, the Secretary-General of PAIGC(African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cabo Verde Islands), Comrade Cabral, who is also currently President of the CONCP, paid a short visit to Tanzania and held extensive talks with the representatives of the other two movements. One evening he addressed a meeting of the FRELIMO and MPLA militants, in which he outlined the progress of the struggle in Guinea-Bissau. He illustrated his talks by showing two films on the struggle: one made by British Granada Television and the other by a Soviet team. The enemy's military activities are daily aerial and naval bombardments, vain attempts to invade and reconquer certain liberated areas by combined land, air, and naval forces, and mopping up operations by helicopters, often supported by marines. Apart from the small conventional weapons, they are intensifying the use of fragmentation, napalm and phosphorous bombs. Hov/ever, the nationalist forces are fighting vigorously and successfully on three fronts and have already liberated two thirds of their country. Accurate shooting by anti-aircraft gunners has destroyed about 40 percent of the Portuguese air power and forced them to discontinue the use of their slow B-26, Dornier DO-27 and P2V bombers in favour of jets - Fiat 91 and Sabre. Systematic attacks with cannon and bazookas are carried out against Portuguese fortified camps. One of the few means of transport left is by river, and there are intensive attacks against boats carrying troops and merchandise. Commando operations against urban centres, airports, dock installations stc. are particularly significant as they greatly increase demoralisation among the enemy and discredit the colonialist troops in those areas. In one such attack, against an airbase only 10 kms. from the centre of Bissau, the control tower, barracks, and planes were destroyed. Inreasing amounts of important war material are being captured, most of it NATO issue: West German G—3's, Fall machine guns, American machine guns, Mauser rifles etc. -22- |
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