SOLIDARITY MESSAGES
TO      TANU'S      X!V      CONGRESS
Comrades,
It is with pleasure that, in the name of the fighting people of Mozambique,
the Executive Committee of FRELIMO warmly greets the participants of the XIV
Congress of TANU and, may this Revolutionary Assembly be one more victory for
the militants of TANU and for the Tanzanian people as a whole, in their
struggle for the realisation of Socialism.
On this occasion, the Executive Committee of FRELIMO congratulates TANU and •■
its leaders, in particular, Comrade President Julius K. Nyerere, for the
great successes achieved in the struggle for the consolidation of national
independence, the establishment of socialism and the promotion of economic,
social and cultural progress of the Tanzanian masses. These victories, which
are the practical expression of the principles and goals of the historic
ARUSHA DECLARATION, are not only victories for TANU and TANZANIA, but also
for all of Africa, and they constitute a great encouragement for the revolutionary forces of all countries.
Comrades,
Your Congress is being held at a time when the brutal assassination of our
beloved President, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, leader of FRELIMO and the
Mozambican people, is still profoundly real and painful to us. He fell, a
victim of a criminal act of colonialist, imperialist and counter-revolutionary
forces. It was under his direction that FRELIMO and the Mozambican people
obtained great successes, political as well as military, against the Portuguese colonialists and world imperialism, successes v/hich afford us today,
to exert control over one fifth of our national territory.
It was upon their acknowledging that they could not defeat us in the battlefield, that our enemies resorted to the use of international gangsterism, and
decided to assassinate our Comrade Eduardo Mondlane, hoping that by this act
they could stop our struggle.
But our people were not discouraged. On the contrary, our people's hatred
against Portuguese colonialism and imperialism increased, and new energies
came into being to reinforce our determination to expel once and for all
foreign domination and all other forms of oppression from our country.
Today, as yesterday, FRELIMO and the Mozambican people are firmly determined
to carry on their armed revolutionary struggle until final victory for
national liberation. And we are sure that despite the fact that the Portuguese
fascist, colonial government gets its support from its NATO allies, especially
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