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MAY DAY 1964
FRELIMO as a movement of the masses which gathers all the
people of Mozambique (workers, peasents, students, etc.) for the
fight for a free, peacefull and democratic country, joined with
great pleasure the May Lay celebrations that took place in different places of the world.
At the invitation of the people of Zanzibar a delegation
of FRELIMO composed of comrades Uria SIMANGO, Vice President and
Pascoal MOCUMBI, Head of the Information Department, went to
Zanzibar to participate in the May Day celebrations organized
there.
FRELIMO members in Tanganyika joined with NUTA, the Tanganyi-
kan workers movement, in the celebrations v/hich took place in
Dar es Salaam.
Another delegation composed of Eduardo MONDLaNE, President,
and Marcelino DOS SANTOS, Secretary for External Affairs, who
was visiting Moscow at the time, was also present at the May Day
celebrations there, and .delivered the following message to the
working people in the Soviet Union:
"On the occasion of May Day v/e wish to extend fraternal
greetings to the working people in the Soviet Union and the world
over from the workers and people of Mozambique.
The important objective for us, the people of Mozambique,
is the liberation of our country. The working people are taking
up the struggle for independence on the plantations, in mines,
factories and ports.
Urban and rural workers comprise the main force of our
revolution.  Together with the intellectuals, office workers
and students, they are waging a struggle for national liberation
in "underground conditions, overcoming great hardsips, but v/ith
great faith in the future.
The people of Mozambique know from their own experience,
that the only way of abolishing Portuguese colonialism is taking
up arms.
This is mhy our movement THE MOZAMBIQUE LIBERATION FRONT
(FRELIMO) directs the working people of our country to wage
an armed struggle for the liberation of their country, and to
build a free and prospering Mozambique.
In doing this the people of our country realise that the
fulfilment of this task is a part of the overall battle for the
economic and social liberation of the people of the world. The
working people of Mozambique are eager to cooperate with the
working people of the Soviet Union and the world over.
The objectives facing the working people of all countries
demand unity of action. •
The struggle for the ultimate abolition of the exploitation
of man by man, all over the world, for social wellbeing, development and culture are elements of the general battle, which is
closely associated with the fight for peace, and it is a matter
of vital interest to all the working people. All this promotes