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COMITE REVOLUCIONARIO DE KCCAMBIQUE
(COREMO)
NEWSLETTER
Ho. 1 January, 1972
Portugal, a small country in the corner of Western Europe
which covers 92,000 square kilometers and has a population of
approximately 9 million, controls African possessions Zh times
larger than Portugal itself. Since 1951 , these territories
are "officially" considered to he an integral part of the
Portugese mainland and are administered as such in order to
circumvent the United rations requirement that reports be
submitted on non-self-governing territories. In spite of
this semantic game the area is the largest colonial errroire
left in the world today.
Portugal is also the largest surviving Fascist dictatorship
in Western Europe. The corporate Republic established by the
late Salazar in 1933 ( as "the constitutional heir to the
inilitary dictatorship set up in 1926 ) has outlived the dictator's demise in 1968f remaining virtually unchanged under his
successor Karcelo Caetano. The regime relies strongly on
the army and the secret -police, and enjoys the backing of an
industrial and financial "oligarchy" as well as the Catholic
Church in Portugal. Until recently, the government has
successfully managed to stifle all dissent at home and in the
overseas territories.
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There is an obvious relationship between the continuing
existence of an oppressive political regime in Portugal and
the perpetuation of an anachronistic colonial empire in spite
of recurrent outcries in the United Nations, the Organization
of African Unity and other international organizations.
During the brief experiment of the% liberal Republic between
the years 1910 - 1920, various political organizations;-arose
in the colonies v/hich night have eventually engineered an
independence movement similar to those of other African States
However, the military dictatorship followed by Salazar
Estado Kovo put the lid on any form of social and political
activity which did not follow the path laid down by the
regime. Opposition could not be silenced indefinitely and as
the world, scene changed and Europe freed herself of her
dictators and Africa of her colonizers, it became clearer
that some form of revolution was the only alternative open
to the oppressed. The ruthless repression of largely
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| Title | CENPA-331~02 |
| Filename | CENPA-331~02.tiff |
| Full text | COMITE REVOLUCIONARIO DE KCCAMBIQUE (COREMO) NEWSLETTER Ho. 1 January, 1972 Portugal, a small country in the corner of Western Europe which covers 92,000 square kilometers and has a population of approximately 9 million, controls African possessions Zh times larger than Portugal itself. Since 1951 , these territories are "officially" considered to he an integral part of the Portugese mainland and are administered as such in order to circumvent the United rations requirement that reports be submitted on non-self-governing territories. In spite of this semantic game the area is the largest colonial errroire left in the world today. Portugal is also the largest surviving Fascist dictatorship in Western Europe. The corporate Republic established by the late Salazar in 1933 ( as "the constitutional heir to the inilitary dictatorship set up in 1926 ) has outlived the dictator's demise in 1968f remaining virtually unchanged under his successor Karcelo Caetano. The regime relies strongly on the army and the secret -police, and enjoys the backing of an industrial and financial "oligarchy" as well as the Catholic Church in Portugal. Until recently, the government has successfully managed to stifle all dissent at home and in the overseas territories. , ■> There is an obvious relationship between the continuing existence of an oppressive political regime in Portugal and the perpetuation of an anachronistic colonial empire in spite of recurrent outcries in the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity and other international organizations. During the brief experiment of the% liberal Republic between the years 1910 - 1920, various political organizations;-arose in the colonies v/hich night have eventually engineered an independence movement similar to those of other African States However, the military dictatorship followed by Salazar Estado Kovo put the lid on any form of social and political activity which did not follow the path laid down by the regime. Opposition could not be silenced indefinitely and as the world, scene changed and Europe freed herself of her dictators and Africa of her colonizers, it became clearer that some form of revolution was the only alternative open to the oppressed. The ruthless repression of largely |
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