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EDITORIAL
Five years ago on the Makonde highlands, the first guerrilla units
attacked the Portuguese and our armed struggle began«
Since then we have celebrated the 25th September as
the Day of the Revolution and the Day of the Army of
National Liberation (l). The 25th of September has
also been declared by the OSPAA and reconfirmed by the
OSPAAAL, Day of International Solidarity with the Mozambican Peopleo
VThat is the significance of this date to us? Why do we dedicate
the same day to the Revolution and to the National Army?
Because the armed struggle and therefore all those who
are directly connected with it are the very heart of our
whole struggle, its climax and its weapon, the part that
concentrates and expresses it alio -'The army leads the
people; but*,* the army is the people, and it is the
people v/ho form the army„r (2). Between the army and
the people, the guerrillas and the militias, the armed
struggle and the liberation struggle, the relationship
is always the same: the first is the most advanced part
of the latter and at the same time it is based on the
latter and couldn't exist one moment without the latter*
There is no other way open to us but identifying in
theory and practice the beginning of the Revolution with
the beginning of the armed struggleo Because there can
not be a partial or a peaceful struggle against colonia
lism; "it must be violent and go on to the end. It must
be a war, because our enemies want it to be a war, they
v/ho would not come to consider us men in any other way*
Since the essence of their relations with us and our
country is violence, they don't understand any other
form of being. And it must be a war because we want it
to be a war, we who want to assert our identity over any
form of violence. Only through a struggle to death can
we come out as a new people with a real strength• Only
after opposing to the violence of their aeroplanes, the
violence of our will, our arms, our intelligence■ Only
after a victory on all fronts•
(1) Declaration of the Central Committee, 1 Septo, 1968<
(2) Eo Mondlane, The Struggle for Mozambique,
Penguin Books, 1969, page 148.
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| Full text | EDITORIAL Five years ago on the Makonde highlands, the first guerrilla units attacked the Portuguese and our armed struggle began« Since then we have celebrated the 25th September as the Day of the Revolution and the Day of the Army of National Liberation (l). The 25th of September has also been declared by the OSPAA and reconfirmed by the OSPAAAL, Day of International Solidarity with the Mozambican Peopleo VThat is the significance of this date to us? Why do we dedicate the same day to the Revolution and to the National Army? Because the armed struggle and therefore all those who are directly connected with it are the very heart of our whole struggle, its climax and its weapon, the part that concentrates and expresses it alio -'The army leads the people; but*,* the army is the people, and it is the people v/ho form the army„r (2). Between the army and the people, the guerrillas and the militias, the armed struggle and the liberation struggle, the relationship is always the same: the first is the most advanced part of the latter and at the same time it is based on the latter and couldn't exist one moment without the latter* There is no other way open to us but identifying in theory and practice the beginning of the Revolution with the beginning of the armed struggleo Because there can not be a partial or a peaceful struggle against colonia lism; "it must be violent and go on to the end. It must be a war, because our enemies want it to be a war, they v/ho would not come to consider us men in any other way* Since the essence of their relations with us and our country is violence, they don't understand any other form of being. And it must be a war because we want it to be a war, we who want to assert our identity over any form of violence. Only through a struggle to death can we come out as a new people with a real strength• Only after opposing to the violence of their aeroplanes, the violence of our will, our arms, our intelligence■ Only after a victory on all fronts• (1) Declaration of the Central Committee, 1 Septo, 1968< (2) Eo Mondlane, The Struggle for Mozambique, Penguin Books, 1969, page 148. |
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