ensuring the realisation of peace in the world.
The delegates unanimously affirmed that peace
is not possible while there remain in the world
situations of oppression, injustice and exploitation. Consequently, it was agreed that if
peace is to be won and preserved, it is necessary that all peoples in the world advance in an
organised and co-ordinated way the struggle
for the total liquidation of colonialism, neocolonialism and imperialism. FRELIMO was
represented by a delegation led by its Vice-
President, who chaired the Commission on «The
Struggle for National Liberation».
GUINEA:
CELEBRATION OF VICTORY
November 22, is the anniversary of the victory
of the people of Guinea over the colonial -
imperialist aggression, and has been declared
by the OAU to be the «Day of the Anti-
Imperialist Struggle of the African Peoples)).
This year it was celebrated by the PDG and the
Government of the Republic of Guinea with
large demonstrations in which many foreign
delegations participated.
The presence of the FRELIMO delegation
at the celebrations expressed the solidarity of
the entire Mozambican people with the people
of Guinea.
Our delegation handed over a message from the
President of FRELIMO, Comrade Samora
Moises Machel, to the Secretary-General of the
PDG and President of the Republic of Guinea,
Comrade Ahmed Sekou Toure. In the message
our President stressed the importance of the
victory of the people of Guinea, as an example
and a source of encouragement for all African
peoples, and vowed to strengthen the fraternal relations of solidarity between our two
peoples and organisations.
President Sekou Toure, in reply sent a message
to President Samora Machel, reaffirming the
active solidarity and the unconditional support
of PDG and of the people of Guinea for the
glorious national liberation struggle of the
Mozambican people.
KENYA:
ILO CONFERENCE
Complying with the decision of its General
Assembly, which has declared FRELIMO as the
only and authentic representative of the Mozambican people, the ILO issued an invitation
to FRELIMO  to participate  at its meetings.
In his address to the Fourth Conference of the
ILO which was held in Nairobi at the end of
November, the FRELIMO representative underlined the nature and the extent of our participation in the world struggle against oppression
and exploitation.    He described the working
conditions in colonial Mozambique, which were
to a certain extent already known to the ILO
through reports prepared by its own research
commissions and again stressed that the problem can only be solved by the liquidation of
the colonial regime. Our representative then
described the present situation of our struggle,
pointing out that the main obstacle to our
independence is the support that certain Western countries give to Portugal. He indicated the
ways in which the ILO can in turn assist our
struggle, namely by relating to the work of
national reconstruction in the liberated areas.
FRELIMO further emphasised the pressing need
to expel Portugal from the ILO and to give
FRELIMO a permanent official status in the
Labour Organisation.
We also appealed to the African workers to
help in isolating Portugal in collaboration with
the workers of those countries which now support that colonial state. The demonstrations
against the Swedish participation in Cahora
Bassa, the boycott of war material destined to
Portugal in the port of La Spezia and the public
protest in Britain against the visit of Caetano
were cited as concrete examples of the kind of
action we are requesting.
BELGIUM:
ANTI-NATO MEETING
During a meeting of the Council of Ministers of
NATO at the NATO Headquarters in Evere,
Belgium, a public demonstration was held simultaneously in that town, to protest against
NATO support for Portugal's colonial wars. The
demonstration was organised by Belgian Support Committees.
At the protest meetings, the FRELIMO representative spoke in detail of the different forms
that NATO support to Portugal takes, pointing
out that almost all the war material being used
by Portugal in the colonial wars - ranging from
aeroplanes and helicopters to rifles and landmines - come from NATO countries.
BRITAIN:
LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
At the invitation of the British Labour Party, a
FRELIMO representative attended the Labour
Party Annual Conference, where he delivered a
message of greetings.
While in Britain, the FRELIMO representative
spoke at a meeting organised by the British
Anti-Apartheid Movement on the liberation
struggle in Southern Africa.
Finally, our delegate participated in several
other meetings and working sessions with the
Committee for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola and Guine-Bissau.
SEPTEMBER 25 IN TANZANIA
Demonstrations in support
of FRELIMO and the Mozambican people took place
in different parts of Tanzania on the 25th of Septem
ber, Mozambique Revolution Day.
In Dar es Salaam, the Congress of TANU which was
being held, reaffirmed unanimously the total solidarity
of TANU, of the Government and of the Tanzanian
people with our liberation
struggle. FRELIMO addressed a message to the Congress, hailing the great victories already achieved by
TANU and by the Tanzanian
people in the struggle for
the building of socialism,
and reiterating the determination of the Mozambican people to continue,
without faltering, the common struggle against colonialism, neocolonialism and
imperialism.
MR. IN ITALIAN
On November 15, 1973,
there took place in Bologna
the launching of the first
issue of the Italian edition
of «Mozambique Revolution)). A FRELIMO delegation was present at the
ceremony.
This initiative by the Bologna Committee for Free
Mozambique, represents an
important contribution to
the spreading in Italy of information on the liberation
struggle in Mozambique,
and therefore for the strengthening of the solidarity of
the Italian people with FRELIMO and with the Mozambican people.
At the ceremony, the STEB
with which FRELIMO established a Friendship Pact
in March, 1973, offered to
provide valuable equipment
to FRELIMO's information
services.