bican languages and in Portuguese, we explain to our people
all the aspects of the development of our liberation struggle,
we unmask the enemy propaganda and transmit the orders of
the day of our organisation.   We transmit revolutionary songs
of the Mozambican people, interviews with fighters and commentaries on the national and international situation.   For us
particularly in view of difficult communication and because
of illiteracy, radio is an extremely efficient way of mobilising
the population.   The main problem we face is lack of radios.
FRELIMO is planning to launch a campaign to obtain radios
for distribution in the liberated areas.
Hereunder follows an extract from one of our political educational broadcasts (translated).
Comrades!
Ever since we began our people's liberation war, we have been the target of extensive campaigns of hatred, slander, denunciation and lies. The American imperialists, the Portuguese colonialists, traitors
like Lazaro Kavandame all hate our people's war, the war that serves the interests of the people and
the revolution.
But why? Why do reactionaries who hate the Portuguese, hate also what we are doing? Why do
American imperialists, who declare themselves against colonialism, hate the people's war of liberation from colonialism.
The answer is very simple. Indeed it has already been given - the people's war serves the interests of the people. Thus it destroys not only the colonial interests, but also those of imperialism
and also the power and interests of the new exploiters.
We have seen in Mozambique, in the liberated areas, even at the battle front, how reactionary
Mozambicans hate the people's war. Because to wage a war of this kind it is necessary to mobilise the masses, to clearly define the enemy; it is necessary that the people understand exactly
who they are fighting, why they are fighting, and what they are going to do when they seize power.
We have defined our enemy. The First and Second Congresses of FRELIMO and meetings of the
Central Committee have clarified our understanding of the nature of the enemy. We know we are •
fighting against colonialism, against imperialism and against exploitation of man by man. We know
that we are fighting against companies, against capitalists, against feudalists, and against the new
exploiters. We are fighting all those who exploit our labour to get rich and who take advantage '
of our misery. We are not fighting against a people or a religion; we cannot fight against an oppressed*
people, we who are also oppressed.   Between peoples there can only be a sentiment of friendship.
The Portuguese colonialists wanted us to attack all white people, to kill Portuguese civilians, women
and children. They wanted this in order to create a wave of horror so as to better mobilise the Portuguese people against us, indeed to mobilise all people of good will and all human values. They wanted
us to appear as cruel assassins, as terrorists and racialists waging a racial war. But, on the contrary
we have shown everyone, including the Portuguese people, that the only racialists, terrorists and killers
of the defenceless, the only ones who burn, pillage and torture are the Portuguese colonialists. Therefore, they hate the people's war because not only are they afraid of defeat, but also because they have
been unmasked and presented to the world as they really are.
Imperialists also hate our war. We know what the companies really mean to us, what the rich stand
for, who are the exploiters and capitalists, be they Portuguese, American, French, British, West German
It is they who want to set the Portuguese and Mozambican people against each other so they may then
better exploit us both. Imperialists are not concerned about Portuguese domination. They thought
that, with or without Portugal, they could continue exploiting Mozambicans, as they do some other
independent countries. After all Portugal is herself an independent country, but this does not prevent
imperialism from controlling her. However, we are aware of who our enemy is and what are his pillars
of power. We have seen that the Sena Sugar Estates is British, that Gulf Oil, Hunt International and
other oil companies are American, others are British, South African and French, that Japanese Companies want to steal our iron ore, Belgians our coal. We have captured weapons, aircraft and bombs
made in the United States, Britain, Belgium, West Germany, not by the Portuguese. It is very important that we understand all these things if we are to win the war
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