The reason for these successes, what explains them, what
made them possible, was our struggle to make the cadres,
fighters and masses live by our revolutionary ideology and
implement it in a vital way.
The seventh year started with the transformation of our armed
struggle into a Revolution, with the intense battle to create a
new mentality. The seventh year was the point of departure
of the conscious development of the nature of our organisation,
of its development into a vanguard party of the working
masses in our country, a vanguard party with a vanguard
ideology.
During the eighth year of our struggle, during the tenth year
since the creation of FRELIMO, we must intensify this battle
and work in a more thoroughgoing way. This means, concretely, greatly advancing the work of political education, especially among the fighters, and most particularly among the
cadres, to make the fighters and above all the cadres living
examples of the new mentality, active transformers of society,
creators and promotors of our advanced, scientific, revolutionary ideology.
This demands greater vigilance of the masses and cadres, constant purification of our rariks, winning over militant elements
and strengthening genuinely revolutionary comrades.
This action cannot take place merely in the realm of ideas.
For ideas to live, to develop, they need practice, just as a plant
needs sun and water. Concretely, our ideology must be given
increased material form and must be something which is
actually lived, both at the structural level and in day-to-day
work. This means developing collective methods of leadership
production and trade. It means stepping up the development
of the people's committees. It means strengthening work in
study combined with practice. We are entering this eighth
year under excellent conditions, both internally and internationally. While assessing the internal situation, it is also important to consider the situation on the international front.
During the seventh year, our prestige and the international
solidarity with FRELIMO grew, the support for our people
grew. This year, Portugal was even further isolated internationally. Portugal found itself forced to leave international
organisations such as UNESCO for fear of the disgrace of being
expelled. In the imperialist countries allied with Portugal
there was increased popular opposition to Portugal. Even
within the Church, until recently Portugal's unconditional ally
voices such as those of the White Fathers were raised against
Portuguese colonialism and in support of our people. In Portugal the true patriots are demonstrating against the war and
organising daring acts of sabotage against the colonialist war
machinery. In the socialist countries, the African countries,
the countries adjacent to Mozambique, respect for and solidarity with our struggle and people increased considerably.
All these victories are a direct and important result of the
growth of our struggle. Our struggle is growing, growing both
in extent and in strength. Our struggle is growing because we
are growing. The results we achieve are created by our unity,
the unity of the people, the unity of the fighters and leaders.
We are now entering into our eighth year of war. This year
will be either good or bad, depending on our work. When we
sow cassava, cassava grows, and when we sow nothing, weeds
grow. The eighth year will be a year of great victories, because
we are preparing for this, but it will also be a year of greater
sacrifice in which the enemy's crimes will be increased. During
this eighth year there will be more foreign troops in Mozambique   and  there will  be  more  and  bigger  bombing  raids.
But we are also sure that, just as the seventh year marked the
advance of the struggle to south of the Zambezi, the eighth
year will mark even bigger advances. The eighth year will see
us creating solid support bases, the eighth year will see us
furthering the advance.
Everything that we are doing is the result of sacrifice. Our
thoughts and our determination must derive stimulation and
strength from the example of the comrades who, fully assuming our ideology and with the interests of the people in their
hearts, have given up their lives for the victory of the revolution. Let us show our respect for the sacrifice of the comrades who have fallen by intensifying the struggle. In so doing,
we will be accomplishing our national duty and also our duty
of   solidarity   with   all   peoples,   our   internationalist  duty.
LONG LIVE REVOLUTION DAY!
LONG   LIVE  THE  SEVENTH  ANNIVERSARY  OF OUR
PEOPLE'S WAR!
LONG LIVE FRELIMO!
LONG LIVE THE MOZAMBICAN PEOPLE UNITED FROM
THE ROVUMA TO THE MAPUTO!