and military field, in health, education, production and commerce, information, external affairs, etc. Also, material difficulties: lack of medicines,
school equipment, production tools and seeds, and weapons.
Having thus described and analysed the situation in Mozambique and laid
down guidelines for more efficient work by the Departments, the CC proceeded to examine a number of specific situations related to the advance of
the struggle.  Notable among these were the following:
1. The fact that the struggle has already reached highly urbanised areas
with a high concentration of white population, where enemy economic interests are especially powerful.
2. The stepping up of enemy machinations aimed at discrediting FRELIMO
through accusations of terrorism and making vague promises about
autonomy and social progress, as an attempt to convince the people to
desert the liberation struggle.
A general directive was laid down: to make a clear definition of the targets
in each phase of the struggle, to constantly explain the implications of
enemy's strategies, to increase organisational work among the people, and to
continue to implement FRELIMO's popular revolutionary line at every level.
Special importance was attached to the definition of who is the enemy.
Owing to the fact that the Portuguese colonialists instituted a system of
direct administration and exploitation in Mozambique, the people naturally
tend to identify colonialism with the Portuguese, the white man, and to
apply this concept generally to all Portuguese, to all whites. However,
FRELIMO's popular and revolutionary line is opposed to this generalisation and defines the enemy not on the basis of race or national origins,
but rather on behaviour. From the very outset, FRELIMO has maintaineH
that our enemies are not persons of white colour, or of Portuguese origin,
or any other nationality, but all those persons, white or black Mozambican
nationals or foreigners, who are opposed to our ideals of freedom and total
independence. The CC, through analysing the way in which the war is being
conducted in Tete and Manica e Sofala provinces, where there is a very
large white population, expressed its satisfaction that FRELIMO's political
line, which advocates the total abolition of racism and iribalism, has been
fully adopted and implemented in its entirety by the FRELIMO fighters.
Also reaffirmed was the principle that FRELIMO is a Front, which ensures
the participation of all the genuinely anti-colonialist forces prepared to
struggle for the total independence of Mozambique. Our experience, however, and more concretely the fact that at a certain historical moment there
appeared within FRELIMO people who attempted to take power to continue
to oppress and exploit the people, has led the CC to qualify this principle.
Hence, the CC recognised that although we are a Front, this Front has as
its point of departure the  negation  of the exploitation of man by man.
An important outcome of this meeting was that ideological unity, which
was already seen to be so strong at the previous meeting in 1970, has been
consolidated over the past two years, and today it ensures almost total cohesion within the movement. This was clearly evident in the depth and far-
reaching nature of the analyses, and in the absolute unanimity with which
decisions were taken. The CC concluded that this unity and ideological
clarity are the reason for our victories and that these must be carefully preserved and even further strengthened.
The struggle continues.