k>f Mozambique: On June 25, a few minutes after midnight Comrade Samora
tat of FRELIMO, reads the Proclamation of Independence.
ted, murdered and massacred served
to increase national consciousness.
It was in this context that on 25 June
1962, Mozambican patriots, under the
leadership of Comrade Eduardo Chi-
vambo Mondlane, launched a new and
victorious phase of national resistance:
the creation of FRELIMO, which made
possible the Mozambican people's organised and united struggle.
The creation of FRELIMO provided
the decisive and fundamental weapon
of unity for the Mozambican people's
fight. FRELIMO, rooting itself in the
purest traditions of the age-old struggle
of the Mozambican working masses,
assuming the true interests of the broad
exploited, oppressed and humiliated
strata, was able to clearly define the
aims and methods of the fight for
liberation.
In two years, under the watchword of
unity and struggle against Portuguese
colonialism and imperialism, FRELIMO created the necessary conditions
for the liberation struggle to go over
to the phase of general armed insurrection, thus cementing and making operative the unity achieved.
It was under the leadership of FRELIMO and integrated in the ranks of
FRELIMO that the Mozambican people redeemed the blood spilled over
generations, regained command of their
own history, made useful the sacrifice
of their own lives, destroyed the enemy's vital forces, fully affirmed their
African revolutionary personality, and
imposed defeat on the colonial-fascist
regime.
It was under the leadership of President Comrade Eduardo Chivambo Mon
dlane, whose glorious and unforgettable
memory we venerate, that the Mozambican people consolidated their real
unity, structured their organisation and,
having exhausted peaceful means, launched the armed struggle for national
liberation.
It was under the direction of FRELIMO, guided by the political line
clear in the formulation of objectives
and in the definition of the enemy, that
the Mozambican people defeated the
Portuguese colonial army.
Mozambicans,
Workers, peasants, and fighters,
Mozambican people,
In the name of all of you, at 00 hours
today, 25 th June 1975, the Central
Committee of FRELIMO solemnly proclaims the total and complete Independence of Mozambique, and the creation of the People's Republic of
Mozambique.
The newly-born Republic is the con-
cretisation of the aspirations of all Mozambicans, the extension to the whole
country of the freedom already conquered during the liberation armed
struggle in some areas of our country,
the product of the sacrifices of nationalist fighters, the whole Mozambican
People, the concretisation of our victory.
Our People's Republic is born from the
blood of the people. Its consolidation
and development is a debt of honour
for every patriotic and revolutionary
Mozambican.
The sovereign and independent People's
Republic of Mozambique is a People's
Democratic State, in which all patriotic
strata under the leadership of the alliance of peasants and workers are
engaging themselves in the struggle to
destroy the vestiges of colonialism and
imperialist dependence, to eliminate the
system of exploitation of man by man,
and build the new material, ideological,
political, cultural, social and administrative base of the new society.
The People's Republic of Mozambique,
a State  of the Mozambican working
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