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Combatente -14 - October 31, 1967< view of plotting to murder the patriots in these respective countries fighting for national independence. - 00O00 - THE ARMED STRUGGLE IN AFRICA FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE '■ •■-• "« '■' """ '■■'■" »■ I.■ ■■'— . li....»! .11.1.1, .....i i i. Although armed struggle was not and could not have been the only general and universal means for freedom throughout the African Continent, it proved decisive in a number of countries in Africa. In some of the African countries under foreign domination,the national liberation movements had to resort to armed struggle for the restoration of their land to the indigenous inhabitants of their respective countries and for self-determination* Such conditions arose and still exist in the so-called Portuguese colonies and the racist countries of Rhodesia and South Africa* Portugal declared its colonies in Africa as integral parts of its national territory. It has replied the oppressed peoples and world public's every demand by intensifying barbaric repression in the colonies and categorically refusing to revise its statute. In reply to this Portuguese repression the patriotic forces of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea (Bissau), unreservedly and determinedly are waging armed struggle against 'the diabolical rule of Portuguese colonialism. The liberation is spreading in Mozambique, where the patriotic forces are solidly united under the Mozambique Reovlutionary Committee (COREMO) organisation, into guerrila groups capable of eradicating small enemy units in particular, and Portuguese domination in general. As the armed struggle is spreading through all the Portuguese colonies, it creates fresh difficulties for Lisbon* The Portuguese re- « gime is forced to hold more than 100,000 to 120,000 troops and an expenditure of more than 100 million dollars annually on punitive expeditions in its Overseas territories. Even the bourgeois press admits that it has become a burden to Salazar. The racist white minority regime of Premier Ian Smith in Rhode» sia, and the inhuman policy of apartheid of Vorster in South Africa have created a very serious political crisis in Southern Africa. Apparently the only solution for the African population in these countries to get rid of the racist regimes is to wage an armed struggle. The progressive forces in Africa justly pointed out that this form of struggle is not only justified but necessary under the South African Republic and Rhodesian conditions, x - ~: —
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Full text | Combatente -14 - October 31, 1967< view of plotting to murder the patriots in these respective countries fighting for national independence. - 00O00 - THE ARMED STRUGGLE IN AFRICA FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE '■ •■-• "« '■' """ '■■'■" »■ I.■ ■■'— . li....»! .11.1.1, .....i i i. Although armed struggle was not and could not have been the only general and universal means for freedom throughout the African Continent, it proved decisive in a number of countries in Africa. In some of the African countries under foreign domination,the national liberation movements had to resort to armed struggle for the restoration of their land to the indigenous inhabitants of their respective countries and for self-determination* Such conditions arose and still exist in the so-called Portuguese colonies and the racist countries of Rhodesia and South Africa* Portugal declared its colonies in Africa as integral parts of its national territory. It has replied the oppressed peoples and world public's every demand by intensifying barbaric repression in the colonies and categorically refusing to revise its statute. In reply to this Portuguese repression the patriotic forces of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea (Bissau), unreservedly and determinedly are waging armed struggle against 'the diabolical rule of Portuguese colonialism. The liberation is spreading in Mozambique, where the patriotic forces are solidly united under the Mozambique Reovlutionary Committee (COREMO) organisation, into guerrila groups capable of eradicating small enemy units in particular, and Portuguese domination in general. As the armed struggle is spreading through all the Portuguese colonies, it creates fresh difficulties for Lisbon* The Portuguese re- « gime is forced to hold more than 100,000 to 120,000 troops and an expenditure of more than 100 million dollars annually on punitive expeditions in its Overseas territories. Even the bourgeois press admits that it has become a burden to Salazar. The racist white minority regime of Premier Ian Smith in Rhode» sia, and the inhuman policy of apartheid of Vorster in South Africa have created a very serious political crisis in Southern Africa. Apparently the only solution for the African population in these countries to get rid of the racist regimes is to wage an armed struggle. The progressive forces in Africa justly pointed out that this form of struggle is not only justified but necessary under the South African Republic and Rhodesian conditions, x - ~: — |
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