When this imperialist strategy was frustrated an acceleration of the process of 'decolonisation' began to take place, accompanied by a 'spectacular reconciliation' of the three movements at Mombassa in Kenya. The Alvor Accords were agreed, establishing the grounds for a four party transitional government of the MPLA, FLA UNITA, and the Lisbon regime. This marked an attempt by the imperialists to neutralise the revolutionary process through the integration of the MPLA into the government.
The recent outbreaks of armed clashes compromised this "de-colonisation' process and laid the basis for 'amending' the Alvor agreements. Imperialism's aim then became to disarm the masses, which corresponded to the FNLA and UNITA's objectives of dealing a death blow to all the self-organised structures of the workers. At the same time it revealed the opportunist character of the MPLA leadership, which was shown as being prepared to cling to governmental power at all costs.
If such a policy is carried out its consequences could be disastrous. It would deepen the contradictions inside the MPLA and allow a policy of systematic massacres of the labouring masses, eventually laying the ground for the factories.