ANGOLAN REVOLUTION !

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plary struggles that have yet been witnessed in Africa.

The MPLA has suffered significant defeats against the coordinated onslaught of South African troops, the fascist Portuguese Liberation Army (ELP), the Zairois army (whose intervention Mobutu now openly admits), and the joint forces of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).

Massive Massive aid continues to be poured quite openly into the coffers of the reactionaries by European and American imperialism; and it On 11 November the wretched Portuguese flags were torn from the masts in the Angolan capital of Luanda, as the last of the Portuguese troops and officials retreated from five hundred years of colonial brutality in Africa. The flag of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) was raised instead over the city; but elsewhere in the country the blood-stained flags of reaction, indistinguishable from those of their imperialist benefactors, led the way towards smashing some of the most exemJulius Karanja FNLA may be able to march into Luanda to obliterate the MPLA, UNTA (the Angolan trade union organisation), leftist militants, and the workers and neighbourhood committees that have given the Angolan revolution the dynamic that has so threatened imperialist interests in Africa today.

In spite of its "seizure of power, the MPLA faces increasing isolation.

Only a handful of states-and Britain is not among them-have recognised its government; although the effects of this isolation are to some extent being offset now by substantial Cuban and Soviet aid.

Mozambique has also sent 250 guerrillas to fight alongside the MPLA. While this aid, no matter how small, is to be welcomed, it is worth noting that it only follows an unsuccessful attempt by FRELIMO the three Angolan movementsprecisely the type of move to which the MPLA leadership concedes, and which has brought about the present disastrous state of affairs.

The FRELIMO Government in to bring about a 'settlement' between The severity of the present crisis