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documented allegations that they cooperated with them against the MPLA.

What is certain is that they are also tribally based, on the Unmundu, who constitute about 40% of the population, and within recent weeks they have been openly supplied with American and French weapons by planes flying from Zaire.

It also seems certain that they are receiving active support from South Africa, and the only forces they ever seem to be able to put in the field when independent observers see them are Portuguese and South African mercenaries.

"RECONCILE"

This is a situation where all efforts to 'reconcile the opposing factions such as has been put forward by the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement or by the Organisation of African Unity have inevitably failed. Despite the promise of Portuguese, foreign minister Antunes earlier this year to support the MPLA, nothing has come of it.

The Portuguese military authorities for a long time were under the control of Silva Cardosa, an extreme right-winger completely out of sympathy with the decolonisation schemes of the new regime in Lisbon.

His "active neutrality' was in fact a way of helping the right-wing groups and some of those of his soldiers who have not now gone home are to be found in the struggle for control of the country with the FNLA and UNITA forces.

BREAKDOWN

After the break-down of the 'provisional government' including all three groups in the summer, the MPLA fought a series of military campaigns which brought most of country, including apparently the entire coastline, under their control. According to the New York Times of 25th. September, the CIA began. to channel thousands of dollars through Mobutu to deal with this.

In an effort to preempt the MPLA from declaring itself as the government on lith. November, • hio runter-offensive has been Continued from front page launched in recent weeks. SoI the area close to Luanda ir North has been won back b FNLA.

RECAPTURED

Last week it seems that the major sea ports of Libito and Benguela were recaptured by white mercenaries acting on behalf of UNITA. According to Le Monde of 7th. November, the pro-imperialists have not succeeded yet in winning back much of the mining areas of the North they lost in September.

One interesting participant in these events has been the Chinese Stalinists. With a most cynical disregard for the elementary principles of internationalism, they have been sending military advisers to help the FNLA, and published an editorial in the Peking People's Daily expressing their support for Zaire against 'Soviet expansionism'.

Such conscious misrepresentation and active pro-imperialism is the logical outcome of the politics of 'social fascism'.

BREAK The attitude that must be adopted in the British labour movement is clear. There must be an end to all talk of rival all independence movements' and active support for the independence of Angola under the MPLA. The Labour government must break off all its links with the reactionary leaders of the FNLA and UNITA organisations.

At the same time there must be a clear understanding of the limitations of the MPLA and their pro-Soviet Stalinist backers. Only socialist policies can serve the interests of the African masses at this time.

'National liberation' by itself cannot be successful without policies of nationalising foreign capital and socialist planning of agriculture, mineral extraction and industrial development.

Only in this way can the national revolution be completed in Angola and di tbose other coloniai cousins tsai still remais under the threat of colonialism and imperialism