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DR AGOST1NHO NETO
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-Djpuo Mokut'iia
"HS WAS OKS 0? TH0S8 « K ) WOULD NOT WAIT OTulL THE TIMES'• SHOTTLO ALTER... WHO BELIEV- ED TEAT MEN MOOT MAKE THEIR OWM HISTORY".
- BASIL lAVIBSCN -
Phe life of Pr. Agoatinho V.eto h&e loft footprint* which the co;:*-iner:t. raij-3X .emulate to find.its bearing*•
* On vke ocoasior. of t:;e 1st Anniversary of the death oi' Dr. Agostinho Neto, who . fell on September 10th, we find our- selves victijns of patience. Patiently awaiting the publica- tion of the collected works of this Great Son of Africa* who
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has turned the .tables iiV our beloved pon&lnent - for our gun good. He turned the People' 3 Republic of Angola into the Vol- untary Pirn Trtoch of Revolution in Africa, by caking l i b e r a -
tion a r e a l i t y i n t h i s p a r t of Africa from which racism with the backing of i a p e r i a l i s a i s threatening our continent with the ilames of war. The ooiltcte-i works of. t h i s poet and leader of Africa are d e f i n i t e l y a spring which h&i coat hia a v e i l oi' t r i a l s a^d t r i b u l a t i o n e to purify# We are *bout to drink fion t h i s spring.
The great writer KaxLr. Gorky puts i t t h i s vayi
• wr\ctiV6 romanticise s t r i v ^ e to strengthen zaxx%s w i l l . t o l i v e and r a i s e h l a up against the
l i f e around. hinf against any yoice I t would impose".
And when we return x'ron: the Soviet Union where the f i r e of the heart of the poet NM-blttn out by the "icy band of death*', and coa* t o Anfola9"«9 find Helda ifeto saving i n 3ar- S»-Salaaa a t HFLA's Youth Iky i n lptOt
••Tlie-.*4b3r*tion..of the Motherland Requires blood}
.She i'iooJ. jf her befet sons".
The people of Angola have peild in-.torrents of blood for
t h e i r frcodoa; and even todAy? they are s t i l l laying the founds a t ion of che .*msw." People's He public, of Angola with blood, through
the r a c i s t i n t e r v e n t i o n i s t s from^Sirath Africa.
Dr. AgcetinlioSetowas a giant amongst g i a n t s .
. 9qrtng M s years i n the t r e n d i e s he was aorroundod by young sen whose future he had t o c h a r t . And that he did*
lie r^de sore that, he was not the one i n a l l and tne 211 i n one. With his p o l i t i c a l aeusen, he gave p o l i t i c a l know-
ledge to youth. We set the f r u i t • of his e f f o r t s i n the short span of l i f e he spent i n the independent Angola i n which he
l a i d foundations of the new man.
THE PRESIIEHT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF AKGOLA, THE CHAIHMAS 07 TEE MPLA WORKERS' PARTY AMD COMttHDER-IK-CHlEF OF FAPLA, COH- RADE JOSE EDUARDO DOS SANTOS, 36 YEARS
OLD, IS THE PRODUCT OF DR. AGOSTINHO NBTO.
.fir* Agostinho Heto was a p o e t . Perhaps i t i e through t h a t power, t h a t he did not wait u n t i l the t i a e s a l t e r e d .
He pat b i s s c i e n t i f i c world outlook into practice and
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emerged the victor against the racist imperialist forces which sought to throttle this oountry in its infancy. He was travel ling a obartered road mended by the brotherhood of socialist
which knew that- "all good men must come to the add' of their party*1.
Today we are having Zimbabwe tinder our microscope* Which way? The shadows of the People • s Republic of Angola axe grow-
ing taller*
A new wind of national unity was demonstrated at May Day rallies in Luanda, which showed ue the spirit sweeping
through the Finn Trench of Revolution from Cabinda to Cunene.
We of the Afrioan Hational Congress and the South West
Africa P e o p l e ' s Organisation (SWAPO) of Namibia are in our "liberated aone of the struggle in Southern Africa", We are at home,
A LUTA CONTINUA!
A VfTORIA E CERTAL
Fascist Last Kicks in Angola
-Diliza Dumakude The People's Republic of Angola saw the beginnings of the last kicks of the racist dying war horse when South Africa
launched another ma.lor invasion into the country on June 7,
following more than 500 separate acts of naked aggression into Angola this year alone. The invasion involved the largest
deployment of the South African troops since World War Two.
When it ended thf attack already involved eight batallions of infantry. 34 long range heavy artillery pieces, 2 Hercullep transport planes with paratroopers. 20 helicopter gunships. 3 Squadrons of Mirage fighteivbombers and a batallion of tankera.
Mqrf. than 300 Angolan civilians were slaughtered _and hundreds of wounded or a b d u o t e . d , The racists also retreated with thousands of cattle to Haxnibia. The invasion thus ended without achieving its strategic goals.
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