DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF ANGOLA

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Creator

Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa

Place Created

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Date

Undated, about late January or early February 1970

Type of Item

Leaflet

Length/duration

1 page

Description

The leaflet discusses the Angolan nationalists' attack on the main political prison in Luanda nine years ago, intending to free a number of their leaders who had been arrested. Fighting is still going on in Angola as well as in Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), and Namibia (Southwest Africa). Over 120,000 Portuguese troops are in Africa, a higher proportion of Portugal's population than the U.S. has in Vietnam. A year ago, on February 3, 1969, they succeeded in assassinating Dr. Eduardo Mondlane, the President of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). The replacement in 1968 of the Portuguese dictator Salazar by his colleague Caetano did not change Portugal's African policy....

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Organization

Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa

Coverage Africa

Angola
Mozambique
Namibia
Zimbabwe
Guinea-Bissau

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of David Wiley and William Minter, former members of Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa.

Collection

William Minter papers, Michigan State University Library Special Collections