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Contents: 1. INTRODUCTION • 2. REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY • 3. WHY DOES ALSC FIGHT AGAINST PORTUGUESE IMPERIALISM? • 4. SLOGANS • 5. STUDY MATERIALS • A. Portugal has the largest co1onial empire in Africa • B. Portuguese Imperialism commits genocide in Africa just like USA Imperialism did in Vietnam • 1. USA MILITARY ASSISTANCE • 2. "STRATEGIC" VILLAGES • 3. CHEMICAL WARFARE • 4. MASSACRES • 6. APPENDICES • APPENDIX A: AMERICAN FIRMS OPERATING IN PORTUGUESE CONTESTED TERRITORY • APPENDIX B: STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER MARCELLO CAETANO OF PORTUGAL IN LUANDA ON APRIL 15, 1969 • APPENDIX E: FACT SHEET: THE STRUGGLE IN THE PORTUGUESE COLONIES • The African Liberation Support Committee believes in the necessity of waging intense, protracted struggle to defeat racism and imperialism. This position applies to Portuguese imperialism. Reprinted newspaper articles include "Opposition Bids Portugal Cease Warfare in Africa" by Henry Giniger, "REPUBLIC OF GUINEA-BISSAU PROCLAIMED," and "GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF GUINEA-BISSAU." The pamphlet mentions Ronald Chilcote, Eduardo Mondlane, James Duffy, Basil Davidson, PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), the Cahora Bassa Dam, the Cunene River scheme, President Ahmed Sekou, the National People's Assembly, Joao Bernardo Vieira (Nino), Luis Cabral, Major Francisco Mendes (Chico Té), U.S. business Involvement in Southern Africa, Gulf Oil Corporation, FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front), MPLA, Allis-Chalmers, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Firestone Tire and Rubber, Standard Oil of California, Union Carbide Corporation, General Electric, Holliday Inn, Mobil Oil Corporation, The Singer Company, Texaco, International Telephone and Telegraph, EXXON, UNITA, GRAE, NATO, the Azores Pact, Nixon, coffee, Amilcar Cabral, Wiryamu, and Guinea (Conakry).

African Activist Archive

DEFEAT PORTUGUESE IMPERIALISM International Week of Solidarity November 19-23, 1973

ALSC HANDBOOK OF STRUGGLE #2

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