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Headed by Agostino Neto, a noted national poet, it was formed in the late 1950s by European-educated Angolan intellectuals, centered in the capital city Luanda and associated with the short-lived Angolan Communist Party. Though it is influential with diverse groups such as the cotton-producing Mbundu a tribesmen of the hinterland northeast of Luanda, the MPLA draws the bulk of its support from the urban poor of the muceques, the black slums which ring Luanda. The Marxism of the MPLA, with its sophisticated critique of neo-colonialism, racialism and tribalism, attracts support in those areas where Portuguese economic...
...poder popular because "within the context of our country, direct democracy is not possible." Holden Roberto has described his brand of socialism as neither right nor left, African above all--"If socialism is economic growth and a better life for the people, then I am a socialist" but denounces Neto's "Vandalistic socialism...
...M.P.L.A., headed by Marxist Intellectual Dr. Agostinho Neto...
...that interregnum, three generations of the Mesquita family have maintained the paper's integrity. Politically, O Estado has remained moderately conservative. Thus the paper has retained a power base among the rich while occasionally fighting for progressive causes. Julio Mesquita, grandfather of the present director, Julio de Mesquita Neto, was the son of landowners who gave up law for journalism. During the 1870s the paper crusaded successfully to abolish slavery. After the monarchy was overthrown, Mesquita supported the creation of a republic. Later, many regimes tried to suppress O Estado, and Mesquita was once imprisoned briefly...
...Filho's death in 1969, his son, Julio de Mesquita Neto, took over the paper. He has continually defied the government's request for self-censor ship. Instead, when the censors cut sto ries, he filled the blank space with excerpts from Poet Luis Vaz de Camoes epic work Os Lusiadas, about Portuguese adventures in the Orient. The paper has also resisted in other ways...