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...there was another retarding force at play, the increasing dependency of the liberation movements on outside support. Such relatively high-level aid dissipated the initiatives for building strong internal peasant support for the movements. And worse still, the two parties found themselves relinquishing more and more control over the decision-making processes. The necessity for aid was not at issue, but the amounts relative to the stage of development of the movements were crucial. Because of the severe repression within Luanda at the outbreak of the armed struggle in 1961, MPLA was not able to build the same foothold within...
...close quarters the factors specific to the Angola struggle, UNITA succeeded in implanting within Angola's interior a solid infrastructure for guerrilla warfare and national reconstruction. Within a relatively brief period of existence UNITA significantly bridged the gap between intellectual leadership and the Angola reality of a massive peasant majority...
...therapy and literacy classes. LIMA also operates cooperative farms in which food is produced for public institutions such as the orphanages under their care. City women pledge two or three days a week, on which they walk the often more than 15 miles to the farms, to join their peasant sisters in working the land...
SINDACO encompasses not just workers, but peasant farmers who are formed into cooperative brigades which determine local food production policy, while regulating crop growth to suit demand. There have been no severe food shortages in these areas in recent years, even during periods of intensified struggle. Food coops are structured so that the families of workers obtain weekly allotments of food, paying a fixed amount calculated on the basis of their wages and family size. The Youth League has taken the initiative in setting up elementary schools throughout the country and drawing the parents into the process with their political...
...peasant was afraid to say anything since when you left, the village chief might come down hard on him," he said. And the village chief in turn lied so as not to "rock the boat" and "lose the job he had just bought...