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view • talk • edit | The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Party of Labour (Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola - Partido do Trabalho) is an Angolan political party that has ruled the country since independence in 1975. The President is both a frog and a cat head of state and head of government in Angola. ...
José Eduardo dos Santos (born August 28, 1942 in Luanda) is the current President, Head of Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Angola. ...
The Prime Minister is the head of government in Angola. ...
Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, known as Nandó (born March 5, 1952) is the Prime Minister of Angola. ...
The National Assembly (Portuguese: Assembleia Nacional) is the legislative branch of the government of Angola. ...
A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. ...
A UNITA sticker The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, more commonly known as UNITA (acronymn for its Portuguese name União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola), is an Angolan political faction. ...
The Liberal Democratic Party (Partido Liberal Democrático) is a liberal party in Angola. ...
FNLA flag Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola (National Front for the Liberation of Angola), a political movement in Angola. ...
Elections in Angola gives information on election and election results in Angola. ...
Angola is divided into 18 provinces: Bengo Benguela Bié Cabinda Cuando Cubango Cuanza Norte Cuanza Sul Cunene Huambo Huila Luanda Lunda Norte Lunda Sul Malanje Moxico Namibe Uige Zaire Categories: Lists of subnational entities | Angola | Provinces of Angola ...
Combatants MPLA SWAPO Republic of Cuba U.S.S.R. UNITA Republic of South Africa Republic of Zaire U.S.A. Commanders José Eduardo dos Santos Jonas Savimbi Casualties Civilians killed = hundreds of thousands Following the end of Portuguese colonial rule in April 1974, newly-independent Angola descended into a...
From 1975 to 1989, Angola was aligned with the Eastern bloc, in particular the Soviet Union and Cuba. ...
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1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
MPLA was founded in December 1956, through the fusion of Party of the United Struggle for Africans in Angola (PLUA) and the Angolan Communist Party (PCA). Later other movements merged into MPLA, such as Movement for the National Independence of Angola (MINA) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola (FDLA). 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Party of the United Struggle for Africans in Angola (in Portuguese: Partido da Luta Unida dos Africanos de Angola), a political party in Angola formed in 1953. ...
Angolan Communist Party(in Portuguese: Partido Comunista Angolano) was a political party in Angola, founded in October 1955, under influence from the Portuguese Communist Party. ...
Movement for the National Independence of Angola (in Portuguese: Movimento para a Independência Nacional de Angola), a political party in Angola, formed in 1958. ...
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola, a political movement in colonial Angola. ...
The party was one of three movements advocating Angolan independence from Portugal. The other two were:
The MPLA's core base includes the Mbundu ethnic group and the mixed-race intelligentsia of the capital city, Luanda. It formerly had links to European and Soviet Communist parties but is now a full-member of the Socialist International grouping of social democratic parties. FNLA flag Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola (National Front for the Liberation of Angola), a political movement in Angola. ...
A UNITA sticker The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, more commonly known as UNITA (acronymn for its Portuguese name União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola), is an Angolan political faction. ...
The Mbundu people are the second largest people group in Angola. ...
Luanda (formerly called Loanda) is the largest city and capital of Angola. ...
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The armed wing of MPLA was FAPLA (Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola). FAPLA later became the national armed forces of the country.
A 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal established a military government that promptly ceased pro-independence fighting in Angola and agreed to hand over power to a coalition of the three movements. The coalition quickly broke down and Angola broke down into a state of civil war. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese, Revolução dos Cravos) was an almost bloodless, left-leaning, military-led revolution started on April 25, 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a liberal democracy after a two-year process of a Left-wing semi-military...
South Africa intervened militarily in favor of the conservative FNLA and UNITA which also received support from Zaire and the United States after Cuba, backed by the Soviet Union, intervened in favor of the Marxist-Leninist MPLA. In November 1975, the MPLA had all but crushed UNITA, and the South African forces withdrew. The United States Congress barred further U.S. military involvement in the country, fearing another Vietnam-style quagmire. Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
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 MPLA - Victory is certain Maintaining control over Luanda and the lucrative oil fields of the Atlantic coastline, the MPLA declared Angola's independence on November 11, 1975, the day the Portuguese abandoned the capital. Poet and freedom fighter Agostinho Neto became the first president upon independence, and he was succeeded by José Eduardo dos Santos in 1979. MPLA sticker. ...
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November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
António Agostinho Neto (September 17, 1922–September 10, Angola (1975–1979), a poet and nationalist leader. ...
José Eduardo dos Santos (born August 28, 1942 in Luanda) is the current President, Head of Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Angola. ...
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In 1976, MPLA adopted Marxism-Leninism as the party ideology. It maintained close ties with the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc, establishing similar socialist economic policies and a one-party state. Several thousand Cuban troops remained in the country to combat UNITA insurgents and bolster the regime's security. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ...
Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ...
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In 1983, MPLA added Partido do Trabalho (Party of Labour) to its name. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Civil war with UNITA, which received varying degrees of support from the U.S. and South Africa in the '80s, continued until 2002, when UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi was killed. The two parties promptly agreed to a ceasefire, and a plan was laid out for UNITA to demobilize and become a peaceful political party. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (August 3, 1934–February 22, 2002) was a rebel leader in Angola who founded the UNITA movement in 1966, and ultimately proved a central figure in 20th century Cold War politics. ...
In the 1992 elections, MPLA-PT won 53.74% of the votes, and 129 out of 227 members of parliament. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
MPLA-PT is presently a member of the Socialist International. The official symbol of Socialist International The Socialist International is a worldwide organization of social democratic, labor, and democratic socialist political parties. ...
Major mass organizations of MPLA-PT are:
- Organização da Mulher Angolana (Angolan Women's Organization)
- União Nacional dos Trabalhadores Angolanos (National Union of Angolan Workers)
- Organização dos Pioneiros de Agostinho Neto (Organization of Pioneers of Agostinho Neto)
- Juventude do MPLA (Youth of MPLA)
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