África & Revolução - ‘ANGOLA IN THE FRONT LINE’, by Michael Wolfers and Jane Bergerol - London 1983 - MUITO RARO;

África & Revolução - A guerra civil iniciada no processo de descolonização perante a total incapacidade de Portugal controlar a situação e se prolongou pela independência após o MPLA conquistar Luanda e com a ajuda maciça do contingente cubano ter forçado a retirada do exército zairense e das SADF que intervieram em apoio da FNLA e UNITA, respectivamente…

‘ANGOLA IN THE FRONT LINE’ 

By Michael Wolfers and Jane Bergerol 

Edition Zed Press 

London 1983 

Livro com 238 páginas e em muito bom estado de conservação. Excelente. 

De muito difícil localização. 

MUITO RARO.

Do ÍNDICE: 

Abbreviations 

1. - INTRODUCTION 

- Why the West intervened 

- Western action against MPLA 

Part 1: WAR 

2. - SOUTH AFRICA INVADES 

- Looking south 

- The battle for Luanda 

- Boer invasion 

3. - WAR ON TWO FRONTS 

- Cuba’s contribution to the victory 

- The east holds fast 

- FNLA falls apart 

- The Queve front 

- South Africa defeated 

4. - VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE 

- FAPLA’s counter offensive in the north 

- Luso column attacks MPLA 

- FNLA and UNITA’s Democratic Republic 

- People’s Angola 

- Counter offensive south 

- Libaration 

Part 2: THE COUPFROM WITHIN 

5. - POLITICAL AWAKENING 

- Politics after 50 years of fascism 

- Political ferment 

- The rival camp 

- Warnings of division 

- FAPLA’s political commissariat 

- Alves’ career at its peak 

6. - THE ALVES COUP 

- The central committee inquiry 

- Coup 

- MPLA and the people close ranks 

Part 3: REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION ON THE FRONTLINE 

7. - BUILDING THE NEW SOCIETY 

- Portugal’s civilizing mission in Angola 

- The MPLA’s record before independence 

- Independence and building a Nation 

- Mass health 

- Education for everyone 

- Building the Trade Union Movement 

- The role of the people’s militias 

- The campaign against tribalism 

- Cultural Liberation 

- Women and the Women’s Movement 

- Building the National Army 

8. - FOUNDATION FOR SOCIALISM 

- Destroying the old order 

- The colonial record 

- State intervention 

- Oil and independence 

- Diamonds and De Beers 

- Change on the Land 

- The co-operation movement 

- Creating an agricultural work-force 

- Coffe: mechanize or go private? 

- Other cash crops 

- Self-sufficiency in food 

- The fishing industry 

- Industrial production 

- Infrastrucrural changes 

- Finance and banking 

- Production and management problems 

- Austerity 

- Future prospects 

- Balance sheet of six years independence 

9. - THE MPLA: FROM MOVEMENT TO PARTY 

- The people’s Movement 

- The armed struggle 

- Transition from movement to vanguard Party 

- Firts Congress 

- Rectification 

- Party control of Government 

- The class struggle 

- The Black market and the Party 

- The Party as privileged elite 

- The Party and security 

- The Party and mass media 

- The Party and the New Society 

- The Party and the church 

- Neto’s death 

- Building people’s power 

- Continuing rectification and the 1980 Special Congress 

- The transition to Socialism 

10. - COUNTER-REVOLUTION: UNITA 

- UNITA: Portugal’s Counter-insurgency force 

- UNITA and the future 

- UNITA’s ideology 

- The African Church 

- UNITA and the western imperialism 

- UNITA in Namibia and in the angolan bush 

11. - DESTABILIZATION 

- The undeclared war 

- Zaire and Angola 

- Terror from the south 

- Escalation in South Africa’s undeclared war against Angola 

- South Africa’s tool: UNITA terrorism 

- SADF combined operations 

Bibliography 

Maps: 

1. Angola’s provinces and their capitals 

2. The centre-southern front, 1975-76 

3. The northern and eastern fronts, 1975-76 

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