Unity and Struggle - Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral

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Introduction by Basil Davidson. Biographical notes by Mario de Andrade

This wonderful reintroduction of this important body of work by Amilcar Cabral is a great contribution to today's discussion of which way for the revolutionary movement.

Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973) was a Guinean engineer, anticolonial theorist and revolutionary. He helped to found and lead the anticolonial struggle against Portuguese colonialism, and was assassinated months before the independence forces were victorious.

How was it possible for Guinea-Bissau, with no access to modern technology, ideas, or organizational forms, its population suffering under one of the most repressive of all colonial regimes, to build a victorious movement for revolutionary change? A key to understanding this process lies in the writings of Amilcar Cabral, one of the great revolutionary leaders produced by the long and arduous campaign for the liberation of Portuguese-dominated Africa—of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé. Cabral launched the PAIGC in 1956, and, by 1973, when he was assassinated, his movement had effectively defeated the Portuguese colonialists.

Monthly Review Press, softcover, 292pp

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