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PAICV

African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde
Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde
Leader Janira Hopffer Almada
Founded January 1981
Headquarters Praia, Santiago Island, Sotavento Group, Cape Verde
Youth wing Youth of PAICV
Ideology Social democracy
Democratic socialism
Left-wing nationalism
Political position Centre-left
International affiliation Socialist International
Colours Red, Green and Yellow
              
National Assembly
27 / 72
Party flag
Flag of PAICV.svg
Website
http://www.paicv.cv/

The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde (Portuguese: Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde, PAICV) is a former socialist party and currently a social-democratic political party in Cape Verde. Its members are nicknamed “os tambarinas” in Portuguese (the tamarinds), and they identify themselves with the color yellow.

In 1956, its forerunner, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), was founded by the Bissau-Guinean nationalist leader Amílcar Cabral. PAIGC fought to overthrow the Portuguese Empire, unify Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, and use its vanguardism to advance socialist revolution.

From 1961 on, the PAIGC fought a guerrilla warfare campaign in cooperation with its fraternal party umbrella group, the CONCP, during the Portuguese Colonial War. By 1973 the PAIGC controlled Guinea-Bissau, while Portugal's own Carnation Revolution in 1974 effectively dissolved the empire, relinquishing Cape Verde within the next year.

After the wars of national liberation, the PAIGC established a socialist state within both territories under Amilcar Cabral's brother, Luís Cabral.


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