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People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola

People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola
Abbreviation MPLA
Chairman José Eduardo dos Santos
Secretary-General Paulo Kassoma
Founder Agostinho Neto, Viriato da Cruz
Founded 10 December 1956 (1956-12-10)
Merger of PLUA, MINE and PCA
Headquarters Luanda, Angola
Newspaper Jornal de Angola
Youth wing Youth of MPLA
Women's wing Angolan Women's Organization
Paramilitary wing FAPLA (integrated into Angolan Armed Forces)
Ideology Democratic Socialism (official)
1977 to 1991:
Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Political position Centre-left (official)
International affiliation Progressive Alliance,
Socialist International
African affiliation Former Liberation Movements of SA
Slogan Peace, Work and Liberty
National Assembly
175 / 220
SADC PF
0 / 5
Pan-African Parliament
0 / 5
Party flag
Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (bandeira).svg
Website
www.mpla.ao

The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, for some years called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola – Partido do Trabalho), is a political party that has ruled Angola since the country's independence from Portugal in 1975. The MPLA fought against the Portuguese army in the Angolan War of Independence of 1961–74, and defeated the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), two other anti-colonial movements, in the Angolan Civil War of 1975–2002.

On December 10, 1956, in Estado Novo-ruled Portuguese Angola, the tiny underground Angolan Communist Party (PCA) merged with the Party of the United Struggle for Africans in Angola (PLUA) to form the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, with Viriato da Cruz, the President of the PCA, as Secretary General. Later other groups merged into MPLA, such as Movement for the National Independence of Angola (MINA) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola (FDLA).

The MPLA's core base includes the Ambundu ethnic group and the educated intelligentsia of the capital city, Luanda. The party formerly had links to European and Soviet communist parties but is now a full-member of the Socialist International grouping of social democratic parties. The armed wing of MPLA was the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA). The FAPLA later became the national armed forces of the country.


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