Joaquim Andrade1956
The PLUA merges with the PCA to form the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)
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The PLUA merges with the PCA to form the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)
The MPLA, led by da Cruz, M rio Andrade, Ilidio Machado, and Lpounds cio Lara, derives support from the Mbundu people and in Luanda. The Angolan Communist Party (PCA) merges with the Party of the United Struggle for Africans in Angola (PLUA) to form the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola with Viriato da Cruz, the President of the PCA, as Secretary General
Movimento popular de Libertacao de Angola, a Marxist rival to the UPA.
The Angolan Communist Party (PCA) merges with the Party of the United Struggle for Africans in Angola (PLUA) to form the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola with Viriato da Cruz, the President of the PCA, as Secretary General.
The MPLA was founded in 1956 as a Marxist party with a strong following in the Angolan capital, Luanda, it is first led by Antonio Neto.
The MPLA joins with the PAIGC, fraternal party in Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde, to direct combat against the Portuguese empire in Africa
The MPLA holds a party congress, Viriato da Cruz, found to be "slow, negligent, and adverse to planning," is replaced by Agostinho Neto. The MPLA adopts and reaffirms its policies for an independent Angola, democracy, multiracialism, national liberation of the entire colony, non-alignment, no foreign military bases in Angola, and nationalization
The MPLA commences military operations against the Portuguese in 1963
Neto meets Marxist leader Che Guevara and soon receives funding from the Governments of Cuba, German Democratic Republic, and the Soviet Union
Daniel Chipenda, then a member of MPLA, establishes the Eastern Front, significantly expanding the MPLAs reach in Angola
Appointed member of the MPLA
Elected a member of the MPLA-Workers party congress, given the rank of colonel in the Angolan military and later becoming a member of the Peoples Assembly, beginning a succession of appointments to Government ministerial posts
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