Guinea-Bissau : a study of political mobilization

In this book concrete facts are presented about the struggle for national liberation and development in the small West African peasant country, an independent republic since September, 1973. The focus of the book is upon the new society under construction in the liberated areas of the country, while the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial army was still going on. The book takes account of the dramatic changes in Portugal and her former African possessions that occurred in 1974, including Portuguese recognition and United Nations membership of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.Contents: I. Introduction -- II. Guinea and Cape Verde:Past and Present in Relation to National Liberation – III. The Ideology and Concrete Goals of the PAIGC -- IV. The Emerging Social Order (1): Political, Administrative, Military and Judicial Organization -- V. The Emerging Social Order (2): The Election Campaign and the Elections of 1972, the National Assembly, the Establishment of State Separate from the Party – VI. The Emerging Social Order (3): Economic, Social and Cultural Organization -- VII. Some Theoretical and Concluding