workers in Luanda. endence.
This led to a week of national action for peoples power coinciding with the establishment of the transitional government. The latter's attempts to militarise factories falling into chaos and anarchy met with a broad response from port workers, refusing to be treated as objects or instruments of enrichment in a demonstration of several thousand The reaction of the FNLA to the radicalisation of the labouring masses has been a military offensive against both the workers self-organisation and the MPLA leadership. Its role as a pawn of imperialism is obvious in the aid it receives from Zaire (the bastion of capitalist investment in central Africa) and the relations established with the imperialist International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Founded on a Bakongo regional basis, it has asserted itself as the motor force of repression dealing successive blows against popular mobilisations to inflict significant defeats on the labouring masses before indepSports, etc. leadership's political independence from the rank-and-file militants The attacks by FNLA have a two-fold effect. They stimulate the emergence of armed popular militias and accelerate the radicalisation of MPLA militants in contact with these; but they also make the necessity of a compromise with UNITA more credible in the eyes of the rightists in MPLA