People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Political and party leadership 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 4 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 4 Angolastate 3 Vietnamstate 3 Communist Party of China 3 Workers' Party of North Korea 3 Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 2 Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 2 African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) 1

All 34 affiliations

Algeria

National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1

Angola

Angolastate 3 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 4

Cambodia

Cambodia state institutionsstate 1

China

Communist Party of China 3 Kuomintang 1 ↳ Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 2 New People's Party of Korea 1 Democratic Party of Korea 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 3 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 2

DR Congo

DR Congo state institutionsstate 1 Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Ghana

Ghana state institutionsstate 1

Guinea-Bissau

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) 1

India

India state institutionsstate 1 Indian National Congress 2

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Korea

Korean independence movement 1

Mozambique

Mozambiquestate 1 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 2

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 2 African National Congress (ANC) 2 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) 1

South Korea

Communist Party of Korea 1 Workers' Party of South Korea 1

Tanzania

Tanzania state institutionsstate 1

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1

Vietnam

Vietnamstate 3 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 4
Position(set)
Any National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1
Citizenship
Any Portugal 1
Background
Any Guinea-Bissau 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) National liberation and anti-colonial movements Clear all
GlossaryAfrican Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)

Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Cabral
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) Communism Portugal Guinea-Bissau 1924–1973 ✕ Assassinated

From agronomist to master theorist of African liberation

“Tell no lies. Claim no easy victories.” — party watchword, 1965

Anti-colonial revolutionary of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde and founder of the PAIGC. An agronomist who learned the colony by walking it village by village, he fused armed struggle with cultural liberation into an original strategy against Portuguese rule. Assassinated in 1973 on the eve of the independence he had made inevitable.

Career timeline
  • 1945–1952Agronomy in Lisbon; organizes African nationalist student circles
  • 1952–1954Agricultural census of Portuguese Guinea — learns the country village by village
  • 1956Founds the PAIGC
  • 1963–1973Leads the liberation war; schools and clinics in the freed zones
  • 1966Presented The Weapon of Theory at the first Tricontinental Conference
  • 1973.01Assassinated in Conakry, months before independence