WikipediaExtracts:MPLA
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Docherty |first1=James |last2=Lamb |first2=Peter |date=2006 |title=Historical Dictionary of Socialism |url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442258266/Historical-Dictionary-of-Socialism-Third-Edition |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=276 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=poddar>{{cite book |editor-last1=Poddar |editor-first1=Prem |editor-last2=S. 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The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola<link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Articles_containing_Portuguese-language_text" about="#mwt113" id="mwZQ"/>, abbr. MPLA), from 1977 to 1990 called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola – Partido do Trabalho<link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Articles_containing_Portuguese-language_text" about="#mwt114" id="mwag"/>), is an Angolan social democratic and democratic socialist political party. The MPLA fought against the Portuguese Army in the Angolan War of Independence from 1961 to 1974, and defeated the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) in the Angolan Civil War, which has been described as "one of the longest, most brutal and deadliest wars of the last century." The party has ruled Angola since the country's independence from Portugal in 1975, being the de facto government throughout the civil war and continuing to rule afterwards.
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