People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola | |
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| Chairman | João Lourenço |
| Secretary General | Paulo Pombolo |
| Founders | Agostinho Neto Viriato da Cruz Amilcar Cabral |
| Founded | 1956 |
| Merger of | Party of the United Struggle for Africans in Angola Movement for the National Independence of Angola Angolan Communist Party |
| Headquarters | Luanda |
| Newspaper | Jornal de Angola |
| Youth wing | Youth of MPLA |
| Women's wing | Organization of Angolan Women |
| Paramilitary Wing | People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola |
| Political orientation | Democratic socialism Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Continental affiliation | Former Liberation Movements of Southern Africa |
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), is an Angolan left-wing, democratic socialist political party. The MPLA, founded by the likes of Amilcar Cabral, Agostinho Neto, and Viriato da Cruz, came to be the dominant political party in Angola since its victorious campaign against the Portugese during the Angolan War for Independence from 1961 to 1974. In the aftermath of the Angolan Civil War, the party then established itself as a Marxist–Leninist vanguard of the People's Republic of Angola which lasted until 1992. In an effort to end the ongoing military conflict with the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the MPLA reformed the constitution and established a multi-party democracy and sidelined Marxism–Leninism in favor of democratic socialism.