Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas

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The Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas , abbreviated CONCP, to German Conference of the Nationalist Organizations of the Portuguese Colonies , was an organization for the cooperation of national liberation movements and organizations in the Portuguese colonies of Africa in the 1960s and 1970s . The aim was to achieve stronger resistance, more political success and an international isolation of Portugal through increased cooperation between the independence movements. From a political point of view, the umbrella organization was considered “socialist” and was closely related to the Casablanca Group and the Soviet Union .

The CONCP was on 18./19. Founded April 1961 in Casablanca ( Morocco ) and maintained a permanent secretariat in Rabat with Marcelino dos Santos as General Secretary. With its founding, the CONCP replaced the previous, unsuccessful umbrella organization Frente Revolucionária Africana para a Independência Nacional (FRAIN), which was founded by the PAIGC and the MPLA in Tunis in March 1960, as well as the Comité de Libertação dos Territórios Africanos sob Domínio, founded in 1959 Português . The CONCP included the PAIGC (for Guinea and Cape Verde), the MPLA and the União Nacional dos Trabalhadores de Angola (for Angola), the UDENAMO - later replaced by the FRELIMO - (for Mozambique), and the MLSTP (for São Tomé and Principe). Initially, a group of Indian Goeses from the Goa Congress Party also belonged to CONCP.

The second CONP conference took place in Dar es Salaam ( Tanzania ) in October 1965 , at which Amílcar Cabral of the PAIGC was appointed spokesman for the CONCP.

The extent to which CONCP was successful as an organization is scientifically controversial. One of the successes was a meeting of leaders of the independence movements with Pope Paul VI. 1970 in the Vatican, as well as the withdrawal of the Angolan government in exile (GRAE) by the United Nations. On the other hand, the CONCP was so loosely organized that after 1961 it had to postpone its second conference several times until it took place in Tanzania four years later in October 1965. The CONCP was never able to win military allies inside or outside Africa - for example the Soviet Union - for a fight against the Portuguese, let alone great diplomatic support from other African states. For the South African ANC , on the other hand, the existence of the CONCP was initially of a certain importance, because in this way close contact with its member organizations could be quickly established; especially since they shared the same conviction that liberation from a system of oppression could only be achieved with similar means.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas (CONCP) / Conference of the Nationalist Organizations of the Portuguese Colonies . In: Peter Karibe Mendy, Richard A. Lobban, Jr. (Eds.): Historical dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau . 4th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6 , pp. 107 .
  2. ^ John Marcum: Conceiving Mozambique . Edmund Burke III and Michael W. Clough. Cham, Switzerland, ISBN 978-3-319-65987-9 , pp. 61 .
  3. ↑ a b A CONCP - a internacionalização da luta pela independência das colónias portuguesas. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, June 15, 2016, accessed May 4, 2019 (Portuguese).
  4. ^ John Marcum: Conceiving Mozambique . Edmund Burke III and Michael W. Clough. Cham, Switzerland, ISBN 978-3-319-65987-9 , pp. 85 ff .
  5. ^ Sheridan Johns, R. Hunt Davis: Mandela, Tambo and the African National Congress: the struggle against apartheid, 1948–1990: a documentary survey . Oxford University Press , New York, Oxford 1991, p. 185. ISBN 0-19-570641-2