Fighting Two Colonialisms

by Stephanie Urdang

Book Overview

Guinea-Bissau, a small country on the West Coast of Africa, had been a colony of Portugal for 500 years, and with the 1926 rise of a Portuguese fascist dictatorship, colonization of the country became both brutal and complete. In 1956 the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was founded by Amilcar Cabral and a few country people. At first PAIGC's goal was to organize workers in the towns, hoping that through demonstrations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853455244
• ISBN13: 9780853455240
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"