The Communist Organization of Angola (; ''OCA'') was a
Maoist
Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...
-oriented communist party in
Angola
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. OCA was founded in 1975 by the Amilcar Cabral Committees (''Comités Amilcar Cabral''; CAC). The CAC were founded in 1974 inside the
People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( pt, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, abbr. MPLA), for some years called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (), is an Angolan left-wing, social de ...
(
MPLA
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( pt, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, abbr. MPLA), for some years called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (), is an Angolan left-wing, social d ...
) and were excluded from the party in 1975. It opposed the MPLA government and what it called Soviet
social-imperialism
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. It also called for withdrawal of
Cuba
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n troops. OCA was suppressed by the government.
The OCA published ''Vanguarda Operaria''.
The group is now defunct.
References
Defunct political parties in Angola
Political parties established in 1975
1975 establishments in Angola
Communist parties in Angola
Rebel groups in Angola
MPLA
Political parties with year of disestablishment missing
National liberation movements in Africa
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