Party of the United Struggle for Africans in Angola (in

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: ''Partido da Luta Unida dos Africanos de Angola''; abbreviated: PLUA) is the first

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Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...

to advocate Angolan independence from

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, campaigning from its founding in 1953 until it merged with the

Angolan Communist Party Angolan Communist Party (in Portuguese: ''Partido Comunista Angolano'') was an underground political party in Portuguese Angola (during the Estado Novo regime), founded in October 1955, under influence from the Portuguese Communist Party. PCA wa ...

(PCA) to form the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (

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) in December 1956.''Africa Year Book and Who's who'', 1977. Page 238.Tvedten, Inge. ''Angola: Struggle for Peace and Reconstruction'', 1997. Page 29.

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