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EXXON AND
THE LIBERATION
STRUGGLE
IN
ANGOLA
AND
SOUTHERN
AFRICA
The Exxon Corporation,
largest oil company in the world,
with total revenues
of
22.5 billion
and
total
profits
of 1.5 billion
for
1972 (1972
Annual
Report)
is
currently negotiating
with
the Portuguese
government
to start
exploration
for
oil
in
Angola,
in Africa.
Angola,
as well
as
Mozambique
and Guinea-Bissau,
is
still
claimed
by Portugal
as
a
colony,in
open
defiance
of
the African
peoples
of these
countries
and
numerous
United
Nations resolutions.
In
Angola there
has been open
armed
revolt for
independence
from Portuguese
domination
since
1961.
The
MPLA
(Peoples
Movement
for the
Liberation
of
Angola)
now
controls
approximately
one-third
of
Angola
and has
organized
school
and
medical
services
in
these
liberated
areas.
The
African
liberation
movements
in Mozambique
(FRELIMO,
the Mozambique
L-beration
Front)
and
in
Guinea-Bissau
(the
PAIGC,
African
Party
for
the
Independence
of Guine
and
Cape
Verde)
have
also liberated
large
areas
of
their
countries
from
Portuguese
rule.
The
PAIGC
is preparing
to announce
formal
independence
this
year.
All of
the
African
liberation
movements
have
called
for
an
end
to
foreign
investments
under
Portuguese
control
in their
countries,
since
these
investments
pro
vide
tax and
royalty
revenues
to support
the
Portuguese
colonial
wars.
For
example
the
Gulf Oil
Corporation
is
now
operating
in Angola
and
paid 52
million
in taxes
to Portugal
in
1972
alone
(as
reported
at
Gulf's
April stockholder's meeting). Gulf
is
now the tar
get
of nation-wide
boycott
activities.
Portugal
also
receives
arms
from
its
NATO allies,
including
the
U.S.,
and
in
1971 the
Nixon
administration
signed
the
Azores
Pact,
which
provided
Portugal
with
y435
million
in
credits
and
loans.
Portugal,
the
poorest
country
in Europe,
could
not
maintain
its
150,000
man army
in
Angola,
Mozambique,
and
Guinea
Bissau
without
the aid
and
investments
of its
western
friends.
XXON
STAY
OUT
OF
ANGOLA
Many
voices
have
protested
the
role
of
U.S.
and
other
foreign
corporations
in the war
situation
in
southern
Africa:
Angostinho Neto, President
of
the
MPLA
stated
in
1970:
Investments
by U.S.
corporations
such
as
Gulf
Oil can
only
help the
Portuguese
as
they
fight
us, and rein
force
their
determination
to
stay
in
Angola.
The
Organization
of
African
Unity,
representing
the 41
independent
countries
of Africa
has
called for
an end
to
all
foreign
investments
under
Portuguese
colonialism,
as
well as
in South
Africa
and
racist
Rhodesia
(Zimbabwe).
The World
Council
of
Churches
last
year
announced
the sale
of all
stock
holdings
in
corporations
operating
in southern
Africa
and
called for
an
end
to the
operations.
The United
Nations
General
Assembly
overwhelmingly
passed
Resolution
2918
in
November,
1972
calling
on
all
countries to
discourage
their
nationals
and
corporate
bodies
under their
jurisdiction
from
entering
into
any
transactions
or arrangements
that
contribute
to
Portugal's
domination
over
Angola,
Mozambique,
and Guinea-Bissau.
The
issue
is clear:
the resources
of
Angola,
as
well
as Mozambique
and
Guinea
Bissau,
belong
to the
people
of these
countries
and
are not
Exxon's
or
Portugal's
to
trade
or barter.
We
call
on Exxon
t stay
out of
Angola
and to
end
its exploration
in Guinea
Bissau
and
its
operations
in racist
South
Africa.
American
Committee
on
Africa,
164
Madison
Avenue,
New
York,
N Y
Southern
Africa
Ci:mmittee,
244
West
27th
Street,
5th Floor,
New
York,
N.Y.
May
17, 1973.