José Freire
September 25th Day of the FPLM Day of the Revolution, To Defend the Homeland is to Consolidate Our Conquests, 1964 – 25th September – 1979, 15th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Armed Struggle for National Liberation
Three-colour offset lithograph, DNPP, Maputo
Members of Frelimo’s army, the People’s Forces for the Liberation of Mozambique (FPLM), hold aloft a hammer and enxada (African hoe) as well as their guns. The principle that militants should engage in production as well as defending the homeland was established in the Liberated Zones during the Armed Struggle. In 1979, Mozambique’s principal enemies were the white-separatist régimes of Ian Smith’s Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa.
