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61Moro National Liberation Front — ▪ Filipino military organization Muslim separatist movement in the southern Philippines that has employed guerrilla tactics and violence in its campaign for the creation of an independent democratic, Islamic state. Taking its name… …
62Front For The Liberation Of Mozambique — The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique FRELIMO) came to power on Mozambican independence in 1975, having spent the first 13 years of its existence in a protracted guerrilla struggle against Portuguese… …
63Popular Movement For The Liberation Of Angola — The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola MPLA) was inaugurated in 1956 to work for Angolan independence from Portugal. That aim achieved in 1975, the MPLA set up the People’s Republic of… …
64Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development — ▪ international aid program Arabic Aṣ ṣandūq Al ʿarabī Lil istithmār Wa At tanmīyah Al ijtimāʿiyah, Arab League fund designed to promote economic and social development of Arab countries. Established in May 1968, the fund commenced… …
65Front for the National Liberation of the Congo — Shaba Province, Zaire. The Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC) is a rebel group that fought against the government of Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire in the 1970s. The FNLC s invasions of Shaba, Zaire in 1977 and 1978 sparked two… …
66History of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation — The Zapatista Army of National Liberation ( Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional , EZLN) was founded on November 17, 1983 by non indigenous members of the FLN guerrilla group from Mexico s urban north and by indigenous inhabitants of the… …
67women's liberation — women s liberationist. a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men. Also called women s liberation movement, women s… …
68Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman (PFLO) — orig. Dhofar Liberation Front Resistance group founded in 1963 by Arab nationalists and religious conservatives to depose Sultan Saʽīd ibn Taymūr (r. 1932–70). In 1968 its leadership was taken over by Marxists. In 1970 the sultan was deposed by… …
69Labour, Liberation of — ▪ Russian Marxist organization also called Emancipation of Labour , Russian Osvobozhdenye Truda first Russian Marxist organization, founded in September 1883 in Geneva, by Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov (Plekhanov, Georgy Valentinovich)… …
70women's liberation — women s liberationist. a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men. Also called women s liberation movement, women s… …
