Angolan Communist Party (in Portuguese: ''Partido Comunista Angolano'') was an underground

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(during the Estado Novo regime), founded in October 1955, under influence from the

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. PCA was led by the brothers

Mário Pinto de Andrade Mário Coelho Pinto de Andrade (21 August 1928 – 26 August 1990) was an Angolan poet and politician. Biography He was born in Golungo Alto, in Portuguese Angola, and studied philosophy at the University of Lisbon and sociology at the Sorb ...

and Joaquim Pinto de Andrade (a

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priest). PCA set up clandestine schools and libraries in

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, and established branches in Catete and

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. In December 1956 it merged into the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (

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).Shantz, Jeff
"Angolan national liberation, 1961–1974."
Blackwell Reference Online. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

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