''União dos Sindicatos Revolucionarios de Angola'' ('Union of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Angola', abbreviated USRA) was an

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

organization in exile. USRA was founded in Songololo,

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in November 1965 by dissidents from LGTA led by Manuel Francisco Bento (that had rebelled against the pro- Holden Roberto leadership of LGTA in June 1965) and another dissident group from UNTA (led by former UNTA Foreign Secretary, i.e. second-in-command in the organization, Bernard Dombele). Dombele had accused UNTA of 'political deviation'. The organization opened an office in

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in April 1966.Mielke, Siegfried.
Internationales Gewerkschaftshandbuch
'. Opladen: Laske + Budrich, 1983. p. 205Marcum, John A.
The Angolan Revolution. Vol. 2, Exile Politics and Guerrilla Warfare (1962-1976)
'. Cambridge, Mass: MIT, 1978. pp. 158-159, 375, 393 As of 1967, USRA had ceased to exist.

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Defunct trade unions of Angola Trade unions established in 1965 {{angola-stub