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{{Short description|Ruling party of Angola since 1975}}
{{For|the rebel group in Mali|People's Movement for the Liberation of Azawad}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox political party
| name             = People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
| native_name      = {{lang|pt|Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola}}
| logo             = Logo of the MPLA (Angola).svg
| colorcode        = {{Party color|MPLA}}
| abbreviation     = MPLA
| presidium        = 
| governing_body   = 
| leader1_title    = Chairman
| leader1_name     = [[João Lourenço]]
| leader2_title    = {{nowrap|Secretary-General}}
| leader2_name     = Paulo Pombolo
| founders         = [[Ilídio Machado]]<br/>[[Viriato da Cruz]]<br/>[[Mário Pinto de Andrade]]<br/>[[Lúcio Lara]]
| founded          = {{Start date and age|1956|12|10|df=y}}
| merger           = [[Party of the United Struggle for Africans in Angola|PLUAA]]<br>[[Angolan Communist Party|PCA]]
| headquarters     = [[Luanda]], [[Luanda Province]]
| newspaper        = ''[[Jornal de Angola]]''
| think_tank       = 
| wing1_title      = Armed wing
| wing1            = [[People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola]] (1956–1993)
| youth_wing       = [[Youth of MPLA]]
| womens_wing      = [[Organization of Angolan Women]]
| membership_year  = 2022
| membership       = 3,000,000<ref>{{cite news |date=18 August 2022 |title= MPLA: João Lourenço diz que teve a coragem de lutar contra a corrupção  |trans-title= |url=https://observador.pt/2022/08/18/mpla-joao-lourenco-diz-que-teve-a-coragem-de-lutar-contra-a-corrupcao/ |language=Portuguese |work=[[Observador]] |publisher= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830151951/https://observador.pt/2022/08/18/mpla-joao-lourenco-diz-que-teve-a-coragem-de-lutar-contra-a-corrupcao/ |archive-date=30 August 2022 }}</ref>
| ideology         = {{ubl|class=nowrap|
 |[[Nationalism|Angolan nationalism]]{{refn|<ref name=fernando>{{cite book |last1=Andresen Guimarães |first1=Fernando |date=2001 |title=The Origins of the Angolan Civil War: Foreign Intervention and Domestic Political Conflict, 1961–76 |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-230-59826-3 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |doi=10.1007/978-0-230-59826-3 |doi-broken-date=2 November 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Péclard |first1=Didier |date=31 August 2021 |title=Nationalism, Liberation, and Decolonization in Angola |url=https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-640 |journal=[[Oxford University Press|Oxford Academic – African History]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.640 |isbn=978-0-19-027773-4 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>}}
 |[[Social democracy]]{{refn|<ref name=social>{{cite book |last1=C. Docherty |first1=James |last2=Lamb |first2=Peter |date=2006 |title=Historical Dictionary of Socialism |url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442258266/Historical-Dictionary-of-Socialism-Third-Edition |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=276 }}</ref><ref name=poddar>{{cite book |editor-last1=Poddar |editor-first1=Prem |editor-last2=S. Patke |editor-first2=Rajeev |editor-last3=Jensen |editor-first3=Lars |date=2008 |title=A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures – Continental Europe and its Empires |url= |publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] |pages=480–481 |quote= }}</ref>}}
 |[[Democratic socialism]]{{refn|<ref name=social/><ref name="MPLA">{{cite web |title=Estatuto do MPLA |url=https://mpla.ao/ao/documentos/estatuto-do-mpla/ |website=MPLA.ao |publisher=MPLA |access-date=8 June 2022 }}</ref>}}
 |'''1976–1990:'''{{refn|<ref name=bogdan>{{cite book |editor-last1=Szajkowski |editor-first1=Bogdan |date=1981 |title=Marxist Governments: A World Survey |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-04329-3 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]] |pages=72–76 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-04329-3 |isbn=978-1-349-04331-6 }}</ref><ref name=fernando/><ref name=afro>{{cite book |last1=Hodges |first1=Tony |date=2001 |title=Angola: From Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism |url= |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ball |first1=Jeremy |date=20 November 2017 |title=The History of Angola |url-access=subscription |url=https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-180 |journal=[[Oxford University Press|Oxford Academic – African History]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=20 |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.180 |isbn=978-0-19-027773-4 |quote=The MPLA adopted Marxism in 1976, which strengthened its ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union. }}</ref>}}
 |[[Communism]]{{refn|<ref name=bogdan/><ref name=poddar/><ref name=afro/>}}
 |[[Marxism-Leninism]]{{refn|<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Drew |editor-first1=Allison |date=1 May 2013 |chapter=16 |chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/35402/chapter-abstract/302648393?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false |chapter-url-access=subscription |title=The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism |url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/35402 |url-access= |publisher=[[Oxford University Press|Oxford Academic]] |pages=285–302 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199602056.013.003 }}</ref><ref name=Report>{{cite report |date=February 1990 |title=Country Reports on Human Rights Practices For 1989 |url=https://archive.org/stream/countryreportson1989unit/countryreportson1989unit_djvu.txt |location=US |publisher=Department of State |access-date=2025-05-20}}</ref>}}
 |[[Left-wing nationalism]]{{refn|<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Vanaik  |first1=Achin |date=13 December 2021 |title=Humanitarian Intervention Is a Cloak for Military Aggression |url=https://jacobin.com/2021/12/humanitarian-intervention-cloak-military-aggression-human-rights |url-status=live |magazine=[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]] |publisher= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701020108/https://jacobin.com/2021/12/humanitarian-intervention-cloak-military-aggression-human-rights |archive-date=1 July 2022 }}</ref>}}
}}
| position         = {{ubl|class=nowrap|
 |[[Centre-left politics|Centre-left]] to [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]]
 |'''1976–1990:'''
 |[[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]] to [[Far-left politics|far-left]]
}}
| national         = 
| international    = [[Socialist International]] (since 2006)<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Socialism|year=2006|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield#Imprints|The Scarecrow Press]]|isbn=978-0-8108-5560-1|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/34254398/Docherty-Historical-Dictionary-of-Socialism|first1=Peter|last1=Lamb|edition=Second|first2=James C.|last2=Docherty|access-date=12 September 2017|archive-date=23 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223115609/http://www.scribd.com/doc/34254398/Docherty-Historical-Dictionary-of-Socialism|url-status=dead |page=270 }}</ref>
| affiliation1_title = African affiliation
| affiliation1     = {{hlist|[[Former Liberation Movements of Southern Africa|FLMSA]]|[[Conference of Nationalist Organizations of the Portuguese Colonies|CONCP]]}}
| colours          = {{colorbox|{{Party color|MPLA}}|border=silver}} [[Red]]
| anthem           = 
| seats1_title     = [[National Assembly (Angola)|National Assembly]]
| seats1           = {{Composition bar|124|220|hex={{party colour|MPLA}}}}
| seats2_title     = [[SADC Parliamentary Forum|SADC PF]]
| seats2           = {{Composition bar|0|5|hex={{party colour|MPLA}}}}
| seats3_title     = [[Pan-African Parliament]]
| seats3           = {{Composition bar|0|5|hex={{party colour|MPLA}}}}
| symbol           = [[File:MPLA logo.png|100px]]
| flag             = File:Flag of MPLA.svg
| flag_title       = Party flag
| slogan           = {{plainlist|
*{{*}} "Peace, Work and Liberty"
*{{*}} "MPLA e os Novos Desafios"<ref>{{cite news |date=15 June 2019 |title= Comité central do MPLA alargado para 497 membros  |trans-title=MPLA central committee enlarged to 497 members |url=https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/mundo/africa/detalhe/comite-central-do-mpla-alargado-para-497-membros |language=Portuguese |work=[[Jornal de Angola]] |publisher= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616142042/https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/mundo/africa/detalhe/comite-central-do-mpla-alargado-para-497-membros |archive-date=16 June 2019 |quote=O conclave, o primeiro convocado pelo presidente do partido e chefe de Estado, João Lourenço, decorreu sob o lema "MPLA e os Novos Desafios" |trans-quote=The conclave, the first called by the party's president and head of state, João Lourenço, took place under the slogan "MPLA and the New Challenges". }}</ref>
}}
| website          = {{Official URL}}
| country          = Angola
}}
The '''People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola''' ({{langx|pt|Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola}}, [[Abbreviation|abbr.]] '''MPLA'''), from 1977–1990 called the '''People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party''' ({{Langx|pt|Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola – Partido do Trabalho|link=no}}), is an [[Angola|Angolan]]  [[social democratic]] [[political party]]. The MPLA fought against the [[Portuguese Army]] in the [[Angolan War of Independence]] from 1961 to 1974, and defeated the [[UNITA|National Union for the Total Independence of Angola]] (UNITA) and the [[National Liberation Front of Angola]] (FNLA) in the [[Angolan Civil War]]. The party has ruled Angola since the country's independence from [[Portugal]] in 1975, being the ''de facto'' government throughout the civil war and continuing to rule afterwards.