FRELIFO
Formosan Liberation Front Frente por la Liberacion de Formosa | |
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| Leader | Alejandro Mba Sima |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Military wing | Formosan Revolutionary Army |
| Ideology | Communism Authoritarian socialism African socialism |
| Political position | Far left |
| Colors | Red |
| Slogan | Trabajadores del mundo, uníos! |
The Formosan Liberation Front, commonly referred to as FRELIFO, is a banned political party and guerrilla movement in Formosa. The party governed Formosa as a one-party state between 1964 and 2001 until being deposed during the Pencil Revolution. FRELIFO remnants operate in remote areas of Formosa, utilizing stolen or smuggled equipment to continue a low-level insurgency against the modern Formosan state. Assessments by foreign intelligence agencies estimate FRELIFO's current numbers to be approximately 100 men, many of them poorly trained.
FRELIFO has historically rejected council democracy in favour of "socialism from above." This stance led to a gradual break with the Soviet Union following Soviet democratization. FRELIFO's rejection of the principles of the Soviet Reformation resulted in the Soviet Union supporting the Pencil Revolution protesters' efforts to oust the government, including channeling aid to elements of the protest movement, in a rare display of both the Soviet Union and the United States sharing a foreign policy end goal. The modern FRELIFO views the democratic model as "capture of the revolution by reactionary bourgeois elites" and the modern Soviet Union as "counter-revolutionary" and "revisionist." Their stated aim is the abolition of Formosan democracy and the restoration of an authoritarian-communist one-party state.