Monday, April 25, 2016

Propaganda War

“Ethiopia In Revolution,” Ethiopian Revolution Information Center, 1977

More pamphlets from various publishing arms of the Derg: some of these were also scanned during my NYU Tamiment Library visits already reported on, others I’ve collected elsewhere. These all represent Derg attempts for making its case, largely, one may presume, to the international left. By 1978, the focus of these pamphlets becomes increasingly more focused on the military conflicts with Somalia and Eritrean secessionists. Since the world left, including the Soviet bloc, had a tradition of supporting the Eritrean national liberation movements, the Derg was compelled to persuade that left that such struggles were now somehow “pro-imperialist.”

I scanned the insides of many of these, and will occasionally present worthy excerpts in the future.

“The Ethiopian Revolution and the Problem in Eritrea,” Ethiopian Revolution Information Center, 1977

”Revolutionary Ethiopia Fact Sheet,” ERIC, 1978
“Ethiopia: Women In Revolution,” 1984
“Programme of the National Democratic Revolution”
“Victory Day”
“Fourth Anniversary of the Ethiopian Revolution,” Speech by Mengistu, 1978

“The National Revolutionary War in the North,” 1978
“PMAC Chairman And The World Press” Speech by Mengistu, 1978


“Ethiopia’s Development Campaign,” Central Planning Supreme Council, 1980

“Support the Just Cause of the Ethiopian Peoples,” 1978

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