Angola; celebrations on the 32nd founding day of the MPLA (Movimento Popular de Liberta玢o de Angola; popular movement for the liberation of Angola; founded on December 10th; 1956); the Marxist-oriented MPLA was one of the three most important Angolan liberation movements against the colonial power Portugal. After Angola's independence in 1975; the MPLA prevailed in a civil war against the rival independence movements and has been Angola's ruling party since independence....Luanda; December 11; 1988.