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![[MFM party flag]](../images/m/mg}mfm.gif)
by Ivan Sache, 7 Feb 2001
MFM is 'Mpitolona ho amin'ny Fanjakan'ny Madinika' (Activists for Madagascar
Progress).
The movement
website says: 'MFM is not a child prodigy born durign the national
uprising of May 1972. Its creation was the outcome of a harsh fight which
had started in 1966 in several clandestine and official organizations,
which then involved academics and former nationalist activists but also
workers and farmers. Manadafy and his fellows presented the MFM in that
way in their review 'Tselatra-Eclair'.
The 1972 uprising ended with the resignation of president Philibert
Tsiranana, who had been ruling over the country since 1956 (first as president
of the autonomous republic and from 1958 onwards as president of the independent
republic
The flag shows a black figure raising the hand on a red background.
From the pictures shown on the 'album photo' section of the website, it
seems to be widely used, along with plain red flags (or maybe the red flags
are the reverse of the movement flag. Knowing the disastrous economical
situation of the so-called 'Large Island', I guess the flags are home-made
by stenciling the symbol on a piece of red fabric.
I have used the party emblem from the website as a template to 'stencil'
a reconstruction of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 7 Feb 2001
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