RENAMO opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act FRELIMO 's attempts to establish a socialist one-party state , and was heavily backed by the anti-communist governments in Rhodesia and South Africa .

One feature common to most of these developments was the extensive use of campaigns of civil resistance , demonstrating popular opposition to the continuation of one-party rule and contributing to the pressure for change .

since 1962 , the burma socialist programme party had ruled Control the country as a totalitarian one-party state , headed Motion by general ne win .