Transnational solidarity

Anticolonialism in the global sixties

Zeina Maasri, Cathy Bergin, Francesca Burke, Zeina Maasri, Cathy Bergin, Francesca Burke

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781526161567
• eBook ISBN: 9781526161550
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

Transnational solidarity excavates the forgotten histories of solidarity that were vital to radical political imaginaries during the 'long' 1960s. It decentres the conventional Western focus of this critical historical moment by foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. The book traces the ways in which solidarity was conceived, imagined and enacted in the border crossings — of nation, race and class — made by grassroots activists.This diverse collection draws links between exiled revolutionaries in Uruguay, post-colonial immigrants in Britain, and Greek communist refugees in East Germany who campaigned for their respective causes from afar while identifying and linking up with wider liberation struggles. Meanwhile, Arab immigrants in France, Pakistani volunteers and Iraqi artists found myriad ways to express solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Neglected archives also reveal Tricontinental Cuban-based genealogies of artistic militancy, as well as transnational activist networks against Portuguese colonial rule in Africa.Bringing together original research with contributions from veteran activists and artists, this interdisciplinary volume explores how transnational solidarity was expressed in and carried through the itineraries of migrants and revolutionaries, film and print cultures, art and sport, political campaigns and armed struggle. It presents a novel perspective on radical politics of the global sixties which remains crucial to understanding anti-racist solidarity today.With a foreword by Vijay Prashad.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Endorsement Page
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Foreword: imperialism will inevitably be defeated
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: transnational solidarity in the long sixties
• 1 ‘We took the notion’
• 2 The voice of the immigrant worker and the rise and fall of France’s long 1968
• 3 Comités Palestine (1970–72): on the origins of solidarity with the Palestinian cause in France
• 4 Cultural guerrilla: Tricontinental genealogies of ’68
• 5 New Left encounters in Latin America: transnational revolutionaries, exiles and the formation of the Tupamaros in early 1960s Montevideo
• 6 Connected struggles: networks of anticolonial solidarity and the liberation movements of the Portuguese colonies in Africa
• 7 ‘Action needed’: the American Committee on Africa and solidarity with Angola
• 8 On transnational feminist solidarity: the case of Angela Davis in Egypt
• 9 ‘Don’t play with apartheid’: anti-racist solidarity in Britain with South African sports
• 10 The Gulf Committee: interview with Helen Lackner, September 2020
• 11 ‘The brilliant sun of revolt’ rising in the East: solidarity in Britain with the uprising in Pakistan of 1968–69
• 12 Palestine through the prism of Pakistani cinema: imagining sameness and solidarity through Zerqa (1969)
• 13 The long sixties and Islamist activism: radical transregional solidarities
• 14 A Witness of Our Time (1972): drawings by Dia al-Azzawi
• 15 Greece in the Third World: solidarity through metonymy in a refugee magazine from the GDR
• 16 Solidarity as an absence: the productive limits of Adorno’s thought
• Index