The Tricontinental Revolution

R. Joseph Parrott is Assistant Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is a historian of diplomacy, transnational activism, and US-Africa relations, with an emphasis on the intersection of decolonization, race, and domestic politics. Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin. He has written extensively on twentieth-century America and especially American foreign relations. His most recent book is The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era (2021).

'This is an exciting and pathbreaking new volume on Tricontinentalism. Probing the long-term origins and reach of the Tricontinental Conference of 1966, it underscores the global significance of twentieth century anti-imperialist projects. Between them, the 13 authors complicate romanticised views of the Tricontinental era, seeking to historicize and better understand its characteristics, opportunity, scale and diversity. The result is an important and nuanced contribution to new histories of the global South, the Cold War, and the struggles to define our contemporary world.' Tanya Harmer, author of Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America

• Introduction: Tricontinentalism and the anti-imperial project R. Joseph Parrott; Part I. Chronologies of third worldism: 1. Global solidarity before the Tricontinental Conference: Latin America and the League Against Imperialism Anne Garland Mahler; 2. Tricontinentalism: the construction of global political alliances Rafael Hernández and Jennifer Ruth Hosek; 3. The PLO and the limits of secular revolution, 1975–1982 Paul Thomas Chamberlin; Part II. A global worldview: 4. Fueling the world revolution: Vietnamese communist internationalism, 1954–1975 Pierre Asselin; 5. Through the looking glass: African National Congress and the Tricontinental Revolution Ryan Irwin; 6. The romance of revolutionary transatlanticism: Cuban-Algerian relations and the diverging trends within third world internationalism Jeffrey James Byrne; Part III. Superpower responses to Tricontinentalism: 7. Reddest place north of Havana: the Tricontinental and the struggle to lead the 'third world' Jeremy Friedman; 8. 'A propaganda boon for us': the Havana Tricontinental Conference and the United States response Eric Gettig; Part IV. Frustrated visions: 9. Brother and a comrade: Amílcar Cabral as global revolutionary R. Joseph Parrott; 10. 'Two, three, many Vietnams': Che Guevara's Tricontinental revolutionary vision Michelle D. Paranzino; 11. From Playa Girón to Luanda: mercenaries and internationalist fighters Eric Covey; Afterword: patterns and puzzles Mark Atwood Lawrence.