Transnational Solidarity

Zeina Maasri is a Senior Lecturer on the Humanities Programme at the University of BrightonCathy Bergin is a Principal Lecturer on the Humanities Programme at the University of BrightonFrancesca Burke is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Brighton

'This valuable collection of essays casts fresh light on a very significant period of anticolonial resistance and connected struggles across national borders. Its global scope decentres the geopolitical West without obscuring the links between various movements in the ‘long sixties’. Textured histories of transnational solidarity, at all times a demanding practice, are particularly welcome at a time when anti-imperialism too often devolves into a simplistic campism.'Priyamvada Gopal, author of Insurgent Empire, University of Cambridge'This is an important and politically timely collection which foregrounds the agency of activists from the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and South Asia in shaping the left internationalisms that defined the ‘Global Sixties’. It also reinscribes the centrality of anticolonial solidarity to events such as '1968' in Paris and the emergence of the anti-apartheid movement. Through doing so it provides necessary resources for thinking about left futures and global transnational solidarities.'David Featherstone, author of Solidarity, University of Glasgow

• Foreword – Vijay PrashadIntroduction: Transnational solidarity in the long sixties – Zeina Maasri, Cathy Bergin and Francesca Burke1 ‘We took the notion’ – Bernadette Devlin McAliskey2 The voice of the immigrant worker and the rise and fall of France’s long 1968 – Matt Myers3 Comités Palestine (1970-72): on the origins of solidarity with the Palestinian cause in France – Abdellali Hajjat 4 Cultural guerrilla: tricontinental genealogies of 1968 – Paula Barreiro López Manifesto: For the cultural congress of Havana (1967)5 New left encounters in Latin America: transnational revolutionaries, exiles and the formation of the Tupamaros in early 1960s Montevideo – Marina Cardozo6 Connected struggles, anticolonial solidarity and liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies in Africa – Víctor Barros7 ‘Action needed’: the American Committee on Africa and solidarity with Angola – Aurora Almada e Santos 8 On transnational feminist solidarity: the case of Angela Davis in Egypt Sara Salem9 ‘Don’t play with apartheid’: anti-racist solidarity in Britain with South African sportsChristian Høgsbjerg10 The Gulf Committee: Interview with Helen Lackner 11 ‘The brilliant sun of revolt’ rising in the East: solidarity in Britain with the uprising in Pakistan of 1968-69 – Talat Ahmed 12 Palestine through the prism of Pakistani cinema: imagining sameness and solidarity through Zerqa (1969) – Sabah Haider 13 The long sixties and Islamist activism: radical transregional solidarities – Claudia Derichs 14 A witness of our time (1972): Selected drawings by Dia al-Azzawi 15 Greece in the Third World: solidarity through metonymy in a refugee magazine from the GDR – Mary Ikoniadou 16 Solidarity as an absence: the productive limits of Adorno’s thought – Patricia McManus Index