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While the anti-apartheid movement has emerged as the premier illustration of transnational solidarity activism, little attention has been paid to the earlier success of the Portuguese African liberation movements. During the 1970s, parties like Mozambique's FRELIMO established global alliance networks that helped sell their revolutions to ambivalent western societies. In the African American community, the construction of these transnational linkages was aided tremendously by radical filmmaking in the form of American Robert Van Lierop's A Luta Continua. This transnational collaboration created a film that captured the universal and practical elements of FRELIMO ideology in a way that became a model for local organising, particularly in the African American community. Activists concerned about solidarity with southern Africa, communal control of resources and racial equality all used Van Lierop's interpretation of FRELIMO's socialism in A Luta Continua to construct grassroots movements that would spread nationally in the 1970s and lay the groundwork for more familiar anti-apartheid activism in the next decade.

Introduction: Tricontinentalism and the anti-imperial project / R. Joseph Parrott -- Part I: Chronologies of third worldism -- Global solidarity before the tricontinental conference: Latin America and the league against imperialism / Anne Garland Mahler -- Tricontinentalism: The construction of global political alliances / Rafael M. Hernández, Jennifer Ruth Hosek -- The PLO and the limits of secular revolution, 1975–1982 / Paul Thomas Chamberlin -- Part II: A global worldview -- Fueling the world revolution: Vietnamese communist internationalism, 1954–1975 / Pierre Asselin -- Through the looking glass: African National Congress and the tricontinental revolution, 1960–1975 / Ryan Irwin -- 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 -- Reddest place north of Havana: The tricontinental and the struggle to lead the "third world" / Jeremy Friedman -- "A propaganda boon for us": The Havana tricontinental conference and the United States response / Eric Gettig -- Part IV: Frustrated visions -- Brother and a comrade: Amílcar Cabral as global revolutionary / R. Joseph Parrott -- "Two, three, many Vietnams": Che Guevara's tricontinental revolutionary vision / Michelle D. Paranzino -- From Playa Girón to Luanda: Mercenaries and internationalist fighters / Eric Covey -- Afterword: Patterns and puzzles / Mark Atwood Lawrence.

The Tricontinental Revolution provides a major reassessment of the global rise and impact of Tricontinentalism, the militant strand of Third World solidarity that defined the 1960s and 1970s as decades of rebellion. Cold War interventions highlighted the limits of decolonization, prompting a generation of global South radicals to adopt expansive visions of self-determination. Long associated with Cuba, this anti-imperial worldview stretched far beyond the Caribbean to unite international revolutions around programs of socialism, armed revolt, economic sovereignty, and confrontational diplomacy. Linking independent nations with non-state movements from North Vietnam through South Africa to New York City, Tricontinentalism encouraged marginalized groups to mount radical challenges to the United States and the inequitable Euro-centric international system. Through eleven expert essays, this volume recenters global political debates on the priorities and ideologies of the Global South, providing a new framework, chronology, and tentative vocabulary for understanding the evolution of anti-imperial and decolonial politics.