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315:, called for support for Puerto Rican independence fighter Humberto Pagán. Following his arrest in Canada, OSPAAAL called for ‘all revolutionary and progressive countries, parties and organisations to declare solidarity with Humberto Pagán militantly in every way possible’. Their aim was to highlight the perceived injustice of the court proceedings and to prevent the extradition of Pagán in fear for his safety were he to return to Puerto Rico. After refusing to grant an extradition order, and upon appeal to the 813: 406: 307:, lead to them to denounce him as ‘the unscrupulous assassin of millions of Vietnamese; he is as dangerous as the fascist Hitler of World War II’. Following on from the critique of US military action in Vietnam OSPAAAL also called for greater solidarity between countries around the world following victories against US forces in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. 283:
Due to the tension caused by US imperialism in Southeast Asia, the OSPAAAL Executive Secretariat urgently calls on the peoples and governments of the socialist countries, the progressive and peace- and justice-loving countries and the entire US people and their progressive leaders to reinforce their
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The poster was the response to a fundamental aim: that of supporting the struggle of the freedom movements. And this took place not only in many third-world countries; the horizons were soon extended to bring solidarity even to the United States... overcoming the frontiers represented by the triple
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The fourth congress of the OSPAA, in Accra from May 6 to May 9, 1965, finally agreed on including Latin America and to take in account the founding January 1966 conference in Havana. In July, Medhi Ben Barka, who was presiding the preparatory council, assured the support of the People's Republic of
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was debating the inclusion of Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America to the group, a question posed again in Cairo in June 1961 by the new commission, the Commission on Neocolonialism, which was presided by Ben Barka.
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solidarity and support for the peoples of Viet Nam , Laos and Cambodia, struggle vigorously for an end to the blockade of North Vietnamese ports and of all warlike acts by US air and naval forces against the Indochinese peoples
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pushed the artists and printers to find ingenious solutions with unorthodox outcomes, although it ultimately forced the organization to stop producing these posters. However, these posters began to be printed again in 2000.
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As part of the campaign efforts of OSPAAAL the Executive Secretariat released official declarations about international anti-colonial struggles. Their strong opposition to US President Nixon’s military actions during the
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Beyond solidarity with anti-colonial struggles on a nation-state level, OSPAAAL campaigned for individuals involved in independence and anti-imperialist activities. OSPAAAL on behalf of a member organization, the
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presided the board responsible of the solidarity funds, assisted by two vice-chairmen: Mehdi Ben Barka of Morocco and Chu Tzu-chi of the People's Republic of China. At that time,
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China and the Soviet Union, and defined the objectives of the new organization, summed up as "total liberation:" aid to national liberation movements (in particular to the
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activists. (The ANC had been prohibited in 1960, and Curiel would be murdered in 1978). Ben Barka was going to create an anti-colonialist magazine titled
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OSPAAAL cultivated relationships with international trade unions and solidarity groups around the world. OSPAAAL had a working relationship with the
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Acting as the "key bridge" to unite liberation struggles and movements in the three continents, OSPAAAL's main objective is the promotion of
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OSPAAAL Executive Secretariat statement of solidarity with the young Puerto Rican independence fighter Humberto Pagan, imprisoned in Canada
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Declaration of the executive secretariat of OSPAAAL concerning Nixon’s latest declaration and the blockade of Vietnamese ports
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Declaration of the executive secretariat of OSPAAAL concerning Nixon’s latest declaration and the blockade of Vietnamese ports
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The book about the revolutionary OSPAAAL poster – a look back at the liberation struggle Africa, Asia and Latin America
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seeks to continue the heritage of the Tricontinental conference and the organization. They "stand, in the words of
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as their main transnational communication tool. After the closing of OSPAAAL by the Cuban Government, the
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OSPAAAL's motto was "This great humanity has said: enough! And has started to move forward".
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From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity
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was preparing before his October 1965 assassination. OSPAA gathered for the first time in
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All OSPAAAL-Posters from the beginning until 2003 are documented and indexed in the book
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moved even closer to the Soviet Union. In February 1962, Cuba was expelled from the
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Camacho Padilla, Fernando; Palieraki, Eugenia (2019). "Hasta Siempre, OSPAAAL!".
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plans for the newly independent states and to break national isolation through
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Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
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From its foundation until the mid-1980s, OSPAAAL produced brightly coloured
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The OSPAAAL was born out of the Tricontinental Conference in Havana, which
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Organización de Solidaridad de los Pueblos de Asia, África y América Latina
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Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America
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Venezuelan delegate at the first Tricontinental Conference in 1966.
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and peaceful struggles on all three continents, support to the
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was there organizing "solidarity networks," which trained
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara (World Leaders Past & Present)
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Docspopuli.org: Comprehensive archive of OSPAAAL posters
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posters promoting their cause. Financial difficulty and
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political movement with the stated purpose of fighting
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would be represented there: the current born with the
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and the national liberation revolutions' currents."
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AAPSO (Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation)
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Index

OSPAAAL
Spanish
Cuban
globalisation
imperialism
neoliberalism
human rights
Havana
Tricontinental Conference
anti-imperialism
Organization of American States
magazine
Tricontinental
Franz Fanon
Mehdi Ben Barka
Cairo
national liberation movements
Ismaël Touré
Ahmed Sékou Touré
Guinea
Ismaël Touré
AAPSO (Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation)
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Casablanca Group
Mali
Libya
Morocco
economic development
internationalism
AmĂ­lcar Cabral

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