Tricontinental, 1967-1969
Periodical
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Collection: Collection MHKA, Antwerp.
Tricontinental magazine was launched soon after the Tricontinental Conference as the theoretical organ of the Executive Secretariat of OSPAAAL. It was published in Cuba and a few other countries in Spanish, English, French and other languages. The French edition of Tricontinental was published in Paris by leftist publisher Éditions Maspero despite multiple seizures and bans by the French government. The magazine provided updates and commentary on ongoing independence movements worldwide, as well as speeches and essays written by leading revolutionaries and theorists. The Cuban version of Tricontinental, thoughtfully designed and illustrated, often had a special end sheet mocking American advertisements and revealing the other side of capitalism. The Tricontinental Publishing House also produced films, recordings and propaganda posters. The posters could be found folded and inserted in each issue of the magazine. Although often more radical, the OSPAAAL propaganda material was similar to that of the official Non-Aligned Movement, and shared the same visual language.
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>Tricontinental, no. 3
>Tricontinental, no. 2, 1969 - French edition
>Tricontinental, no. 4-5, 1968 - French edition
>Tricontinental, no. 3, 1969 - French edition
>Tricontinental, no. 1, January-February, 1968 - French edition
>Tricontinental.Suplemento especial. Comandante Che Guevara: mensaje a la Tricontinental - Che Gueva Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (1928–1967), known as 'Che' Guevara, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, guerrillaleader, and military theorist. In his address toTricontinental, Guevara reflects on the complicated political situation across the world more than twenty years after the end of the Second World War, being far from a state of peace. Naming the contexts of struggles against imperialist and neo-colonial oppression, such as Vietnam, Venezuela, Guatemala, Laos, Guinea, Colombia and Bolivia amongst many others, he bitterly decries the “tragic inefficiency” of the United Nations, and the impossibility of any dialogue and reconciliation with hostile parties. His message to Tricontinental is a call for the total and uncompromised destruction of imperialism by armed struggle. Summing up his passionate speech, Guevara stresses once again: “when approaching the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America”. Guevara was captured and assassinated by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces in 1967.
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