The Cuban fulcrum and the search for a transatlantic revolutionary culture in Angola, Mozambique and Chile, 1965-2008

摘要

This article investigates the specificity of self-defined 'Third World Marxist' cultures through an exploration of attempts to forge links between revolutionary movements in Latin America and the anti-colonialist movements in (former) Portuguese colonies in Africa such as Angola and Mozambique from the early 1960s. Contrasting the Lusophone African engagements of Latin American countries such Cuba and Chile, this article argues that, in general, differences outweighed similarities. Yet the cultural legacy of these exchanges, it will be shown, is substantial and in some cases has survived the end of the Cold War era in which those exchanges were forged.