INTERNATIONAL
Building the Radical Identity
The Diffusion of the Ideological Framework of the New Left
WORKSHOP
The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence, development and
disappearance of the New Left, a transnational movement of movements that posed a
challenge to the basic tenets and foundations of capitalism and imperialism on a global
scale. Although in terms of strategy, their different organizations and movements had
important differences, they were inspired by a shared ideology and conceived their
own struggles as part of the same international fight. In Latin America, the armed
struggle became one of the distinctive features of the repertoire of action and identity
of the organizations of the revolutionary left. In Europe and the US, the New Left
emerged since the end of the 1950s and although it did not develop the armed struggle
in its own territory, conceived its strategy as part of a global combat against
imperialism and capitalism where Third World revolutionaries were in the forefront.
Later on, in the aftermath of the ´68 mobilizations some sectors of the US and
European student movement adopted urban guerrilla strategies following the example
of their Third World counterparts. This International Workshop is aimed to analyze
one of the main mechanisms of political-ideological diffusion of the time: the nonorganic publications of the New Left. We start from the premise that diffusion
processes are key to understanding the emergence and development of the new
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revolutionary left and that, in this sense, publications were essential in the
construction of a shared ideological framework that gave meaning to the actions of its
militants. Publications were the main channel of political-ideological diffusion of the
period, and fed the cycle of mobilization of the New Left by being places where the
discussion, sharing and evolution of ideas took place. This way, publications
contributed greatly to the creation of a transnational imagined community of
revolutionary militants. In addition, these publications, based on a common politicalideological framework were part of a network. A network that was perhaps not
organic, but that allowed for a global circulation of ideas and debates and which will
also be a subject of analysis of this workshop.
The Diffusion of the
Ideological Framework
of the New Left
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MAY 21-22, 2018
CASA DE EUROPA
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Building
the
Radical
Identity
The Diffusion of the Ideological
Framework of the New Left
Coordination:
Eduardo Rey Tristán
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Alberto Martín Álvarez
Instituto Mora, México
Secretary:
Valeria González Lage
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Patricia Calvo González
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Organization:
International Research Network on the
Revolutionary Left
Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios
Americanistas and HistAmérica Research
Group, University of Santiago de
Compostela
Instituto Mora, México
21/05
09:00-09:15 Presentation
Eduardo Rey Tristán and Alberto Martín Álvarez
09:15-10:15 The Radical Identity Data Base
Project
Alberto Martín Álvarez, Eduardo Rey Tristán and
Xurxo Pantaleón Cadilla (University of
Santiago de Compostela)
10:15-11:30 Keynote address
DIRK KRUIJT (Utrecht University)
Cuba’s Revolutionary Ideology and Action 1959 1975
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-13:30 Session 1. Cuba and the politicalideological diffusion of the New Left
PATRICIA CALVO GONZÁLEZ (University of
Santiago de Compostela)
Spreading Cuba: Revolutionary Diffusion through
“Tricontinental” on its First Decade (1967-1977)
Debate
The Role of Cuba in the Wave of the New Left
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-18:00 Session 2. Latin American Magazines
ESTEBAN CAMPOS (University of Buenos Aires)
“Cristianismo y Revolución”. A Magazine between
Post-conciliar Catholicism, the New Left and
Revolutionary Peronism
GUILLERMO GRACIA SANTOS and EUDALD
CORTINA ORERO (University of Santiago de
Compostela)
Punto Final and the diffusion of the Latin American
Revolutionary Movements
22/05
09:00-10:15 Keynote lecture
GERD RAINER HORN (Sciences Po - Paris)
The Universe of Left Catholic Journals: A Contribution
to the History of the European New Left
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-13:30 Session 3. European and American
Publications
SELIM NADI (Sciences Po - Paris)
From Algeria to Vietnam: Partisans (1961-1972), a
Political Centre for French Internationalism
KEPA ARTARAZ (University of Brighton)
Institutional and ideological origins of the British New
Left: A case Study
PETER RICHARDSON (San Francisco State
University)
A Bomb in Every Issue: The Rise and Fall of Ramparts
Magazine, 1962-75
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-18:00 Session 4
From Algeria and Partisans to liberation struggles in
Africa and Latin America. A conversation with
GERARD CHALIAND and JULIETTE MINCES
Alberto Martín Álvarez