Building the Radical Identity

Eduardo Rey Tristán is full professor of History of Latin America at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He is the author of La izquierda revolucionaria uruguaya, 1955-1973 (2006) and coeditor of Latin American Guerrilla Movements. Origins, Evolution, Outcomes (2020) and Revolutionary Violence and the New Left. Transnational Perspectives (2017).Alberto Martín Álvarez is distinguished professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Girona, Spain, is coeditor of Toward a Global History of Latin America´s Revolutionary Left (2021), Latin American Guerrilla Movements. Origins, Evolution, Outcomes (2020) and Revolutionary Violence and the New Left. Transnational Perspectives (2017).

• Contents: Eduardo Rey Tristán and Alberto Martín Álvarez: Publications, networks and ideological frameworks: Introduction – Alberto Martín Álvarez: Building counter- hegemonic thinking: Intellectuals and critical communities in the rise of the New Left – Alberto Martín Álvarez and Eduardo Rey Tristán: The Algerian Generation and the Third World: A conversation with Gérard Chaliand and Juliette Minces – Kepa Artaraz: Historical and institutional origins of the British New Left: Exploring New Left Review – Selim Nadi: From Algeria to Vietnam: Partisans (1961–1972), a political centre for French Internationalism? – Peter Richardson: Radical slick: The rise and fall of Ramparts magazine (1962–1975) – Gerd- Rainer Horn: The universe of Left Catholic journals: A contribution to the history of the European New Left – Peter Schweppe: Lost in translation?: Kursbuch and the Latin American question – Valeria González Lage: Philosophy in revolution: Dissemination and networks of the Cuban magazine Pensamiento Crítico (1967–1971) – Esteban Javier Campos: Cristianismo y Revolución: A magazine between postconciliar Catholicism, the New Left and revolutionary Peronism – Eudald Cortina Orero and Guillermo Gracia Santos: From rural to urban guerrilla: Debates and diffusion of the Latin American New Left in Punto Final (1965–1973) – Patricia Calvo González: Spreading Cuban Revolution through the journal Tricontinental during its first decade of publication (1967–1977) – Verónica Oikión Solano: The achievements and shortcomings of revolutionary propaganda: Three Mexican leftist magazines – Olivia Gómez Lezama: Cuadernos Políticos: Between theoretical debate and praxis of an unorthodox Marxist Left (1974–1990) – Alberto Martín Álvarez and Eduardo Rey Tristán: Conclusions: Periodicals, critical communities and intellectual networks.

«Building the Radical Identity meticulously weaves a tapestry portraying the mutual impact of magazines, publishing houses and movements on three continents during the Global Sixties. By focusing on transnational relationships of theory and practice, the authors demonstrate that the New Left was much more than spontaneously generated popular insurgencies, that the international revolutionary movement had well developed theoretical roots and visions, and that its impact went far beyond temporal boundaries. The authors transform the New Left's quest to radically reconstruct all aspects of social and political life from historical fact to future promise. Unafraid neither to reexamine violent opposition to reactionary regimes nor to subject the1960s corpus of ideas to critical analysis, this book is must reading for revolutionaries today.»(George Katsiaficas, author of The Global Imagination of 1968, Asia’s Unknown Uprisings, and coeditor with Kathleen Cleaver of Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party.)«At a time when, across the world, economic and political crises are driving new generations to seek out new radical ideas, but also even to reconsider some older radicalisms, this book’s appearance is highly pertinent, reminding us of the global impact of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s, i.e., a new way of thinking which posed an intellectual and ideological challenge to the sterile interpretations offered by both social democracy and Soviet-style communism. The collection brings us several eloquent examples of the force of that challenge, in particular in the Third World, where it contributed profoundly to shaping new definitions and self-definitions of the postcolonial world, including the genesis of today’s notion of the Global South. The several authors, experts in their particular fields, combine to give us a rich and revealing picture of the wide range of thinking characterising what was then a complex phenomenon.» (Antoni Kapcia, Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham and author of Cuba: Island of Dreams and Cuba in Revolution: A History Since the Fifties.)«For those seeking to understand the complex history of the Global Sixties, this collection will be indispensable. Radical journals with Tricontinental and North/South readerships were the main transmission belts of the New Left, and they are examined here with great assiduity.»(Van Gosse, Professor of History at Franklin & Marshall College and author of Rethinking the New Left. An Interpretative History.)