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🧵Cabral said that national liberation could not be achieved without the emancipation of women. He wrote that just as colonialism negated the autonomy of Guineans and Cape Verdeans, so too did patriarchal customs negate the autonomy of women. The instructions of the PAIGC soldiers reflected this: they had to respect local customs only insofar as they did not conflict with equal rights of men and women.
In practice, Cabral established a quota system ensuring that at least two of five elected members on village tribunals and councils were women.
#cabral #CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #marxism #decolonisation #feminism
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🧵Cabral said that national liberation could not be achieved without the emancipation of women. He wrote that just as colonialism negated the autonomy of Guineans and Cape Verdeans, so too did patriarchal customs negate the autonomy of women. The instructions of the PAIGC soldiers reflected this: they had to respect local customs only insofar as they did not conflict with equal rights of men and women.
In practice, Cabral established a quota system ensuring that at least two of five elected members on village tribunals and councils were women.
#cabral #CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #marxism #decolonisation #feminism
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🧵Cabral said that national liberation could not be achieved without the emancipation of women. He wrote that just as colonialism negated the autonomy of Guineans and Cape Verdeans, so too did patriarchal customs negate the autonomy of women. The instructions of the PAIGC soldiers reflected this: they had to respect local customs only insofar as they did not conflict with equal rights of men and women.
In practice, Cabral established a quota system ensuring that at least two of five elected members on village tribunals and councils were women.
#cabral #CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #marxism #decolonisation #feminism
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🧵Cabral said that national liberation could not be achieved without the emancipation of women. He wrote that just as colonialism negated the autonomy of Guineans and Cape Verdeans, so too did patriarchal customs negate the autonomy of women. The instructions of the PAIGC soldiers reflected this: they had to respect local customs only insofar as they did not conflict with equal rights of men and women.
In practice, Cabral established a quota system ensuring that at least two of five elected members on village tribunals and councils were women.
#cabral #CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #marxism #decolonisation #feminism
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🧵Cabral applied Marxist analysis to the social structure in Guinea. He recognised the significant physical force of the peasant class, but he argued that the peasantry in Guinea did not have active political consciousness, and thus they didn't act as the primary revolutionary subject. Cabral doesn't follow Maoism in this matter, as in China the peasantry had a history of revolting and political awareness.
Cabral inverts common Marxist class analysis, arguing that the only group equipped with the literacy and organisational tools to seize the state is the petite bourgeoisie. However, he identifies the petite bourgeoisie as a service class, not rooted in economic productivity.
So upon decolonisation the petite bourgeoisie could either inherit state power and try to preserve itself by becoming more bourgeois, or it could strengthen its revolutionary consciousness and ally with the working class. Cabral introduces the concept of class suicide.
Cabral argues that the petite bourgeoisie has more frequent contact with the colonisers, and is therefore more often humiliated. This leads to a higher level of political awareness of the need for liberation.
#cabral #CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #marxism #maoism #decolonisation
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🧵Cabral applied Marxist analysis to the social structure in Guinea. He recognised the significant physical force of the peasant class, but he argued that the peasantry in Guinea did not have active political consciousness, and thus they didn't act as the primary revolutionary subject. Cabral doesn't follow Maoism in this matter, as in China the peasantry had a history of revolting and political awareness.
Cabral inverts common Marxist class analysis, arguing that the only group equipped with the literacy and organisational tools to seize the state is the petite bourgeoisie. However, he identifies the petite bourgeoisie as a service class, not rooted in economic productivity.
So upon decolonisation the petite bourgeoisie could either inherit state power and try to preserve itself by becoming more bourgeois, or it could strengthen its revolutionary consciousness and ally with the working class. Cabral introduces the concept of class suicide.
Cabral argues that the petite bourgeoisie has more frequent contact with the colonisers, and is therefore more often humiliated. This leads to a higher level of political awareness of the need for liberation.
#cabral #CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #marxism #maoism #decolonisation
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🧵Cabral applied Marxist analysis to the social structure in Guinea. He recognised the significant physical force of the peasant class, but he argued that the peasantry in Guinea did not have active political consciousness, and thus they didn't act as the primary revolutionary subject. Cabral doesn't follow Maoism in this matter, as in China the peasantry had a history of revolting and political awareness.
Cabral inverts common Marxist class analysis, arguing that the only group equipped with the literacy and organisational tools to seize the state is the petite bourgeoisie. However, he identifies the petite bourgeoisie as a service class, not rooted in economic productivity.
So upon decolonisation the petite bourgeoisie could either inherit state power and try to preserve itself by becoming more bourgeois, or it could strengthen its revolutionary consciousness and ally with the working class. Cabral introduces the concept of class suicide.
Cabral argues that the petite bourgeoisie has more frequent contact with the colonisers, and is therefore more often humiliated. This leads to a higher level of political awareness of the need for liberation.
#cabral #CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #marxism #maoism #decolonisation
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🧵Cabral applied Marxist analysis to the social structure in Guinea. He recognised the significant physical force of the peasant class, but he argued that the peasantry in Guinea did not have active political consciousness, and thus they didn't act as the primary revolutionary subject. Cabral doesn't follow Maoism in this matter, as in China the peasantry had a history of revolting and political awareness.
Cabral inverts common Marxist class analysis, arguing that the only group equipped with the literacy and organisational tools to seize the state is the petite bourgeoisie. However, he identifies the petite bourgeoisie as a service class, not rooted in economic productivity.
So upon decolonisation the petite bourgeoisie could either inherit state power and try to preserve itself by becoming more bourgeois, or it could strengthen its revolutionary consciousness and ally with the working class. Cabral introduces the concept of class suicide.
Cabral argues that the petite bourgeoisie has more frequent contact with the colonisers, and is therefore more often humiliated. This leads to a higher level of political awareness of the need for liberation.
#cabral #CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #marxism #maoism #decolonisation
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🧵 On 25 April 1974 the Carnation Revolution coup was carried out in Portugal, which ended the dictatorship and eventually led to the independence of all of Portugal's former colonies in Africa.
Guinea-Bissau gained full independence from Portugal on September 10, 1974. Cabo Verde attained independence a year later.
#CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #portugal #CarnationRevolution
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🧵 On 25 April 1974 the Carnation Revolution coup was carried out in Portugal, which ended the dictatorship and eventually led to the independence of all of Portugal's former colonies in Africa.
Guinea-Bissau gained full independence from Portugal on September 10, 1974. Cabo Verde attained independence a year later.
#CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #portugal #CarnationRevolution
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🧵 On 25 April 1974 the Carnation Revolution coup was carried out in Portugal, which ended the dictatorship and eventually led to the independence of all of Portugal's former colonies in Africa.
Guinea-Bissau gained full independence from Portugal on September 10, 1974. Cabo Verde attained independence a year later.
#CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #portugal #CarnationRevolution
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🧵 On 25 April 1974 the Carnation Revolution coup was carried out in Portugal, which ended the dictatorship and eventually led to the independence of all of Portugal's former colonies in Africa.
Guinea-Bissau gained full independence from Portugal on September 10, 1974. Cabo Verde attained independence a year later.
#CaboVerde #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #portugal #CarnationRevolution
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🧵 Cabral was assassinated on 20 January 1973, by disgruntled PAIGC members.
The PAIGC regrouped under new leadership. The assassination of PAIGC's leader was followed by some of its most ambitious offensives, as it destroyed several key Portuguese positions.
The military conflict reached a stalemate, with the PAIGC ruling over most of the country and the Portuguese holding on to major cities.
In september of 1973 the People's National Assembly declared independence unilaterally.
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🧵 Cabral was assassinated on 20 January 1973, by disgruntled PAIGC members.
The PAIGC regrouped under new leadership. The assassination of PAIGC's leader was followed by some of its most ambitious offensives, as it destroyed several key Portuguese positions.
The military conflict reached a stalemate, with the PAIGC ruling over most of the country and the Portuguese holding on to major cities.
In september of 1973 the People's National Assembly declared independence unilaterally.
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🧵 Cabral was assassinated on 20 January 1973, by disgruntled PAIGC members.
The PAIGC regrouped under new leadership. The assassination of PAIGC's leader was followed by some of its most ambitious offensives, as it destroyed several key Portuguese positions.
The military conflict reached a stalemate, with the PAIGC ruling over most of the country and the Portuguese holding on to major cities.
In september of 1973 the People's National Assembly declared independence unilaterally.
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🧵 Cabral was assassinated on 20 January 1973, by disgruntled PAIGC members.
The PAIGC regrouped under new leadership. The assassination of PAIGC's leader was followed by some of its most ambitious offensives, as it destroyed several key Portuguese positions.
The military conflict reached a stalemate, with the PAIGC ruling over most of the country and the Portuguese holding on to major cities.
In september of 1973 the People's National Assembly declared independence unilaterally.
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🧵 Cabral realized that the protracted war could only be sustained if his troops could live off the land. Being an agronomist, he trained his troops to teach local farmers better farming techniques. This increased productivity so they were able to feed their own family and community, as well as the PAIGC soldiers. When not fighting, PAIGC soldiers worked the fields alongside the local population.
Over the course of the conflict Cabral became the de facto leader of a large portion of what became Guinea-Bissau.
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🧵 Cabral realized that the protracted war could only be sustained if his troops could live off the land. Being an agronomist, he trained his troops to teach local farmers better farming techniques. This increased productivity so they were able to feed their own family and community, as well as the PAIGC soldiers. When not fighting, PAIGC soldiers worked the fields alongside the local population.
Over the course of the conflict Cabral became the de facto leader of a large portion of what became Guinea-Bissau.
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🧵 Cabral realized that the protracted war could only be sustained if his troops could live off the land. Being an agronomist, he trained his troops to teach local farmers better farming techniques. This increased productivity so they were able to feed their own family and community, as well as the PAIGC soldiers. When not fighting, PAIGC soldiers worked the fields alongside the local population.
Over the course of the conflict Cabral became the de facto leader of a large portion of what became Guinea-Bissau.
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🧵 Cabral realized that the protracted war could only be sustained if his troops could live off the land. Being an agronomist, he trained his troops to teach local farmers better farming techniques. This increased productivity so they were able to feed their own family and community, as well as the PAIGC soldiers. When not fighting, PAIGC soldiers worked the fields alongside the local population.
Over the course of the conflict Cabral became the de facto leader of a large portion of what became Guinea-Bissau.
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🧵 At first the PAIGC was preoccupied with legal-constitutional changes, with little to no results.
In 1959 a strike was organised in the port of Bissau, which was suppressed by force, leading to the "Pidjiguiti massacre", killing at least 50 people. This led to a complete transformation of the PAIGC and between 1960 and 1963 they prepared for armed struggle against the Portuguese.
From 1963 onwards Cabral led the PAIGC's guerrilla movement in Portuguese Guinea against the occupation. It evolved into one of the most successful wars of independence in modern African history, attaining independence for both Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde.
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🧵 At first the PAIGC was preoccupied with legal-constitutional changes, with little to no results.
In 1959 a strike was organised in the port of Bissau, which was suppressed by force, leading to the "Pidjiguiti massacre", killing at least 50 people. This led to a complete transformation of the PAIGC and between 1960 and 1963 they prepared for armed struggle against the Portuguese.
From 1963 onwards Cabral led the PAIGC's guerrilla movement in Portuguese Guinea against the occupation. It evolved into one of the most successful wars of independence in modern African history, attaining independence for both Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde.
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🧵 At first the PAIGC was preoccupied with legal-constitutional changes, with little to no results.
In 1959 a strike was organised in the port of Bissau, which was suppressed by force, leading to the "Pidjiguiti massacre", killing at least 50 people. This led to a complete transformation of the PAIGC and between 1960 and 1963 they prepared for armed struggle against the Portuguese.
From 1963 onwards Cabral led the PAIGC's guerrilla movement in Portuguese Guinea against the occupation. It evolved into one of the most successful wars of independence in modern African history, attaining independence for both Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde.
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🧵 At first the PAIGC was preoccupied with legal-constitutional changes, with little to no results.
In 1959 a strike was organised in the port of Bissau, which was suppressed by force, leading to the "Pidjiguiti massacre", killing at least 50 people. This led to a complete transformation of the PAIGC and between 1960 and 1963 they prepared for armed struggle against the Portuguese.
From 1963 onwards Cabral led the PAIGC's guerrilla movement in Portuguese Guinea against the occupation. It evolved into one of the most successful wars of independence in modern African history, attaining independence for both Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde.
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🧵 In 1953 he returned to Portuguese Guinea and conducted an agricultural census during which he traveled more than 60,000 kilometers. This allowed him to become intimately familiar with the people and land, which proved to be very helpful for the guerilla war he went on to fight.
In 1956 he founded the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde = African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde). He was also one of the founding members of the MPLA (Movimento Popular Libertação de Angola = People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola) later in the same year.
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🧵 In 1953 he returned to Portuguese Guinea and conducted an agricultural census during which he traveled more than 60,000 kilometers. This allowed him to become intimately familiar with the people and land, which proved to be very helpful for the guerilla war he went on to fight.
In 1956 he founded the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde = African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde). He was also one of the founding members of the MPLA (Movimento Popular Libertação de Angola = People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola) later in the same year.
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🧵 In 1953 he returned to Portuguese Guinea and conducted an agricultural census during which he traveled more than 60,000 kilometers. This allowed him to become intimately familiar with the people and land, which proved to be very helpful for the guerilla war he went on to fight.
In 1956 he founded the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde = African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde). He was also one of the founding members of the MPLA (Movimento Popular Libertação de Angola = People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola) later in the same year.
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🧵 In 1953 he returned to Portuguese Guinea and conducted an agricultural census during which he traveled more than 60,000 kilometers. This allowed him to become intimately familiar with the people and land, which proved to be very helpful for the guerilla war he went on to fight.
In 1956 he founded the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde = African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde). He was also one of the founding members of the MPLA (Movimento Popular Libertação de Angola = People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola) later in the same year.
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📕 Víctor Barros and Aurora Almada e Santos are the editors of "Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC’s Binational Struggle for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde", that "intends to evince a multiplicity of analytical itineraries through which Cabral’s figure can contribute to understand the rise to statehood of both territories and the construction of memory of the anti-colonial struggle."
#Histodons #Decolonization #PAIGC #CapeVerde #GuineaBissau #AmílcarCabral
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📕 Víctor Barros and Aurora Almada e Santos are the editors of "Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC’s Binational Struggle for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde", that "intends to evince a multiplicity of analytical itineraries through which Cabral’s figure can contribute to understand the rise to statehood of both territories and the construction of memory of the anti-colonial struggle."
#Histodons #Decolonization #PAIGC #CapeVerde #GuineaBissau #AmílcarCabral
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« 50 ans après l’indépendance du #CapVert, La marche du monde est en reportage dans la ville de Praïa, à la recherche des lettres adressées par #AmilcarCabral, l’icône de la lutte de libération nationale, à Maria Helena Atalaide Vilhena Rodrigues, sa première compagne portugaise. »
les lettres adressées par Amilcar Cabral à Maria Hélèna, et traduites pour la première fois en français : https://webdoc.rfi.fr/amilcar-cabral-lettres-femmes-intimite-politique-independances-afrique/
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📻 Victor Barros foi entrevistado pela RFI acerca do livro "O Mundo de Amílcar Cabral".
As questões focaram-se nas ligações internacionais de #AmílcarCabral, nomeadamente com a #França, e no reposicionamento da investigação histórica numa perspectiva Sul-Norte e Sul-Sul.
Para ler e/ou ouvir:
https://www.rfi.fr/pt/programas/artes/20241120-o-mundo-de-amilcar-cabral-a-traject%C3%B3ria-internacional-do-l%C3%ADder-africano#Histodons #Colonialism #AntiColonialism #GlobalSouth #PAIGC #LiberationStruggle #GuineaBissau #France #MovimentosDeLibertação #AntiColonialismo #Colonialismo #GuinéBissau
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📻 Victor Barros foi entrevistado pela RFI acerca do livro "O Mundo de Amílcar Cabral".
As questões focaram-se nas ligações internacionais de #AmílcarCabral, nomeadamente com a #França, e no reposicionamento da investigação histórica numa perspectiva Sul-Norte e Sul-Sul.
Para ler e/ou ouvir:
https://www.rfi.fr/pt/programas/artes/20241120-o-mundo-de-amilcar-cabral-a-traject%C3%B3ria-internacional-do-l%C3%ADder-africano#Histodons #Colonialism #AntiColonialism #GlobalSouth #PAIGC #LiberationStruggle #GuineaBissau #France #MovimentosDeLibertação #AntiColonialismo #Colonialismo #GuinéBissau
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📻 Victor Barros foi entrevistado pela RFI acerca do livro "O Mundo de Amílcar Cabral".
As questões focaram-se nas ligações internacionais de #AmílcarCabral, nomeadamente com a #França, e no reposicionamento da investigação histórica numa perspectiva Sul-Norte e Sul-Sul.
Para ler e/ou ouvir:
https://www.rfi.fr/pt/programas/artes/20241120-o-mundo-de-amilcar-cabral-a-traject%C3%B3ria-internacional-do-l%C3%ADder-africano#Histodons #Colonialism #AntiColonialism #GlobalSouth #PAIGC #LiberationStruggle #GuineaBissau #France #MovimentosDeLibertação #AntiColonialismo #Colonialismo #GuinéBissau
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📻 Victor Barros foi entrevistado pela RFI acerca do livro "O Mundo de Amílcar Cabral".
As questões focaram-se nas ligações internacionais de #AmílcarCabral, nomeadamente com a #França, e no reposicionamento da investigação histórica numa perspectiva Sul-Norte e Sul-Sul.
Para ler e/ou ouvir:
https://www.rfi.fr/pt/programas/artes/20241120-o-mundo-de-amilcar-cabral-a-traject%C3%B3ria-internacional-do-l%C3%ADder-africano#Histodons #Colonialism #AntiColonialism #GlobalSouth #PAIGC #LiberationStruggle #GuineaBissau #France #MovimentosDeLibertação #AntiColonialismo #Colonialismo #GuinéBissau
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📻 Victor Barros foi entrevistado pela RFI acerca do livro "O Mundo de Amílcar Cabral".
As questões focaram-se nas ligações internacionais de #AmílcarCabral, nomeadamente com a #França, e no reposicionamento da investigação histórica numa perspectiva Sul-Norte e Sul-Sul.
Para ler e/ou ouvir:
https://www.rfi.fr/pt/programas/artes/20241120-o-mundo-de-amilcar-cabral-a-traject%C3%B3ria-internacional-do-l%C3%ADder-africano#Histodons #Colonialism #AntiColonialism #GlobalSouth #PAIGC #LiberationStruggle #GuineaBissau #France #MovimentosDeLibertação #AntiColonialismo #Colonialismo #GuinéBissau
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#AmilcarCabral, l'enfance d'un chef
Comment Amilcar Cabral est-il devenu la référence absolue des leaders indépendantistes dans l’#EmpirePortugais ?
avec les témoignages de #GérardChaliand, auteur de #DesGuérillasAuRefluxDeLOccident et #SanaNaNHada, réalisateur de #Nome
https://rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/la-marche-du-monde/20240915-amilcar-cabral-l-enfance-d-un-chef
#PAIGC #GuinéeBissau #GuerresColonialesPortugaises #LuttesDécoloniales #cinéma #CinémaEngagé #cinéastes #ICAIC #livres -
#AmilcarCabral, l'enfance d'un chef
Comment Amilcar Cabral est-il devenu la référence absolue des leaders indépendantistes dans l’#EmpirePortugais ?
avec les témoignages de #GérardChaliand, auteur de #DesGuérillasAuRefluxDeLOccident et #SanaNaNHada, réalisateur de #Nome
https://rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/la-marche-du-monde/20240915-amilcar-cabral-l-enfance-d-un-chef
#PAIGC #GuinéeBissau #GuerresColonialesPortugaises #LuttesDécoloniales #cinéma #CinémaEngagé #cinéastes #ICAIC #livres -
#AmilcarCabral, l'enfance d'un chef
Comment Amilcar Cabral est-il devenu la référence absolue des leaders indépendantistes dans l’#EmpirePortugais ?
avec les témoignages de #GérardChaliand, auteur de #DesGuérillasAuRefluxDeLOccident et #SanaNaNHada, réalisateur de #Nome
https://rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/la-marche-du-monde/20240915-amilcar-cabral-l-enfance-d-un-chef
#PAIGC #GuinéeBissau #GuerresColonialesPortugaises #LuttesDécoloniales #cinéma #CinémaEngagé #cinéastes #ICAIC #livres -
#AmilcarCabral, l'enfance d'un chef
Comment Amilcar Cabral est-il devenu la référence absolue des leaders indépendantistes dans l’#EmpirePortugais ?
avec les témoignages de #GérardChaliand, auteur de #DesGuérillasAuRefluxDeLOccident et #SanaNaNHada, réalisateur de #Nome
https://rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/la-marche-du-monde/20240915-amilcar-cabral-l-enfance-d-un-chef
#PAIGC #GuinéeBissau #GuerresColonialesPortugaises #LuttesDécoloniales #cinéma #CinémaEngagé #cinéastes #ICAIC #livres -
Inkani Books, a publishing house from South Africa, has released a number of remarkable titles in recent years. These books include Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories; a collection of the writings of Amilcar Cabral, as well as other books which correlate with the Zulu and Xhosa concept of Inkani – a stubborn determination, here, particularly the resolve of the oppressed to fight for liberation. The aforementioned text includes speeches and articles delivered by Amilcar Cabral; some of which are being translated into English for the first time. These articles, speeches, and communiqués are required reading for revolutionaries today who are struggling with the agrarian question and the current wave of revolts and revolutions in the peripheries of the capitalist world system. Cabral was a Cape Verdean revolutionary who played a pivotal role in founding the PAIGC, along with other forums and institutions dedicated to the overthrow of Portuguese colonialism in Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Angola, and Mozambique. Although he was assassinated before the brief unification of Guinea and Cape Verde could be realized, his ideas continue to resonate with relevance and potency today.
Economic, cultural, political, and armed resistance are themes explored in the majority of Cabral’s essays and speeches. All of these types of resistance revolve around a central axis: the question of land. Cabral knew that people do not fight for ideas alone, it is the resolution of the immediate contradictions and struggles in their lives that drives them toward revolution. In a speech delivered in London, someone asked Cabral if PAIGC is a Marxist-Leninist party. Cabral’s answer was revealing of the kind of revolutionary he was:
People here are very preoccupied with the questions: ‘Are you Marxist or non-Marxist? Are you a Marxist-Leninist’. Just ask me, please, whether we are doing well in the field. Are we really liberating our people, the human beings in our country from all forms of oppression? Ask me simply this and draw your own conclusions.
While this brilliant answer cuts away at ideological dogmatism and fanaticism, Cabral also knew that theory is a weapon in the hands of the oppressed. In an interview with a Portuguese journalist, Cabral puts forward a clear analysis of why his people are determined to resist. He relates the struggle of the people of Guinea and Cape Verde to the revolution in Cuba, Vietnam, and Palestine while also highlighting the clear distinctions in strategies and tactics of struggle in each locale. Many of the answers given by Cabral in this interview are relevant even today.
When asked about Palestine, Cabral had a more lucid analysis than most contemporary analysts, presenting Palestine as a key element of the Arab struggle, rather than constructing Palestine as a black-box nation state separate from the region. “We want the Arab peoples to seek the freedom of the people of Palestine, to free the Arab nation of imperialist disturbance and domination: ‘Israel’.” When asked about Che Guevara’s theory of guerrilla struggle and its applicability to the Guinean struggle, Cabral further elucidated the importance of marrying theory and practice.
Cabral points to the importance of understanding armed struggles as one facet of national liberation, while arguing that the people of Guinea must start from their own conditions as a launching point. The people of Guinea could not copy every tactic and strategy of the heroic Cuban people or the Vietnamese, but they could view these struggles as different terrains in the same fight. In this way, the beauty of Cabral’s statement on the Guinean struggle shines through: “Our people are our mountains,” he said. While Vietnam had thick jungle cover, and the Cubans fought in the Sierra Maestra mountains, the conditions in Guinea were such that the people became the stand-in for the environment, which was not favorable for clandestine armed struggle, according to the accumulated knowledge of guerrilla movements. This is why, according to Cabral, the Guinean War of Independence was a ‘centrifugal’ struggle. They started in the large cities and then moved outward toward the countryside. This is an inversion of the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Cuban struggles where the guerrilla forces started in the countryside and moved toward the city. Cabral and the PAIGC were master tacticians in that sense, understanding that they could not blindly copy the blueprints of other peoples, but rather could see those people as an inspiration while building a uniquely Guinean revolution.
This independence in our thought and action is relative. It is relative because in our thought we are influenced by the thought of others. We are not the first to wage an armed struggle for national liberation, or a revolution. We did not invent guerrilla warfare–we invented it in our land…we must be aware that no struggle can be waged without an alliance, without allies.
The invention of guerilla warfare on one’s own land, with unique means and ends, contains the final and critical element of struggle: culture. During the Guinean revolution, many people believed that embracing one’s own culture in contrast to the colonial culture meant uncritically reverting to pre-colonial cultural practices. Cabral highlighted the failure of this strategy and urged the peoples of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde to forge a new, revolutionary culture through armed, economic, and political struggle. In this assessment, Cabral was not alone; the late Ghassan Kanafani was not only the spokesman of the PFLP but edited their magazine and produced cultural works himself. The revolution in Palestine—much like the one led by PAIGC in Guinea—has cultivated a people with a strong, resistant mentality and a revolutionary will that maintains cultural values and concretizes them through struggle.
Cultural symbols revolving around land animate the struggles of today. In Palestine, the watermelon, the olive tree, the koufiyyeh, and various tatreez symbols (embroidery) from each locale tie the people to the land and concretize the struggle in the subjective conditions of Palestine. This is the vision Cabral had of struggle in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; only through a profound understanding of one’s own conditions and the study of other revolutionary experiences can a movement advance toward liberation.
All of this is also intimately related to economic struggles against colonialism and imperialism. Cabral pushed for agricultural self-sufficiency, redistribution of land, and other economic forms of delinking from the capitalist world system. This, too, impresses the importance of charting an independent path toward revolution on those of us living in the shadow of Cabral and all the martyrs who came before us. The first task of national liberation, according to Cabral, is the reclaiming of the means of production, which have been usurped by external, colonial forces. From there, the revolutionary forces can take the lessons learned regarding culture and the question of land and go about building a new society, free from colonial domination. Although Cabral is no longer with us, the forces of revolution are alive in Palestine and the Sahel, shining a light on the path to liberation.
source: Al Mayadeen
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/09/01/amilcar-cabral-and-the-world-to-come/
#africa #amilcarCabral #AntiColonial #antiImperialism #guineaBissau #paigc
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🎧 Catarina Laranjeiro was one of the guests of the fourth episode of the Decolonial Dialogues podcast.
In the company of Inês Galvão, the conversations was centred on the role of women in the libetarion struggles of #PAIGC.
👉 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GslKfkneKq5Gjwaz5n0MW?si=AcmivXQ7SESVo_75sqC6AQ
#Histodons #Anthropodons #AntiColonialism #WomensHistory #GuineaBissau #CapeVerde #LiberationWars #HistóriaDasMulheres #GuinéBissau #CaboVerde #GuerrasDeLibertação #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistóriaNaEsferaPública
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🎧 Catarina Laranjeiro was one of the guests of the fourth episode of the Decolonial Dialogues podcast.
In the company of Inês Galvão, the conversations was centred on the role of women in the libetarion struggles of #PAIGC.
👉 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GslKfkneKq5Gjwaz5n0MW?si=AcmivXQ7SESVo_75sqC6AQ
#Histodons #Anthropodons #AntiColonialism #WomensHistory #GuineaBissau #CapeVerde #LiberationWars #HistóriaDasMulheres #GuinéBissau #CaboVerde #GuerrasDeLibertação #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistóriaNaEsferaPública
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📖 A new issue of Práticas da História is out today!
Edited by Sérgio Neto and Clara Serrano, it is a special issue dedicated to the theme "Identity and Otherness: Images and Representations in History Teaching Materials in Portuguese-speaking countries"
It also includes an interview with Mário Cabral and Pansau Cabral.
#OpenAccess 🔓: https://praticasdahistoria.pt/issue/view/1742
#Histodons #HistoryTeaching #Identities #Colonialism #CapeVerde #GuineaBissau #Mozambique #Angola #Brazil #PAIGC
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📖 A new issue of Práticas da História is out today!
Edited by Sérgio Neto and Clara Serrano, it is a special issue dedicated to the theme "Identity and Otherness: Images and Representations in History Teaching Materials in Portuguese-speaking countries"
It also includes an interview with Mário Cabral and Pansau Cabral.
#OpenAccess 🔓: https://praticasdahistoria.pt/issue/view/1742
#Histodons #HistoryTeaching #Identities #Colonialism #CapeVerde #GuineaBissau #Mozambique #Angola #Brazil #PAIGC
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🇬🇼 The programme of the international conference "The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023)", which we will host on 22 and 23 September, is now available on our website.
The conference will be hybrid.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/unilateral-proclamation-independence-guineabissau/
#Histodons #Colonialism #AntiColonialism #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #StateBuilding #ColonialHistory #ColdWar #AfricanColonies
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🇬🇼 The programme of the international conference "The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023)", which we will host on 22 and 23 September, is now available on our website.
The conference will be hybrid.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/unilateral-proclamation-independence-guineabissau/
#Histodons #Colonialism #AntiColonialism #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #StateBuilding #ColonialHistory #ColdWar #AfricanColonies
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🇬🇼 The programme of the international conference "The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023)", which we will host on 22 and 23 September, is now available on our website.
The conference will be hybrid.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/unilateral-proclamation-independence-guineabissau/
#Histodons #Colonialism #AntiColonialism #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #StateBuilding #ColonialHistory #ColdWar #AfricanColonies
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🇬🇼 The programme of the international conference "The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023)", which we will host on 22 and 23 September, is now available on our website.
The conference will be hybrid.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/unilateral-proclamation-independence-guineabissau/
#Histodons #Colonialism #AntiColonialism #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #StateBuilding #ColonialHistory #ColdWar #AfricanColonies
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🇬🇼 The programme of the international conference "The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023)", which we will host on 22 and 23 September, is now available on our website.
The conference will be hybrid.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/unilateral-proclamation-independence-guineabissau/
#Histodons #Colonialism #AntiColonialism #GuineaBissau #PAIGC #StateBuilding #ColonialHistory #ColdWar #AfricanColonies