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Lefty Prof's List: Fanon and Cabral

    • His first book, Black Skin White Masks, was published in French in 1952.

       

      This was two years before the defeat of the French army at Dien Bien Phu, the battle which routed the French in Vietnam. It was four years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in the segregated South of the US

    • A year after Fanon arrived in Algeria, the national liberation struggle exploded. Fanon came into contact with the FLN, the Algerian independence movement, and gradually became more fully involved in the struggle.

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    • Many of Sartre’s critics have attempted to discredit him by claiming he was naive about Stalinism or even corrupted by it.
    • The actual story of Sartre’s relations with the USSR, the PCF and Communism is rather more complicated. He made mistakes, some of which deserve vigorous criticism. But they were mistakes made amid the difficulties of a multifaceted historical period, and Sartre’s motivation was rather more complex than is often suggested.

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    • Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966.
    • one form of struggle which we consider to be fundamental has not been explicitly mentioned in this programme, although we are certain that it was present in the minds of those who drew up the programme. We refer here to the struggle against our own weaknesses

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