Solidarité Archives

Period (1949-) 1962-1984 (1995)
Total size   0.5 m.
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History

Founded in 1962 by French militant anticolonialists and antifascists, of whom the Egyptian exile Henri Curiel (1914-1978) was the pivot; supported the struggle of liberation movements in the Third World; its activities have declined since the murder of Curiel in Paris in May 1978.

Content

Documents on the establishment of Solidarité 1962; reports by Henri Curiel to the annual congress of Solidarité concerning the activities of the group and other documents on the congresses and the meetings of the Political Committee 1962-1977; on training courses 1971-1972; texts of interviews with Henri Curiel 1977-1978; documents on the assassination of Curiel 1978; on a seminar about Mehdi Ben Barka 1995; on the conflict in the Middle East, the position of the Palestinians and in particular the International Conference for Peace and Justice in the Middle East in Rome in April 1971 and its follow-up 1973-1979; on the Uganda National Liberation Front Anti-Dictatorship (UNLF-AD) 1982-1984; on the persecuted South African poet Breyten Breytenbach, the old Okhela group and the new Atlas group of white South Africans against apartheid 1975-1984; on the relief action for victims of the civil war in the Dominican Republic 1966-1967; information bulletins and other, mostly, printed material concerning oppositional and liberation movements in Brazil, Cambodia, Cuba, Haiti, the Lebanon, Namibia, Vietnam, Zimbabwe and other countries 1965-1977.

Processing information

List made by Bouwe Hijma in 2006