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Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

Tricontinental

This collection contains issues of Tricontinental, founded in 1967 by the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL) following the first Tricontinental conference. These periodicals, published in Havana, Cuba, cover a wide range of topics, from national liberation movements to the capitalistic exploitation of natural resources in various countries. The goal of this publication is to expose imperialistic policies and create international solidarity with leftist political movements. These articles focus on the struggles of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and include interviews with revolutionaries, cultural pieces such as poetry, analysis, and more.

Please schedule a research visit to access the non-digitized papers in their entirety. Unfortunately, at this time we do not have the resources to scan articles / individual issues by demand.

*All the art works are the right of the artists who created them. They are to be used for personal research purposes only and should not be reproduced for any other purpose without permission from the artist(s).

Documents

Tricontinental Bulletin No. 28 Tricontinental Bulletin No. 28
Publisher: OSPAAALDate: 7/1968Call Number: Volume Number: Year III No. 28Format: PeriodicalCollection: Tricontinental
Summary- Cuba: A Fitting Answer in Latin America; Zimbabwe: Total War; What the US Government Defends in Viet Nam is an Absurd and Criminal Policy; The Yankee Imperialists Cannot Achieve Their Objectives in Their War of Destruction Against the DRV / Tricontinental Scene - What the MPLA Expects from the OAU; Political Terror in Iran; Solidarity with Viet Nam in Africa; Attempt Against the Life of Haurai Boumedienne (Algeria); Hitting Where It Hurts / Guerrilla Fronts - What is to be done in Venezuela?; PAIGC Communique; Military Action of the People's Army of Liberation of the Congo (L) / Appeals and Messages - Africa is Resisting and Fighting Back; Material Support to Palestine; Message from President Huu Tho / From the Executive Secretariat / Letters to the OSPAAAL / Anniversaries.
Tricontinental Bulletin No. 71 Tricontinental Bulletin No. 71
Publisher: OSPAAALDate: 2/1972Call Number: Volume Number: Year VII No. 71Format: PeriodicalCollection: Tricontinental
Bolivia: Laikakota, August 21 by Eduardo Diaz / Ecuador: The Oil Orgy by Jaime Galarza / Indonesia: Portrait of a Neo-colony / Argentina: the suppression of Cristianismo y Revolucion / USA: Save Angela by Ernesto Gonzalez Bermejo / Eritrea: present and future of a Yankee base by Roberto Correa Wilson / Nicaragua: others will follow us / From the Afro-Asian Committee of Laos / PAIGC's denunciation / The Afro-Asian peoples are not alone.
Tricontinental Bulletin No. 66 Tricontinental Bulletin No. 66
Publisher: OSPAAALDate: 9/1971Call Number: Volume Number: Year IV No. 66Format: PeriodicalCollection: Tricontinental
Mexico: A Second Tlateloco / Angela Davis to Mexican Political Prisoners / Principled Solution / Venezuela: The Civilization of Black Gold / Palestine: People's Revolution (Interview with Yasser Arafat) / Christianism and Marxism / Cable to the CC of the CPSU / Iranian Students
Tricontinental Bulletin No. 36 Tricontinental Bulletin No. 36
Publisher: Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL)Date: 3/1969Call Number: Volume Number: Year IVFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Tricontinental
Contents: Brazil: projections of a Revolution; Thailand: The 51st state?; Japan: Bases to Control Asia; Algeria: NLF's 10 Points on Palestine; US: The Emergence of a New Left; Viet-Nam: Retreat of the Imperialist Strategy; Dhufar: Historical Panorama; Venezuela: Revolutionary Presence; Guinea (B): Wrecking Havoc on the Colonist Troops; Appeals and Messages;
Tricontinental No. 3 [French] Tricontinental No. 3 [French]
Publisher: OSPAAALYear: 1968Call Number: Volume Number: No. 3, May-JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Tricontinental
French edition of No. 3. Contains articles on Korea, Venezuela, Guatemala, James Forman and OSPAAAL. Sommaire: Guerre speciale et neo-colonialisme; Venezuela: nouvelle etape d'operations; Etats-Unis 1967: maree haute de la resistance noire; Guatemala: un pays en guerre; Venezuela: avant-garde ou elections; Republique Populaire Democratique de Coree: Programme Politique du Gouvernement; Dernieres declarations de l'OSPAAAL Activities
Tricontinental No. 150 Tricontinental No. 150
Publisher: OSPAAALYear: 2002Call Number: Volume Number: Year 36 Number 150Format: PeriodicalCollection: Tricontinental
This issue includes an editorial on the development of neoliberalism in Argentina, articles covering Cuban political prisoners in the U.S., rebellion in Argentina and the significance of the Plaza del Mayo, crackdowns on dissident prisoners, strategies used to suspend prisoners rights, and prisoner isolation, and more.
Tricontinental No. 149 Tricontinental No. 149
Publisher: OSPAAALYear: 2001Call Number: Volume Number: No. 149, Year 35Format: PeriodicalCollection: Tricontinental
Contents: Humor--the invincible weapon; Latin America--Made in the USA?; FTAA, Plan Colombia and the environment; Why Afghanistan?; and more.