What Solidarity? Networks of Cooperation with the Liberation Movements from Portuguese Colonies. An Introduction

This thematic dossier of the Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (RCCS) is the second output of the international conference “International Solidarities and the Struggle for Independence in the Portuguese Colonies”, held in Lisbon on June 30 and July 1, 2016 at the Institute of Contemporary History at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (UNL). The event was organized by UNL, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV), the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna, the University of Coimbra and the West University of Timioara. Funding was received from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology

What Solidarity? Networks of Cooperation with the Liberation Movements from Portuguese Colonies. An Introduction

This thematic dossier of RCCS brings forward three comprehensive articles on Yugoslavia and both East and West Germany\u2019s take on solidarity, public opinion and colonialism in the former Portuguese African colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea -Bissau. The articles employ mostly a historical -cultural approach that lays the groundwork for a larger debate on how the image of Portuguese colonialism, and the struggle for independence in Angola and Mozambique more specifically, were constructed in film and in public opinion, through either solidarity movements or actions meant to support the liberation movements in these countries. The RCCS articles dialogue with and complement the Afriche e Orienti no. 3 (2017) since they bring forward new case studies from a fresh perspective, considering the use of archival resources that have been unexplored to date