Tag Archives | Amilcar Cabral

“Tell no lies, claim no easy victories”: The Cuban Revolution, social vulnerability, and revolutionary ethics.

Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on July 17, 2025 by Isaac Saney (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Jul 18, 2025)

In one of the most enduring axioms of revolutionary integrity, Amílcar Cabral—African liberation theorist, freedom fighter, and martyr—urged those engaged in the struggle for liberation and justice to “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.”
Amilcar Cabral and the World to come

Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 1, 2024 by Hanna Eid (more by Al Mayadeen) | (Posted Sep 05, 2024)

The articles, speeches, and communiqués of Amilcar Cabral are required reading for revolutionaries today who are struggling with the agrarian question and the current wave of revolutions.
How Amilcar Cabral shaped Paulo Freire’s pedagogy

Originally published: Liberation School on January 20, 2021 by Curry Malott (more by Liberation School) | (Posted Sep 03, 2021)

Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau.