Below is the call for a conference issued by the Havana- based Organization of the People's of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL). The organization was established following the Tricontinental Conference held in Havana, January 3-15, 1966.
The Organization of the People's of Africa, Asia, and
Latin America (OSPAAAL), set up out of the First
Tricontinental Conference, will be soon celebrating its
30th anniversary. Three decades of solidarity with the
Third World people's struggles, claims and most precious
desires are worthy of a retrospective assessment, an
analysis of present circumstances and, above all, call for
perspective reflection.
Such a significant content is the reason for inviting you to participate in the International Meeting "Solidarity with the Third World, a Challenge on the Eve of the Third Millennium," to be held on January 12-15, 1996, in Havana, Cuba, under the auspices of OSPAAAL.
The serious social drama, the worldwide economic chaos and the political instability of the southern part of the world are now darkening the coming century. The so-called new world order the North is trying to impose has inevitably deepened the huge gap of inequalities that makes us come apart and has also led to a new postponement of our peoples' most legitimate aspirations, held back many times and trampled on many others.
Even a brief outlook at the risks that endanger the survival of mankind in the threshold of the Third Millennium highlights the importance and force of solidarity, the imperative seed of unity implying the respect for extensive diversity, and the essence of humanism that we the less fortunate groups should recover and set against injustice, the brutal empire of market laws, the cult of egoism and individualism and any hegemonic attempt to dominate this world, which is as much our own as the wealthiest believe it to be theirs.
This is a convocation to bring efforts and experience together in an international tribune to honor thirty years of solidarity with the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America which we shall turn into a crusade for the defense of their dearest and most unrenounceable dreams.
Executive Secretariat OSPAAAL