A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe

by Anne Garland Mahler

Overview

In A Wide Net of Solidarity, Anne Garland Mahler traces the impact of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA, Liga Antimperialista de las Américas) on racial justice and anti-extractive struggles from the early twentieth century to the present. Founded in 1925 in Mexico City by a group of multinational activists, LADLA brought together trade unions, agrarian organizations, and artist groups across fourteen chapters in the Americas, with highest activity in the Greater Caribbean and United States. Within two years, LADLA activists joined the League Against Imperialism, formed at the 1927 Brussels Congress, where they met with US Black activists and anticolonial leaders from Africa and Asia. Drawing on extensive archival research, Mahler uncovers LADLA’s role in fostering Black, Indigenous, and immigrant-led resistance movements while positioning these struggles within a broader hemispheric and global struggle against the racialized accumulation of capital. By unearthing LADLA’s multiracial analysis of capitalist exploitation as well as its emphasis on mutual solidarity across difference, Mahler shows us how the organization provides vital insight for social movements fighting racial and economic injustice today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781478061038
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Publication date:	08/08/2025
Series:	Radical Américas
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Anne Garland Mahler is Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, author of From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations  ix
Introduction. Redes: Politics and Aesthetics in the Extractive Zone  1
I. Weaving a Wide Net: Relational Solidarities and Hemispheric Globalization
1. A Photography of Relation: LADLA, Indigeneity, and Tina Modotti’s Visual Language of Liberation  35
2. Against Latin American Regionalisms: The 1927 Brussels Congress and LADLA’s Hemispheric Globalism  67
3. “Por la igualdad de todos los seres”: Sandalio Junco’s Afro-Latin American Perspective on Black, Immigrant, and Indigenous Struggles  92
4. Relational Poetics: LADLA-Cuba and Regino Pedroso’s Afro-Chinese-Cuban Writing  125
II. Knots in the Net: Ladla’s Limits and Entanglements
5. Ethnic Impersonation and Masculine Erotics: James Sager / Jaime Nevares and LADLA-Puerto Rico  155
6. Hands Off Nicaragua and the Sandino Fantasy: Navigating Nationalism, Internationalism, and Antifascism  184
7. Remembering LADLA: The Caribbean Bureau and the Rise of Latin American Extractive Fictions  218
Epilogue. Twenty-First-Century Redes  247
Acknowledgments  255
Notes  259
Bibliography  319
Index  351

Editorial Reviews

Anne Garland Mahler’s incisive analysis brings to life a history of revolutionary internationalism with profound lessons for today.”—Michael Hardt, author of, The Subversive Seventies

“A Wide Net is a powerhouse intellectual history, astonishing in its breadth and brilliant in its critical arguments. Anne Garland Mahler provides in this book the foundations for a necessary history of solidarity and thinking in the Left through careful archival work and bold analytical intervention, unmatched in its ability to tell the history of world culture and world social movements.”—Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, author of, Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature

From the Publisher

A Wide Net is a powerhouse intellectual history, astonishing in its breadth and brilliant in its critical arguments. Anne Garland Mahler provides in this book the foundations for a necessary history of solidarity and thinking in the Left through careful archival work and bold analytical intervention, unmatched in its ability to tell the history of world culture and world social movements.

Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature - Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado

Anne Garland Mahler’s incisive analysis brings to life a history of revolutionary internationalism with profound lessons for today.

The Subversive Seventies - Michael Hardt