Subsequently Amin left Cairo, to become an adviser to the Ministry of Planning in Bamako (Mali) from 1960 to 1963.
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Arriving in Paris, Amin joined the French Communist Party (PCF), but he later distanced himself from Soviet Marxism and associated himself for some time with Maoist circles.
Key figures in the Third Worldist movement include Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Ahmed Ben Bella, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Muammar Gaddafi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ali Shariati, Andre Gunder Frank, Samir Amin and Simon Malley.
Idi Amin | Amin Maalouf | Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi | Hafizullah Amin | Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari | Wali Khan Amin Shah | Samir Sharifov | Samir Roychoudhury | Ibrahim Amin | Haj Amin al-Husseini | Esperidião Amin | Yaphett El-Amin | Syed Murtaza Amin Shah | Samir Sumaidaie | Samir Nashar | Samir Mallal | Samir Kuntar | Samir Geagea | Samir Arora | Samir Amin | Shimit Amin | Samir Soni | Samir-Shamma-Prize | Samir Rifai | Samir Mane | Samir Kafity | Samir Ghanem | Samir El-Youssef | Samir Chaudhuri | Samir Bannout |
The signatures of the manifesto (so-called "Group of Nineteen") are Aminata Traoré, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Eduardo Galeano, José Saramago, François Houtart, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Armand Mattelart, Roberto Savio, Riccardo Petrella, Ignacio Ramonet, Bernard Cassen, Samir Amin, Atilio Boron, Samuel Ruiz Garcia, Tariq Ali, Frei Betto, Emir Sader, Walden Bello, and Immanuel Wallerstein.