#Colonialism

Some people believe anarchism and national liberation are incompatible, or decolonization means the creation of ethno-states.What's the actual history, and the real methodology of those fighting against colonialism?*A THREAD.First stop:
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this whole latest incident with some fascist getting killed reminds me how we on the left really need to get better at talking about violence. we so often solely and
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Terror has no religion.But rapists have a caste.Popes & Mullahs can never be female.But Brahmins worshipping Saraswati Ma are patriarchal.English is not the language of slavery & colonialism.But stuying Sanskrit
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What’s with Afrocentrists and appropriating history ? The Moors were NOT “black”. Although there are dark skinned Berbers in the south of our region, Berbers were described as whiter than
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1. We need to talk abt our new generation of activists.Some have no understanding of history/politics, ironically regurgitate the very theories which inspired racism & colonialism,& think they act in
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Wow. The Teddy Roosevelt statue outside the main entrance to the American Museum of Natural History is coming down—at the AMNH's request.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/arts/design/roosevelt-statue-to-be-removed-from-museum-of-natu
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It's weird to me when people post the "what if Europe colonized europe" imagesLike don't get me wrong they're funny and painfully accurate, but Europe's current borders are drawn by
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It’s time for the #SST21 plenary panel on @AnthonyGReddie’s Theologizing Brexit, with @SelinaRStone & @harvmins with Dulcie McKenzie in the chair. Been looking forward to this for a while! AR
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A thread on the Great Man-Made River Project and why it was not the solution for Libya's water supply: The objective of the project was to deliver water from deep
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I won’t respond to each tweet, let me give you my general take. I have no intention of flattening history, but neither do I prostrate to appease anyone. What doesn't
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But Las Casas’s sympathy for “the Indians,” and later the laws he tried to pass to prevent abuses against them, did not become the dominant mood at court, did it?Instead,
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> a person doesn’t know a history of a country > makes assumptions about russian being colonizers with a smart look> a clownat least this time they doesn’t highlight wikipedia
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That time Malcolm X received Fidel Castro in Harlem in 1960. (A thread) A year after the Cuban Revolution, Castro and his delegation came to New York to attend the
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A thread on what tonight’s events in George Square mean to me:When I started researching ‘sectarianism’ (a term I can’t stand) nearly a decade ago, I couldn’t believe how little
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The MLs up in arms right now need to realize I have no problem with anti-imperialism. Opposing empire is a key part of anti-colonial/anti-capitalist politics. The problem is much of
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Alright, I'm going to thread on this once so that I can just point here and never talk about it again.https://twitter.com/JustSayXtian/status/1280359403846111232 I believe, very much, that there should be a
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