National liberation

Amilcar Cabral—armed struggle and national liberation
Features

Amilcar Cabral—armed struggle and national liberation

Amilcar Cabral, a fighter for national independence and social change in one of Africa’s smallest countries, became an international hero in the 1960s. He remains an inspiration for many African socialists today.
16 October 2021
Imperialism and national liberation
Features

Imperialism and national liberation

Across the world in the face of imperialism and occupation, demands are put forward for self-determination and national independence.
22 May 2021
Letters

Letters—Catalan political prisoners and the fight for independence

Catalonian struggles + International Working Women's Day + Trans rights + Anti-Traveller racism
09 March 2021
Socialist Review Archive

Focus on China: Workers and the national question

Ethnic tensions have flared in China over the past few years, but so has the potential for working class unity against the state.
03 September 2018
Robert Mugabe—how an anti-colonialist hero became an authoritarian nationalist
International

Robert Mugabe—how an anti-colonialist hero became an authoritarian nationalist

Robert Mugabe has died. Here is his political obituary we wrote in 2017 when he was removed from office.
21 November 2017
Socialist Review Archive

Martyred for Irish liberation

There is a long history of Irish workers organising alongside their English comrades and of anti-Irish feeling dividing the working class. One hundred and fifty years ago three Irish men were hanged by the British state on trumped up murder charges. Delia Hutchings tells the story of these Manchester Martyrs.
27 October 2017
After Catalonia’s independence referendum - national struggles, Marxism and class
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After Catalonia’s independence referendum – national struggles, Marxism and class

Some on the left see battles for independence as dividing workers, while others back them as fights for liberation. Dave Sewell looks at how to judge national struggles
09 October 2017
Vietnam—a graveyard for the US’s imperial ambitions
Reviews & Culture

Vietnam—a graveyard for the US’s imperial ambitions

A new ten-part documentary sets itself up as the definitive account of the Vietnam War. It brings out new voices and footage, but obscures the truth
26 September 2017
Fury in Turkey after bombing
International

Fury in Turkey after bombing

Strikes and protests gripped Turkey on Monday and Tuesday of this week in response to the ­bombing of a peace march last Saturday—and the government’s attempts to deflect blame. 
13 October 2015
Imperialism and struggles for national liberation
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Imperialism and struggles for national liberation

Tomáš Tengely-Evans explains how a socialist response to demands for ‘national liberation’ have to take into account the role of imperialism
28 October 2014
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Catalonia marches towards independence

En lluita, Barcelona
01 October 2014
Scotland
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Scotland: There’s no going back

The No camp may have won the referendum, but the working class anger that drove the Yes campaign is here to stay. Iain Ferguson reflects on the movement and its fall-out.
01 October 2014
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Generation Yes

The Scottish referendum provided a unique opportunity for young people in Scotland to get involved in politics. Despite the defeat on 18 September, the grassroots nature of the Yes campaign has meant that these activists are not going away. The youth of Scotland is politicised, angry and already fighting for a better world. Thousands of...
01 October 2014
The limits of Scottish nationalism
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The limits of Scottish nationalism

The Scottish National Party is making headway as the independence referendum nears, but, says Iain Ferguson, the party is trapped by its attempt to please both the rich and the poor at the same time
09 September 2014
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Lenin, Luxemburg and the War

Lenin's critical response to Rosa Luxemburg's Junius pamphlet
02 April 2014
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Regime crisis in Spain

Spain has seen increasing calls for independence for Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia, alongside strikes and protests. Joel Sans Molas argues that economic turmoil and austerity are creating the biggest political crisis in the country since the overthrow of Franco's regime 35 years ago
01 November 2012
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Algeria’s bitter struggle for freedom

Fifty years since Algerian independence Ian Birchall looks at the uprising that forced the French to leave
01 July 2012
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Champion of the Wretched

Fifty years ago this month Algerian psychoanalyst and revolutionary Frantz Fanon died - just as his most famous book, The Wretched of the Earth, was published. Leo Zeilig looks back at Fanon's extraordinary life and the lessons his groundbreaking work has for us today
01 December 2011
French Resistance: Did the ‘Army of Crime‘ die for France?
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French Resistance: Did the ‘Army of Crime‘ die for France?

The French Resistance is often presented as a national liberation struggle. Both Communists and the followers of right wing General de Gaulle saw it as a nationalist movement against German occupation. It is only relatively recently that historians have written about the non-French fighters.
06 October 2009
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Imperialism, nationalism and national liberation struggles

The recent war in the Caucasus between Russia and Georgia has highlighted once again the complex question of national rights. National antagonisms and nationalism are often put forward as explanations for war. Nationality and nations are portrayed as age-old.
26 August 2008
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N is for national liberation

"Imagine there's no countries," sang John Lennon. "Nothing to fight or die for." It's a sentiment that any socialist would identify with.
01 July 2008
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Algeria: torture last time

When Algerian journalist Henri Alleg published his account of being tortured at the hands of the French colonial regime it became an instant bestseller. Ian Birchall tells us why the book is still as relevant today as it was 50 years ago during the Algerian War of Independence.
01 February 2008
Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution
Features

Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution

In the first part of our new series on China Charlie Hore looks at the impact of the Communist Party’s victory
14 August 2007
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Rewards to imperialism

By 1967 the US was losing its long and bitter war in Vietnam with the Viet Cong, the peasant-based guerrilla national liberation movement. It was terrified by the prospect of the anti?imperialist movement spreading to the Middle East.
06 June 2007