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What does anticolonial mean?

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Adjective
  1. (politics) Opposing colonialism.
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A colonial interpretation of the past, especially when it leads to an anticolonial nationalism, acts as a barrier to seeing citizenship as an instrument of emancipation.
The perspective of my discourse, teachings and publications reveals that I unambiguously join in into the anticolonial and anti-hegemonic criticism, in lines with Depelchin's work and that of my other commentators.
In 1881, France declared Tunisia a protectorate generating a strong anticolonial reaction in the country.
We therefore want Portugal, and especially its government with its democratic, anticolonial tradition, to also state before Parliament what measures it intends to take in order to contribute to a solution.
The Dutch gave up the Netherlands East Indies to a Javanese-led anticolonial movement.
The anticolonial movement in the UN reached a high point in 1960, when the General Assembly adopted a resolution sponsored by more than 40 African and Asian states.

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