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What does anticolonial mean?

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Adjective
  1. (politics) Opposing colonialism.
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In 1881, France declared Tunisia a protectorate generating a strong anticolonial reaction in the country.
The Dutch gave up the Netherlands East Indies to a Javanese-led anticolonial movement.
Lennon shows how Yeats's engagement with Oriental mysticism and symbolism locks onto both Celticist and anticolonial critiques of modern materialism.
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 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.
More than half a century after the major anticolonial conflicts, anything that might resemble an overbearing interference from the West, whatever its good intentions may be, is viewed with suspicion.

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