21. POSTCOLONIAL INTERNATIONALISM: THOUGHTS ON REDEFINING GLOBAL NORTH–SOUTH SOLIDARITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Alexander Behr and Trevor Ngwane

Beginning with the Algerian war in the late 1950s, solidarity with anti-colonial liberation movements in African countries has played an important role in the Western European internationalist movement for at least 30 years. Internationalist activities also came from the Soviet Union and China, including from post-colonial anti-capitalist states such as Cuba. Most broadly established were the diverse (boycott) campaigns against the South African apartheid regime in the 1980s. International awareness of apartheid atrocities rose considerably when police shot and killed 69 anti-pass demonstrators in Sharpeville in 1960.