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Colonialism is not historical – it is alive and well
This weekend’s Latin America conference is a staging post in the struggle against colonialist thinking and towards building international solidarity, says ROGER McKENZIE

INTERNATIONALISM is much more than empty expressions of solidarity.
It should be a practical expression of our desire to defeat colonialist thinking and the racism that underpins it.
The annual Latin American conference that takes place on Saturday December 4 at Friends House in central London provides a great chance to think about how this colonialist thinking works and how to organise to defeat it.
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