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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
Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organisation regional director for Africa.

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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