I just had a question. Upon looking at the history of national liberation movements against colonial powers in the twentieth century, I see almost all of them have been Marxist in orientation. Have there been any anarchist national liberation movements or anarchist sections within wider such movements?
Yes, Platformists. Their
Yes, Platformists. Their advocacy of national liberation is one on the features they share with Marxist-Leninism.
BG wrote: To the question of
BG
But that was in his pre-anarchist days so not a valid example. There is a basic contradiction between anti-statists supporting movements desiring to form a state. Though that has doesn't stopped this glaring contradiction - and its critique by more consistent anarchism - from recurring through anarchist history.
Korea.
Korea.
think that there were some
think that there were some small groups in Euskadi, Bretagne and Catalonia during the 1970ies who considered themselves anarchists but campaigned for national independence
And lets not forget that
And lets not forget that while they might not be traditional 'national liberation' style movements (as in opposition to western style imperialism) the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movement has periodically and recently been split on support for regionalist and separatist campaigns in Catalonia, Ukraine and Syrian Kurdistan to mention just a few examples.
Related
Related events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strandzha_Commune
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naissaar#Soviet_Republic_of_Naissaar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonia_Rebelde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People%27s_Association_in_Manchuria
https://libsoc-wiki.fandom.com/wiki/Guangzhou_Commune
I think of those five
I think of those five examples, ajjohnstone, only the Manchuria one could be seen as "national liberation".
In the 1870s-80s Egypt had a
In the 1870s-80s Egypt had a community of Italian political exiles including Anarchists, this community rubbed shoulders with Egyptian reformers and nationalists, during the English-Egyptian war and Urabi revolt the Italians formed a small group of fighters to assist the Egyptians,
Probably more accurate to say
Probably more accurate to say they attempted to assist the Egyptians. Malatesta was among them but they didn't get very far:
Malatesta also fought, or attempted to fight, in a Serb revolt against the Ottomans.
I've tried to do more research on this sort of thing but have encountered a lot of language barriers. By my reading, the anarchists who participated in these revolts did so less out of an expectation that the revolts were a good goal in of themselves but with the idea that they could influence its direction, ie turning a national revolt into some kind of general social revolution.