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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.
Lennon shows how Yeats's engagement with Oriental mysticism and symbolism locks onto both Celticist and anticolonial critiques of modern materialism.
A colonial interpretation of the past, especially when it leads to an anticolonial nationalism, acts as a barrier to seeing citizenship as an instrument of emancipation.
Experience has shown that even the revolutionary national bourgeoisies, like the one that led the anticolonial war in Algeria, have not been able to maintain the peoples gains.
As an anticolonial leader, a skillful constitutionalist, and a symbol of national liberation, de Valera dominated Ireland in the half century following the country's independence.
The anticolonial movement in the UN reached a high point in 1960, when the General Assembly adopted a resolution sponsored by more than 40 African and Asian states.

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