national liberation
Sovereignty from oppressors
National liberation is the freeing of a people or territory from foreign domination or colonial rule.
The term typically appears in political contexts describing independence movements: national liberation struggle, national liberation front.
Such movements may pursue their aims through political organizing, armed resistance, or both.
The phrase carries revolutionary connotations and was especially prominent during twentieth-century decolonization.
- Bandung Conference1955 Afro-Asian diplomatic gathering
- pan-AfricanismMovement for African unity
- independenceFreedom from external control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- Haitian RevolutionSuccessful slave rebellion, 1790s
civil disobedience · anti-colonialism · Irish War of Independence · Cuban Revolution · sovereignty · armed rebellion · American Revolution · decolonization · guerrilla warfare · freedom fighter · mass movement · indigenous rights · Vietnam War · armed struggle · nationalism · manifesto · autonomy · homeland
- social movementscivil rights movement, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement, environmental movement
- African IndependenceNelson Mandela, independence movement, freedom fighters, anti-colonial, armed struggle
- Balkan HistoryBalkans, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro
- Communist ChinaCommunist Party, People's Republic, Great Leap Forward, Gang of Four, Central Committee
- decolonizationanticolonialism, independence movement, independence movements, freedom fighter, anti-colonialism
- sovereigntystatehood, state, state sovereignty, popular sovereignty, territorial sovereignty
national liberationoccupation
One's regular paid work
subjugation · colonial rule · colonialism · imperialism · foreign domination
national liberationcolonization
Foreign territorial takeover
colonialism · imperialism · imperial expansion · conquest · neocolonialism
national liberationimperial conquest
Forcible expansion of empire
imperialism · colonialism · pacification · suppression · fascism