Third World Left in the United States

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Third World Left in the United States refers to a constellation of radical organizations and movements, largely led by people of color, that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s to link anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and socialist struggles within the U.S. to global liberation movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

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Third World Left in the United States canonical 1
Third Worldism 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political tendency
radical left formation
social movement current
advocates self-determination for oppressed nationalities in the United States
socialist transformation of U.S. society
solidarity with national liberation movements abroad
emergedInPeriod 1970s
late 1960s
facesOppositionFrom U.S. federal government
local police and law enforcement agencies
geographicScope United States
hasKeyTheme Third World solidarity
anti-police brutality organizing
community control of institutions
community self-defense
prisoner and political prisoner support
revolutionary culture and education
unity of oppressed peoples of color
hasMainCharacteristic anti-imperialist
anti-racist
internationalist
revolutionary nationalist
socialist
historicalContext Cold War era
linked to: Cold War

Vietnam War era
decolonization period
includesOrganizations Asian American Political Alliance
Black Panther Party
Brown Berets
I Wor Kuen
La Raza Unida Party
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Puerto Rican Socialist Party (U.S. branches)
Revolutionary Union Movements in auto plants
Third World Women’s Alliance
Young Lords
influencedBy Asian American movement
Black Power movement
Chicano movement
Puerto Rican independence movement
Third World liberation movements
anti-colonial struggles
ledPrimarilyBy people of color
legacyIncludes influence on contemporary Third World and global South solidarity work
influence on contemporary anti-racist organizing in the United States
influence on contemporary prison abolition and police abolition movements
linksStruggles anti-imperialist struggles in the United States
anti-racist struggles in the United States
socialist struggles in the United States
linksTo global liberation movements in Africa
global liberation movements in Asia
global liberation movements in Latin America
opposes U.S. imperialism
racial capitalism
white supremacy
subjectTo COINTELPRO surveillance and repression

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I Wor Kuen partOf Third World Left in the United States
Black radicalism associatedWith Third Worldism
linked to: Third World Left in the United States