Left-wing nationalism
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Left-wing nationalism, leftist nationalism or socialist nationalism describes a form of nationalism based upon social equality (not necessary political equality), popular sovereignty and national self-determination. Left-wing nationalism typically espouses anti-imperialism. It stands in contrast to right-wing nationalism, and often rejects ethno-nationalism to this same end.
Notable left-wing nationalist movements in history have included Subhas Chandra Bose's Liberation Army, which promoted independence of India from Britain; the Bangladesh Liberation War; Sinn Féin, an Irish republican party; the National Bolshevik Party and its successor The Other Russia, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the Black Front of Germany, and the African National Congress of South Africa under Nelson Mandela.
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