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There is always a risk that national liberation struggles can abandon any meaningful idea of liberation and collapse into toxic forms of nationalism. Back in 1961 Frantz Fanon warned that nationalism can pass “to ultra-nationalism, to chauvinism, and finally to racism” with the result that “foreigners are called on to leave; their shops are burned, their street stalls are wrecked”.
Today xenophobia is central to right-wing politics in many countries. It…
