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DESCRIPTION:US anti-communism has been naturalized in larger narratives abo
 ut the Cold War. Few political leaders and commentators\, especially in th
 e US\, question the righteousness of anti-communism. Though scholars have 
 explicated protest to US Cold War policy\, there is little understanding o
 f this opposition and the harassment those opposed faced. This panel will 
 explore opposition to US Cold War policy and its relationship with transna
 tional freedom movements. As Zifeng Liu demonstrates\, the Soviet Union to
 ok leadership in the global peace struggle both to cover for its own short
 comings in military proliferation\, and to expose the imperialist motivati
 ons of the capitalist states. Radical Black communists took up the Soviet 
 call for peace\; however\, as Liu demonstrates\, this did not mean they we
 re averse to violence. Rather they reimagined peace within the communist c
 osmology and argued that peace was not just the absence of war\, it requir
 ed the dissolution of empire. Similarly\, Denise Lynn explores the transna
 tional movement against the Korean War. Black radical women saw the war as
  a threat to the communist states\, and the self-determination of post-col
 onial nations. Black American communists organized with their compatriots 
 overseas to expose US war crimes and reveal the US’s neo-colonial ambiti
 ons. Cacee Mabis’ study takes up a spatial analysis exploring the signif
 icance of Durban’s ‘Red Square” – designated as such because Afrik
 aners believed it was linked to international communism. Mabis instead sho
 ws that  Nichols Square was a significant location for Indian South Africa
 ns involved in anti-Apartheid protests. Together these papers show that an
 ti-communism has stigmatized freedom movements and silenced their importan
 ce in global freedom movements.
DTSTAMP:20260412T124029Z
LOCATION:Room 204 PC Desk (Seats 30)
SUMMARY:Anti-Communism as Neo-Colonial Tool: Transnational Peace during the
  Cold War - Denise Lynn\, Zifeng Liu\, Cacee Mabis
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/JAVPDW/
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