National Anti-Imperialist Movement in Solidarity with African Liberation
National Anti-Imperialist Movement in Solidarity with African Liberation
Location: New York, New York, United States
Duration: October 1973 - early 1990
The National Anti-Imperialist Movement in Solidarity with African Liberation (NAIMSAL) was a national organization that operated in many cities in the United States. NAIMSAL campaigned against apartheid, Portuguese colonialism, and the racist regime in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). NAIMSAL supported the African National Congress (ANC), SWAPO, MPLA,...
The National Anti-Imperialist Movement in Solidarity with African Liberation (NAIMSAL) was a national organization that operated in many cities in the United States. NAIMSAL campaigned against apartheid, Portuguese colonialism, and the racist regime in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). NAIMSAL supported the African National Congress (ANC), SWAPO, MPLA, ZANU/ZAPU (Patriotic Front), PAIGC and FRELIMO. In 1975 NAIMSAL presented 100,000 signatures to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid demanding sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa. In 1984 NAIMSAL, along with the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression and the United States Peace Council, presented the United Nations with petitions for the release of Nelson Mandela signed by over 34,000 persons. NAIMSAL sought to join the struggle in the United States with struggles in Africa in a new type of anti-imperialist Pan Africanism. NAIMSAL opposed the Cold War ideology which sought to marginalize the liberation movements and several governments of independent states on the basis of anti-communism. Anthony Monteiro was executive secretary of NAIMSAL. Many members were associated with the Communist Party USA. (Source: Anthony Monteiro, a former member of NAIMSAL; and various other sources including Free Nelson Mandela, by E.S. Reddy, July 1988.)
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