Liberation movement

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A liberation movement is an organization fighting a rebellion against a colonial power, often seeking independence based on a nationalist identity and an anti-imperialist outlook. Liberation movements seeking the establishment of a national state on their own territory are autonomist movements. Liberation movements arose in Latin America, Central America, Africa and the Middle East from the 1950s to the 1970s. Critics often describe liberation movements for using "terrorist" attacks to achieve their goals. Today the term is rarely used to refer to any separatist movement other than in the Morocco's Western Sahara and the Palestinian territories in Israel.