section_path: Types/Left-wing
section_name: Left-wing
paragraph_text: Left-wing
  
  Left-wing nationalism, occasionally known as socialist nationalism, not to be confused with the German fascist " National Socialism ", is a political movement that combines left-wing politics with nationalism.
  
  Many nationalist movements are dedicated to national liberation, in the view that their nations are being persecuted by other nations and thus need to exercise self-determination by liberating themselves from the accused persecutors. Anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism is closely tied with this ideology, and practical examples include Stalin's early work Marxism and the National Question and his socialism in one country edict, which declares that nationalism can be used in an internationalist context, fighting for national liberation without racial or religious divisions.
  
  Other examples of left-wing nationalism include Fidel Castro 's 26th of July Movement that launched the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Cornwall 's Mebyon Kernow, Ireland's Sinn Féin, Wales 's Plaid Cymru, Galicia 's Galician Nationalist Bloc, the Awami League in Bangladesh, the African National Congress in South Africa and numerous movements in Eastern Europe.