Definitions

Trade Unions: a union formed by workers of various trades in order to stand up for their rights.

Marxism: political philosophy which stands up for the end of private property would bring to the gradual disappearance of classes in order to achieve the ideal communist society that is to say classless society. It was created by Marx and Engels during the nineteenth century.

Anarchism: political philosophy which stands up for the exaltation of individual freedom and social solidarity. They criticised the private property and the advocated forms of collective ownership. They rejected all sort of authority, mainly the state. They defended the revolutionary action of the workers and peasants to destroy the state and create a collectivist and egalitarian society. It was created by Proudhon and Bakunin.

Imperialism: the idea of increasing a country’s political or economic control by colonising other countries. Imperialism is the domination of one country’s political, economic or cultural life by another.

Dividing Africa: colonisation of Africa and its division in the Berlin Conference (1885)