Third World Liberation Front
Third World Liberation Front | |
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| Abbreviation | TWLF |
| Founded | November 1968 (San Francisco State University) January 1969 (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Dissolved | March 1969 (end of major strikes) |
| Ideology | Third Worldism Anti-imperialism Anti-racism Student rights |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Member organizations | BSU AAPA MASC PACE LASO NASU El Renacimiento ICSA |
In 1968, the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF), a coalition of the Black Students Union, the Native Students Room, the Latin American Students Organization, the Filipino American Collegiate Endeavor (PACE) the Filipino-American Students Organization, the Asian American Political Alliance, and El Renacimiento, a Mexican-American student organization, formed at San Francisco State University (SFSU) to call for campus reform. Another Third World Liberation Front was formed at University of California, Berkeley in January 1969. These coalitions initiated and sustained the Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968, one of the longest student strikes in US history.