Peoples over states, power and profit

Decolonising Europe means changing the conditions of power, not polishing the language around them.

The Decolonial Europe Collective is a collective of people united by a common mission: fighting imperialism and racial capitalism in all its forms, in Europe and beyond. We work to amplify anti/decolonial voices, connect struggles, deepen political education, and build collective action rooted in solidarity and resistance.

2025
Collective launched
9 May
Annual Europe Day intervention
4th
Edition now in preparation
From the manifesto
"The only way out is through solidarity and resistance, in defiance of repression, borders and manufactured division."

The collective emerged from the conviction that decolonisation is not a metaphor and cannot remain a symbolic conversation.

Collective Work

What DEC is building

DEC brings together political education, coalition-building, public interventions and collective organising under one shared anti-colonial frame.

01 · Political education

Make Europe's colonial past and present harder to deny.

We create spaces, resources and interventions that challenge selective memory and expose how colonial extraction, imperial violence and racial capitalism continue to shape Europe.

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02 · Coalition building

Connect people across movements and struggles.

We create space for people resisting colonial continuities to meet, organise and challenge the borders, repression and manufactured divisions that keep struggles apart.

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03 · Public action

Turn Europe Day into a site of interruption and possibility.

Decolonial Europe Day is the collective's recurring public gathering: a space for exchange, visibility, strategy and anti-colonial imagination grounded in concrete organising.

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Manifesto Commitments

The politics behind the platform

The collective names its political baseline clearly and centres anti-colonial solidarity as a practical commitment, not a symbolic posture.

Recognise

Europe's material richness is built through extraction, expropriation and exploitation.

We begin from the material history of colonial wealth: land taken, labour exploited, resources extracted and lives made disposable.

Fight

European neo-colonialism persists through policy, debt, borders, dispossession and repression.

That includes trade, migration, climate, security, development, and the suppression of liberation movements.

Repair

Decolonisation requires restoration, reparations, land return and the rebuilding of sovereignty.

The collective's horizon is structural change, not symbolic awareness.

Build

Collective action grows through transnational, intersectional solidarity.

We build across borders, movements and lived realities so resistance becomes shared practice, not isolated response.

Where DEC comes from

The collective grew out of Decolonial Europe Day.

What began as a Europe Day intervention became a broader coalition-building project. Following the first editions in 2023 and 2024, the 2025 edition marked the first organised by the newly formed Decolonial Europe Collective.

Key resources
Manifesto

Founding political text

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