In 1968 Dutch activists launched a campaign focused on cane sugar as a symbol of unfair trading conditions for the global South. The history of the cane sugar campaign from 1968 to 1974 highlights how European integration provided hope for large-scale change and a common target. This led activists to establish European networks and campaigns. Its demise sheds new light on the new social movements’ shift from ‘grand politics’, aimed at a sudden and drastic transformation through global and European politics, towards incremental change by locally targeting specific companies and countries.

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告别大政治：蔗糖运动和跨国激进主义的局限性，1968-1974

1968 年，荷兰活动家发起了一项运动，重点关注蔗糖作为全球南方不公平贸易条件的象征。1968 年至 1974 年的蔗糖运动历史突出了欧洲一体化如何为大规模变革和共同目标带来希望。这导致活动家建立欧洲网络和运动。它的消亡为新社会运动从旨在通过全球和欧洲政治突然而剧烈转变的“大政治”转变为针对特定公司和国家的本地渐进式变革提供了新的启示。