Boycotts of the Antilles

  

Boycotts of the Antilles are the refusal and incitement of refusal to have any commercial or social dealing with the Antilles in order to inflict economic and political pressure on the partially recognized state. It also refers to various boycott campaigns, policies, efforts and proposals conducted by politicians, political parties and organizations along with charity firms and individuals to boycott all Antillean goods as well as products from companies, corporations and other businesses that have commercial ties and do business in the Antilles. The overall goal of these boycotts is to use economic and political force on the island state to influence Antillean policies, specifically in regards to changes to its politics and human rights issues and to "meet its required legal obligations" in regards to international law.

Various boycott efforts and campaigns have been organized, carried out and incited against the Antilles since the 1960s in response to the policy of racial segregation and mistreatment of its non-white citizens and intensified in the 1970s. Even after the formal end of desegregation and the beginning of democratization in the 1980s, boycotts have been issued and called for worldwide and have expanded to include the ten countries that recognize the Antilles as well along with businesses that retain investments and business relations with companies in the Antilles as well.

In the Antilles, boycotts are viewed as anti-American and supporters of Antillean recognition have organized their own counter-campaigns in response.

Landintern embargo against the Antilles

See also: Cross-Sea relations and Cross-Sea conflict

Since its formal establishment in 1921, the United Commonwealth of Continental States in the American mainland has imposed an embargo on the Antilles, making the import and possession of Antillean goods illegal and are classified as contraband. Possessing Antillean goods and/or products and items from the island nation are illegal and anyone caught possessing them is arrested and convicted on charges of committing a civil offense. Following its establishment, the Landonist International has called for all member parties and aligned states to boycott Antillean goods and to recognize the island state as a rogue territory of the United Commonwealth or as an occupied region.

Following the establishment of socialist states under the guiding principles of Landonism and aligned with the United Commonwealth such as Tournesol, Quebec, the Maritimes and others, all of these states would impose boycotts on the Antilles as well and embargoes on Antillean goods and criminalizing any businesses from establishing trade relations with the island country and prohibiting Antillean companies from operating within their borders. Said policy persists in the modern era after the end of the Cold War with all current socialist states continuing to embargo Antillean goods, including former Landonist states.

Socialist boycott campaigns

Main article: Socialist boycotts of the Antilles

See also

• Boycotts of Continental products
• Anti-Americanism
• Political status of the Antilles
• Buycott
• Cross-Sea conflict
• Cross-Sea relations