Category: Anti-colonialism
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CFP: Australian workers and anti-colonialism in the 20th century
Here is a call for papers that I am involved with. “Imperialism and its agents must be destroyed”: Australian Workers and Anti-Colonialism in the twentieth century 3-4 February, 2022 Online symposium (via Zoom) Keynotes: Professor Ann Curthoys (Sydney) & Professor John Maynard (Newcastle) The Australian working-class movement has a mixed history of internationalism and solidarity,…
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New special issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal
This is just an announcement that the special issue of Twentieth Century Communism that I co-edited with Daniel Edmonds and Oleksa Drachewych has been published. The theme is international communism and anti-colonialism in the twentieth century. You can find the whole issue here and the introduction (free to download) here. I have an article in the issue…
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New book chapter on anti-colonialism and communism in Britain, Australia and South Africa
In September 2017, I travelled to Hamilton, Canada to take part in a workshop held at McMaster University on the Communist International and anti-colonialism, ‘race’ and national liberation, organised by Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay. I spoke about my research on the Communist Parties in Britain, Australia and South Africa and anti-colonialism in the inter-war…
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Scans of ZAPU’s ‘Zimbabwe Review’ (1974-78)
During the war of national liberation in Zimbabwe, there were two main organisations that led the struggle. One was Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which was supported by China and North Korea. The other was Joshua Nkomo’s Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), which was supported by the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc and…
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Paperback edition of ‘British Communism and the Politics of Race’ is ready for pre-order!
This is just a quick announcement to let you all know that the paperback edition of my book British Communism and the Politics of Race will be out next month through Haymarket Books. You can pre-order it now here. You can read an interview I did with Selim Nadi for the Historical Materialism blog about the book…
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Forthcoming with Brill, ‘British Communism and the Politics of Race’
Ten years in the making, I am very happy to announce that Brill will be publishing my monograph British Communism and the Politics of Race as part of its Historical Materialism series later this year. You can pre-order a copy here. Here is a short blurb: British Communism and the Politics of Race explores the…
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Sydney, London, Moscow, Beijing: Schisms in the international communist movement, 1947-61
The following forms part of a forthcoming book chapter on the relationship between the Communist Parties in Britain, Australia and South Africa. It builds on previous posts (here and here) and will also be worked into the manuscript that I am currently developing from my postdoctoral research. As per usual, any feedback is most welcome!…
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The Communist Party of Australia and Anti-Colonial Activism in Papua New Guinea
This is the extended part of a paper that I wrote with Padraic Gibson for the Eric Richards’ Symposium in British and Australian History, which was held at Flinders University last week. The abstract for our paper was as below: Alongside the Communist Party of Australia’s (CPA) work for Aboriginal rights, the Party’s demands for…
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South African progressives and the Suez Crisis of 1956
On 29 October, 1956, the Suez Crisis began with an Israeli attack upon Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, with the UK and France intervening the subsequent days to ‘protect’ the Suez Canal. Many historians have viewed these actions as the last major ‘roll of the dice’ for the British and French governments hoping to stem the decolonisation…
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