The British Left, the League Against Imperialism and interwar struggles over Empire and Decolonisation, 1927- 1939

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This project will reevaluate the history and development of anti-colonial internationalism in interwar Britain through astudy of the League Against Imperialism (1927-1937), particularly its British Section (BS-LAI) and its anti-colonialaffiliated groups - the India League, the Negro Welfare Association, the Friends of the Chinese People, and theChina Campaign Committee.It will explore the extent to which the BS-LAI served as an infrastructure through which Black and Asian anti-colonial activists and groups based in Britain were able to:- Come together as part of a common, cross-border anti-imperialist network and movement.- Present radical anti-imperialist political perspectives informed by direct experiences of colonialism.- Build a popular case for decolonisation within the wider British Left and labour movement, attempting toreconstruct and understand the reception of the BS-LAI and their affiliates' ideological and political challenge tothe Empire.