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

本项目将通过对反帝国主义联盟的研究，重新评估两次世界大战之间英国反殖民国际主义的历史和发展（1927-1937），特别是它的英国支部（BS-LAI）及其反殖民主义的附属团体-印度联盟，黑人福利协会，中国人民之友，和中国运动委员会。它将探讨BS-LAI在多大程度上作为一个基础设施，通过它，黑人和亚洲反殖民主义活动家和组织能够在英国：-走到一起，作为一个共同的，跨境反帝国主义网络和运动的一部分。目前激进的反帝国主义的政治观点由殖民主义的直接经验告知。在更广泛的英国左翼和劳工运动中建立一个受欢迎的非殖民化案例，试图重建和理解BS-LAI及其附属机构对帝国的意识形态和政治挑战的接受。

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.