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

这个项目将通过对反帝国主义联盟(1927年至1937年)，特别是其英国分会(BS-LAI)及其反殖民附属团体-印度联盟、黑人福利协会、中国人之友和中国运动委员会的研究，重新评估两次世界大战期间英国反殖民国际主义的历史和发展。它将探索BS-LAI作为基础设施的程度，通过它，总部设在英国的黑人和亚洲反殖民活动家和团体能够：-作为共同的一部分，跨境反帝国主义网络和运动。-展示受殖民主义直接经历启发的激进反帝国主义政治观点。-在更广泛的英国左翼和工人运动中建立一个流行的去殖民主义案例，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情况。

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.