Editorial: Transnational communism and anti-colonialism
Twentieth Century Communism - ISSN 1758-6437
Volume 2020 Number 18
Editorial: Transnational communism and anti-colonialism
Daniel Edmonds, Evan Smith, Oleksa Drachewych pages -
Abstract
The relationship between international communism, the national communist parties, and anti-colonial political movements is a subject which has drawn heated debates both amongst activists and historians. This professed anti-imperialism attracted new recruits in the non-European world, enabling the organisation to begin to break out of the European and North American strongholds which had been basis of prior social-democratic internationalism. Within the metropoles, racialised outsiders entered party ranks determined to turn the propounded anti-colonial ideals into a political reality. Connections were forged between labour movement activists and anti-colonialists, and between different colonial nationalist campaigners. This issue of Twentieth Century Communism features a selection of papers presented at a symposium at the University of Manchester, UK in November 2018. The symposium considered new trends in the history of communist anti-colonialism and internationalism in the twentieth century. ‘Within and Against the Metropole’ drew together scholars and activists from the US, Europe and the UK.
To cite this article
Daniel Edmonds, Evan Smith, Oleksa Drachewych (2020) Editorial: Transnational communism and anti-colonialism, Twentieth Century Communism, 2020(18), -