Algerian Independence And The British Left
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Algerian Independence and the British Left
Author: Mélanie Torrent
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2024-11-14
Based on archives from governments, parties, organisations and individuals, this book investigates the relationship between the British left and Algerian liberation movements during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). It explores the presence of representatives of the Mouvement national algérien (MNA) and the Front de libération nationale (FLN) in London, where they actively sought support for peace, independence from France and the global end of European domination. By surveying their interactions with individuals and groups in the anticolonial left, including prominent Labour MPs, and Trotskyist groups, Asian and African associations and students' unions, Torrent shows how and why solidarity was interpreted differently across the left, and in relation to Britain's own end-of-empire conflicts. Tracing connections across Europe and beyond, this book demonstrates how the war influenced conceptions of socialism, communism and internationalism in Britain, what being European meant, and what place the Commonwealth should have in a world where armed struggle and liberation diplomacy disrupted boundaries.
Algerian Independence and the British Left
Author: Mélanie Torrent
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2024-11-14
"Providing a connected history of the ends of the French and British empires, this examines the support the British left gave Algerian liberation movements and shows that the debates it triggered influenced ideas and practices of socialism, internationalism and solidarity in Britain"--
Parting Gifts of Empire
Author: Esmat Elhalaby
language: en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date: 2025-09-30
Parting Gifts of Empire narrates an untold story of how Arabs and South Asians in the twentieth century sought to decolonize their minds. The histories of Palestine and India--both partitioned by the British Empire--were intimately linked. In the face of the same imperially created chasm, intellectuals in Africa and Asia reinvigorated centuries of shared histories to forge new horizons, new solidarities, new institutions, and new fields of knowledge. In this book, Esmat Elhalaby traces the forgotten lives of scholars like Wadi' al-Bustani, revisits Arab and Indian feminist meetings, highlights gatherings such as Delhi's 1947 Asian Relations Conference, and argues for the centrality of Palestine to the rise of Third Worldism. This book breaks new ground to unfold a global intellectual history of anticolonialism, Asian unity, pan-Islamism, and nonalignment in the making of what became known as the Global South.