- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- "All changed, changed utterly": The historical significance of the Irish Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The problem with political anniversaries is that they often focus on specific dates in the past without any recognition that they are part of a longer process. Easter Monday 1916 is an iconic date in Irish history that all and sundry seek to appropriate, but it can only be understood by what preceded and followed it.
- Beyond a Boundary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, politics, and the realities of colonial oppression.
- The Black War
Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Clements' book presents the Black War as a horrifying and brutal guerrilla war of attrition. It not only led to the virtual extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines, it also took many hundred colonial lives and impacted on every colonial family in Tasmania. Yet unlike the first world war, it is barely recognised today as a major event in Australian history.
- The Blackest Streets
The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- A century of sugar and tears
Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on a waterfront site associated with slavery, segregation and conflict.
- 'Civilising' the 'Blacks'; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1936
Africans must win their own freedom. Nobody will win it for them. They need co-operation, but that co-operation must be with the revolutionary movement in Europe and Asia. There is no other way out. Each movement will neglect the other at its peril.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Empire of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
- Files that may shed light on colonial crimes still kept secret by UK
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Secret government files from the final years of the British empire are still being concealed despite a pledge by William Hague, the foreign secretary, that they would be declassified and opened to the public.
- 5 of the worst atrocities carried out by British Empire, after 'historical amnesia' claims
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of Britain's history of colonialism. The Independent looks at five of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire.
- Imperial silences: From Rhodes to Surabaya
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The campaign last year to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from Oriel College, Oxford, has provoked more discussion of the British Empire and its crimes than we have seen for many years. Rather than keeping quiet about Britain's imperial past, the Rhodes Must Fall campaign has actually flushed establishment apologists out into the open. They have been forced to defend the legacy of a man who, if he had not been British and had not given a substantial bribe to Oxford University, would today be generally acknowledged by everyone as a corrupt fraudster, thief, liar and killer for profit, as someone marked out only by the enormity of his crimes. The hypocrisy that the debate over Rhodes Must Fall has occasioned has been very instructive in itself, but what is intended here is an examination not just of the part played by hypocrisy in the defence of British imperialism, but of the other strategies employed: suppression and amnesia.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 12
Marx and Engels 1853 - 1854
Resource Type: Book
Articles mainly on British colonialism.
- Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 43: Colonies, slavery, and racism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Capitalist contradictions were most evident in the 18th century, when the wealth of the merchant-capitalist class of Britain’s port-cities was contrasted with the untold human misery of the slaves, ramping up the historical significance of racist ideology.
- A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forged in revolution and war.
- A Marxist History of the World part 56: The Indian Mutiny
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Indian Mutiny was the subcontinent’s first war of independence, with Indians of different ethnic and religious backgrounds fighting side-by-side despite the divide and rule fostered by the British.
- A Marxist History of the World part 62: The Scramble for Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The imperial competition to control Africa spawned a predatory colonialism of mines, plantations, and machine-guns and propelled humanity towards industrialised world war writes Neil Faulkner.
- A Marxist History of the World part 94: End of Empire?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 95: Oil, Zionism, and Western Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
British support for the Zionist movement led to the foundation of Israel in 1948. In conjunction with US imperialism, the Israeli state is an enduring source of oppression in the Middle East.
- The National Question
Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
- The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
A history of the Ojibwa in Southern Ontario.
- Penal transportation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
- The Rise of British Imperialism: Capitalism and Slavery (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A presentation on the developments that made Britain the first modern imperialist power.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- The Scramble for Africa
White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
- 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies.
- Stolen Continents
The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Tasmania’s Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into contact. At stake was nothing less than control of the country, and the survival of a people.
- UK Ordered Destruction Of 'Embarrassing' Colonial Papers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Britain systematically destroyed documents in colonies that were about to gain independence, declassified Foreign Office files reveal. Operation Legacy saw sensitive documents secretly burnt or dumped to cover up traces of British activities.
- Underhanded History of the USA
Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Which Way Africa?
The Search for a New Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Davison sets out to analyze the social, economic, political motives, myths, ideas, and beliefs which ounderlie modern African nationalism.
- Who Could Ever Feel Pride in the Balfour Declaration?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Although the Balfour Declaration itself has been parsed, de-semanticised, romanticised, decrypted, decried, cursed and adored for 100 years, its fraud is easy to detect: it made two promises which were fundamentally opposed to each other -- and thus one of them, to the Arabs (aka "the existing non-Jewish communities"), would be broken.
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