1. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1969
   A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
2. Age of Extremes
   The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
3. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1983
   A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
4. C.L.R. James's Conflicted Intellectual Legacies on Mao Tse Tung's China
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   On the evolution of C.L.R. James’s thoughts about Maoism.
5. Colonialism and Nationalism in the Building of Liberation Movements
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   This is an excerpt from It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. The "Not so Bright" Protégés and the Comrades that "Never Quarreled"
   C.L.R. James's Disputes on Labor's Self-Emancipation and the Political Economy of Colonial Freedom
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Surveying C.L.R. James's shifting and evolving views on the making of national liberation struggles, whether in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, Eric Williams’s Trinidad, or Toussaint L'Ouverture's Haiti, which he was associated as anti-colonial activist and independent socialist historian, may lead observers to conclude he was either inconsistent in defending his most cherished ideals or, alternatively, strategically minded in specific historical moments.
9. On Lenin and the Right to National Self-Determination
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   I’d suggest that the Leninist formulations of policy on the national question do not deserve to be taken seriously as poles of debate on the matter. More precisely, they should be viewed as all but completely hypocritical.
10. Recovering Nonviolent History
    Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
11. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Africa
    Essays in Contemporary Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    In this collection of essays, one of Africa's most eminent political scientists investigates crucial problems confronting the African continent: its chronic instability and sectional conflict, the nature of class rule and the failure of the post-colonial state to deliver on the promises of independence. The relevance of Marxist theory to an understanding of Africa's social reality is explored, and a theory of national liberation, based on the ideas of Amilcar Cabral, developed.

Experts on National Liberation Movements in the Sources Directory

1. Center for Socialist History