Monday 20th October 5.30pm Dilan Tulsiani ‘Traditions of Dissent: The British Section of the League Against Imperialism and British interwar anticolonialism’.
Recording
Report Keith Flett
Fascinating & important new research on the League Against Imperialism 1927-1937, key LAI records were destroyed by the Nazis in 1933. The Met Police searched bins after LAI meetings for ‘evidence’, solidarity was built with the UK Palestine Mandate.
Dilan Tulsiani summary
The paper will be a reassessment of the importance of British anti-colonialism in the interwar period and its subsequent legacy throughout the twentieth century. The British Section of the League Against Imperialism was a uniquely impressive organisation that openly defied the Labour Party in the interwar period. My paper resituates the importance of its multi-racial coalition in non-violently campaigning against British imperialism at the heart of the British Empire. It also wishes to shine a light on how political radicalism was dealt with by mainstream bodies on the British Left. Finally, the paper will address some of the legacies of the British Section in transitioning anti-colonial ideology to anti-racist ideology in Britain.
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