Event Host: Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Abstract
In February 1927, more than 170 delegates representing anticolonial and working-class movements convened in Brussels and established the League against Imperialism (LAI), a rarely studied yet significant institution that coordinated a worldwide resistance to imperialist powers and capitalist classes. It attracted high profile activists and anticolonial revolutionaries across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, who collectively imagined an alternative world order built on anti-imperialist solidarity and the eradication of colonialism globally.
This talk draws upon Louro's recent book, Comrades against Imperialism, and her forthcoming co-edited volume, The League against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives, to reveal the history of the LAI and those who joined the anti-imperialist movement, particularly India’s future prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. In centering Indian anticolonialism in the global history of the LAI, Louro considers the significance of anti-imperialism as an alternative vision of internationalism that shaped anticolonial struggles of the interwar years and later inspired the global south in the era of decolonization.
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This event is part of the Mershon Center's International History Speaker Series.
