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The League Against Imperialism (British Section): A Hidden History
by John Ellison
(Communist Party of Britain, £1.50)
IT IS a justified reproach to mainstream British historians that the significant role played by organisations like The League against Imperialism have been consistently ignored or excised from their narratives.
John Ellison begins to redress that in his valuable and fascinating short account of its British section in a pamphlet published as part of the Our History series.
During the first half of the 20th century, the Victorian imperial legacy still held strong sway in the minds of the British population. Few questioned the justification for an empire, nor the subjugation of whole peoples or their rights to independence.
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