#Scottish campaigners take ‘colony’ case to #UN

- Independence campaigners are taking a “decolonisation” campaign to the United Nations today

- They are attempting to convince UN members that #Scotland is a #colony of England, rather than part of a political union

- If conditions are met, campaign group Salvo say it could set the stage for a #legal showdown with the #UK Government.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25476223.live-scottish-campaigners-take-colony-case-un/

#independence #Imperialism #BritishImperialism #decolonisation #colonisation

#LettersAndPolitics | The #IrishPotatoFamine and its Consequences

guest: Padraic X. Scanlan, author of Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-march-19-2025/

#GreatFamine #Ireland #IrishHistory #imperialism #BritishImperialism #colonialViolence #famines #books @histodons @bookstodon @ireland

@jlperuyero @ElleGray
🥥 Eye, for one, Jose, live in the hope that there exists somewhere in the universe a planet on which this creature is referred to as a "Salt-Water Squirrel." 🥥
#Squirrel. #SaltWaterSqirrel, #BritishImperialism, #Oz, #Australia, #Croc, #Ute, #Girl, #TuckersBalls

"#PeterShambrook is an independent scholar and historical consultant to the #Balfour Project, which works to advance equal rights for all in #PalestineIsrael. He is the author of French Imperialism in Syria, 1927–1936, and his latest, #PolicyOfDeceit: #Britain and #Palestine, 1914-1939"

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9rcGZhLm9yZy9wcm9ncmFtL2xldHRlcnMtYW5kLXBvbGl0aWNzL2ZlZWQv/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9rcGZhLm9yZy8_cG9zdF90eXBlPWVwaXNvZGUmcD00MTg3Nzc?sa=X&ved=0CDAQz4EHahcKEwiArsiy4_6EAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA&hl=fr_CA
#BalfourDeclaration #Palestinians #OttomanPalestine #MandatePalestine #MiddleEast #MiddleEastHistory #BritishEmpire #imperialism #BritishImperialism #WWI #books

#LettersAndPolitics

Britain’s ruling elite back call for conscription and vast increase in war budget - World Socialist Web Site

#Conscription #BritishImperialism #Warmongers #NoWar!

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/28/qbrg-j28.html

"It is concerning to watch UK disengage from the world, says Irish PM"

I rather think there will be many Irish folk who are entirely happy with this development.

#Brexit #Ireland #LeoVaradkar #BritishImperialism

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/it-is-concerning-to-watch-uk-disengage-from-world-says-irish-pm-leo-varadkar

On "the most luxurious nursing home in the country", aka Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, and its role in obscuring the history of slavery, British imperialism and other evils.

#slavery #BritishImperialism #history #Caius #Cambridge

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jun/01/cotton-capital-legacies-of-slavery-research-backlash-cambridge-university?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://archive.org/details/mwakenya

Mwakenya: The Unfinished Revolution. Selected Documents of the Mwakenya - December Twelve Movement (1974-2002) by Maina wa Kĩnyattĩ

Topics
#Kenya, #Kenyanpolitics, #politicsofKenya, #Kenyanpoliticalhistory, #Kenyanleftism, #Kenyanleft, #socialism, #neocolonialism, #WorkersPartyofKenya, #DecemberTwelveMovement, #marxism, #marxismleninism, #Mwakenya, #antiimperialism, #marxisminAfrica, #marxisminKenya, #revolutionarypolitics, #Africanpolitics, #20thcenturypolitics, #europeanimperialism, #britishimperialism, #usimperialism, #anticapitalism, #MwakenyaMovement, #MuunganowaWazalendowaKenya, #UnionofPatrioticKenyans, #politicaleconomy

"This volume represents the development of the WPK/DTM-Mwakenya’s anti-imperialist line in Kenya from1974 to 2002. The Mwakenya Movement (Muungano wa Wazalendo wa Kenya/ Union of Patriotic Kenyans) was an underground socialist movement in Kenya in the 1980s formed to fight for multi-party democracy.

Independence means self-determination and self-government. An independent nation is one with the autonomy to make decisions, which will advance the welfare of its people. It is a nation that controls its own resources, and has the political and economic scope to utilise these resources, human and natural, free of foreign interference.

https://archive.org/details/kamerunian-revolution

Objectives, Significance and Repercussions of the Kamerunian Revolution on the Continent of Africa by Union des Populations du Cameroun

Topics
#PartyProgramme, #UPC, #UniondesPopulationsduCameroun, #Kamerun, #Cameroon, #Cameroun, #Revolution, #BritishImperialism, #AmericanImperialism, #FrenchImperialism, #AntiImperialism, #AntiColonialism, #PanAfricanism, #ArmedStruggle, #PeoplesWar, #RevolutionaryNationalism, #Revolutionarysocialism, #NewDemocracy, #NewDemocraticRevolution, #Maoism, #NationalLiberationMovements

"From 1959-60, in the context of the Cold War, during the establishment of the neocolonial bourgeoisie and in the face of France's obstinacy in refusing the UPC its rightful place in Kamerun, asking if the UPC was communist could only have one revolutionary answer: Yes it was, since its leaders were already talking explicitly about socialism as the end goal of the UPC's struggle. Read:

“The UPC follows the example of China and Indochina, and seeks to build a socialist society modeled on that of People's China.”

This is what the highest official of the UPC [Moumié] said, addressing a young executive and designating without ambiguity the socialist horizon as the objective to be achieved in Kamerun.

https://archive.org/details/west-indies-patterns

The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492 by David Watts

Topics
#Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #geography, #historicalgeography, #genocide, #blackchattelslavery, #slavetrade, #antiblackness, #translatlanticslavetrade, #whitesupremacy, #imperialism, #colonialism, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #amerikas, #northamerika, #plantations, #plantationeconomy, #sugarplantations, #environmentalgeography, #slavesocieties, #ecology

This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of enforced labour, in the form of many thousands of African slaves; and the environmental, ecological and cultural changes that resulted.

Hello All. New instance, so new intro? I'm a #histodon working in #WorldHistory, #Nationalism history, and #ComicsHistory. My research focus is the #MidEast at the intersection of #BritishImperialism. Current work is looking at #HistoryComics and #Islam in Comics.

https://archive.org/details/landed-obligation

Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda by Holly Elisabeth Hanson

Topics
#EastAfrica, #Buganda, #Africanhistory, #Africa, #Baganda, #BugandaKingdom, #KingdomofBuganda, #Mailo, #landtenure, #monarchies, #monarchy, #colonialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #Uganda, #Kabaka, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #slavetrade, #slaveraids, #slaveraiding, #arabslavetrade, #war, #land, #socialhierarchy, #socialhierarchies

Series: Social History of Africa
Publisher: Heinemann (Reed Elsevier)
ISBNs: 0325070377 (cloth), 0325070369 (paper)
ISSN: 1099-8098

https://archive.org/details/theycalledusbrigands

They Called Us Brigands: The Saga of St. Lucia's Freedom Fighters by Robert J. Devaux; Patrick A.B. Anthony

Topics
#brigandage, #brigands, #Ioüanalao, #Iyonola, #Hewanarau, #Hewanorra, #StLucia, #SaintLucia, #LesserAntilles, #Caribbean, #Martinique, #Guadeloupe, #maroonage, #maroons, #marronage, #blackchattelslavery, #war, #guerrillawarfare, #guerrillawar, #guerrillas, #Caribbeanhistory, #NègMawon, #britishimperialism, #frenchimperialism, #colonialism

The Black freedom fighters of the Lesser Antilles became known as “brigands” during the french revolution. Their fascinating story has never been written, perhaps because they have been dismissed as runaway slaves in a state of insurrection. The author believed that history has been unfair to the “brigands”. He felt indebted to them for sparing the life of his great-great-great-grandmother who was left in their care when the rest of the Devaux family fled to Martinique for safety. His gratitude motivated him to attempt to exonerate the “brigands” from the stigma of their history and present them in a different light, as freedom fighters caught up in a desperate situation.

https://archive.org/details/ghanarevolution

Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution by C. L. R. James

Topics
#KwameNkrumah, #Ghana, #goldcoast, #revolution, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #PanAfricanism, #GeorgePadmore, #urbanization, #britishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #proletarianization, #decolonization, #anticolonialism, #PanAfricanism, #marxism, #leninism, #socialism

A collection of essays written over a span of two decades.

https://archive.org/details/europeanimperialism

Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism by James S. Olson; Robert Shadle; Ross Marlay; William G. Ratliff; Joseph M. Rowe, Jr.; Judith E. Olson; J. Larry Murdock

Topics
#imperialism, #europe, #history, #colonialism, #dictionaries, #historicaldictionaries, #spanishempire, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #portugueseempire, #portugueseimperialism, #portuguesecolonialism, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishempire, #dutchempire, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #frenchempire, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #germanempire, #germanimperialism, #germancolonialism, #belgianempire, #belgianimperialism, #belgiancolonialism, #italianempire, #italianimperialism, #italiancolonialism, #genocide, #spain, #portugal, #britain, #greatbritain, #unitedkingdom, #españa, #thenetherlands, #netherlands, #nederland, #holland, #france, #germany, #deutschland, #belgium, #belgië, #belgique, #belgien, #italy, #italia, #empire, #empires, #whitesupremacy

The major focus of this historical dictionary is on the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, German, Belgian, and Italian empires during the past 500 years.

https://archive.org/details/black-rebellion-in-barbados

Black Rebellion In Barbados: The Struggle Against Slavery, 1627-1838 by Hilary Beckles

Topics
#Barbados, #Bajan, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #slaverebellions, #slaveuprisings, #slaverevolts, #revolt, #rebellion, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #abolition, #frontiersocieties, #creolization, #creole, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #britishempire, #slavetrade, #laborhistory, #counterinsurgency

"This year (1984) marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the formal abolition of slavery in the English-speaking Caribbean and this work is intended to commemorate the occasion.

https://archive.org/details/rhode-island

The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 by Jay Coughtry

Topics
#slavetrade, #blackchattelslavery, #slavery, #rhodeisland, #rhodeislandandprovidenceplantations, #britishimperialism, #unitedstatesofamerika, #whitesupremacy

published in Philadelphia by Temple University Press

https://archive.org/details/nkrumahs-ghana

The Military and Politics in Nkrumah's Ghana by Simon Baynham

Topics
#Ghana, #military, #coups, #militarycoups, #britishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #Africanization, #stateformation, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #neocolonialism, #WestAfrica, #coupdetat, #golpedelestado

“The book is based on documents from the Ministry of Defence and other departments in Ghana and on interviews with 96 Ghanaian and British army officers, civil servants, and politicians.”

https://archive.org/details/policeinnigeria

The Police in Modern Nigeria, 1861-1965: Origins, Development, and Role by Tekena N. Tamuno

Topics
#police, #policing, #colonialism, #Nigeria, #britishcolonialism, #history, #neocolonialism, #imperialism, #britishimperialism

Published by Ibadan University Press; includes photos, appendices of data and charts

https://archive.org/details/passage-port-and-plantation

Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration, 1870-1914 by Peter Corris

Topics
#SolomonIslands, #queensland, #PacificIslands, #Fiji, #Samoa, #Melanesia, #Melanesians, #britishimperialism, #australianimperialism, #indenturedservitude, #slavery, #britain, #australia, #Oceania, #antiblackness

more than 30,000 Solomon Islanders were used by colonizers to build australia and Pacific Island colonies.