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Labour History Review

Labour History Review Volume 90 (2025), issue 3

Labour History Review Volume 90 (2025), Issue 3 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats. In this issue… This special issue of Labour History Review focusing on Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals is guest-edited by Lorenzo Costaguta, Justine Cousin, Camille Fauroux, and Thomas van Gaalen. Articles include: Thomas van Gaalen and Thijs te Braake on Selling Solidarity: Interwar Dutch … Continue reading Labour History Review Volume 90 (2025), issue 3

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Labour History Review

Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals

Author: Lorenzo Costaguta, Justine Cousin, Camille Fauroux, and Thomas van GaalenThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. This essay introduces the key themes of the special issue Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals, edited by Lorenzo Costaguta, Justine Cousin, Camille Fauroux, and Thomas van Gaalen. The authors review existing scholarship on left-wing anti-imperialism and detail the interventions of … Continue reading Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals

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Selling Solidarity: Interwar Dutch Leftist Negotiations over Anti-Colonial Solidarity

Author: Thomas van Gaalen and Thijs te BraakeThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. Centring Dutch leftist expressions of solidarity with two anti-colonial revolts – the 1926 Indonesian revolt and an attempted 1929 Curaçaoan revolution – this article examines how leftists in the European metropole sold solidarity with anti-colonialism across different political arenas and organizational levels. Relating their … Continue reading Selling Solidarity: Interwar Dutch Leftist Negotiations over Anti-Colonial Solidarity

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Conditional Universalism: Immigration and Nationalist Trade Unionism in 1980s Corsica

Author:  Guillaume GenoudThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. This article examines how Corsican nationalism reshaped trade union practice through the Sindicatu di i Travagliadori Corsi (Corsican Workers’ Union, STC), founded in 1984 after local activists broke with mainstream French confederations. Drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it traces the STC’s evolving stance toward immigration and non-Corsican workers … Continue reading Conditional Universalism: Immigration and Nationalist Trade Unionism in 1980s Corsica

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The Spectre of Communism: Print Surveillance in the Working-Class Movement of Late Colonial Calcutta (1920–1947)

Author:  Manaswini SenThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. This paper examines how the empire’s hysteria against militant trade unionism and its anti-colonial essence lay at the root of the colonial state’s proliferation of surveillance apparatus in late colonial Bengal. It primarily focuses on how the state censored, proscribed, and surveilled the literary output of trade unionists and other … Continue reading The Spectre of Communism: Print Surveillance in the Working-Class Movement of Late Colonial Calcutta (1920–1947)

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The Sentier Strike in Paris (1980): The Mobilization of Immigrant Workers as an Anti-Imperialist Struggle

Author:  Camille Fauroux and Fatma Çıngı KocadostThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. In the 1970s, young activists of the Turkish revolutionary left found themselves in France as refugees, students, or workers. Amongst them, members of Devrimci Yol (Revolutionary Way), galvanized by the intensity of the struggles in Turkey, decided to do their bit by organizing migrant workers … Continue reading The Sentier Strike in Paris (1980): The Mobilization of Immigrant Workers as an Anti-Imperialist Struggle

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Britain’s Labour Party and the Anti-Colonial Labour Movement in Fiji (1945–1970)

Author:  Adrien RoddThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. The Labour Party in Britain achieved its first ever absolute parliamentary majority in the 1945 general election, at the tail end of the Second World War. Historically a socialist and internationalist party founded with the aim of providing parliamentary representation to trade unionists and the working class, Labour formed … Continue reading Britain’s Labour Party and the Anti-Colonial Labour Movement in Fiji (1945–1970)

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Alex Doyle (Leeds) on the Cuban labour movement’s opposition to colonialism and imperialism, 1898-1914

Having spent a long time studying Cuba from afar, I was thrilled to get the opportunity to visit and experience the country beyond the written word. My research looks at workers’ movements and imperialism in early twentieth century Cuba. With the help of funding from the Society for the Study of Labour History, I was able to visit the country to consult new archival material, … Continue reading Alex Doyle (Leeds) on the Cuban labour movement’s opposition to colonialism and imperialism, 1898-1914

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Eleanor Strangways (Loughborough) on British and French anarchists and anti-imperialist movements in Africa

My PhD research seeks to examine the relationship between anarchism and imperialism, and looks specifically at the interaction between anarchists in Britain and France and the anti-imperial movements and intellectuals across Africa from 1945-1970.   In the summer of 2023, thanks to a bursary from the Society for the Study of Labour History, I had the opportunity to visit two international archive centres: the International Institute … Continue reading Eleanor Strangways (Loughborough) on British and French anarchists and anti-imperialist movements in Africa

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