1. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1969
   A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war – not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
   
2. Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2006
   An argument against what Collini calls the 'declinist thesis', the belief that contemporary intellectual life is getting increasingly dumbed down and stagnant. Declinists, Collini suggests, are in denial of reality and ignorant of history. Collini also skewers those who, like Edward Said, represent themselves as 'outsiders' while basking in the glamour of in-group recognition.
3. American Power and the New Mandarins
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   
4. The Anti-Colonial Movement in Vietnam
   Book Review: Ngo Van, Vietnam, 1920-1945
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1997
   
5. Asking The Earth
   The Spread of Unsustainable Development
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1992
   Periera and Seabrock, using examples from India, argue that Western colonialism destroyed sustainable development in the Third World.
6. Bad Marxism
   Capitalism and Cultural Studies
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
7. Beyond a Boundary
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1963   Published: 1983
   Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, politics, and the realities of colonial oppression.
8. Canadian Neocolonialism in Latin America
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1962
   Discusses the role of Canadian capital in foreign markets and the drive behind Canadian businesses to control valuable assets in Latin American countries.
9. Das Capital, Volume 1 
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1867   Published: 1890
   Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
10. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1894   Published: 1971
    
11. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
12. Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Columbus seen as a conqueror.
13. “Civilising” the “Blacks”; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1936
    Africans must win their own freedom. Nobody will win it for them. They need co-operation, but that co-operation must be with the revolutionary movement in Europe and Asia. There is no other way out. Each movement will neglect the other at its peril.
    
14. Connexions Library: Imperialism and Colonialism Focus Page
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    
15. The Creation of World Poverty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1983
    
16. Culture of Complaint
    The Fraying of America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much apart of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic to Washington that we expect nothing else.
17. Decolonization and Empire
    Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    John Saul scrutinizes the subjects of empire and the new neocolonialist states of Southern Africa funded by the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and World Bank. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow as the unequal opportunities and material outcomes of the free market entrench themselves. This hierarchy is in part self-creating and self-sustaining but also locked into place by these international institutions.
18. Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A methodical deconstruction of Edward Said's Orientalism.
    
19. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
20. Discourse on Colonialism
    Resource Type: Book
    This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
21. The Economy of Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
22. Edward Said, Orientalism
    Reviewed by Malcolm Kerr
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
    The book contains many excellent sections and scores many telling points, but it is spoiled by overzealous prosecutorial argument in which Professor Said, in his eagerness to spin too large a web, leaps at conclusions and tries to throw everything but the kitchen sink into a preconceived frame of analysis. In charging the entire tradition of European and American Oriental studies with the sins of reductionism and caricature, he commits precisely the same error.
23. The First Indian War of Independence (1857-1858) and the East India Company (June-August 1853)
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles by Marx and Engels on India 1853-1859.
24. For Lust of Knowing
    The Orientalists and their enemies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said’s book “a work of malignant charlatanry.”
25. 1491
    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
26. 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
27. The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Entries on indigenous peoples from around the globe, focusing on three main areas: their way of life, the present crisis, and the future.
28. A Green History of the World 
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
29. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
30. Ireland and the Irish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
31. Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
    Rodinson argues that Zionism fits into the general pattern of Western colonialism, and that Arab opposition to Israel is the opposition of a colonized people towards their colonizers.
    
32. Israel’s Colonial War against the Gaza Strip
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israel is becoming a war machine, terrifying yet lacking in all moral grounding.
33. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
34. The Life and Death of Socialist Zionism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    As a mass movement, Socialist Zionism is finished. One might say that it accomplished its actual goal -- the building of the Jewish state. Unless one identifies "socialism" with statism, socialism was never a goal of Ben-Gurion and his co-thinkers.
35. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
36. Manifest Destiny? A Native Perspective on 1992
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    1992 will be a year of mourning for North American Indians; a mourning for the fragmentation and loss of our traditional way of life.
37. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1936   Published: 1968
    
38. The National Question 
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula, “the right of nations to self-determination,” is essentially not a political and problematic guideline in the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
39. 1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
40. 1992: A White Christian Perspective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    I would hope that we can enter into a very sober 1992 event, so that native Christians might be able to retrieve those symbols that will give them new strength. I would hope that God is acting now as a kind of psychoanalyst, fresh dialogue might continue between the Church and native groups not within its "fold".
41. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
42. Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?
    A re-assessment of Israel's practicies in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A study of the Israel-Palestine situation from the standpoint of international law.
43. The Olga Document 
    For Truth and Reconciliation, For Equality and Partnership
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    A document written in a series of meetings in Givat Olga, Israel, and titled after the location, The Olga Document. Advoctes coexistence of the peoples of this country, based on mutual recognition, equal partnership and implementation of historical justice.
44. Open Veins of Latin America 
    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (25th Anniversary Edition)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
45. The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
46. The Other
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    The Other is made up of a series of lectures that Kapuscinski delivered in Austria and in Poland, eloquent speeches in which he considers the history, the present and the future of our relationship with the Other, a term he employs to distinguish Europeans from "non-Europeans, or non-whites -- while fully aware for the latter, the former are just as much 'Others'."
47. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
    
48. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
49. Pictures Bring Us Messages
    Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
50. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1889
    
51. Portugal
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    The revolutionary process in Portugal is not one that lends itself very easily to a coherent political analysis. Political leadership is quickly thrown up by the creative energy of the workers and peasants and as quickly discarded as its usefulness to them wears thin.
52. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
53. Radical Digressions 6
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2009
    
54. Reading Orientalism
    Said and the unsaid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    An extensive discussion of Edward Said's influential 1978 polemic 'Orientalism'. Varisco mounts a sustained critique on Said's flawed methodology, his skewed and selective handling of literary evidence, his inadequate historical knowledge, and his distorted and tendentious conclusions.
55. Revisiting the partition of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
56. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
    
57. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx—From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
    
58. Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
    
59. Edward Said's shadowy legacy 
    Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.
60. The Scramble for Africa
    White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2003
    Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
    
61. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Restall explodes myths that were long taken for historical truth and points to a larger and more complex interaction between the indigenous people and the Europeans. He shows how Indian culture adapted and displayed post conquest vitality.
62. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
    
63. Socialism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
    
64. Stolen Continents 
    The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    The history of the Americas through Native eyes.
65. Why Israel Won't Survive
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power – Western support and complicity – is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
66. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT “recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state” 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
    
67. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
68. You either believe in freedom or you don't
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Speak out for human rights by joining the European Community and the majority of the United Nations in calling for a free East Timor.

Experts on Colonialism in the Sources Directory

1. Canadian Encyclopedia
2. Connexions Library