The Anticolonial Front

John Munro completed his Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His articles have appeared in Labour/Le Travail, the Globality Studies Journal, Left History, the Canadian Review of American Studies, Third World Quarterly, History Workshop Journal, Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence, edited by Leslie James and Elisabeth Leake, and The Material of World History, edited by Tina Chen and David Churchill.

'Munro portrays legendary anti-colonialists in an African-American political geography. By interrogating a gestalt of the Cold War, anti-fascism, and the long Civil Rights Movement, he posits a broad and worldly framework for understanding later twentieth-century American radicalism and racial-political culture, challenging parochialisms while revivifying leading actors and their powerful imaginaries.' Susan Dabney Pennybacker, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Introduction; 1. Popular front, anticolonial front and United States empire from World War to Cold War; 2. Present at the continuation: Manchester and the postwar resumption of anticolonial politics; 3. The youth and the unions; 4. Three Cold War texts and a critique of imperialism: the anticolonial front in print; 5. Resilient resistance: the uneven impact of anticomminism; 6. Back to the international arena: Bandung and Paris; 7. Independence: the first stage of neocolonialism; 8. Toward the sixties; Epilogue: the tragedy of imperial neoliberalism.