Carolien Stolte is Senior Lecturer at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the international history of South Asia. She co-led, with Su-Lin Lewis, the AHRC Research Network “Afro-Asian Networks in the Early Cold War". Heather Streets-Salter is Professor and Director of World History Programs at Northeastern University. Her work explores imperialism and colonialism as global phenomena. Recent publications include World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict (Cambridge, 2017), and Empires and Colonies in the Modern World (Oxford, 2015), with Trevor Getz. Sana Tannoury-Karam is an Early Career Fellow at the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and a lecturer at the Lebanese American University. Her most recent article “This War is Our War: Antifascism Among Lebanese Leftist Intellectuals” was published in the Journal of World History. Michele Louro is Associate Professor at Salem State University. Her research focuses on the historical interplay between South Asia and the wider world. She has published widely on India and the intewar internationalism including her recent book, Comrades against Imperialism: Nehru, India, and Interwar Internationalism (Cambridge, 2018).

"There is a good case to be made that the anti-colonial revolution was the great lasting political legacy of the twentieth century. This book makes a powerful statement about the importance of the LAI in that global movement. It is still not a very remote history."

• Contents List of Illustrations Erez Manela: Foreword: Plotting the Anti-Colonial Transnational 1. Michele Louro, Carolien Stolte, Heather Streets-Salter, Sana Tannoury-Karam: The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives 2. Michael Goebel: Forging a Proto-Third World? Latin America and the League Against Imperialism 3. Dónal Hassett: An Independent Path: Algerian Nationalists and the League Against Imperialism 4. Sana Tannoury-Karam: “Long Live the Revolutionary Alliance Against Imperialism”: Interwar Anti-Imperialism and the Arab Levant 5. Anna Belogurova: China, Anti-imperialist Leagues, and the Comintern: Visions, Networks and Cadres 6. Fredrik Petersson: “We will fight with our lives for the equal rights of all peoples”: Willi Münzenberg, the League Against Imperialism, and the Comintern 7. Daniel Brückenhaus: British Passport Restrictions, the League Against Imperialism, and the Problem of Liberal Democracy 8. David Murphy: No More Slaves! Lamine Senghor, Black Internationalism and the League Against Imperialism 9. Disha Karnad Jani: Unfreedom and Its Opposite: Towards an Intellectual History of the League Against Imperialism 10. Michele Louro: An Anti-Imperialist “Echo” in India 11. Mark Reeves: Two Leagues, One Front? The India League and the League Against Imperialism in the British Left, 1927-1937 12. Klaas Stutje: Herald of a Failed Revolt: Mohammad Hatta in Brussels, 1927 13. Christopher J. Lee: The Leninist Moment in South Africa 14. Carolien Stolte: Towards Afro-Asia? Continuities and Change in Indian Anti-Imperialist Regionalism, 1927-1957 15. Jeffrey Byrne: Institutionalizing Postcolonial Internationalism: The Apparatus of the Third World Project Antoinette Burton: Afterword: the Zigzag of the Global in the Histories of the League Against Imperialism Index