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Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
A-3 WOR01a Anarchists, Marxists, and Nationalists in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870s-1940s: Antagonisms, Solidarities, and Syntheses I
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Lucien van der Walt
Organizers: Steven Hirsch, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Lucien van der Walt
Anthony Gorman : United in Anti-imperialism: Coordination, Cooperation and Conflict between Anarchists and Nationalists in Egypt 1907-1922
In 1907 the Egyptian nationalist movement reenergised itself with the establishment of formal political parties and began an active campaign calling for the end of the British occupation that had been in place since 1882. Over the next decade and a half, a period punctuated by political repression, the strictures ... (Show more)
In 1907 the Egyptian nationalist movement reenergised itself with the establishment of formal political parties and began an active campaign calling for the end of the British occupation that had been in place since 1882. Over the next decade and a half, a period punctuated by political repression, the strictures of the First World War and the ignition of the 1919 Revolution, nationalists employed a range of tactics, many pioneered by the anarcho-syndicalist movement, and at times engaged in active cooperation with anarchist militants in the struggle against imperial rule that succeeded in securing the constitutional settlement in 1922 that granted Egypt self-government. This paper will examine the record of interaction between the emerging Egyptian nationalist movement and local anarchists, syndicalists and international socialists during this critical period. Exploring the record of coordination and cooperation underwritten by the pragmatism of common purpose it will also investigate the tensions of an ideologically problematic relationship. (Show less)

Dongyoun Hwang : Korean Anarchists and the Question of the National United Front in 1930s-40s China
This paper will examine the Korean anarchists’ various struggles against the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s and early 1940s, which mostly took the form of the “national united front” with nationalists and/or communists. Under examination will be such organizations as the Alliance of Korean Youth in South China, ... (Show more)
This paper will examine the Korean anarchists’ various struggles against the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s and early 1940s, which mostly took the form of the “national united front” with nationalists and/or communists. Under examination will be such organizations as the Alliance of Korean Youth in South China, the Alliance to Resist Japan and Save the Nation, the Alliance for Korean National Front, the Korean Righteous Army, the Alliance of Korean Revolutionaries, and the Operation Unit at the War Front [in China] of Korean Youth. Moving away from the dominant line of interpretation that sees these collaborative activities and struggles of Korean anarchists as an aberration from anarchism or a logical outcome of the anarchists being nationalist, the paper will emphasize the intersections of Korean anarchism with nationalism in the context of 1930s China and argue that, without reducing anarchism to nationalism, Korean anarchism in China during the 1930s-early 1940s was a revolutionary version of nationalism, which inspired them to jointly establish various national united fronts and many alliances with nationalists and/or communists, to fight Japan, retake independence and eventually create a new Korea. Although their ultimate goal was to establish a new Korea bent on anarchist principles, their immediate goal was to retake independence and their foremost enemy at the time was Japanese imperialism/colonialism, for which they worked together with nationalists and/or communists, and even Chinese anarchists and nationalists. (Show less)

Tom Marling : Too Peaceful, Too Constructive: A Contextualised Approach to Anarcho-syndicalism in the Chinese Labour Movement 1918-1922
In recent years, determined attempts to move away from nation-centric approaches and into transnational linkages have resulted in productive new understandings of anarchist and syndicalist movements. While agreeing with the constraints of the nation as focal boundary, rather than looking at supra-national connections this paper looks to reincorporate sub-national contexts ... (Show more)
In recent years, determined attempts to move away from nation-centric approaches and into transnational linkages have resulted in productive new understandings of anarchist and syndicalist movements. While agreeing with the constraints of the nation as focal boundary, rather than looking at supra-national connections this paper looks to reincorporate sub-national contexts - particularly at the level of physical spaces and local societal structures - into discussions surrounding movement development and extramovement relations. In this decentred context, syndicalist unions were encouraged to consider the value of horizontal linkages (with extramovement groups and ideologies) and vertical negotiations (hierarchical union structures and representations) from outside of classical anarchist theory. Syndicalist organisations evidenced a growing emphasis on instances of spatial-oppression and the use of micro-liberatory tactics, including boycotts, strikes and protests which challenged the socio-spatial order of the city. It is hypothesized that in joining an arena of networked interactions, anarchist labour organisers were required to develop decentered socio-spatial imaginaries. (Show less)



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