![[Ted Grant Archive – Update] British Refuse Arms to Indians](https://communist.red/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/brit-jap-imperialism.jpg "[Ted Grant Archive – Update] British Refuse Arms to Indians")
The threatened invasion of India by Japanese imperialism in 1942
brought the question of India front and centre before the British
working class. Rather than arm the Indian people and risk India falling
into the hands of the Indians, the British imperialists would have
prefered it to fall, temporarily, into the hands of the Japanese.
Read the full article in the Ted Grant Archive.
While the collapse of the British Empire is often portrayed as the result of benevolence, this could not be further from the truth. This article, from a new RCP booklet, examines the real role of British imperialism during the 1948-60 Malayan “Emergency”.
On this day 140 years ago, the European powers gathered at the Berlin Conference carved up the African continent. This article from the RCP’s new booklet ‘The Crimes of British Imperialism’ lays bare the bloody role played by British capitalism.
We are proud to announce the release of a new booklet, ‘The Crimes of British Imperialism’’. We publish here the introduction, which explains how British imperialism went from being an empire that ruled the waves, to its role today.