In this episode we discuss Maia Ramnath's 'Decolonising Anarchism' (AK Press, 2011), an account of radical groups and individuals involved in the Indian independence movement and its post-colonial successors: from bomb-throwers and Californian bohemians to peasant collectivists and syndicalist educators; from Mahatma Gandhi to the dissident communist martyr Bhagat Singh. Throughout we probe how a 'Western' ideology such as anarchism might translate in a colonial context, asking whether Ramnath's distinction of a Big 'A' Anarchism (i.e. clearly defined anarchist movements and ideology) and 'Little a'  anarchism (i.e. groups and ideas of a broader tradition of which anarchism is a part) helps us to see a common history which would otherwise be obscured. Our conversation then moves onto the question of nationalism and what role, if any, it can play in anarchist politics.  For Ole Birk Laursen's work on M. P. T. Acharya and anarchist anti-colonialism see his website: https://olebirklaursen.wordpress.com/about/ 

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