Exploring approaches to decolonising work within nonviolent social change movements.
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Our reading list includes books, pamphlets and periodicals exploring approaches to decolonising work within nonviolent social change movements.
In the Collection – pamphlets and periodicals
These are just a few of the many pamphlets and periodicals in the Commonweal Collection. Most pamphlets are available to borrow, the periodicals are reference only.
CARE Newsletter
Printed in South Australia by the Campaign against Racial Exploitation (CARE), this newsletter highlights CARE’s campaigns to support liberation struggles in Southern Africa and land rights, self determination and proper compensation for Black Australians across Australia. Articles include reports on land council meetings, an analysis of (mainly white) migration from South Africa to Australia, health inequality in both South Africa and Australia and workers rights.
Classification: R Racism – General Periodical – Reference only. Approx 6 issues covering 1980-1983 (incomplete).
Cultural Survival Quarterly
Published in Cambridge MA in the 1990s, Cultural Survival Quarterly aimed to inform the public and policy makers about the rights of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities. The organisation Cultural Survival worked with “indigenous peoples as they struggled to maintain their culture and secure control of their land and resource base.”
Classification: RS Indigenous Resistance Periodical – Reference only. 4 issues printed between 1996 and 1997.
Liberation: Colonial Freedom News By the Movement for Colonial Freedom.
The journal of the British anticolonialist campaign group and civil rights advocacy organisation, the Movement for Colonial Freedom (MCF) who campaigned for the independence of colonial peoples and promoted international mutual aid. The journal was funded by subscriptions, pamphlets, and donations, featuring articles on colonial struggles and anti-racism campaigns.
Classification: RH Colonialism Periodical – Reference only. Approx 25 issues covering 1968-1994 (missing 1973-1979).
New Tendencies in Colonial Policy By Pacifist Research Bureau (1939)
“Justice, freedom and peace will remain exiles from our world so long as imperial systems continue to exist.” A critical examination and explanation of the proposals of the Labour and Peace Movements for dealing with the colonial question, leading to a pacifist conception of the remedy for imperialism and war.
Classification: Rh PAC Colonialism PAMPHLET check it’s available here.
Race: A Journal of Race and Group Relations
Published in London by the Institute of Race Relations, Race was praised for the breadth of its analysis, its global outlook and its multidisciplinary approach.
Classification: R Racism – General Periodical – Reference only. Approx 200 issues covering 1968-1974. Subsequently published as Race and Class, 300 issues covering 1974-2011.
Toward Freedom: A Newsletter on New Nations
“We believe that the peaceful elimination of colonialism – in all its forms and wherever it may be found – is essential to a free world.”
In the aftermath of World War II, anti-colonial movements spread throughout the world giving rise to the non-aligned movement. At the end of 1952 in Chicago, Bill Lloyd started a newsletter to inform readers in the US about independence movements in Africa and the non-aligned movement in general, its mission to publish international reporting from a grassroots perspective and incisive analysis that exposed government and corporate abuses of power, while supporting movements for universal peace, justice, freedom, the environment, and human rights. Toward Freedom ceased publication in 2023.
Classification: RH Colonialism Periodical – Reference only. Approx 30 issues covering 1970-1973.
Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property: Issues and options surrounding the protection of traditional knowledge. By Carlos M Correa (2001)
Traditional and indigenous knowledge (TK) has been used for centuries by indigenous and local communities under local laws, customs and traditions. It has been transmitted and evolved from generation to generation. This discussion paper explores how the West has not, in general, recognised any value in TK nor obligations associated to its use, and has passively consented to or accelerated its loss through the destruction of the communities’ living environment and cultural values.
Classification: Rs COR Indigenous Resistance – check it’s available here.
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