PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

A NOTE ON＂EMPIRE＂AND＂COMMONWEALTH＂

Ⅰ．BRITAIN＇S CRISIS OF EMPIRE

Ⅱ．WHAT IS THE EMPIRE？

1．Does the Empire Exist？

2．Title or Alias？

3．One-quarter of the World

4．Associated Territories

5．The＂White＂Dominions

6．The Asian Republics

7．The Colonial Empire

8．The Bond of Unity

9．The Great Imperialist Monopolies

10．Technique of Colonial Exploitation

11．Social Conditions of the Colonial Peoples

Ⅲ．HOW THE EMPIRE DEVELOPED

1．The Early Colonial Era

2．The Era of Industrial Capital

3．The Advent of Modern Imperialism

Ⅳ．PRICE OF EMPIRE

1．Imperialism as the Alternative to Socialism

2．Balance Sheet for Britain

3．Outcome for the British Labour Movement

Ⅴ．CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM

1．Rise of the Colonial Freedom Movement

2．Effects of the War of Anti-Fascist Liberation

3．New Advance since 1945

4．Disintegration of the Colonial System

5．Bankruptcy of Colonialism

Ⅵ．CRISIS OF＂WESTERN CIVILISATION＂

1．The Red Line on the Balance Sheet

2．Mythology of＂Western Civilisation＂

3．Western Europe in the Doldrums

4．American Penetration of Western Europe

Ⅶ．AMERICA AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE

1．Foreshadowings of the Future

2．Effects of the Second World War

3．The New American Empire

4．Penetration of the British Empire

5．Antagonistic Partnership

Ⅷ．TACTICS OF A DECLINING EMPIRE

1．End of Colonialism？

2．Old and New Colonialism

3．Constitutions and Colonialism

4．Experience of Nigeria and Ghana

5．Colonial Repression

6．Interplay of Constitutions and Repression：British Guiana

7．Colonial Wars：Malaya

8．Colonial Wars：Kenya

Ⅸ．INDIA IN THE NEW WORLD

1．End of British Rule in India

2．Initial Phase of the New Regime

3．Anglo-American Imperialism in India

4．India and Peace

5．India and the Afro-Asian Conference at Bandung

6．The Indian People on the March

7．Economic Reconstruction

8．Pakistan in Crisis

Ⅹ．EMPIRE AND LIBERATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

1．Background of Empire in the Middle East

2．Egypt＇s Fight for Liberation

3．Iran＇s Battle Against the Oil Monopolies

4．Liberation Movement in Cyprus，Jordan and Iraq

5．Anglo-American Rivalry and War Plans in the Middle East

6．National Liberation and Communism

7．Anglo-French-Israeli War on Egypt in 1956

Ⅺ．AFRICA ADVANCES

1．Drive to Empire Expansion

2．African Eldorado

3．Mirage in the Bush

4．Awakened Africa

Ⅻ．PROJECTS OF COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT

1．Colonial Development and Welfare？

2．The Colonial Development Corporation

3．Development and Industrialisation

4．Contradictions of Colonial＂Development＂

5．The Colombo Plan

6．Point Four

7．United Nations and Economic Aid

8．Increase of Colonial Exploitation

ⅩⅢ．EMPIRE AND WAR

1．Record of Empire and War

2．Rising Burden of Armaments

3．A Decade of Cold War

4．The New Holy Alliance

5．Overseas Military Commitments

6．British Military Overstrain

7．American War Strategy and Britain

8．Menace of Nuclear War for Britain

9．Advance of the Fight for Peace

ⅩⅣ．LABOUR AND EMPIRE

1．The Anti-Imperialist Tradition

2．Labour Imperialism

3．Arguments of Empire

4．Bankruptcy of Labour Imperialism

ⅩⅤ．SOCIALISM AND COLONIAL LIBERATION

1．Alliance for Freedom

2．Marx and Engels on Colonial Liberation

3．Lenin on Colonial Liberation

4．Fulfilment in the U．S．S．R

5．Socialist Economic Aid

ⅩⅥ．NEXT STEPS OF COLONIAL LIBERATION

1．National Independence and Peace

2．New Features in the Fight for National Independence

3．People＇s Democracy and National Independence

4．United National Front and the Communist Party

5．Practical Solidarity

6．Trade Unionism in the Colonies

7．Democratic Rights in the Colonies

8．The Great Alliance

ⅩⅦ．HEART OF BRITAIN＇S CRISIS

1．Myths about the Crisis

2．Truth of Britain＇s Crisis

3．Bankrupt Remedies of the Labour Government，1945-51

4．Bankrupt Remedies of the Conservative Government，1951-5

5．Truth About the Balance of Payments

ⅩⅧ．LIBERATION OF BRITAIN

1．Restoration of National Independence

2．Britain and World Peace

3．Britain and World Trade

ⅩⅨ．RECONSTRUCTION OF BRITAIN

1．End of Imperialist Parasitism

2．Socialism，True and False

3．Economic and Social Reconstruction

ⅩⅩ．THE FUTURE OF BRITAIN AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE

1．Death of an Era

2．A Choice of Two Paths

3．Future of the Empire

4．Towards the Future

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