Letters
Tariq Ali was among supporters of a 1969 conference held by the International Marxist Group to debate this topic GEORDIE Kerevan’s Monday column “Here is a primary reason we need independence – and need it now” thankfully concludes “Whatever you want to call that process – colonialist or no – it has to be reversed”. Call it what you will. The argument is not new and is all matter of definition and purely academic. Because someone decides it is so, does not make it so. Colonialism takes many forms, internal, external or otherwise. I remember British/English Marxists on “Internal colonialism” by Linda Del Colliein, which tries to claim the Anglicisation of (Romanised) Celtic Britain, South of Hadrian’s Wall, was really a process of integration and assimilation, not annihilation.