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British wealth built on Indian poverty

2,778 views · Published 26 October 2017 · 1:56 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: Proletarian TV · 2017 · Education

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British imperialist spokesmen generally like to claim that the British Empire was and is a force for good in the world. Some even maintain that the way to solve the problems of crying poverty of the vast masses of humanity today, are to bring back the 'good old days' of British Colonialism!

Even Gordon Brown, the last 'Labour' Party Prime Minister of Britain [while still conducting colonial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, presiding over the most devastating global-financial crash in crisis-ridden capitalism's history, and organising an instigating the whole-sale PFI driven sell-off of Britain's health service, while pushing zero-hour contracts and the unbridled rule of free-market fundamentalism as the most 'efficient' way to run our society] took time out to tour Africa and extol the civilising mission of the British Raj.

The general idea is that the colonialist's 'white man's burden' was an altruistic project to build railways and roads, keep order and raise the 'child-like people's' to full human capability and dignity.

Putting these rose-tinted spectacles aside, the facts lead us to different conclusions. It is evident that British imperialism committed untold economic, political and military crimes for that most noble cause of self-enrichment alone.

We reproduce another great video from the Irish republican site 'Crimes of Britain' - please subscribe to their twitter and youtube feeds!

For more information on British colonial history in India, and of India's liberation struggle, get this book:

H Brar: Inquilab Zindabad! India's Liberation Struggle
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And for more on Britain's imperial crimes, we recommend:

Late Victorian Holocausts, by Mike Davis
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Late-Victorian-Holocausts-Famines-Making/dp/1859843824

Bhagat Singh, India's foremost revolutionary fighter, was greatly influenced by Lenin, the Bolsheviks and the 1917 revolution in Russia; to the degree that when taken from his cell to be hanged by his British Imperial Gaolers, he made them wait, saying: "I am meeting with Lenin": he was reading Lenin in his cell, as he awaited his death sentence.

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