Geopolitics, transnational solidarity or diaspora nationalism? The global career of M.N. Roy, 1915–1930

This article examines the global travels and anti-colonial thought of the Indian Manabendra Nath Roy. It focuses particularly on his little explored stay revolutionary Mexico, where he became a founder of the Mexican Communist Party 1919. Drawing on archival sources from various countries and Roy's own writings, article situates Roy's exploits somewhere between a global anti-colonialism, solidarity and diasporic nationalism. It explores particularly the and the limits of an image of Asia and Latin America as regions united their oppression by imperialism, and warranting shared anti-colonial strategies in the of international Communism.