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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Evan SmithPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 143 Weight: 0.591kg ISBN: 9789004297135ISBN 10: 9004297138 Pages: 279 Publication Date: 20 October 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction â Themes â Shifting Away from the Centrality of Class â Thinking Intersectionally about the CPGB and the Politics of `Race' â Situating the Party's Anti-racism within the Wider Scholarship â A Note on Methodology â Book Structure 1 The End of Empire and the Windrush Moment, 1945-60 â The Communist Party's Anti-colonial Traditions â The CPGB and the Era of Decolonisation â Left Nationalism and the Postwar CPGB â The Response of the Communist Party to Commonwealth Migration â The Campaign Against Polish Resettlement â The Legacy of the `Battle of Cable Street' and the CPGB's Postwar Anti-fascism â Anti-fascist Action against the Fascist Revival of the Union Movement, 1945-51 â The Impact of Commonwealth Migrants upon the Party's Anti-colonial/Anti-racist Outlook â The Nationality Branches â Conclusion 2 Anti-racism and Building the `Mass Party', 1960-9 â The Communist Party, Labour and Immigration Controls â The Principle of Immigration Controls â The Campaign for Legislation against Racial Discrimination â The Race Relations Acts Under Labour, 1965-8 â The CPGB's Concept of `Race' in the Post-Colonial Era â The Movement for Colonial Freedom and Moderate Anti-racism â The Beginnings of the `British Upturn' and the Radicalism of `1968' â The Trade Unions and Race â The Rise of New Social Movements and Black Radicalism â The Link with International Issues â Capitulating to Racism: Labour and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 â Integration and `Good Race Relations': The 1968 Race Relations Act â Powellism and the Rise of the National Front â Conclusion 3 The Crisis Emerges, 1970-5 â The 1971 Immigration Act and Opposition to the Conservative Government â The Communist Party and the Reaction of the Trade Unions to the Immigration Act â Facing the Limits of Industrial Militancy â The Ugandan Asian `Controversy' and the Rise of the National Front under the Conservatives â The `No Platform' Strategy â Red Lion Square and the Death of Kevin Gately â The Trade Union Response to Fascism and Racism in the 1970s â Asian Workers and the Trade Unions in the Early 1970s: Mansfield Hosiery Mills and Imperial Typewriters â Conclusion 4 The Great Moving Right Show, 1976-9 â The Building of the Broad Democratic Alliance â The Grunwick Strike â Intersectionality and the British Labour Movement â Policing the Labour Movement â The NF's Shift to the Streets and the Rise of the Asian Youth Movements â The Rise of the SWP and the Revival of Militant Anti-fascism â The `Battle of Lewisham' â `The National Front is a Nazi Front': The Anti-Nazi League, 1977-9 â Rock Against Racism â The ANL and the Wider British left â Southall and the Death of Blair Peach â `Feeling Rather Swamped': Thatcher and the Exploitation of Popular Racism â Conclusion 5 Babylon's Burning: Into the 1980s â Further Defeats for the CPGB â The Police and the Black Communities â From Southall to Brixton: The Violent Reaction to the Police Under Thatcher â `Crisis in the Inner Cities': The Communist Party's Reaction â The 1981 Riots as Social Protest â Lord Scarman's Report and the Denial of Institutional Racism â The Broad Democratic Alliance and Municipal Anti-racism â The `Limits' of Trade Unionism in the 1980s â The Push for Black Sections/Caucuses within the Labour Movement â The End of the Party â Conclusion Conclusion References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationEvan Smith, Ph.D. (2007), Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, is a Visiting Adjunct Fellow at that university. He co-wrote Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control (Palgrave, 2014) and co-edited Against the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956 (MUP, 2014). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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