Ebook: British communism and the politics of race

Machine generated contents note: Themes -- Shifting Away from the Centrality of Class -- Thinking Intersectionally about the CPGB and the Politics of `Race' -- Situating the Party's Anti-racism within the Wider Scholarship -- A Note on Methodology -- Book Structure -- 1.The End of Empire and the Windrush Moment, 1945 -- 60 -- The Communist Party's Anti-colonial Traditions -- The CPGB and the Era of Decolonisation -- Left Nationalism and the Postwar CPGB -- The Response of the Communist Party to Commonwealth Migration -- The Campaign Against Polish Resettlement -- The Legacy of the `Battle of Cable Street' and the CPGB'S Postwar Anti-fascism -- Anti-fascist Action against the Fascist Revival of the Union Movement, 1945 -- 51 -- The Impact of Commonwealth Migrants upon the Party's Anti-racist Outlook -- The Nationality Branches -- Conclusion -- 2.Anti-racism and Building the `Mass Party', 1960 -- 9 -- The Communist Party, Labour and Immigration Controls -- The Principle of Immigration Controls -- The Campaign for Legislation against Racial Discrimination -- The Race Relations Acts Under Labour, 1965-8 -- The CPGB'S Concept of `Race' in the Post-Colonial Era -- The Movement for Colonial Freedom and Moderate Anti-racism -- The Beginnings of the `British Upturn' and the Radicalism of `1968' -- The Trade Unions and Race -- The Rise of New Social Movements and Black Radicalism -- The Link with International Issues -- Capitulating to Racism: Labour and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 -- Integration and `Good Race Relations': The 1968 Race Relations Act -- Powellism and the Rise of the National Front -- Conclusion -- 3.The Crisis Emerges, 1970 -- 5 -- The 1971 Immigration Act and Opposition to the Conservative Government -- The Communist Party and the Reaction of the Trade Unions to the Immigration Act -- Facing the Limits of Industrial Militancy -- The Ugandan Asian `Controversy' and the Rise of the National Front under the Conservatives -- The `No Platform' Strategy -- Red Lion Square and the Death of Kevin Gately -- The Trade Union Response to Fascism and Racism in the 1970s -- Asian Workers and the Trade Unions in the Early 1970s: Mansfield Hosiery Mills and Imperial Typewriters -- Conclusion -- 4.The Great Moving Right Show, 1976 -- 9 -- The Building of the Broad Democratic Alliance -- The Grunwick Strike -- Intersectionality and the British Labour Movement -- Policing the Labour Movement -- The NF's Shift to the Streets and the Rise of the Asian Youth Movements -- The Rise of the SWP and the Revival of Militant Anti-fascism -- The `Battle of Lewisham' -- `The National Front is a Nazi Front': The Anti-Nazi League, 1977 -- 9 -- Rock Against Racism -- The an l and the Wider British Left -- Southall and the Death of Blair Peach -- `Feeling Rather Swamped': Thatcher and the Exploitation of Popular Racism -- Conclusion -- 5.Babylon's Burning: Into the 1980s -- Further Defeats for the CPGB -- The Police and the Black Communities -- From Southall to Brixton: The Violent Reaction to the Police Under Thatcher -- `Crisis in the Inner Cities': The Communist Party's Reaction -- The 1981 Riots as Social Protest -- Lord Scarman's Report and the Denial of Institutional Racism -- The Broad Democratic Alliance and Municipal Anti-racism -- The `Limits' of Trade Unionism in the 1980s -- The Push for Black Sections/Caucuses within the Labour Movement -- The End of the Party -- Conclusion.;British Communism and the Politics of Race' explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organisations to undertake serious anti-colonial and anti-racist activism within the British labour movement, the CPGB was a pioneering force that campaigned against racial discrimination, popular imperialism and fascist violence in British society.