British Communism And The Politics Of Race

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A ground-breaking examination of how the Communist Party of Great Britain helped shape the anti-racist movement in the U.K.

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 organizations 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 soci