REVIEW

Exposing the new McCarthyism

By Gareth Peirce

17 March 2009, 5:00pm

A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe deserves a slow and careful reading.

Liz Fekete reaches into the unique archives of knowledge that she has personally accumulated together with the Institute of Race Relations over decades and provides a clear, detailed and insightful road map for those who want to navigate and understand where, how and why current executive actions are reproducing once again the extreme and terrifying vices of McCarthyism in the USA and beyond and fascism in Europe.

Her analysis provides chapter and verse of the interlinking actions taken by a range of countries and economic unions and helps us understand in particular how the worst patterns of legislation and executive action in the UK feed into and are fed by those of other jurisdictions.

For any student of the world we inhabit today, this work of extraordinary thoroughness and clear, passionate moral insight provides a primer of unparalleled utility.

Chapters include:

The Emergence of Xeno-racism
Anti-Muslim Racism and the Security State
Enlightened Fundamentalism? Immigration, Feminism and the Right
The New McCarthyism
The Deportation Machine
'Speech Crime' and Deportation
They Are Children Too
Islamophobia, Youth Resistance and the Meaning of Liberty

Published in April 2009 by Pluto Press. ISBN 978 0 7453 2792 1. Pages 260. £17.99. Available for a short time only at a reduced price of £15 (including UK P&P) to IRR News Service readers, see link below for special offer.

The Institute of Race Relations is precluded from expressing a corporate view: any opinions expressed are therefore those of the authors.

Exposing the new McCarthyism

By Gareth Peirce

17 March 2009, 5:00pm

A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe deserves a slow and careful reading.

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