Mike Cole - a leading Marxist writer on racism and class politics - has written an extremely important and timely book drawing our attention to the structuring force of racism today. Satnam Virdee, University of Glasgow, co-author of Britain In Fragments: Why Things are Falling Apart Cole's work provides an important concrete contribution to exposing the economic foundations of contemporary racism, highlighting how austerity politics serve to divide the working classin a way that is functional to profit accumulation and detrimental to democratic processes. Clara Mattei, author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Mike Cole provides his readers with a deep look at Tory austerity fuelled by racism and xenophobia. His timely indictment will motivate resistance and change. Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine A powerful, clear and rage-inducing indictment of savage Tory racism and austerity and their impacts. A very welcome lucid Marxist analysis and critique. Dave Hill, Chief Editor, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies and Anglia Ruskin University
This book explores how successive Tory governments since 2010 have used austerity as a deliberate policy to make the poor poorer whilst channelling that wealth to a small elite. Racism in its many guises has been deliberately inflamed to provide a convenient scapegoat to shift attention away from this wealth stripping and wealth shifting. John Clay, Goldsmiths, University of London
