Racism and Anti-Racism in Western Europe

Abstract

Explores the development of postwar state racism in Western Europe & the continuation of these policies through immigration controls & economic marginalization of minority communities. The policies of political parties & trade unions served to exclude immigrants, compelled them to accept lower wages, & as a result raised the status of the "native" race. The growing appeal of far-right parties is traced to the trade unions' failure to gain political power by accepting migrants into the union movement. Working-class white Europeans, consequently, have turned to the Right for answers to their problems. It is argued that antiracists in Europe must adopt the cause of refugee rights while still fighting for full democratic rights for settlers by building an organization from the bottom up rather that from the top down. 57 References. M. Greenberg