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The racism of the US & Britain is seen as a deep-rooted way of life rather than an outright ideology; it is a state of quasi-racism. Racism in the true sense exists today only in the Union of South Africa. This quasi-racism has served to undermine Wc consciousness & confuse class divisions in the West. In its origin, all racism is traced to the failure of liberalism. The cultural revolt of the young sought to put back content into liberal rhetoric. In the violent repression which followed are found the beginnings of emerging fascism. Instit'al racism, the emergence of a metropolitan black bourgeoisie & the pol'al ineffectiveness of black nat'lism for its own sake have created a class consciousness among black workers in Britain & France even more than in the US. At the same time, the white Wc, subjected to increasing econ repression & unavailing of militant trade union action, has begun to emerge from a period of lapsed class-consciousness. The British variant of racism is explored & found to illustrate the basic conflict between the liberal ideology & the interests of monopoly capitalism. M. Maxfield.

A few days before Christmas, 1971, the Protestant Federation of France published a 12,000-word draft statement, Eglise et Pouvoirs, which immediately caused repercussions around the world. The extraordinary, and for the French Protestant leaders startling, controversy over the statement was initiated by the French centrist newspaper Le Monde. On December 19 it printed a full page of extracts from the document under the provocative title "The French Protestant Federation declares: Our society is unacceptable."Immediately, all the French dailies and weeklies came out with numerous quotations and analyses, constituting a press reaction greater than any ever caused by a church statement in French history. The foreign press, notably the New York Times and International Herald Tribune, were not far behind. Press, radio and TV reporters brought a sudden and unwonted animation to the offices of the Protestant Federation of France (an old building, the House of French Protestantism, on the Rue de Clichy across from the Casino de Paris, famous music hall of Mistinguett and Maurice Chevalier).