How to Beat the Racists. (3rd edition)

£5.00
Combination/copies

March 2026

Front Cover of HTBTR
by
Mark Osborn
2026
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3rd
Short book
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94 pages
ISBN
99781909639751

This publication is — at its core — a long polemic for a set of ideas. Centrally, that racism and fascism will only be defeated by united working-class mobilisations, and a fight for socialist policies and a government that will implement those policies.

Blurb 

This is a dangerous moment.

We must bring the labour movement on to the streets against the racists and fascists. We must be prepared to steward our protests and defend ourselves from the right and the police. We must unite workers from all backgrounds in a fight for migrants’ rights, against all racism and for a workers’ government.

Table of Contents 

• Workers’ unity, socialist policies, a workers’ government
• Immigration controls: migrants’ rights and working-class solidarity
• The contemporary far right
• What is fascism?
• The Battle of Lewisham
• The rise and decline of the National Front
• For workers’ self-defence against fascism
• The police are a bosses’ force
• The origins of antisemitism
• “No platform” and free speech
• The roots of racism
• Critical notes on postcolonial theory
• How Europe underdeveloped Africa
• The Black Panthers and the cult of the gun
• The reinventions of Malcolm X
• A previous culture war: Turner and Styron
• The New York teachers’ strike of 1968

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