Standing on the Shoulders of Fascism

The state is always in a sense authoritarian - it is just that the forms of authority change. But since New Labour came to power in 1997 the state apparatus has been significantly strengthened. Identity cards, the so-called anti-terrorist legislation and the development of Anti Social Behaviour Orders as a form of social control are all manifestations of the move to a strong state. And this has been accompanied by a plethora of further immigration restrictions - of which the 2005 Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill is the latest instance. Steve Cohen argues that there is a linear ideological and political connection between a century of immigration controls and the formation of the Blairite strong state, and that the popular acceptance of the brutality and repression of immigration controls has been part of the softening up process that enables other authoritarian legislation to be enacted. But he goes beyond this equation to draw another: between immigration controls and fascistic activity. He shows how immigration controls are unique in that at two critical periods (controls against Jews and then against black people) it was organised fascism that forced the law into being. New pieces are interspersed with a few old - and hard to find - essays. Together, they offer a critical examination of the history, law and politics of immigration controls - including resistance to controls - in the UK and internationally today.

ISBN 1858563747   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781858563749 (What's this?)   Pages 176 Publisher Trentham Books Ltd   Published in Stoke-on-Trent Imprint Trentham Books Ltd   Height (mm) 234 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 156 Publication date 01 Jul 2006   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 325.41

Ch. 1		The right to have rights : the dirty little secret		1
Ch. 2		Standing on the shoulders of fascism - from immigration control to the strong state		13
Ch. 3		Solidarity not pity - rethinking campaigns against deportation		45
Ch. 4		From Aliens Act to Immigration Act		57
Ch. 5		Anarchists, terrorists and Jews - the war against refugees		65
Ch. 6		Trades unions and fortress world - a horrible history		71
Ch. 7		Legal freakdom - the Immigration, Aslym and Nationality Act 2006		103
Ch. 8		Folk devils and devilish folk		119
Ch. 9		From Rabbi Hillel to Bobby Seale		125
Ch. 10		Refugees going Dutch		131
Ch. 11		Today bury - tomorrow the world - collusion with the world pandemic of immigration controls		141
App. 1		Workers' control not immigration controls		163
App. 2		The manifesto of the campaign against double punishment		181

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