Politics Of Racism In France Book

	Acknowledgements
	List of Tables
	List of Acronyms
1	Introduction	1
2	The Republic and her Immigrants	8
	1850-1918, formation of the working class	11
	Escaping oppression: Jewish workers of the 'belle epoque'	13
	The 1920s, demographic crisis and industrial expansion	15
	The depression, Nazism and the Popular Front	18
	War, resistance and Cold War	21
	North Africans in France: unwilling 'subjects' of the Republic	24
	Algerians at war	27
	Immigrants and the long boom, 1945-80	31
	The colonial legacy and racial violence	37
	Economic crisis and state racism	39
3	The National Front Breakthrough, 1981-8	42
	The 'gang of four' on the defensive	43
	The Front enters Parliament	50
	Towards the presidential election	55
	Who votes National Front?	61
4	Le Pen and the Extremist Tradition	75
	Three crises: MacMahon, Boulanger and Dreyfus	76
	Theorists of reaction: the Action Francaise	80
	The paramilitary veterans' leagues	83
	Vichy	88
	The survival of French fascism, 1945-72	91
5	Anatomy of a Fascist Party: Ideology, Strategy, Organisation	107
	National Front doctrine	108
	Propaganda and press	125
	National Front strategy - political change and the parliamentary road	132
	Party organisation	135
	The satellite organisations	137
	Conclusion	141
6	Youth and Anti-Racism	143
	Towards political mobilisation	145
	School and work	147
	Housing	149
	Police and justice	151
	Birth of the associations	154
	Dimensions of Beur identity	157
	The Beurs, from Giscard to Mitterrand	158
7	In and Against the System: The Third Force in French Politics	170
	Michel Rocard, the politics of pragmatic consensus	171
	The headscarf affair	174
	The Gulf War	180
	The corruption of mainstream politics	182
	Edith Cresson, stealing the National Front's clothes	184
	Re-inventing anti-racism	186
	From Cresson to Beregovoy, the Socialists in free fall	188
	Cohabitation mark two: Mitterrand and Balladur	192
	1995-7, Jacques Chirac, lame-duck president	195
	Anti-racism revives	201
8	Where Do We Go From Here?	204
	Defending a cause	204
	Confronting the fascist revival	210
	Where do we go from here?	213
	Bibliography	218
	Index	229