
THE WORKING CLASS, IMMIGRATION & THE LEFT
by Kenan Malik
This essay was the main part of my Observer column this week. (The column included also a shorter piece on sports and ethics.) It was published in the Observer, 11 March 2018, under the headline ‘Aping populist attacks on migrants is not a winning strategy for the left’. On Christmas Eve 1980, Paul Mercieca, the communist mayor of Vitry, near Paris, led a gang of 60 men, mainly Communist party supporters, in a ‘direct action‘ to stop 300 Malian immigrants from […]
Categories: Britain, Race & Immigration • Tags: communist party, immigration, left, pcf, populism, working class