The Politics of Racism in France

By: J. Wolfreys, P. Fysh

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Hardcover | 23 September 1998 | Edition Number 1

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This book traces the rise of the French National Front and presents an analysis of the organisation's origins, structure and doctrine which concludes that the Le Pen phenomenon represents a modern and sophisticated form of fascism. The authors offer a critical assessment of how political parties and anti-racist organisations have responded to the National Front's exploitation of the immigration issue and examine the political arguments accompanying the reception of foreign workers and their families by French society during the twentieth century.

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'This is an excellent book and probably the best available English- language history of the Front National.' - David Renton, Contemporary Politics

'...comprehensive study of racism in France explaining clearly how the National Front has come to be such a threat.' - Andy Stafford, Socialist Review

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Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xii
List of Acronyms	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Republic and her Immigrants	p. 8
1850-1918, formation of the working class	p. 11
Escaping oppression: Jewish workers of the 'belle epoque'	p. 13
The 1920s, demographic crisis and industrial expansion	p. 15
The depression, Nazism and the Popular Front	p. 18
War, resistance and Cold War	p. 21
North Africans in France: unwilling 'subjects' of the Republic	p. 24
Algerians at war	p. 27
Immigrants and the long boom, 1945-80	p. 31
The colonial legacy and racial violence	p. 37
Economic crisis and state racism	p. 39
The National Front Breakthrough, 1981-8	p. 42
The 'gang of four' on the defensive	p. 43
The Front enters Parliament	p. 50
Towards the presidential election	p. 55
Who votes National Front?	p. 61
'Contact racism'	p. 61
A protest vote?	p. 64
Evolution of the NF vote: Sociology, geography, political provenance	p. 66
National Front voters, core and periphery	p. 71
Le Pen and the Extremist Tradition	p. 75
Three crises: MacMahon, Boulanger and Dreyfus	p. 76
The Dreyfus Affair	p. 78
Theorists of reaction: the Action Francaise	p. 80
The paramilitary veterans' leagues	p. 83
Vichy	p. 88
The survival of French fascism, 1945-72	p. 91
Theorising the National Front, 1962-72	p. 93
Fascist origins of the National Front, 1972-81	p. 97
The problem of doctrinal renewal	p. 100
Bringing the family together	p. 104
Anatomy of a Fascist Party: Ideology, Strategy, Organisation	p. 107
National Front doctrine	p. 108
Racial supremacy	p. 109
The Ideal Society	p. 112
Economy and society	p. 116
Pagans against Christians	p. 120
Monarchy or republic?	p. 122
Propaganda and press	p. 125
The strategy of the dual discourse	p. 129
National Front strategy--political change and the parliamentary road	p. 132
Party organisation	p. 135
The satellite organisations	p. 137
Conclusion	p. 141
Youth and Anti-Racism	p. 143
Towards political mobilisation	p. 145
School and work	p. 147
Housing	p. 149
Police and justice	p. 151
Birth of the associations	p. 154
Dimensions of Beur identity	p. 157
The Beurs, from Giscard to Mitterrand	p. 158
In and Against the System: The Third Force in French Politics	p. 170
Michel Rocard, the politics of pragmatic consensus	p. 171
The headscarf affair	p. 174
The Gulf War	p. 180
The corruption of mainstream politics	p. 182
Edith Cresson, stealing the National Front's clothes	p. 184
Re-inventing anti-racism	p. 186
From Cresson to Beregovoy, the Socialists in free fall	p. 188
Cohabitation mark two: Mitterrand and Balladur	p. 192
1995-7, Jacques Chirac, lame-duck president	p. 195
Anti-racism revives	p. 201
Where Do We Go From Here?	p. 204
Defending a cause	p. 204
Confronting the fascist revival	p. 210
Where do we go from here?	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 229
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