FIGHTING IDENTITIES: RACE, RELIGION AND ETHNO-NATIONALISM
SOCIALIST REGISTER 2003

Edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

[] Why do racial, religious, ethnic and national identities have such
purchase on the lives of so many people, and why are they still at the
centre of so many major conflicts at the beginning of the twenty-first
century?

[] What form is racism taking amidst the inequalities, refugees and
mass migrations of today's global capitalism?

[] How does the American state - as both the manager of the world
capitalist order and as the embodiment of an all-too-often chauvinist
national identity - fit into the picture of 'Fighting Identities'?

[] What is the role of the scientist and the intellectual today in
relation to racism, oppression and 'fighting identities'?

[] Can the Left - from the anti-globalisation movement to new working
class parties - develop structures and strategies to support the legitimate
aspirations and demands associated with these identities, and integrate them
in struggles against the global capitalist order?

CONTENTS

Peter Gowan The American Campaign for Global Sovreignty
Aziz Al-Azmeh Post-modern Obscurantism and the Muslim Question
Avishai Ehrlich Palestine, Global Politics and Israeli Judaism
Susan Woodward The Political Economy of Ethno-Nationalism in Yugoslavia
Georgi Derluguian How Soviet Bureaucracy Produced Nationalism, & What
Came of It in Azerbaijan
Pratyush Chandra Linguistic-Communal Politics and Class Conflict in India
Mahmood Mamdani Making Sense of Political Violence in Postcolonial Africa
Hugh Roberts The Algerian Tragedy: Lessons for the Left
Stephen Castles The International Politics of Forced Migration
Hans-Georg Betz Xenophobia, Identity Politics & Exclusionary Populism in
Western Europe
Joerg Flecker The European Right & Working Life: From Ordinary Miseries to
Political Disasters
Huw Beynon & Lou Kushnick Cool Britannia or Cruel Britannia? Racism &
New Labour
Bill Fletcher Jr. & Fernando Gapasin The Politics of Labour and Race in the
USA
Amory Starr Is the North American Anti-Globalisation Movement Racist?
Critical Reflections
Stephanie Ross Is This What 'Democracy' Looks Like? The Anti-Globalization
Movement in N America
Sergio Baierle The Porto Alegre Thermidor? Brazil's 'Participatory
Budget' at the Crossroads
Nancy Leys Stepan Science and Race: Before and After the Genome Project
John S. Saul Classifing Identities, Identifying Classes

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