The Rise of the Right

The Rise of the Right

by Simon WinlowSteve Hall and James Treadwell
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 17/11/2016

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The shock Brexit result highlighted a worrying trend: underemployed white men and women who have seen their standard of living fall, their communities disintegrate and their sense of value, function and inclusion diminish, desperately want a mainstream political party to defend their interests. However, no such party exists. These men and women cannot connect their declining fortunes and growing frustrations to their true cause. Instead, immigrants are scapegoated and groups like the English Defence League (EDL) emerge.


This book is the first to offer an accessible and uncompromising look at the EDL. It aims to alter thinking about working-class politics and the rise of right-wing nationalism in the de-industrialised and decaying towns and cities of England. The rise of the right among the working class, the authors claim, is inextricably connected to the withdrawal of the political left from traditional working-class communities, and the left’s refusal to advance the economic interests of those who have suffered most from neoliberal economic restructuring. Incisive, contentious and boundary-breaking, it uses the voices of men and women who now support far-right political groups to address the total failure of mainstream parliamentary politics and the rising tide of frustration, resentment and anger.

ISBN:
9781447328513
9781447328513
Category:
Political parties
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
17-11-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Policy Press
Simon Winlow

Simon Winlow is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University.

Steve Hall

Steve Hall is a renowned visual historian who has studied and researched Titanic's photographic record for over 30 years.

They previously co-authored the classic work Titanic: The Ship Magnificent, and Titanic or Olympic: Which Ship Sank?, for The History Press, as well as being involved in many more Titanic-related publications.

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