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One that you might like is Europe's fault lines, racism and the rise of the right by Liz Fakidi. It is clear that the right is on the rise,

but after Brexit the election of Donald Trump and the spike in popularity

of extreme right parties across Europe.

The question on everyone's mind is, how did this happen? Europe's fault lines is an expansive

investigation of the ways in which a newly configured right interconnects with

anti-democratic and illiberal forces at the level of the state, providing much needed answers and

revealing some uncomfortable truths.

What appear to be blind spots about far-right extremism on the part of the state are shown to constitute collusion.

As police, intelligence agencies, and the military embark on practices of covert policing that bring them into direct or indirect

contact with the far right in ways that bring to mind the darkest days of

Europe's authoritarian past. Old racism may be structured deep in European thought, but they have been

revitalized and spun in new ways. The War on Terror, the Cultural Revolution

from the Right, and the migration-linked

demonization of the destitute Scrounger. Drawing on more than three decades of

work for the Institute of Race Relations, Liz Ficidi exposes the fundamental fault lines of racism

in contemporary Europe.

Europe's fault lines, racism in the rise of the right by Liz Ficidi out now from Jacob and magazine. My name is Daniel Denver

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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voted to sell out the dreamers, undocumented young people

who came to this country as children.

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