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109 The everyday struggles of blacks against the racism of capitalist command are the ground on which the state and its agencies will attempt to develop mechanisms of containment and counter-insurgency. They also supply ‘facts’ from which new elements of racist ideologies will be constructed, at the level of official discourse and on the streets. They raise issues which have a wider importance than the immediate scope of the struggles themselves. As Stuart Hall remarked, in his account of the recent riots: The police-black front is the front line: policing and the drift into authoritarian social control are front-line issues.
Where historical and political analyses do make an entry into the debates they do so either in a minor way or they tend to be narrow case studies of specific issues. Although we do not claim to have redressed this situation, it is important to stress that this is the area on which much more serious and critical theoretical work remains to be done. Hall, The whites of their eyes: racist ideologies and the media’, in G. ), Silver Linings: Some Strategies for the Eighties (Lawrence and Wishart 1981).
Also see the discussion in Chapter 2. 64 In a number of specific contexts the themes of trade union ‘militants’ and ‘race’ have been connected, notably in the struggles at Grunwick and Imperial Typewriters. But clearly both these themes have operated in an autonomous manner as well, even when the specific ways in which they have been presented have produced wider resonances. What is likely to happen, however, as levels of black unemployment reach a higher peak is that the industrial struggles waged by black workers in defence of jobs will take on a more general form.