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2017Book ReviewsDatacide 16
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Angry White People – Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right by Hsiao-Hung Pai (Book Review)

“Angry White People” by Hsiao-Hung Pai offers an in-depth look at the English Defence League (EDL), challenging the non-racist image they cultivate. By speaking directly with supporters and leaders, Pai reveals the group’s anti-Muslim sentiments and underlying racism. Set against Luton’s history and culture of multiculturalism, Pai explores the roots of EDL’s rhetoric and examines why the far right persists despite its inconsistencies. The book provides a nuanced view of British nationalism, its manifestations, and its opposition, within the broader context of societal change.

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Demented Idioms – Schizo-Culture: The Event (1975) & The Book (1978)

Schizo Culture was a conference and accompanying journal about a gathering in November 1975, which brought (mainly untranslated) French theorists into collision and collaboration with elements of the SoHo Art Scene and with anti-psychiatry and prison activists. Recently re-published in book form.

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Jeffrey Herf: Undeclared Wars with Israel – East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989 (Book Review)

Jeffrey Herf: Undeclared Wars with Israel – East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989.
Book Review by Christoph Fringeli from Datacide 16 discussing Eastern Bloc support for anti-semitic terror groups during the cold war and resonances in the West German left at the time.

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Marcel Bois: Kommunisten gegen Hitler und Stalin – Die linke Opposition der KPD in der Weimarer Republik – Eine Gesamtdarstellung (Book Review)

Marcel Bois Kommunisten gegen Hitler und Stalin Die linke Opposition der KPD in der Weimarer Republik – Eine Gesamtdarstellung Klartext

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Robert Dellar, Splitting In Two: Mad Pride & Punk Rock Oblivion (Unkant Publishing) (Book Review)

Robert Dellar’s book is part autobiography, part social history and in places morphs into fiction. It covers both Dellar’s own life via punk rock and the dehumanisation of those deemed clinically insane by the powers that be. While in academia the idea that madness might be the only sane response to capitalist society is often discussed in terms of Deleuze and Guattari’s anti-Oedipal theories, Dellar has a more hands on and activist approach to ‘bad craziness’.

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