Kier Starmer's Powelite rhetoric last week shocked many in his party and on the left. Yet it fitrs into a long history of labour racism and racist border policies. Writer Michael Richmond joins the show to discuss all of this, the function of state race relations iniatives, the echoes of the August racist riots and more.

Michael Richmond is the co author of two books: Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Idenity Politics and Fascism and the Women's Cause.

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