This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on patreon.com and by Verso Books,

which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

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

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 racisms 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 Fakiti exposes the fundamental fault lines of racism in contemporary Europe.

Europe's fault lines, racism and the rise of the right, by Liz Fikidi.

Out now from Verso Books.

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