Class, Ethnicity and Religion in the Bengali East End

Through this Bengali case study and examples from wider immigrant politics, the book traces the development and adoption of the concepts of popular frontism and revolutionary stages theory and of the identity politics that these ideas made possible. It demonstrates how these theories and tactics have cut across class-based organisation and acted as an impediment to tackling cross-cultural inequality; and it argues instead for a left alternative that addresses fundamental socio-economic divisions. This insightful work will appeal equally to sociologists, political activists and local historians.