Paris went one step further by signing an agreement with Nicosia to service French warships at Cyprus’s Mari naval base. Perhaps the best clue to this book’s main potential readership can be found in some of the enthusiastic blurbs on the back cover, praising the sustenance it offers “for the struggles that lay [sic] ahead” and fetishing the by now rather tired notion of “resistance”, as if the main reason for the ultra-right’s existence might be to feed the politics and fill the ranks of the ultra-left. Racism, for Liz Fekete, is the breeding ground of fascism, and her struggle to combat both—on the ground and in her writings—has earned her the reputation of being an intrepid organiser, an inspirational speaker and an organic intellectual.

She makes the point that ‘the transition from a command economy to a market economy failed by any criteria’ (p. In doing so, it sometimes moves too quickly from case to case and context to context, but this can be excused for the sake of painting the larger picture. Drawing on more than three decades of work for the Institute of Race Relations, Liz Fekete exposes the fundamental fault lines of racism an tarianism in contemporary Europe.She talks about the differing ways in which this approach has seeped through and been implemented, and makes efficacious points regarding the specificities of the countries involved, and how this discourse has been tailored to meet them. Once confined to territorial sovereignty disputes among Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey, the region’s offshore natural gas resources have transformed the eastern Mediterranean into a strategic region in which larger geopolitical fault lines involving the EU and the Middle East and North Africa converge.

In some ways it's depressing to realize how powerful are the forces those of us who value social justice must struggle against; but it's also very helpful to know your enemy, and comparing Fekete's analysis of European politics with similar recent trends in America do a lot to teach us about both. These exercises build on the Greece-Cyprus-Egypt and Greece-Cyprus-Israel trilateral military relationships.This is because they, apparently, only sought guidance and a sense of belonging in joining white extremist groups, fleeing an increasingly diverse social sphere, where they can’t find their place. The average annual loss of life represents the expected number of fatalities per year, on average, due to damaged and collapsed buildings through earthquakes. You can't combat something if you can't recognize what it is and how things should be different, and Fekete's book helps us do just that.