This article uses the lens of the East End of London, to examine 130 years of socialist and Marxist responses to racism and to ethnic and religious division. It looks both at how action was organised, and also at the debates of those trying to put Marxist ideas into practice, who all had to strike a balance between the pragmatic demands arising from working with ethnic minority groups, and the dangers of separatism. And it shows that, despite the difficulties, Marxism -far from neglecting divisions that cut across the basic economic categories of class, as is so often claimed – has a long history of analysing them and of arresting ethnic and racial conflict.
AldermanGeoffrey1983. The Jewish Community in British Politics, Oxford: Clarendon Press
2.
BlumenfeldSimon?1939, Enough of All This! A Rent Strike Play, London: Left Book Club Theatre Guild (There is a copy of the play in the Unity Theatre collection in Merseyside Maritime Museum.)
3.
BoothCharles1902 [1889]. Life and Labour of the People of London, 1st Series Vol. 4, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd.
4.
BransonNoreen, and HeinemannMargot1971. Britain in the Nineteen Thirties, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
5.
BrubakerRogers2001. ‘The return of assimilation? Changing perspectives on immigration and its sequels in France, Germany, and the United States’,Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24, 4: 531–548
6.
FeldmanDavid1994. Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture 1840–1914, Newhaven and London: Yale University Press
7.
FishmanWilliam J.1975. East End Jewish Radicals 1875–1914, London: Duckworth
8.
FreedlandJonathan2005. Jacob's Gift: A Journey into the Heart of Belonging, London: Hamish Hamilton
9.
GartnerLloyd P.1960. The Jewish Immigrant in England, 1870 – 1914, London: George Allen and Unwin
10.
GeddesMike2006. ‘Partnership and the limits to local governance in England: Institutionalist Analysis and Neoliberalism’,International Journal of Urban and Regional Research30, 1: 76–97
11.
GlynnSarah2002. ‘Bengali Muslims: the new East End radicals?’,Ethnic and Racial Studies25, 6: 969–988
12.
GlynnSarah2005. ‘East End Immigrants and the Battle for Housing: a comparative study of political mobilisation of the Jewish and Bengali communities’,Journal of Historical Geography31: 528–545
13.
GlynnSarah2006. ‘The Spirit of ‘71 - how the Bangladeshi War of Independence has haunted Tower Hamlets’,Socialist History Journal29: 56–75
14.
GlynnSarah2008a. ‘Wimbledon Revolutionary’ in Sheikh Abdul Mannan: A Leader of the Liberation Movement in the UK, edited by NurullahMohammad, Dhaka: Jyotsna Publishers
15.
GlynnSarah2008b. ‘East End Bengalis and the Labour Party – the end of a long relationship?’New Geographies of Race and Racism, edited by DwyerClaire, and BresseyCaroline, Aldershot: Ashgate
16.
GlynnSarah2009. ‘Liberalising Islam: creating Brits of the Islamic Persuasion’ in Muslims in the West: Spaces of hope, edited by PhillipsRichard, London: Zed
17.
GlynnSarah2010. ‘Playing the Ethnic Card: Politics and segregation in London's East End’Urban Studies (forthcoming)
18.
GlynnSarah (submitted). ‘Muslims and the Left: An English case study’
19.
GoldingerDavid (unpublished manuscript, nd). Memoirs of David Goldinger, originally written in Yiddish in 1946 – 54, National Museum of Labour History, Manchester
20.
HoweIrving1976. The Immigrant Jews of New York, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
21.
JacobsJack1992. On Socialists and ‘the Jewish Question after Marx’, New York: New York University Press
22.
JacobsJane M.1996. Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the city, London: Routledge
23.
JacobsJoe1978. Out of the Ghetto: My Youth in the East End. Communism and Fascism 1913–1939, London: Janet Simon
24.
KappYvonne1976. Eleanor Marx: Volume II, The Crowded Years (1884–1898), London: Lawrence and Wishart
25.
KarlKautsky1904. ‘On the Problems of the Jewish Proletariat in England’,Justice 23rd April 1904 p 4, downloaded from www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky
