ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways in which antiracism was changed through its encounter with anti-colonialism. It also examines the more traditional themes of economic exploitation in anti-colonial discourse, and explores how they were articulated by antiracists. The chapter outlines the shifting attitudes of antiracists to independence movements, particularly in Algeria. It then discusses how antiracists applied the idea of the 'internal colony' to discrimination against immigrant workers, and document the early solidarity campaigns against racial discrimination. It also discusses antiracists' responses to the violence which they found underpinned the colonial system, and which was revealed in dramatic ways on both sides of the Mediterranean during the Algerian war. It then shows how involvement with anti-colonial struggles forced antiracists to grapple with their own attitudes towards colonised peoples. The Algerian war and the growth in racist attitudes which it generated in France placed relations between French and Algerian workers under new strains.
