In the struggle against Capitalism, church and state, colonialism and racism are essential in maintaining class hierarchies. Racism is used by these bourgeois institutions as a social control mechanism. This divides the working class and proletariat along lines of skin colour, with the supposed civilisational hierarchies of the European elites. Today, people of colour and Indigenous people remain largely margininalised and poor in the Global North and the Global South. The concept of whiteness, itself, is based on false cultural and class unity of European people. Here are some useful books on this struggle:
Reading List:
Franz Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin – Anarchism and the Black Revolution
C. L. R. James – A History Of Pan-african Revolt
Subcomandante Marcos – Beyond Resistance
W E Dubois – Black Reconstruction
W E Dubois – The Souls of Black Folk
Dan Georgakas – Detroit, I do mind dying
Walter Rodney – How Europe Underdeveloped Africa