Drawing on original reporting as well as archival research, Brendan O'Connor investigates how the capitalist class and the radical right mobilize racism to defend their interests, while focusing on one of the most pressing issues of our time: immigration"Blood Red Lines connects the dots, providing a vivid account of the rise of a unique kind of US fascism, born on the border but now nationalized. O'Connor simultaneously produces empathy and outrage, in the exact proportions we need to fight back. Indispensable."---GREG GRANDIN, author of The End of the Myth"Blood Red Lines is a work of groundbreaking reporting and intense urgency, focused on how `fringe' and `mainstream' far-right groups are all interrelated, interconnected, and ultimately focused on the same deadly goals."Anna Merlan, author of Republic of Lies"A wide-ranging, deep-thinking, profoundly necessary book on the overlap between the alt-right and anti-immigrant movements on the boil in the United States."John Washington, author of The Dispossessed"In this brilliantly clear-eyed book, O'Connor deftly unties the odious rat king of old-money nativism, murderous fascism, and rapacious neoliberalism, exposing how white supremacy lies at the core of not just capitalism but America itself."Vegas Tenold, author of Everything You Love Will Bare "[O'Connor] lucidly distills scholarly literature and marshals years of on-the-ground reporting to explain and expose how manufactured border and immigration threats have become the central means through which racist demagogues mobilize right-wing politics against a liberal capitalist state in crisis."Daniel Denvir, author of All-American Nativism"Blood Red Lines has set the bar for new works on the contemporary fascist right, for researchers and antifascist organizers both."Dissent Read Less