<p>Racism is more devastating than any other disease; a powerful consciousness-altering ideological drug which "makes a friend appear as an enemy, an enemy as a friend." It is a cause of division within the working class and is the basis of the system of discrimination which oppresses thirty million Afro-Americans and, at the same time is a source of corporate super profits, "the nation''s most dangerous pollutant."</p><p><br></p><p>In this collection of more than 30 essays, pamphlets and articles, Gus Hall, then general secretary of the Communist Party, USA, subjected the theory and practice of racism to a Marxist-Leninist analysis. He consistently draws on the insights which Marxism provides concerning the class roots of racism and its relationship to the class struggle.</p><p><br></p><p>Written in the course of the struggle for equality and justice, in "the heat of battle," this book provides working class and progressive forces - Black and white - with both a practical guide and th