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Throughout this book we examine conservative propagations of ‘identity politics’ – a political smear that has been monopolised by the right, but also has form on the centre and left. These discourses will often feature other terms: ‘culture war’, ‘political correctness’, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘neoliberalism’ (mainly on the left), ‘cultural Marxism’ (mainly on the right), ‘free speech’, and now ‘gender ideology’ and ‘wokeness’. Each has their own meanings and contexts depending on where the reaction is coming from. ‘Identity politics’, and these related terms, act as ideological frames for explaining social and political division. We refer to them all at some point and relate them back to histories of class struggle. We call these social divisions ‘fractures’, which have become antagonised and deepened by a breakdown in the liberal democratic consensus. The following tendencies characterise this escalation: • More confrontational government frames pitting ‘the people’ against threats to nation • A weak or resolutely defeated ‘formal’ opposition to the right (i.e. social democratic parties and trade unions) • A discredited model of neoliberal progress or ‘centre ground’ • An ethically motivated and environmentalist youth politics • Black resistance against the police and racism • Conspiracies about elites • A convergence of fascist rhetoric and personalities into the mainstream • Insurrectionary street politics from diverse formations