13 August 2011
According to the BBC there are ten competing reasons behind the riots: Continue reading
Tag: riots
UK: Bullets won’t solve anything
9 August — Morning Star – Comment
For all the sense that David Cameron spoke following the Cobra emergency committee meeting, he might as well have stayed in his luxury Tuscan villa.
UK: An Anatomy of a police shooting By Tony Mckenna
10 August 2011 — New Left Project
Consider the following hypothetical situation: a group of policeman unlawfully kill a suspected criminal. We do not know what has lead to the unlawful killing – only that it takes place and – having taken place, must now, somehow, be presented to the public as a ‘lawful kill’.
Left groups respond to the UK riots
10 August 2011 — New Left Project
Obviously this isn’t exhaustive, but here are a few things that have come up:
1. A group of community activists have called a demonstration for this Saturday: Give Our Kids a Future! A North London Unity Demonstration
Details: 1.00pm : Saturday, 13th August. Meet Gillett Square, Dalston and march to Tottenham Green
You can sign up at the Facebook page. Here’s the accompanying statement:
Clegg Predicting Riots
10 August 2011 — Via New Left Project
The ‘I told you so’ of the week:
In the run up to the 2010 General Election Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg warned of riots if the Tories were elected, stating that, ‘There is danger that having any government of any composition led by a party which doesn’t have a popular mandate across the country trying to push through really difficult decisions. I think a lot of people will react badly to them.’
Information Clearing House Newsletter August 9, 2011: "I Don't Call it Rioting, I Call it an Insurrection"
9 August 2011 — Information Clearing House
U.S. Debt Crisis Sidelines an Emergency Attack on Iran
By Amir Oren
The American trigger finger is itchy. Itchy, but flinching – the wallet is emptier than the magazine.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28801.htm
July Days Again in Britain — This Time in August By S. Artesian
9 August 2011 — The Wolf Report
Back in the day, blast from the past, a golden oldie, with respect and appreciation to the youth of Britain back in that day and here in this day. Here’s what was said 30 years ago.
Monday night in Peckham By Kate Belgrave
9 August 2011 — New Left Project
Kate Belgrave describes her experiences of the riots in Peckham on Monday night. Cross-posted from her blog Hangbitch
Hackney Burned and Smashed Sean Gittins*
9 August 2011 — New Left Project
I spent last night amongst the crowds in Hackney, the smell of burnt rubber and metal wafting through the air. As I did so, I heard parts of their stories:
Back to the future By William Bowles
8 August 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Exactly thirty years ago Brixton exploded with rage against the de facto occupation of Brixton by the Met police. And, as I write this, all kinds of madness is going down in various parts of London and elsewhere. Continue reading
Major police clampdown as riots spread across London and other UK cities By Julie Hyland
9 August 2011 — WSWS
A massive police presence has been established across parts of the capital in an attempt to crush the eruption of social anger that has affected areas of north and southeast London and is spreading to other UK cities.
Britain’s Riots: A Society In Denial Of The Burning Issues By Finian Cunningham
9 August 2011 — Global Research
Britain saw its third consecutive night of widespread burning of properties and looting as riot police failed to contain gangs of masked youths marauding several parts of the capital, London. Continue reading
Tariq Ali on British riots: Why here and now?
9 August 2011 — Green Left Weekly
[I’ll be publishing my take on the events, in the meantime, here’s what Tariq Ali has to offer on the subject. WB]
Why is it that the same areas always erupt first, whatever the cause? Pure accident? Might it have something to do with race and class and institutionalised poverty and the sheer grimness of everyday life?
PressTV – ‘Turkey executes US plots in Syria’
10 July 2011 — PressTV
Scores of security forces have reportedly been killed in clashes with armed groups across Syria.
Gerald Celente: "Austerity riots will come to the US" — RT
1 July 2011 — RT
More and more of the world economy is crumbling and America doesn’t seem too far behind.
While riots erupt in Greece over austerity measures imposed by the government, back home lay-offs are rampant on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs relieving over 200 employees from their positions today. Is there a way out before Americans begin to emulate the Greeks?
Gerald Celente: “Austerity riots will come to the US” — RT
1 July 2011 — RT
More and more of the world economy is crumbling and America doesn’t seem too far behind.
While riots erupt in Greece over austerity measures imposed by the government, back home lay-offs are rampant on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs relieving over 200 employees from their positions today. Is there a way out before Americans begin to emulate the Greeks?
Black Bloc: A Misguided Tactic for June 30 By Maeve McKeown
28 June 2011 — New Left Project
On March 26, a movement that has existed for several decades but has largely been absent from UK politics, known as ‘Black Bloc’, emerged from the shadows and scared the living daylights out of Middle England. They blitzed central London, smashing the windows of the Ritz and the high street facades of corporate giants, threw paint and smoke bombs, and ran rings around the police.
Libya And Ivory Coast: NATO Reverts To Law Of The Jungle In Africa By He Wenping
4 June 2011 — Global Research – Global Times
-[I]t still seems too early for us to draw the conclusion that sub-Saharan Africa is immune to the chaos, especially when the West has once again chosen to intervene in others’ internal affairs through military actions.
The New Dark Age 
