This is something I've been meaning to finish for quite a while, but haven't got round to. It seems good to get it done with before the end of the year. It's a fairly detailed eye witness account of the civil disturbances which took place in Brixton on the night of 7-8 August 2011. It can be considered a companion article to these two:

• http://london.indymedia.org/articles/9828
• http://london.in…

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PETITION TO BAN THE USE OF WATER CANON AND PLASTIC BULLETS

Published Sep 23, 2011

The police murder an innocent man, then let Tottenham burn. The real story, told by local people who were there. URGENT: to get justice we first need to get the truth out - please send this link to at least 10 other people and ask them to do the same.

Here there is an interview with the legend poet and dub warrior from Brixton Linton Kwesi Johnson about the recent riots in England. It was filmed during Europe's biggest reggae festival Rototom Sunsplash, that took place this summer in the spanish town of Benicassim.

His words are so direct and to the point as his poems, lirics and tunes ... and by the way, his gig down there was like dynamite .…

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As the crisis of imperialism deepens daily and the resistance of African and oppressed peoples of the world grows, the African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC) and Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) are sponsoring their most important annual events - for A Day in Solidarity with African People.

The police murder an innocent man, then let Tottenham burn. The real story, told by local people who were there.

There is a violent, racist gang terrorising London who need to be stopped - the Metropolitan police.

URGENT: to get justice we first need to get the truth out - please send this link to at least 10 other people and ask them to do the same.

article on the "riots" in the bulletin "Résistons ensemble"

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Episode 88 of Dissident Island sees some of the crew crawl back after their summer hiatus to bring you the latest from the streets of London and beyond.



We had a bit of a look back at the month of August - with riots and multiple deaths at the hands of the police it's been a busy one.

There were words from Tower Hamlets ALARM about what to expect from September 3rd's EDL demonstration in Tower Ha…

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as the title says: A few quick clarifications on the recent riots.

Following a campaign including a 25,000 petition to ask the police to request a ban on the EDL march planned through Tower Hamlets on Sat 3rd Sept, and the threat of legal action by the local mayor, it seems the met police have now asked the home secretary to ban ALL marches in the five london boroughs for a period of 30 days.

While the exact wording of the request is currently unknown, it is ass…

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Luckily, I managed to get a partial recording of the speech. Transcribed below, it began with Evans referring to a recent episode of BBC’s Newsnight, during which former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie dismissed any attempt to understand the wider context of the riots...

... The presenter turned to Kelvin Mackenzie and said to him, "don't you think we should try to understand these riots?"

He…

informing/ incriminating and second world war

... But here one touches upon a class of things that capitalist society, if it can prevent one from understanding them, can in no way modify them. Any “improvement” would imply fundamental transformations that are incompatible with the very nature of this society; this is why it is absurd to speak of the “creation of new job markets” at the moment when the old ones are disappearing very rapid…

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A lot of the speakers and writers have sounded very sure of themselves too, especially when demonstrating their moral superiority to rioters, whether referring to them as animals or as lumpenproletariat. It is a politician’s job to sound sure of themselves so that we don’t guess they wank over their work colleagues and aren’t sure what life is about and wake up in the night with the horr…

Tonight I approached the senior police officer at the ‘ No Evictions’ protest in Wandsworth, South London and asked him a question.

Why had he just arrested a man?  The best answer he could give ” he was whipping up the crowd “… his colleague added he was ‘ swearing’. In fact the gentleman in question had indeed used that dreadful and clearly very naughty F word and pointed out that capit…

The recent riots in London and other big cities were the product of an "out-of-control consumerist ethos" which will have profound impacts for the UK economy, a leading City broker has said.

[Winston Silcott in his introduction, remarked that if London had a better welfare state like Sweden, the riots may not have occurred] 

Gilroy: I don't want us to get too romantic about Scandinavia...[applause]. The last time I was in Malmö there was a laser sniper shooting at people of colour in the streets. 

I want to say a few things in solidarity with the people who have suffered, the…

In this article, Takis sees the tremendous explosion of anger by the British underclass as part of similar recent explosions in France and Greece  of the main victims of neoliberal globalisation and particularly those who have not yet been integrated into it.

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Meet outside Brixton police station (367 Brixton Road) at 3pm on Sunday 21st August to march to Brixton prison.

Only one week after the riots, the media and politicians have been trying to out do each other on how draconian they can be to placate the 'hatemail' readers of midlle England. Wandsworth council have served a single-parent family with an eviction notice after the tenant's son was charged in court over disturbances during the recent troubles, its aim is not justice but revenge. Housing Solidarity …

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Back then the people on cable news thought looting was highly political. They said this is what happens when a regime has no legitimacy in the eyes of the people. After watching for so long as Saddam Hussein and his sons helped themselves to whatever and whomever they wanted, many regular Iraqis felt they had earned the right to take a few things for themselves. But London isn't Baghdad,…

Two men have been handed four-year jail terms for setting up Facebook pages encouraging people to riot – even though the riots never took place.

The sentences are some of the stiffest handed down so far by the courts since last week's widespread disturbances and signal how determined the judiciary is to punish anyone caught using social media to spread looting or violence.

Jordan Black…