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August Riots

Reports and analysis of the summer 2011 urban riots which erupted after the Police murder of Mark Duggan.

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Birmingham Riots

15-08-2011 08:25

Birmingham Riots: August Riots | Birmingham

On the third day of rioting in London riots were being reported as spreading all over the capital with police resources being stretched to breaking point meaning they were unable to respond to all the incidents. It wasn’t until riots were reported in Birmingham however that it became clear that this was now a country wide issue and not just confined to London and, that the underlying issues causing the riots had gone beyond anger over the murder of Mark Duggan by armed police on Thursday.

On the newswire: Going off in Birmingham? | Birmingham's Militant Consumer Tour | Birmingham, West Brom, Salford | | bristol liverpool birmingham following london

*Features on the newswires:* UK - Summer of Unrest: an indymedia overview of the 'riots' | London - Unrest Spreading | London's Burning | Tottenham riots | Bristol | Nottingham | Elsewhere:

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SchNEWS 783: The Big Smoke

13-08-2011 14:33

AS SCHNEWS ASKS WHY IS LONDON BURNING?

Across the entire media spectrum the opinions are now flying thicker and faster than the half-bricks were just two nights ago. So here’s SchNEWS’ half-assed crack at explaining the recent turmoil on the streets of the U.K.

The recent riots are far too complex for a simple explanation (Maybe it’s just something about Tory governments and Royal Weddings). The facts aren’t all in yet by any means. The riots certainly weren’t ‘pure criminality’ but neither were they anything like a politicised insurrection.

Riots in different parts of the country and even different parts of the capital each had their own flavour. If they had one thing in common it was the fact that they didn’t happen in the estates – the fight was taken to the High St. Hatred of the cops and the possibility of free stuff on a long summer’s evening proved to be an intoxicating mixture. As an aside – both the footage and the roll-call of those in court right now show – this was a long way from race riot - black and white can unite – if only to loot Foot Locker. [Read more]

From The Newswires:
Indymedia London Roundup | Media demand mass arrests | Thuggery, looting, lawlessness… by the ruling class | Social Media and the Riots |Clapham Junction - the aftermath

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Summer of Unrest: an indymedia overview of the 'riots'

10-08-2011 13:31

The fiery unrest which ignited in Tottenham a few days ago, and which has rapidly spread through London and to other towns and cities across the country, has been largely and predictably condemned by politicians and the mainstream media as mindless violence, arson, theft and thuggery. While there is no denying that a number of the attacks have badly affected local people in local communities, some of whom have lost their homes and possessions and in one case their lives, blanket condemnation of those involved in the unrest is inappropriate and conveniently draws attention away from the context in which these events are taking place.

Britain's cities, towns and rural areas alike now boast record numbers of young unemployed people, often denied benefits, with few prospects, with many of those living in urban areas facing constant harassment by the police, especially if they happen to be black, with public services being cut all around them, and quite possibly with a growing mass awareness - thanks to movements like UK UnCut - of government support for super-rich corporations at the expense of the already impoverished. The fatal shooting of Mark Duggan and subsequent police lies might have been one trigger for the 'riots' in Haringey; another is almost certainly the decision of Haringey local authority to close the majority of the borough's youth clubs in a round of public spending cuts. In any event and whatever the triggers, the roots of the unrest are deeply embedded. No amount of repressive policing and overkill sentencing is going to solve this crisis, even if it succeeds in silencing dissent in the short term.

This feature draws together and links to eye-witness accounts and independent analysis, alternative voices offering a range of views and opinions. Read indymedia features from London, Nottingham and Bristol, opinion from SolFed, Fitwatch and individual commentators, and accounts from the streets as events have unfolded.

Features on the newswires: London - Unrest Spreading | London's Burning | Tottenham riots | Bristol - feature | Nottingham - feature
Reports and analysis on the newswires: Open Letter to Cameron's Parents | Solidarity from Greece | Eon Vehicle Torched in Bristol | On the Insurrection | Manchester and Salford | St Pauls - police state | Tottenham: community pulls together | Corporations and the London Riots | Going off in Birmingham | Birmingham's Militant Consumer Tour | Birmingham, West Brom, Salford | Gravesend | Oxford | Britain's Burning | Too far - a site to identify and incriminate | Riot as a sign of desperation | UK Riots and Capitalism's Decay | Woolwich trashed | Criminality and Rewards | Unrest spreading to Hackney, Lewisham, Peckham | Peckham building on fire | A costly mistake... but we are people too | Eyewitness account from Edmonton | Stokes Croft to Tottenham | Focus on Holloway | Brixton Road pics | Fire Sale in Brixton | Tottenham Burning
Reports and analysis elsewhere: Fitwatch 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | North London SolFed | Pennie Quinton | Dan Hind | Finian Cunningham | RiotWiki Collective Analysis | Christian Fuchs | Robert Stevens | Mick Hall | Amy Goodman on Democracy Now | Tariq Ali: Why here and now?

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Image Mark Duggan murder: How the establishment did cover up a political killing?
09-01-2014 08:48 | 4 comments

Text Two cops executed in Manchester
20-09-2012 11:51 | 12 comments

Image No Bounds magazine launch party!
08-06-2012 13:34 | 1 comment

Text new attacks by the Informal Anarchist Federation
21-02-2012 16:57 | 18 comments

Image Solidarity demo at the new year outside Brixton prison, south London.
05-01-2012 22:27 | 12 comments

Text "Consultation on police powers to promote and maintain public order"
29-12-2011 19:14 | 6 comments

Image Brixton prison new year solidarity demo!
23-12-2011 13:19 | 3 comments

Text Three more jailed for Facebook comments on UK summer riots
17-12-2011 21:36 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Image Hackers successfully attacked police computer systems during riots
14-12-2011 14:02

Text 'Reading the riots'
08-12-2011 10:34

Image Occupy Wall Street Marks One Month
18-10-2011 11:18

Audio The Wrong Kind of Riot
06-10-2011 20:13

Text Media Lens: Inciting Violence - Irony and the English Riots
28-09-2011 18:22 | 2 comments

Image 325#9 – Free PDF magazine of Social War & Anarchy
28-09-2011 13:21 | 4 comments

Text Mainstream media hand over unbroadcast riot footage to cops
22-09-2011 16:02 | 20 comments

Image How to burn cars and influence people
13-09-2011 11:31 | 5 comments

Image How to destroy CCTV network boxes
13-09-2011 11:27 | 6 comments

Image Cartoon on cuts/riots
08-09-2011 21:18

Text 'New laws not needed' to block Twitter: UK can morph into police state at will
02-09-2011 09:14 | 2 comments

Text London neighbourhoods terrorized by police raids: 30,000 arrests planned
02-09-2011 09:11 | 2 comments

Text Sponsored by Archway Care Teenager is told to expect lengthy sentence over invol
30-08-2011 16:53

Text A few quick clarifications on the recent riots
29-08-2011 10:47

Text London on riot alert
25-08-2011 12:45 | 7 comments

Text "The August 2011 Riots in Britain" : an analysis
25-08-2011 02:15 | 15 comments

Text Another possible cop murder: Media blackout?
24-08-2011 17:00 | 8 comments

Text Guide to Public Order Situations updated
24-08-2011 11:02

Audio From Bristol With Love 6 - Celebrating Riots, The Gas and Camping
22-08-2011 20:19

Image Greek poster in solidarity with English insurrection
22-08-2011 17:49 | 2 comments

Image Cartoons on the riots, genetic engineering and fracking.
21-08-2011 19:52 | 3 comments

Text Detest and Survive: self-deregulation and asset reallocation in England, August
21-08-2011 07:54

Text Dignified and Undignified Rage:Brief Notes on a Pending Invitation, the UK riots
21-08-2011 06:12 | 1 comment

Text The Insurrection of the English Underclass
20-08-2011 20:16 | 2 comments

Text Punks and "Rioting scumbags"
20-08-2011 14:10 | 17 comments

Text Coda to an open letter
20-08-2011 13:26 | 4 comments

Text Government considers curfew powers following riots
20-08-2011 06:41 | 2 comments

Audio Rant: Cameron's Wars - Coming Home Soon To British Streets?
20-08-2011 00:35

Image Emergency solidarity march and noise demo
19-08-2011 21:16 | 2 comments

Image Report from Wandsworth ‘no to evictions’ protest
19-08-2011 20:01

Text Pro-Populus: Give the People a Chance!
18-08-2011 21:35

Audio Merkel, Sarkozy plagiarise from indymedia
18-08-2011 18:04

Text Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery
18-08-2011 06:35 | 11 comments

Text Youth sentenced to years in jail for posting Facebook notices during riots
18-08-2011 06:22

Text The stench of a police state
18-08-2011 06:20 | 2 comments

Image Riot Graffiti !
16-08-2011 21:05 | 4 comments

Image News from Colchester
16-08-2011 19:26

Text Nick Clegg ARSONIST - make this go viral ASAP
15-08-2011 18:49 | 22 comments

Text Solidarity with UK rebelion from Berlin!
15-08-2011 18:03 | 1 comment

Text Understanding The Riots – Where Next?
15-08-2011 13:25 | 3 comments

Text End Political Evictions
14-08-2011 16:20 | 5 comments

Text Solidairty from Thessaloniki!
14-08-2011 16:14

Text bristol direct action
14-08-2011 13:11

Text 3,000 march to demand: Give Our Kids A Future!
14-08-2011 11:59 | 1 comment

Text An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part two)
13-08-2011 19:52 | 1 comment

Text An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part one)
13-08-2011 19:48 | 1 comment

Image Solidarity from Berlin with the UK Rebels!
13-08-2011 19:24

Image This Mob Justice Has to Stop
13-08-2011 17:36

Text Our report of Evening Post attack
13-08-2011 15:55

Text Round up of articles and analysis on the Riot
13-08-2011 12:55

Text Media demand mass arrests, reprisals against UK rioters
13-08-2011 07:33 | 2 comments

Text Anarchist Critique of the Insurrection
13-08-2011 01:30 | 1 comment

Image Social Media and the Riots: how our government has got it tragically wrong
12-08-2011 22:56

Image Shop A Banker
12-08-2011 19:59 | 3 comments

Text Waging a Savage War on Libyan People
12-08-2011 19:58 | 1 comment

Text Uk riots - music / song reflecting on riots
12-08-2011 15:23

Text In defence of anarchy
12-08-2011 08:04 | 3 comments

Text Parliament demands violent repression of British youth riots
12-08-2011 07:56 | 6 comments

Image Riots: viewed from Oxford
11-08-2011 19:55 | 1 comment

Image Solidarity from Greece
11-08-2011 17:48 | 1 comment

Text Nottingham Riots: Canning Circus Police Stn Damage
11-08-2011 15:55

Text Clapahm Junction - the aftermath
11-08-2011 15:55

Text Nottingham Riots: Tuesday pix 1
11-08-2011 15:55

Text Nottingham Riots: Tuesday pix 2
11-08-2011 15:55

Text Nottingham Riots: Boarding up + Police Standby
11-08-2011 15:55

Text BBC Radio transmission mast destroyed by fire in Bristol
11-08-2011 15:42 | 3 comments

Text London Riots: Life in the Rolling War Zone
11-08-2011 13:55

Text Vandalism to back of Victoria Centre
11-08-2011 13:55

Audio Riot Special: The Circled A Radio show with ALARM
11-08-2011 08:17

Text Over 1,000 Arrested in U.K. as Anger over Inequality, Racism Boils Over
11-08-2011 07:33 | 9 comments

Text An open letter to David Cameron's parents
11-08-2011 07:27 | 4 comments

Text looting in london
11-08-2011 00:55

Text Eon vehicle torched in Bristol riots
10-08-2011 23:55

Text Not wild just really really annoyed
10-08-2011 23:55

Text On the Insurrection
10-08-2011 22:55

Text Manchester Riots - 9th August
10-08-2011 21:55

Text An eyewitness perspective on the riots in Salford and Manchester
10-08-2011 20:26 | 1 comment

Image England's 'riots': When governments put shit in one end no one should be surprised when it comes out the other
10-08-2011 19:17

Text 16,000 police deployed in London to put down youth revolt
10-08-2011 19:12

Text Social Media and the UK Riots: “Twitter Mobs”, “Facebook Mobs”, “Blackberry Mobs” and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism
10-08-2011 19:00

Text St pauls the worlds newest police state
10-08-2011 17:55

Text A Fitwatchers view of the riots
10-08-2011 16:55 | 2 comments

Text Leeds: New blog set up for news and analysis
10-08-2011 15:38

Text Nick Griffin is in Liverpool telling lies about the riots
10-08-2011 13:29 | 2 comments

Text Analysis of the UK Riots: Life After Rioting
10-08-2011 12:55

Image Running through riotous London
10-08-2011 12:01 | 1 comment

Text Britain's Burning
10-08-2011 11:55

Text Nothing ‘mindless’ about rioters
10-08-2011 11:53 | 5 comments

Text Anarchists respond to the London riots - Solidarity Federation
10-08-2011 11:44 | 8 comments

Text Riots spread to Nottingham
10-08-2011 09:55

Text Police Dog Savages Bystander
10-08-2011 02:53 | 1 comment

Text Darcus Howe names the 2011 riots an 'inssuerction' on the BBC
10-08-2011 00:48 | 6 comments

Text Canning Circus police station firebombed
09-08-2011 22:55

Text Riots in Manchester
09-08-2011 22:29 | 1 addition

Text Too far: A site to identify and incriminate rioters
09-08-2011 20:25 | 14 comments

Image Calm down! Cameron has everything under control! (by Latuff)
09-08-2011 20:02

Text A riot of as a sign of desperation
09-08-2011 19:55

Text Oxford riots 'misinformation' update
09-08-2011 18:08 | 1 addition | 5 comments

Image Birmingham, West Brom, Salford
09-08-2011 16:21 | 2 comments

Text Bethnal Green Road - Monday & Tuesday
09-08-2011 15:55

Text Corporations and the London Riots
09-08-2011 15:13 | 3 comments

Text Attack on Bristol police claimed by anarchists
09-08-2011 14:55

Text Life after riot?
09-08-2011 14:55

Image More London uprising.....
09-08-2011 13:48 | 6 comments

Image Britain’s riots: A society in denial of the burning issues
09-08-2011 13:41 | 1 addition | 2 comments

Text Police tonight will be different - be warned
09-08-2011 12:55

Image London Riots: God Save the Queen's Ass! (by Latuff)
09-08-2011 11:55 | 2 comments

Text Rioting spreads to New Basford?
09-08-2011 11:55

Text Video of last night riots
09-08-2011 10:55

Text St Pauls and Stokes Croft Riots
09-08-2011 10:55

Text The UK Riots and Capitalism's Decay
09-08-2011 09:55

Text Tonypandy Riot 1911
09-08-2011 09:29 | 2 comments

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