Liverpool August Riots Newswire Archive

08-06-2012 13:34 | 1 comment

No Bounds magazine launch party!

To celebrate the launch of the magazine No Bounds have organised a party on June 26th 2012. The launch night will be held at the Rich Mix in East London, with an eclectic array of performances, ranging from poets to musicians. It will be a free event. All welcome!!!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/events/140352499422308/?ref=ts

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29-08-2011 10:47

A few quick clarifications on the recent riots

In light of these conflicting interests it is puzzling to see so many - among them Anarchists - defending "communities" and denouncing attacks on them. These communities are not communes, no free associations of producers and consumers, not groups with common interests, but ensembles of conflicting ones. Shop owners, workers, estate kids, council workers, small and large scale capitalists, they do not have the same interests, many of them have directly conflicting ones. The call for community spirit in disregard of what these communities are is, in essence, the same as a nationalist call for unity: a call to subject ones' own interests to that of the "common good". A common good that asks for subordination and restriction. This appreciation of the moralistic collective is what appeals to right-wing, left-wing and some radical writers alike. Read more >>

25-08-2011 02:15 | 15 comments

"The August 2011 Riots in Britain" : an analysis

For a few days in August 2011, the riots in Britain's cities flashed a searing light across the troubled sleep to which we, the ordinary people of that country, have been reduced by three decades of spiritless submission to the logic of capitalism. The only meaningful questions to ask about the riots are: how far did they go in repudiating the society that dominates us, and how can that repudiation be extended and deepened? Everything else is the howling of dogs. Read more >>

20-08-2011 13:26 | 4 comments

Coda to an open letter

Three follow-up comments on the London riots, drawn in part from astute comments from friends and strangers. Read more >>

16-08-2011 21:05 | 4 comments

Riot Graffiti !

something from exeter
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13-08-2011 19:52 | 1 comment

An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part two)

First, this recurrent accusation of "materialistic" signals a broader refusal not of consumerism - with which you are well familiar and for which you cheerlead full-throated - but of the material fact of social disruption. To speak, with disdain, at the materialistic nature of these days is to speak, beneath your tongue, of a desire that people should go back to "protesting" in ways that remain representational: be counted, be seen, be ignored, go back to the places they live, remain there. It marks your horror at what it looks like for "protest" to become material, and, at that point, no longer protest. Read more >>

13-08-2011 19:48 | 1 comment

An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part one)

Dear you all,

I fear we have nothing to say to each other.

What follows may therefore represent one half of a dialogue in the way that yelling at a jukebox made of ice does. Perhaps the sheer exertion of speaking - a certain quantity of hot air - will soften the surface a bit, but it's a pretty one-sided discussion. And it doesn't mean you can or will stop repeating the records you have been given to play, those looping phrases and evasions. Read more >>

10-08-2011 13:29 | 2 comments

Nick Griffin is in Liverpool telling lies about the riots

NIck Griffin, surrounded by a group of convicted, racist thugs, is visiting Smithdown Road to peddle his own brand of violent racism. Read more >>

09-08-2011 09:17 | 4 comments

The UK Riots and Capitalism's Decay

Parts of London are still burning after an enormous third night of riots, during which the flames have spread to Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol and Liverpool. There is huge controversy over the conflagration, and the media establishment is doing its best to condemn, rather than try to understand. As a communist, this is not enough for me. These riots are the sudden bursting to the surface of social tensions that have been building up for many years - tensions that are rooted in the crisis of capitalism. Read more >>

09-08-2011 00:00 | 5 comments

bristol liverpool birmingham following london

cars torched in toxteth liverpool, police station on fire handsworth birmingham, riot police blocking st in bristol

in london more fires being reported including large one back in enfield (maybe sony distro centre) smoke visable on m25 Read more >>

Liverpool August Riots Newswire Archive

08-06-2012 13:34 | 1 comment

No Bounds magazine launch party!

29-08-2011 10:47

A few quick clarifications on the recent riots

25-08-2011 02:15 | 15 comments

"The August 2011 Riots in Britain" : an analysis

20-08-2011 13:26 | 4 comments

Coda to an open letter

16-08-2011 21:05 | 4 comments

Riot Graffiti !

13-08-2011 19:52 | 1 comment

An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part two)

13-08-2011 19:48 | 1 comment

An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part one)

10-08-2011 13:29 | 2 comments

Nick Griffin is in Liverpool telling lies about the riots

09-08-2011 09:17 | 4 comments

The UK Riots and Capitalism's Decay

09-08-2011 00:00 | 5 comments

bristol liverpool birmingham following london

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