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1 May 2012
31. This sense of alienation - combined with heavy-handed police harassment - was one of the factors in the riots of last summer...
Riots: rioters and police in Tottenham during August 2011 disturbances , photo by Paul Mattsson
4 April 2012
Britain in 2012 is a ruthless 'them and us' society. Millionaire ministers dish out life-destroying cuts to working class and young people while doing the bidding of their super-rich pals in big business...
21 March 2012
Single and video: ill Manors by Plan B
The new single, and video, ill Manors, by rapper Plan B is conceived as a warning shout from the disenfranchised inner cities to middle England, writes Michael Wrack.
1 February 2012
David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, has called for the 'smacking ban' to be repealed. He claims his constituents back this, blaming lack of parental control as a factor in last summer's riots
Bankers are the real looters: placard on Hackney - Tottenham demo after the riots , photo by Paul Mattsson
14 December 2011
Unacceptable! Draconian sentences for Dundee 'Facebook riot' teenagers
There is anger and disbelief in Dundee at the jailing of teenagers who were involved in joke Facebook pages 'organising riots', writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland, Dundee.
7 December 2011
A Guardian/London School of Economics study has shown that Britain's summer 'riots' were fuelled by anger at injustice, the lack of money, jobs and opportunity, and how young people "felt they were treated compared with others", writes Suzanne Beishon, Youth Fight for Jobs.
Bankers are the real looters - Hackney - Tottenham demo after the riots, photo Paul Mattsson
28 September 2011
Youth demand a future in Tottenham
An interview with a young person in Tottenham on the 'Give Our Kids A Future' demonstration
15 September 2011
Activist: Paper of Socialist Party members in Usdaw
This weekend I received the latest issue of Arena, the USDAW membership magazine. The editorial by the General Secretary, John Hannett, discusses the impact of the recent riots on shop workers.
7 September 2011
The riots, Clarke and the "broken penal system"
Glyn Travis and Joe Simpson, assistant secretaries of the prison workers’ union POA set out some of the key issues in prisons following the riots
2 September 2011
'Oppose physical force in schools' say YFJ and YFE
"This is apparently in response to the riots; but how will introducing the threat of violence into the classroom cut across the root causes of the riots?..."
Photo Paul Mattsson
31 August 2011
What we think: The government has resorted to the traditional Tory stance of the mailed fist in the aftermath of the riots. If it can get away with it, the ConDem government will add to the panoply of anti-democratic, semi-dictatorial measures already in place.
25 August 2011
GCSE recipients face EMA slash
Youth Fight for Jobs: Urgent press release: Today millions of school students round the country received their GCSE results. Those hoping to go to college will be the first since the government scrapped EMA...
18 August 2011
'Youth Fight for Jobs' organises in Tottenham
A week on from the riots, 90 people attended an excellent meeting organised by YFJ and Day-Mer Youth in Tottenham to discuss the way forward for the community and local youth
photo Paul Mattsson
17 August 2011
Tell the TUC - call a 24-hour public sector general strike!
"If these attacks on our jobs, services and livelihoods go through there will be riots on the streets." Anti-cuts campaigners have lost count of how many times they have warned politicians of all parties of this since last year's general election.
17 August 2011
Build strike action to defeat Con-Dems
The coalition government is stripping our communities of jobs and services. It intends introducing a worryingly harsh "welfare" regime in an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from the majority
Strikers gather in Liverpool's Lime Street surrounding trams during ‘Red Sunday’ on 13th August 1911, photo Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Libraries
17 August 2011
When the press raged about 'mob rule': "Mobs" control British cities. "We are facing an absolute disintegration of society." "Yesterday mob law reigned in London."
17 August 2011
After the riots... A mass workers’ movement is needed
The explosion of anger on Britain’s streets was a condemnation of capitalism and its inability to offer the next generation a decent standard of living. The Socialist Party demands...
17 August 2011
Vital services "dying" because of cuts
A south London youth worker, Louie Silcott, spoke to the Socialist
17 August 2011
Youth workers' warnings ignored across the country
Youth services have been targeted - not for cuts, but for closure. The policies of a few are wrecking our communities, writes Teresa Chalcroft
16 August 2011
Winston Silcott - framed by the police and justice system
The recent riots, starting in Tottenham, have reminded many of events there in 1985 when three people were framed for the murder of PC Blakelock
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