My Bookmarx 08/10/2011

• British columnist: ‘I don’t call it rioting, I call it an insurrection’ | Raw Replay

  Interviewing a black columnist and broadcaster from south London this morning, a BBC host was called an “idiot” for neglecting to confront the root causes of social unrest currently rocking the U.K.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality capitalism

• Running through riotous London – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

  Monday night in Hackney, where young people who bear the brunt of an austerity crisis took over the streets.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality capitalism opinion austerity

• Nothing ‘mindless’ about rioters – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

  Although riots are complex social phenomenona, the recent unrest in England has inescapably political roots.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality capitalism politics opinion

• Londoners: Rioting through the ages – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

  Although Britain has a long history of civil uprisings, the recent riots lack a clear political or moral consciousness.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality capitalism opinion

• London riots bring back memories of disenfranchised British youth | The Vancouver Observer

  Hackney is a predominately working class neighborhood filled with a mix of long-term residents and new arrivals (both legal and illegal) to Britain. Though ethnically mixed, Hackney hosts a large proportion of Londoners with West Indian background.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality capitalism youth

• London’s burning – Inside Story – Al Jazeera English

  Tensions are running high after police shot and killed a man accused of being a gangster in the London borough of Tottenham on Thursday.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality capitalism

• Anarchists respond to the London riots – Solidarity Federation | libcom.org

  With media sources blaming “anarchy” for the unfolding violence in London and across England, the North London Solidarity Federation has released the following statement as a response from an anarchist organisation active in the capital.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality capitalism anarchists

• Love me I’m a looter | Inanities

  As regular readers of this blog will know, I’m from Croydon. Someone has to be.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality capitalism

• AA+ for the rioters? | Anarchist news dot org

  First the London burning story: three nights of rioting (and counting) in the capital, spreading from borough to borough and, now, to other cities (Birmingham). What a finance type might describe as a serious case of contagion.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality capitalism

• A short history of the London riot | Counterfire

  Politicians and journalists have rushed to blame the riots on ‘sheer criminality’. The same cry from the defenders of the status quo has echoed down the centuries after every riot in London.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality capitalism racism history

• Showdown with the Mob: Cameron Fights for Law and Order – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International

  David Cameron has broken off his summer vacation and returned to England, where he has pledged to battle rioting mobs. The British Prime Minister is deploying 16,000 police officers and has vowed to unleash the “full force of the law.” But is Scotland Yard still capable of restoring order? Some Londoners are fleeing to the Continent on Eurostar.

  tags: uk Britain riots London Tottenham police police_brutality

• CoLab Radio » Blog Archive » Coops, Italian Style: A Look at the Legacoop in Bologna

  I came in search of an understanding of how the cooperative movement in Italy differs from that of the movement in the United States, the United Kingdom and our next destination, Spain. The success of worker cooperative models in Italy and Spain present a compelling model for building a new sustainable economy.

  tags: Italy economy coop Co-operatives co-ops democracy

• Anarchist, Liberal and Authoritarian Enlightenments: Notes From the Arab Spring | libcom.org

  Mohammed A. Bamyeh discusses the currents and contradictions within the revolutionary movements sweeping the Arab world, and their ultimate potential.

  tags: egypt revolution Jan25 anarchism liberalism authoritarianism arab

• Chile Protest Photos

  Photos from students protests in Chile

  tags: Chile students education protests privatization capitalism Neoliberalism

• Statement on events in Tottenham and their context – Press releases – LRC

  On Thursday 4 August a local man was shot dead by police. The circumstances of the death are still not clear, but – similarly to many previous cases – it appears the version of events fed to the media by the Metropolitan Police is a tissue of lies.

  tags: Britain uk riots London Tottenham violence looting police statement

• The Riots in Tottenham are by no means an unexpected phenomenon – Infoshop News

  In the UK major riots take place with an almost clockwork predictability. It has been little more than 10 years since the Northern disturbances of 2001, in 1991 there was Bristol and Luton and the 1981 the infamous Brixton riots.

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• Penny Red: Panic on the streets of London.

  Angry young people with nothing to do and little to lose are turning on their own communities, and they cannot be stopped, and they know it. Tonight, in one of the greatest cities in the world, society is ripping itself apart.

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• Looting ‘fuelled by social exclusion’ | UK news | The Guardian

  Young looters from poor estates have nothing to lose and no reason to obey social norms, say experts

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