Why Do Governments Hate Juries? Because They Have Consciences
Nick Bano & Rivkah Brown
David Lammy knows it.
Tag: riots
How Trump Provoked the LA Riots
The National Guard has been deployed in LA to quell immigration riots. Plus: The Gaza Flotilla ship has been captured by the Israeli army, the winter fuel payments threshold rises to £35,000; and the rise of NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar
When Does a Crowd Become a Mob?
Eleanor Penny meets Dan Hancox
Received wisdom tells us that large groups of people are generally up to no good – but this is a convenient fantasy for the powers that be, explains the author of Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World.
The Truth About the Riots and the White Working Class
Ash Sarkar meets Taj Ali
The co-editor of Tribune Magazine found himself at the centre of a communication network monitoring the far-right. Here’s his firsthand account of what happened during August’s riots.
We Don’t Need to ‘Talk About Immigration’
Rivkah Brown
Ignore Margaret Hodge.
Football Fans Are Organising Against the Far Right
Polly Smythe
‘You can’t turn up to anti-fascist demonstrations then just walk away.’
Liverpool Is Famously Leftwing. How Did the Far Right Gain a Foothold?
Moya Lothian-McLean
‘You can be leftwing and racist.’
No, Keir Starmer – Managerialism Won’t Beat the Race Riots
Ash Sarkar
Meeting and minutes aren’t going to cut it.
In South Africa, a Failed State Has Turned on Migrants
Derick Matsengarwodzi
A new campaign, Operation Dudula, has mobilised thousands of angry protesters.
Riots and the Red Flag
#ACFM’s Keir Milburn offers a bloody and boisterous workers’ history of Leeds.
Accidental Death of a Black Londoner
In the London Borough of Hackney in the early hours of 22 July 2017 a police officer pursued a young Black man into a convenience store. Within minutes the young man was dead. A Novara Doc in partnership with Shine A Light.
Ulster Unionism is in Crisis – And the Fallout Could Soon Get Worse
Tommy Greene
“For working-class unionists, their entire world is crumbling around them.”
Policing Bill Sparks Riots in Bristol
The Tories’ draconian policing bill sparks riots in Bristol. Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar discuss the fallout from the protests, and the utility of riots.
Get Angry Then Get Free: The Political Necessity of Rioting in Dismantling the System
Joshua Virasami
Filth: Disease, Drugs or Looting – Brutal Policing is Always Framed As Protecting ‘the Public’ From Infection
Eleanor Penny
The Burner Episode #244: Who Counts?
As the UK death toll passes 50,000 and Black Lives Matter protests continue in the US, James Butler asks: who gets to matter in politics?
3 Myths About Riots
Callum Cant
