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Brixton Riots

Thatcher and the Inner City Riots

Linton Kwesi Johnson | Posted 16.04.2013 | UK Politics
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Linton Kwesi Johnson

Thatcher will be remembered by many black people of my generation as a bigot and a xenophobe who fanned the flames of racial hatred, giving succour to the fascists who were emboldened to carry out terrorist attacks against black and Asian people.

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Christopher York

Brixton Riots 32 Years On

HuffingtonPost.com | Christopher York | Posted 11.04.2013 | UK
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Thirty-two years ago today, protesters and police clashed violently on the streets of Brixton, South London, in a confrontation that injured 325 peopl...

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Funeral Fires for the Britist Social Welfare State

Chriss Street | Posted 16.10.2011 | UK
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Chriss Street

The media still seems baffled that prim and proper England would be almost brought to its knees by what the London Daily Mail newspaper referred to as "nihilistic and feral teenagers" rioters.

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Historian: Riots In London Nothing New - But The Looting Is

Olivia Williams | Posted 10.10.2011 | UK
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For those old enough to remember, the violence of the past few days in London has been uncomfortably reminiscent of the inner-city unrest of the 1980s...

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