LA riots

20 Years Later: the Los Angeles riots, hip-hop, rage and Trayvon Martin

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Apr 30 2012 07:52

A post about the Los Angeles riots, hip-hop and race in America.

Waiting for the barbarians - Jaime Semprun

In this essay written after the LA Riots of 1992, Jaime Semprun expresses a pessimistic view of the new "barbarians", the uncivilized youth who according to him have been economically marginalized by capitalism but also socially integrated by the spectacle of power and violence, and compares their social dislocation and nihilism with Hannah Arendt's characterization of the preconditions for the mass psychology of totalitarianism ("isolation and the absence of normal social relations").

California dreaming

Subversion on the class elements of the LA riots of 1992.

Looting: a Martian perspective

Submitted by Steven. on Dec 26 2010 19:03

A comic by H. D'Andrade looking at the looting during the 1992 LA riots.

1992: The LA riots

Submitted by Ed on Sep 19 2006 19:37

A brief account of the six days of rioting which set Los Angeles aflame following the acquittal of four police officers who were filmed beating black motorist Rodney King.

LA '92: The context of a proletarian uprising

Submitted by libcom on Jan 7 2006 14:25

Distorted by the bourgeois press, reduced to a mere 'race riot' by many on the left, the L.A. rebellion was the most serious urban uprising this century. This article seeks to grasp the full significance of these events by relating them to their context of class re-composition and capitalist restructuring.