Port Adelaide struggles, 1928-1931 Photo gallery of the strikes and riots at Port Adelaide in Australia which began in 1928 when the employers introduced new working conditions…
A spree of rebellions in the Greater Noida, India An expansion of the Delhi-NCR region, New Okhla Industrial Development Authority - NOIDA - is an example of 21st century expansion of wage-labour…
Bure, France: march turns into riots at demonstration against nuclear waste landfill In the French eastern region of Meuse, three hundreds to a thousand people rallied this Tuesday…
Rioting or Protesting? Losing It or Finding It? Reflections on the 1975 Chapeltown riot by Max Farrar. The author was arrested for threatening behaviour, assaulting a policeman, incitement to…
Riot or Protest, the Hyde Park riot in Leeds, 1995 In the Hyde Park area of Leeds, there was a night of rioting on 10th July 1995 in response to police continued police harassment of locals,…
From Oldham to Bradford: the violence of the violated From April to July 2001, the northern English towns of Oldham, Burnley and Bradford saw violent…
The Northern ‘race riots’ of the summer of 2001 – were they riots, were they racial? Max Farrar's draft study of the 2001 riots in Harehills, Leeds is one of very few serious…
Manningham riots, Bradford 1995 Manningham in Bradford erupted into two nights of pitched battles against police, after police brutality against two asian youths on 9th June 1995.
Folk devils and moral panics A detailed study by Stanley Cohen of the making of "moral panics" by the media, in particular examining the mods and rockers youth culture in the…
1988: The Tompkins Square Riot A brief account of the riot of 1988 when Police started evicting homeless people from Tompkins Square park. The event led to the exposure of…
1874: The Tompkins Square Police Riot An account of a cop riot in 1874 where mounted police attacked public demonstrations by organised Unemployed workers associations in New York…
Notes on a factory uprising in Yangon Soe Lin Aung examines a recent strike-cum-riot at a Chinese-owned H&M supplier in Myanmar, digging beyond the headlines into its local context…
