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…
Rational kernel, real movement: Badiou and Théorie Communiste in the age of riots An article by Nathan Brown, first published in 'Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion',…
Black anger shakes the rotten pillars of bourgeois and democratic "civilization" - Bruno Maffi (1965) Originally published anonymously (the norm within the Bordigist tradition) in 'Il…
Captain Swing was here! A short history of the 1830 Swing riots by Stuart Booth. Farm bosses would receive threatening letters from a fictional “Captain Swing”, and if…
Turkey-Netherlands riot: both prime ministers gain, the workers lose Analysis and critique of both sides in the diplomatic spat between Turkey and the Netherlands which…
Hulme against fascism, 1936 A short account of the attacks on Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists organisation in Hulme, Manchester.
The battle of Stockton, 1933 A short account, by David Walsh, of the smashing off the streets of Oswald Mosley's fascist Blackshirts in Stockton.
