16,000 Police Deployed in London to Put Down Youth Revolt
Submitted on August 10, 2011
By Robert Stevens - WSWS
...[L]ong-simmering discontent over worsening social conditions and police brutality is being completely passed over by the official political parties and the media. Manifestly, police killings are acceptable to these layers, but any response to it is to be met with the full force of the state...The most vicious rhetoric has been employed against young people involved in the disturbances by representatives of all the main political parties.
