The London Riots in Historical Perspective: Policing the Crisis
Submitted on August 11, 2011
By ASHLEY DAWSON - Counterpunch
...Black communities in Britain are still subject to heavy, racially targeted policing tactics...[and] police still operate with total impunity...[A]uthority figures continue to discuss criminality without any reference to the context of austerity...that has prevailed for the last three decades, and that has intensified to an unprecedented level under the current Tory government...The uprisings in London and other parts of Britain draw attention to these injustices, just as the Brixton uprising did several decades ago.
