Pervasive Unemployment and Poverty in London Areas Hit by Riots
Submitted on August 16, 2011
By Paul Stuart - WSWS
The British political establishment and its state apparatus are imposing the most vicious class justice against young people accused of involvement in the riots that swept London and other cities last week...Nearly 3,000 people have so far been arrested as police continue to raid homes across the capital...Despite the fact that most have no previous convictions, more than two thirds of those rounded up are being held without bail and subject to punitive custodial sentences.
