"Two out of every five people arrested after participating in last summer’s riots had been previously reported to the police for domestic abuse."

#UKPol #FarRightRiots #RacistRiots

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse

Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

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August’s riots echo the dark history of reactionary ‘Church and King’ mobs | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/augusts-riots-echo-the-dark-history-of-reactionary-church-and-king-mobs
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August’s riots echo the dark history of reactionary ‘Church and King’ mobs

Socialist historian KEITH FLETT traces the parallel evolution of violent loyalist rampages and the workers' movement's peaceful democratic crowds, highlighting the stark contrast between recent far-right thuggery and mass Gaza protests

Morning Star

George Monbiot

10. The result is a cadre of young men, like those of a century ago, who think they are sticking it to The Man, when in fact they are following his orders. Many of them now call themselves “heterodox”, which is kind of ironic, as they all seem to believe the same things.

11. These “heterodox” beliefs are roughly what their conservative grandparents believed, and what previous generations of young people rebelled against... 🧵

#racistriots #heterodox

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1824691091347587451.html

Thread by @GeorgeMonbiot on Thread Reader App

@GeorgeMonbiot: 1. How and why did the racist riots happen, and what do they tell us about where we might be heading? This thread concerns one part of the answer, the formation of what the historian...…

Good piece from Mike Wild on the #RacistRiots. Focusses on those at the receiving end of the hatred and asks us all to keep being defiantly kind.

Love Will Always Win | #Manchester Community Central
https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/love-will-always-win

Love Will Always Win | Manchester Community Central

"Starmer leans into his own strengths, as a familiar of the powerful determined to uphold the state’s monopoly on lawful violence."
Eyes Left Social democracy and the riots | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/social-democracy-and-riots
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Social democracy and the riots

ANDREW MURRAY unpicks the politics that finds Starmer’s Labour playing an enabling role towards the far right and opposing anti-fascist popular mobilisation

Morning Star
Fascism Came To The UK | A Breakdown

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Britain is hoping its riots have peaked. But the far right is lingering, and more trouble could lie ahead
Analysis by Rob Picheta, CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/10/uk/uk-far-right-riots-tension-intl-gbr/index.html
#CNN #UKriots #racism #racistriots #UK
Britain is hoping its riots have peaked. But the far right is lingering, and more trouble could lie ahead

For a few hours on Wednesday evening, tension pulsed through Britain’s streets.

CNN

"'Nick Tenconi, who is the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and a Reading-based businessman was seen in social media footage at an 'Enough is Enough' demonstration in Aldershot last week."

"Mr Tenconi justified claims of 'offensive chants' by arguing that he was allying with 'patriots' against what he called 'far left' counter-protesters."

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/24512641.reading-based-ukip-leader-replies-offensive-chants/

#UKIP #politics #UK #racism #FarRight #racistriots #NickTenconi #Aldershot #Hampshire

What Do The Riots Say About Britain? | Ash Sarkar, Aaron Bastani and Rivkah Brown Discuss

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Christian Adams on Britain’s riots #UKRiots #RacistRiots #antiracism #Racism #riotsengland  – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com