A review of Matt Clement, A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), £65. Dr Martin Luther King once described riots as “the language of the unheard”. The great civil rights… Continue Reading
A review of Joshua Clover, Riot. Strike. Riot: The new era of uprisings Verso (2016), £20 Joshua Clover identifies a cycle of struggle occurring over the centuries which he categorises respectively as riot, strike and “riot prime”. Riots first occurred… Continue Reading
A review of Janet Bujra and Jenny Pearce, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The 2001 Bradford Riots and Beyond (Vertical Editions, 2011), £13.99 Visiting Bradford in 1986, the novelist Hanif Kureishi observed that “Bradford seems to be a microcosm of… Continue Reading
On 7 August 2011 the Observer ran a column by Nick Cohen with the headline “No riots here, just quiet, ever-deeper misery”.1 After outlining the Tory attacks on working class people, he states, “These arrant insults ought to push the… Continue Reading