• Le texte de Blaumachen sur les émeutes en Angleterre maintenant en français :
    http://sic.communisation.net/fr/le-quart-monde-sauvage-prend-la-rue?DokuWiki=eb1542e300dbc45e62de

    Quand nous disons que la lutte des classes est l’histoire tout court, nous voulons dire que les classes sont intriquées les unes dans les autres dans un rapport asymétrique qui est une contradiction qui se développe, une contradiction en mouvement au cœur d’une totalité réellement structurée (la société capitaliste) et elle aussi en mouvement, en tant qu’elle se constitue, se reconstitue à travers des ruptures et des discontinuités (les révolutions du passé et les contre-révolutions auxquelles elles ont donné lieu) et se reproduit en tant que telle dans chaque période historique. C’est parce que la reproduction du rapport d’exploitation est contradictoire (le travail est toujours nécessaire et toujours de trop/la baisse tendancielle du taux de profit) que le communisme est le mouvement réel qui résout cette contradiction par l’activité révolutionnaire du prolétariat abolissant le capital et lui-même. En ces termes, les troubles d’août se présentent comme un événement historiquement particulier qui s’insère dans la totalité dont le moteur est la contradiction entre les classes telle qu’elle se présente aujourd’hui (le capitalisme restructuré et sa crise). Plus précisément encore, il s’inscrit dans le moment actuel, dans ce qu’on a pu appeler « l’ère des émeutes », dans le contexte du déroulement de la crise du capitalisme restructuré. Il faut comprendre ce moment actuel tel qu’il se présente sous les formes propres au capitalisme britannique, en prenant en compte les éléments constitutifs de ces troubles : la composition des participants, la variété de leurs pratiques (et la relative prédominance de certaines pratiques), la trajectoire spatio-temporelle qu’ils ont suivi, les formes d’organisation/de rassemblement des émeutiers, leurs buts et leurs aspirations (ou manque d’aspirations), leur rapport à leur environnement social et aux autres faits de la lutte des classes dans notre moment historique. La limite de ces troubles n’est pas extérieure à l’émeute-en-soi ; elle est inhérente à sa nature même, elle est l’envers de sa dynamique. On ne peut comprendre les troubles d’août qu’en menant une réflexion théorique sur les questions soulevées par son émergence et par son rapport aux autres actes de la lutte des classes de notre temps, réflexion qu’il s’agit pour nous d’articuler à la question de la révolution communiste que produit le cycle de luttes actuel. Voilà l’enjeu !

    #communisme #communisation #théorie #Blaumachen #Angleterre #UKriots

  • Revealed: Mark Duggan was not armed when shot by police | UK news | The Guardian
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/18/mark-duggan-ipcc-investigation-riots?CMP=twt_gu

    The investigation into the death of Mark Duggan has found no forensic evidence that he was carrying a gun when he was shot dead by police on 4 August, the Guardian has learned.

    A gun collected by Duggan earlier in the day was recovered 10 to 14 feet away, on the other side of a low fence from his body. He was killed outside the vehicle he was travelling in, after a police marksman fired twice.

    The new details raise questions about the official version of events. The shooting triggered some of the worst riots in modern British history, which began in Tottenham, north London, in response to the treatment of the Duggan family. The investigation into Duggan’s death is being carried out by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), but the Guardian has learned new details of the shooting, and a much more complex picture than first revealed is emerging.

  • Cerveau et maintien de l’ordre, comment améliorer l’information scientifique du grand public ? | En quête de sciences
    http://sciences.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/11/15/cerveau-et-maintien-de-lordre-comment-ameliorer-l%E2%80%99info

    Cerveau et maintien de l’ordre, comment améliorer l’information scientifique du grand public ?

    Plusieurs articles parus dans la presse britannique ou sur le Web ont relayé les résultats d’une étude scientifique qui aurait expliqué les émeutes londoniennes d’août par des carences en une certaine substance chimique présente dans le cerveau humain. Des conclusions totalement infondées.

    Consternés, les scientifiques à l’origine de cette recherche nous ont fait parvenir la tribune ci-dessous, publiée à l’origine dans le Guardian.

    Par Petroc Sumner, Frédéric Boy et Christopher Chambers, chercheurs en neurosciences cognitives, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.

    Avez-vous entendu dire que les émeutes dévastatrices à travers l’Angleterre1 étaient dues à une carence d’une substance chimique dans le cerveau ? Ou bien que nous allions bientôt être en mesure de réduire le nombre d’émeutes en utilisant un spray nasal contenant des extraits de cette substance ? De telles informations ont été diffusées, au cours des dernières semaines, dans des quotidiens grand public, donc, potentiellement lues par des millions de personnes.

    #ukriot #pressepoubelle

  • Now war is declared ! - Base de données anarchistes
    http://www.non-fides.fr/?Now-war-is-declared,1556

    De fait, l’Angleterre de ces dernières années s’est lentement (re-)transformée en une poudrière prête à exploser à tout moment. La contestation est de moins en moins contenue dans les limites du citoyennisme anglais, et peu à peu, pour de plus en plus de gens, la violence n’est plus un tabou moral. En témoigne par exemple les émeutes « étudiantes » de la fin 2010 sous le prétexte de la hausse des frais de scolarité. Pourtant si habitués à la mollesse du formol des bancs universitaires, des milliers et des milliers d’entre eux ont attaqué les banques, les bâtiments publics, les flics, la monarchie, le parlement et déclenché de nombreux incendies, tout cela dans la joie immédiate de l’instant émancipateur.
    Les mesures économiques d’austérité en Angleterre apparaissent telles qu’elles sont, de banales confirmations de la vision du monde de ceux qui les conçoivent. Lorsqu’il n’y a plus d’argent, on va le chercher chez ceux qui n’en ont déjà plus, on perpétue l’inégalité pour maintenir cette société de hiérarchie en bon ordre. A la pauvreté croissante s’ajoute presque toujours la demande de sécurité des riches et des puissants, car avec la pauvreté peut parfois venir la colère. Résultat, l’Angleterre est un peu devenue un bunker vidéo-surveillé.

    #ukriots

    http://ravage-editions.blogspot.com

  • Émeutes-shopping (CQFD)
    http://www.cqfd-journal.org/Emeutes-shopping

    La flambée de violence de cet été en Grande-Bretagne a pour origine une politique de casse sociale plus que trentenaire. Et les grands discours moralisants qui stigmatisent le comportement de la jeunesse ne servent qu’à dissimuler cette dure réalité. par Rémi« Are you taking orders or are you taking over ? » [Allez-vous exécuter les ordres ou vous relever ?] En 1977, dans une chanson des Clash, le regretté Joe Strummer interroge le privilège de race d’une jeunesse ouvrière blanche qui, à la solidarité de classe, préfère le confort d’être moins maltraitée que les Noirs. L’apostrophe des Clash est lancée juste à la suite des émeutes de Notting Hill. Avant de devenir en partie le havre des bourgeois bohèmes adeptes du chinage, le quartier de Notting Hill a été par deux fois le terrain de violences policières contre la communauté issue des Caraïbes – en 1958 et 1976. La sirène qui résonne dans la dernière version du morceau des Clash annonce des lendemains qui déchantent pour l’ensemble des franges les plus défavorisées de la société britannique (...) Source : CQFD

  • Nouvelle une : retour sur les émeutes anglaises avec une « Lettre ouverte à ceux qui condamnent le pillage » signée Evan Calder Williams
    https://www.lereveil.ch/no13-octobre-2011
    « Tel que lorsque vous penchez vers la contrefactualité (comme beaucoup de ceux qui condamnent et qui se trouvent légèrement à gauche du centre le font) et dites, bon, mais, ce serait différent s’ils ne prenaient que de la nourriture, des couches, des médicaments, vous savez, les choses dont on a vraiment besoin pour s’en sortir, ce qui est en train de se dire est qu’ils ne devraient voler que des biens d’une qualité équivalente à leur niveau de vie. Les pauvres, qui n’ont pas un niveau de vie très élevé, devraient avoir des biens dont le standard n’est pas très élevé. Ils ne devraient pas prendre des cigarettes industrielles. Ils ne devraient pas prendre du champagne, ou du moins pas le bon et seulement pour les grandes occasions. Ils ne devraient pas prendre de grandes télévisions. Car ils ne méritent pas ces choses. Et ils devraient le savoir. »
    #UKriots
    http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html
    http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn_10.html

  • Retour sur la répression des émeutes de Londres
    https://www.lereveil.ch/contrib/nous-voulons-qu-ils-subissent-ce
    "Que la rage explose après la mort d’un « coupable » et non d’un « innocent » indique peut-être que des camps s’affirment, que ce n’est plus seulement la violence policière qui est visée, mais également la justice, la ligne de partage entre « délinquants » et « victimes »/ « citoyens » qu’elle s’acharne à tracer. Nous sommes allés à Londres au lendemain des révoltes pour tenter de voir comment s’organise la répression — avec plus de 3000 arrestations et 1000 procédures judiciaires ouvertes [1] — et comment les révoltés et leurs proches y répondent."
    #UKriots

  • London Calling
    https://www.lereveil.ch/contrib/london-calling
    "Cette révolte en Angleterre a éclaté avec une violence telle qu’on pourrait dire qu’elle contient toute la violence vécue au quotidien, dans tous les rapports sociaux. La violence du travail, de l’environnement empoisonné, de la concurrence effrénée entre tout le monde, de la misère, du loyer, de l’école, de l’Etat,… a trouvé aujourd’hui en Angleterre un écho dans la rue, un écho de révolte qui se met en contre, directement, sans dialogue politique aucun, sans trêve ni paix possible. Et si des saloperies ont bien pu se passer lors de cette révolte, comme ne cessent de répéter les médias, les défenseurs de l’ordre, le « soutien critique » de la gauche, les réformistes, les humanitaristes, la question reste de savoir ce qui est crapuleux et pourquoi ça l’est. Les opinions différeront."
    #UKriots

  • Causes of the riots: Old truths and new technologies | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/24/riots-causes-social-media

    Eleven years ago fuel protesters held Britain to ransom, and it became a commonplace to account for their success in terms of the new-fangled mobile phones which lorry drivers were using to text message one another. A generation before, the crackling cassette recordings of Ayatollah Khomeini’s harangues which circulated in Tehran were said to have played no small part in fomenting the Iranian revolution. In an earlier epoch, the development of Dutch presses and distribution networks which churned out “libelles” targeting French royalty was, according to some historians, the catalyst for the storming of the Bastille.

    Today Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry are commanded to attend a Home Office summit for earnest discussion about the role their networks played in the spasm of criminal disorder that gripped English streets so recently. The hysterically harsh sentences already handed down in one or two cases of pro-riot social messaging is a reminder that moral panic can often follow hot on the heels of new technology.

    #ukriots #technologie

  • David Starkey’s views on race disgrace the academic world, say historians - Telegraph - #ukriots
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8722917/David-Starkeys-views-on-race-disgrace-the-academic-world-say-historians

    Starkey’s Newsnight appearance caused outrage earlier this month when he was asked about the cause of the riots and replied: “What has happened is that a substantial section of the chavs... have become black. The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion.”

    In a letter to the Times Higher Education magazine, the collective of 102 academics said: "His crass generalisations about black culture and white culture as oppositional, monolithic entities demonstrate a failure to grasp the subtleties of race and class that would disgrace a first-year history undergraduate.

    "In fact, it appears to us that the BBC was more interested in employing him for his on-screen persona and tendency to make comments that viewers find offensive than for his skills as a historian.

  • Government backs away from plan to close social media sites during riots - The Independent - #ukriots
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-backs-away-from-plan-to-close-social-media-sites-during-ri

    Threats to close down Twitter and other social media during civil disturbances, raised in the heat of this month’s riots, have been abandoned. The subject was not even discussed during an hour-long meeting between senior ministers, the police, and representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry yesterday.

    The Government has executed a rapid climbdown after being alerted to the pitfalls of a policy put forward “in the heat of the moment”. Whitehall sources privately admitted they were not now seeking any new powers to censor the internet.

  • Facebook and Twitter Will Say No to Social Media Blocking in Wake of Riots

    - Techland - TIME.com
    http://techland.time.com/2011/08/24/facebook-and-twitter-will-say-no-to-social-media-blocking-in-wake-of-

    Good news for rioters and social networking ne’er-do-wells (and, those groups notwithstanding, anti-censorship folk in general): Facebook and Twitter won’t knuckle under to calls they be shut down when citizens get unruly—as England’s citizenry did just a few weeks ago in London and several other British cities.

    #ukriots #twitter #censure

  • Blocking Twitter During Riots A Bad Idea, Study Proves - AllTwitter
    http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/blocking-twitter-during-riots-a-bad-idea-study-proves_b13091

    In the aftermath of the UK riots earlier this month, government officials had floated around the idea of blocking access to Twitter and other social media sites next time something similar occurred. The official reasoning was that this would prevent people from using Twitter to incite violence and plan the riots themselves.

    An analysis of the tweets actually sent during the riot, however, would suggest that banning people from social networks is a terrible idea.

    #ukriots #twitter #censure

  • Review of the use of twitter by four police forces in riot | Ben Proctor
    http://www.benproctor.co.uk/blog/2011/08/22/a-tale-of-four-police-twitter-accounts

    A tale of four police twitter accounts

    Background
    The recent riots and incidents of violent disorder in London and other cities will have far-reaching consequences for public policy, policing tactics and many other areas of life. Big shifts will occur.

    I want to focus in on one, quite small, area of change: the deployment of social media in an emergency. As a first step I have looked at some statistics on the twitter accounts of four police forces. There are many caveats to this work and I really don’t want to be seen to be drawing conclusions, just raising interesting observations.

    Greater Manchester Police

    Tweets from this account leaped up between 10th and 11th August in response to the disorder in Manchester. Follower numbers had increased significantly in advance of this (from around 45,000 on 5th August to around 70,000 on 10th August. They jumped again between 10th and 11th August finally peaking at just under 100,000 followers. By far the most followed of the accounts I looked at.

    This account was very different in tone and application. It was much less formal. There was widespread engagement with individuals in the public stream. The account provided live updates on the policing situation even though it was dynamic and kept changing. The huge increase in activity was post riots when the police began to tweet details of those charged (and convicted) of offences related to the disorder. This was controversial and the account engaged with individuals over this in the stream:

    @bmckee15 we publish people’s DOBs so that there can be no mis-identification with someone of the same name

    Lot of debate about publishing details – courts very clear, justice should be done publicly

    On the 13th the account started to invite feedback and provided a commentary on this

    “really appreciate constructive comments about consistency of tone etc as we have different tweeters. We will definitely look at this

    http://www.benproctor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/GMP-twitter-riots-300x171.png

    #police #twitter #ukriots

  • What Lies Beneath The Hoodie: London 2011 vs. Athens 2008 | Greece.GreekReporter.com Latest News from Greece
    http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/08/20/what-lies-beneath-the-hoodie-london-2011-vs-athens-2008

    August 2011: as a result of a police fatal shooting, disaffected hooded youth burn houses, vandalize public property, and brake into high-street stores

    The government

    British as well as 2008 Greek shockingly violent riots happened on the watch of conservative governments that refused to even accept reality, let alone address the social, political and economic dimensions of the events. Instead, David Cameron, just as Kostas Karamanlis did back in 2008, went for the easy way out. He preferred to shove the problems under the carpet and mask the chronic frustrations of a rather big chunk of the British youth, with a populist “opportunistic motives” propaganda, dismissing the marginalized young protesters as common-law criminals. There is no reason to doubt that this is at least partly the case. But you would expect from two contemporary European leaders to take a closer look as to what’s really wrong with their countries.

    The Media

    As in Greece in 2008, British media are also accused of applying its stereotypical paintbrush to the youth spectrum.

    #ukriots #greece

  • annarky’s blog.: ONE LAW FOR THE RICH - ONE FOR THE POOR.
    http://radicalglasgowblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/jon-snow-blog-he-refers-to-sense-of-one.html

    In the Jon Snow blog he refers to a sense of one law for the poor and one law for the rich.

    We are told thousands of rioters and looters have been arrested. Hundreds have been charged, some have already been punished – many cases are still in train.
    Many have pointed to the reality that an even smaller handful of bankers have faced the law even than those politicians who have been prosecuted. No British banker is in jail for what happened in 2008.

    #ukriots

  • UK riots : man aged 70 arrested for looting a Sainsbury’s - mirror.co.uk
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/08/22/uk-riots-man-aged-70-arrested-for-looting-a-sainsbury-s-115875-23362734

    The unnamed pensioner – the oldest person to be held so far – admitted being among 200 thugs who raided shops and attacked police during sickening violence that left another OAP dead.

    ...

    A spokeswoman said: “He is the oldest person arrested so far in connection with the violence in London. He admitted theft and was cautioned. We will not reveal his identity. This man was deeply ashamed of himself and it was decided it wasn’t in the public interest to lock him up.”

    Ses parents sont a blâmés certainement....
    #ukriots

  • So, Boris, rioters make you angry. What about your Bullingdon pal? - UK Politics, UK - The Independent
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/so-boris-rioters-make-you-angry-what-about-your-bullingdon-pal-234138

    The Prime Minister, David Cameron, the Chancellor, George Osborne, and the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, were some of the best-known members of the club – an elite dining society notorious for its drunken excesses. It has a tradition of “omerta”, a code of silence, among its members.

    But last week an eyewitness came forward with a tale of how he recalled witnessing a man “with a shock of white blond hair” lob the pot plant. Happily, we are assured it was not the Mayor of London but one who may also have had blond locks.

    Paul Wiffen, a fellow Oxford alumnus, felt compelled to speak out after hearing Mr Johnson speak of his “blinding anger at the callousness and selfishness of the rioters”.

    But last night, Mr Johnson’s spokesman, Guto Harri, admitted that the Mayor remembers the name of the Bullingdon hooligan responsible for an act of vandalism similar to those he condemned. Why then, we asked, did Boris not reveal who it was at the time, considering police had interviewed members of the drinking club in an attempt to discover the culprit?

    #ukriots

  • VersoBooks.com

    http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/660-something-has-snapped-and-it-has-been-a-long-time-coming

    Something has snapped, and it has been a long time coming

    We’ve long congratulated ourselves, in London, of the fact that we have no banlieue. We applauded ourselves especially smugly when zoned, segregated Paris rioted a few years ago. It’s not like it’s untrue—give or take the odd exception (a Thamesmead, a Chelmlsey Wood) our poverty is not concentrated in peripheral housing estates. Edinburgh might wall off its poor in Muirhouse or Leith, and Oxford might try not to think about Blackbird Leys, but in London, Manchester/Salford, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham—the cities that erupted on Monday 8th August—the rich live, by and large, next to the poor: £1,000,000 Georgian terraces next to estates with some of the deepest poverty in the EU. We’re so pleased with this that we’ve even extended the principle to how we plan the trickledown dribble of social housing built over the last two decades, those Housing Association schemes where the deserving poor are ’pepper-potted’ with stockbrokers. We’ve learnt about ’spatial segregation’, so we do things differently now. Someone commenting on James Meek’s great London Review of Books article on parallel Hackneys mentioned China Miéville’s recent science fiction novel The City and The City, where two cities literally do occupy the same space, with all inhabitants acting as if they don’t. Miéville set it in Eastern Europe, but the inspiration is surely London.

    .....

    That isn’t to say that all insights from history are useless. Over the last week ex-punks, chroniclers of rebel rock, ’Situationists’ and ’leftists’ have decided that these riots are somehow different, somehow apolitical, compared to those that went before. The bizarrely romanticised Gordon Riots, in which Catholics were massacred. The Watts Riots of 1965, where corner shops were burned and ransacked with as much intensity as they were on Monday, only with more firearms. Neither were corner shops spared in the riots of 1981. The 1992 LA riots, where innocent truck drivers were dragged from their vehicles and killed. Riots always start with an immediate grievance—a hugely corrupt police force shooting a man to death, this time—and become a free-for-all, where people exploit the absence of the law, in which the people who suffer are often innocent. Rioting is a politics of despair, but to claim that these riots are somehow different, somehow ’neoliberal’, because of the allegedly novel phenomenon of mass looting, is asinine. It would be infantile to cheer on rioters against corner shopkeepers trying to defend their already small livelihoods; but equally so to pretend that this had nothing to do with the demonisation of the young and poor, nothing to do with our brutally unequal society and our pathetic trickle-down attempts at amelioration. Then we line up with those who think that looting Foot Locker is worse than the looting of an entire economy.

    #ukriots

  • NE MORALISEZ PAS, NE JUGEZ PAS, NE PRENEZ PAS DE PHOTOS (sur les émeutes prolétariennes en Angleterre) | LE JURA LIBERTAIRE
    http://juralib.noblogs.org/2011/08/20/ne-moralisez-pas-ne-jugez-pas-ne-prenez-pas-de-photos-sur-les-emeut

    « Il existe une classe sous-prolétarienne en Angleterre qu’il y a nulle part ailleurs. Blancs, peu éduqués, dépourvus de tout moyen d’évolution sociale, ils sont l’exemple parfait des résultats du capitalisme anglo-saxon et de son programme déshumanisant. La perversion anglaise, c’est de rendre cette population fière de leur misère et de leur ignorance. La situation est sans espoir. J’ai plus d’espoir pour la jeunesse de nos banlieues. »

    Jean-Baptiste Clemence ; « La chute » d’Albert Camus, 1956.

    #ukriots

  • Civil disorder and looting hits Britain: We have been here before | The Economist
    http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2011/08/civil-disorder-and-looting-hits-britain-0

    THERE have been some sweeping historical claims made in the wake of last week’s unrest, with commentators of left and right decrying an unprecedented collapse in moral standards, parenting and discipline among the young. There have been cultural claims too, with calls to blame African-American rap music from broadcast.

    #UKriots