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WHO'S UP FOR CO-ORDINATED STRIKES IN NOVEMBER? ENGLAND IS!
One solution - Revolution!
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Posted on September 16, 2011 via Bite Me, Beautiful with 65 notes
Source: bitemebeautiful
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There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored
By Nina Power, The Guardian
Those condemning the events of the past couple of nights in north London and elsewhere would do well to take a step back and consider the bigger picture: a country in which the richest 10% are now 100 times better off than the poorest, where consumerism predicated on personal debt has been pushed for years as the solution to a faltering economy, and where, according to the OECD, social mobility is worse than any other developed country.
Images of burning buildings, cars aflame and stripped-out shops may provide spectacular fodder for a restless media, ever hungry for new stories and fresh groups to demonise, but we will understand nothing of these events if we ignore the history and the context in which they occur.