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From Brixton to Bradford (3178 words) |
 | Recourse to riot on the part of those disposed of any other means of representing their interests or simply defending themselves from attack and harassment of various types has a long history. |
| Brixton was thus read, by Scarman at least, as a demand for inclusion in social citizenship rights by those who had become marginalised through a combination of racial discrimination and economic decay. |
| Riot by the un-policed rather than the over policed, as an exaggeration of criminality preying on the community itself rather than directed against the state, speak of fundamental changes taking place in the social structure and governance of advanced capitalist democracies. |
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