Talk about Toxteth Riots by Phil Scranton

[WalkOnWalkOn]

Might be an interesting evening. Its part of thie Writing on the Wall festival over the last two week in Liverpool. Lots of gigs and talks etc about Liverpool being a "City of Radicals".

 

Friday 27th May

 

'1981: Unreasonable Force in Dangerous Times' - Phil Scraton

 

 

Throughout the late 1970s heavy-handed policing in working class communities, on picket lines and in Black and Irish neighbourhoods drew criticism from campaign and civil liberties groups, politicians and the media. In April 1979, Blair Peach was clubbed down and killed by a member of the Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group as he left an anti-fascist demonstration in Southall, London. Heavy handed policing continued throughout the inner-cities and in the summer of 1981 the Toxteth community rose up against endemic police racism. Using contemporaneous interviews and documents, first published in Law, Order and the Authoritarian State and revisited in Power Conflict and Criminalisation, this talk reflects on the context, circumstances and impact of – and resistance to - institutionalised racism within the police.

 

Phil Scraton is Professor of Criminology in the School of Law, Queen’s University, Belfast. His most recent publications are: Power, Conflict and Criminalisation (2007); Hillsborough: The Truth (2009); The Violence of Incarceration (2009); Childhood in Transition: Experiencing Marginalisation and Conflict in Northern Ireland (2009); The Incarceration of Women (forthcoming)

 

The Casa, 29 Hope Street, L1 9BQ

 

Time: 7.30pm - 9.30pm

 

Entry: £4/£2 pay on door

[jonnybastard]

Seriously? Someones going to say unkind, but true, things about our brave but underpaid police bobbies? All my bitches better neg the fucker.

[fruitbat]

the toxteth riots werent about racism, they were a social revolt against the government

 

blacks, whites, asian all threw bricks together

[Hermes]

the toxteth riots werent about racism, they were a social revolt against the government

 

blacks, whites, asian all threw bricks together

 

....and looted shops all along Park Road and Lodge Lane, all owned by the Government of course.

[Guest ShoePiss]

....and looted shops all along Park Road and Lodge Lane, all owned by the Government of course.

 

That always happens but it doesn't mean it wasn't a socioeconomic issue.

 

Cheap.

[WaltonRed]

He should wait for the 2011 version