Students & Anti-Cuts Groups Link Riots to Cuts

UK students and anti-cuts groups have released a statement linking the riots to the cuts, police brutality and systematic inequality. They call for an investigation into Mark Duggan’s death, the disbanding of the IPCC to be replaced with independent body, and no punishment of rioters with increased sentences, violence or elimination of benefits.

They call for the reversal of the punitive programme of cuts that is targeting most heavily areas of deprivation and marginalised groups, including young people, to be replaced by a policy of positive investment and wealth re-distribution.

They call upon those involved in community and campaigning groups, including trades unions, for their support and a refusal to condemn and disown those involved in riots; stating that instead everything possible must be done to engage with them, recognising their actions as part of the broad range of responses to the neoliberal cuts programme.

Read more, sign and share at Nottingham Students Against Fees and Cuts.

US Day of Rage #USDOR #Sept17 #Occupywallstreet

In light of the current #UKriots, we will be posting an in-depth article tomorrow. In the meantime, let us direct our energies and anger at those who caused the currect economic crisis and thus are directly responsible for the unrest on the streets tonight.

US Day of Rage is a mass mobilization scheduled for September 17th in New York that will bring people to occupy Wall Street and turn it into the next Tahrir Square. The event page is here: https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=144937025580428 Concurrent events are being planned in London, Spain and Cairo.

Please help by showing your support for the event by spreading the word across Facebook and Twitter. Let the world know that  US citizens are united with global struggles against police brutality and political repression, and ready to speak truth to power.