Brixton Poster

We want to Riot - not to work! the Brixton Uprisings 1981

ein Buch von WildCat zum Thema England in den 1980er JAhren und dem Aufstand von Brixton 1981 könnt ihr als PDF hier runterladen:

https://www.wildcat-www.de/dossiers/ukriots/Zehn-Tage-die-England-veraenderten_1986.pdf

38 years ago this weekend Brixton exploded in the middle of Operation Swamp 81 - a police operaation that saw almost 950 mainly black young people stopped and searched in the area. It was the start of a period that saw uprisings up and down the country, reaching a peak in July 1981.

It was April 1981,
Down in the ghetto of Brixton,
That the babylon cause such a friction,
That it bring about a great insurrection,
And it spread all over the nation
It was truly an historical occasion
It was the event of the year
And I wish I had been there
When we ran riot all over Brixton
When we mash up plenty police van...
When we mash up the Swamp '81

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Di Great Insohreckshan