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UK: 1981 "Uprisings": There were two phases, the first was in Brixton over the weekend of 11-12 April 1981 following "Swamp 81", a mass police stop and search operation

01 August 2011

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UK: 1981 "Uprisings": Many current accounts tend to collapse the events of 1981. There were two phases, the first was in Brixton over the weekend of 11-12 April 1981 following "Swamp 81", a mass police stop and search operation. The second more widespread outbreaks were between 3-12 July 1981 including 12 areas in London plus Toxteth (Liverpool), Manchester, Preston, Hull, Wolverhampton,Reading, Birmingham, Luton, Chester, Leicester, Leeds and Huddersfield. Two articles by Tony Bunyan in State Research Bulletin describe what happened: April 1981: Brixton: New facts emerge (pdf) and The July riots (pdf). Already the scale of the 2011 riots exceed that of 1981 and the burning and looting of homes, shops and stores was not a major feature back then when the targets were largely the police.

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