Comment is free There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored

Since he came to power the coalition a little over a year ago, the country witnessed student protests multiple, and dozens of professions and universities, and many of the strikes, a half a million troops march Association and now turmoil in the streets of the capital (preceded by clashes with police in Bristol, Stokes Croft earlier in the year). Has raised all of these events have brought a different, after all take place against the backdrop of cuts and austerity measures and the brutal disappearance. The government knows very well that it is taking a gamble, and that its policies risk provoking mass unrest on a scale not seen since the early 1980s. With people taking to the streets of Tottenham, Edmonton, Brixton and elsewhere during the past few nights, we may be about to see the government enter a continuous line and losing my grandfather.



May be explained policies of the last year, split between the right and the disadvantaged in terms of extreme, but the context of social unrest cuts much deeper than that. Fatal shooting on Dugan Mark on Thursday, as it seems, contrary to initial calculations, the police fired bullets only, is the latest tragic events in the longer history of treatment in the Metropolitan Police of London, ordinary, especially the backgrounds of black and minority ethnic and singling out specific areas and individuals for the prevention, monitoring, inspection and daily harassment.

One journalist wrote that he was surprised how many people know at Tottenham and was decisive for the team, but there should be nothing surprising about this. When you look at the numbers of deaths in police custody (at least 333 since 1998 and not a single conviction of any police officer of any one of them), then seen the Intergovernmental Panel and the courts by many perfectly reasonable, that the police protection rather than people.

Combining the concept of suspicion and resentment towards the police on the basis of the experience and memory with high rates of poverty, unemployment and wide and the reasons why people took to the streets to become clear. (Haringey, a town of Tottenham, and the fourth highest level of child poverty in London, and the unemployment rate from 8.8%, twice the national average, with one vacancy for every action seeks 54 in the town.)

And condemns the events of the last two years of nights in North London and other places are good to take a step back and look at the bigger picture: the country in which the richest 10% now 100 times better off than the poorest, are based on consumer personal debt have been paid for years as a solution to the faltering economy, where, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and social mobility is worse than any other advanced country.

And Richard Wilkinson and Beckett, Kate point in the level of the Spirit: Why is the best for the equality of all people, and phenomena are usually described as "social problems" (crime, poor health, incarceration rates, mental illness) are more common in communities disproportionately from those with the distribution of better economic and less gap between the richest and the poorest. Has made Britain one of the most unequal in the developed world - decades of individual selfishness, competition and encourage the state - along with the systematic crushing of trade unions and an increasing criminalization of dissent.

Has been photographed burning buildings and cars ablaze and shops stripped out the provision of fodder amazing media restless, hungry than ever for new stories and new groups to discredit, but we will not understand any of these events if we were to ignore the history and context in which they occur.