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The Tories have seized on the riots as an opportunity to shift the whole political atmosphere in Britain to the right. The establishment’s response is to demonise the unemployed, young people and those who rely on meagre benefits in order to survive.

A huge attack on the British Council building in Kabul last week reminded the world what an unstable place Afghanistan remains.

Thousands of protesters from across Britain are expected to march on the first day of the Tory party conference.

The average pay for cabin crew at British Airways (BA) has nosedived by £1,500 over the past year.

Anti-racists and anti-fascists from across Britain will join thousands of local people in east London on 3 September.

Riots: Rightful rage or counter-productive? Some of your analysis of the riots across Britain (Socialist Worker, 13 August) is true. Young people have no hope, and have been brought up in a culture valuing commercialism above all else.

"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality," wrote the 19th century Whig historian Thomas Macaulay.

The riots have lifted the lid on the routine police harassment, racism and deprivation that is the daily life of thousands of young people in Britain.

The Tories claim that Britain is united against the rioters. But while there is a backlash, many people have defended young people and opposed the police crackdown.

The courts have launched an onslaught against poor, working class people in the aftermath of the riots that swept British cities.

The courts have launched an onslaught against poor, working class people in the aftermath of the riots that swept British cities.

The rising against Tory Britain continued last night, Tuesday.