Whitewashing state racism then and now: 40 years after the Brixton uprising ...Kuwait

Comment: Today, just as in the 80s, communities of colour are being driven to protest, only to be met with a government that denies the painfully obvious, writes Malia Bouattia. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Brixton uprisings, when young people took to the streets in protest against racist policing, high unemployment and poverty.  The "riots" took place against a backdrop of oppression, far-right terror and both complacency and complicity from the British state. This was all too painfully demonstrated months before in nearby New Cross, when 13 young black people were killed at a party in a fire thought to have been ignited by National Front members. Inaction by

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