interview next here on r.t. and i'll be back with i had lines about. i'm joined by owen jones author of a book called the demonization of the working classes thanks for talking to r.t. the demonization of the working classes what do you mean by that and what didn't have to do with the riots i think there's been this myth which the political establishment and journalists alike embrace basically everybody in britain is middle class and all that remains of the old working class is a sort of problematic fact plus in the class what we saw with these riots complicate i think linked to the sense because it helps reinforce this are there is this terrible in the class which is waiting you know which is not only lazy in fact with but also violent which is how the government and lightning commentators have been trying why is there this myth about the working classes how is it created and

why the riots being blamed on them why i think what we saw in the 1980's in this country was an attack on a lot the pillars of working class britain industries that sustained a lot of communities institutions trade unions council housing values which in communities were very strong like solidarity in favor of good individuals and by the end of the eighty's there wasn't the same sense of being being able to be proud of being working class everyone supposed to seem to become middle class you know that part for aspiration means in britain so because of all that was that the working class became betrayed in a very negative way particularly as we became all equal and in a more equal society people justify that inequality by saying well actually the people at the bottom of that because they deserve to be there the lazy the violent bigoted stupid is a justification for inequality and that's not to say they want social problems in this country like violence and crime or whatever but the real info. people narcs of

work in some of the communities worst affected fact by the top of the thirty four employed people facing chasing every drop so i think problems what we saw last week another a whole range of other social problems i think unemployment and poverty provide fertile ground for them to grow so as not to justify it is just to try and explain why these things happen in order to stop it from happening again so using politicians have been quick to blame all of this on criminality and say the is a broken society. just a way of covering up the ills of a society they've created then absolutely i mean basically what they're trying to do is turn a social issue into a moral issue. they're reinforcing the idea that if your particular benefits are part of mass unemployment that your behavior is at fault when actually you know in

this country now there's a problem of lack of jobs we've got two and a half million people unemployed another million incapacity benefit are going to push into work there's less than half a million vacancies there's not enough jobs to go around it's very convenient for the government to say actually all these people on unemployment benefits are is their own fault their behaviors that fall and that's what's need to be that's what needs to be sorted out not the issue addressed you know agree with some extent knowing these people were clearly have no idea that violence is not the answer i mean no one's justify what happened understanding the whole past starting what has to be this must never happen again people must never be terrorized in their communities as they were last week with what in five people young people out of a job only takes a small proportion of those people who feel they have no future to risk to act in this way to bring chaos and violence to the streets of our cities and i mean there's other issues too i think i think consumerism and the society has

a lot of responsibility in britain your status has so much to do with what you possess. and what you wear. for a lot of all young people want to be part of a consumer society but there's a whole group of people particularly poor communities who feel they have no access to it and in a perverse way i think that's what you saw in places like hackney where you got some of the poorest people living along some of the richest right in the center of london and i think that kind of inequality mix with consumerism helps create that situation that we saw in the shop you mentioned this inequality but the policy for some time has been some mix rich and poor living in the same areas bring in council houses to fill in areas and vice a versa do you not think that's work. i think the problem. is you end up with lots of shops pricing out a lot of the people who live there actually pushes up the cost of living for the people but yes i think mixing and social mixing is good you only have to look at paris where the rich are concentrated in the middle and the poor concentrate around

the edges the so-called effect it's good to be mixing but the problem in london is when the most cities in the western world the top ten percent are over two hundred sixty times richer than the bottom ten percent so they see you have poor people living alongside some of the richest people in the world looking at live they will in all likelihood never help and what we need to do is to tackle that inequality because at the moment people are getting a fair share of the british economy so how do you bridge saying well we need more progressive taxation we need actors on the rich in order to take more people at the bottom out of taxation altogether we need a living wage so people at the bottom especially a place like london or most expensive cities on the planet the minimum wage in this country is just not enough to live on you can't support a family with it so these are huge social problems which aren't being addressed and

we have these problems at a time when people at the top are richer than ever is this also. case then of the bad example being set from the top down and had the m.p.'s expenses scandal bankers bonuses still getting paid despite the crisis if we look at the m.p.'s in particular he stood up to denounce these looters just three years ago they were embroiled in a huge expenses scandal let's be honest they were state taking money from the taxpayer to get the same sort of widescreen t.v.'s that were being carted out of shops last week to be one example general counsel of backbench labor m.p. he stood up to demand action be taken against the looters he claimed eight and a half thousand pounds for buying all of the televisions that whilst one twenty three year old has just been sent to prison for six months for stealing three hundred fifty worth of water to the right so yes we have the bankers who plunged into an economic crisis where the politicians stole from the taxpayer we recently have the news international scandal where police were being bribed by journalists

what happened last week was more disorderly than all of our example being set by the top the way the government is dealing with this choosing it's a way for them to kind of legitimize right wing ideals of things like tougher policing cracking down on social media i think these rights have been manipulated by the government quite frankly people understandably angry and they're scared but what this government is doing is using that to justify attacks on people on benefits we've seen attacks on single parents this idea fatherless families are responsible we've seen recently david starkey the historian trying to scapegoat black people in black kocher and we're now talking about and crackdown in terms of law and order attacks on civil liberties by government which promised the defense of liberty is against the attacks from new labor and even as you say a tax on the idea that social media should be closed down which didn't even happen in a lot of authoritarian regimes when they were all poisons going about against them

you mentioned the starkey that you're involved in the debate. he. mentioned the whites of the come blacks in other courses there has been talk of multiculturalism being the failure of it being the cause of these riots do you give any kind of credence to that argument with about the racial issue coming into play in these riots let me be clear about david starkey what he said was a very racist this was an attempt to scapegoat people this whole range of people involved from different ethnic backgrounds the common factor with all of them is poverty and unemployment and again it's not just a fixation what happened was completely inexcusable if you have enough people who don't feel they have a future of whatever ethnic background only takes a small proportion and to respond in this outrageous way to bring kind of the streets of london but multiculturalism and different ethnic groups have nothing to do with what happened we still haven't seen the full effects of the austerity cuts things like higher education police cuts still plan to be going through when it

does these things things will get worse i think the danger is that these riots a dark force of much worse. there's a perfect storm the rich haven't yet there's rising youth unemployment the government took away the educational maintenance allowance which was paid to pour over six in your sustain education university tuition fees have been troubled all of these together will breed continue to breed but more devastatingly increasing numbers of people who feel they have no future they feel they have nothing to look forward to and i think we could see a lot worse down the line when the cuts the government's response many of. the same time seems to be mirroring public opinion the public want the government to crack down on the perpetrators and they want them to be punished severely nothing that's a good idea look people angry people are scared because of what happened but this should be a test of democracy in

a country like they're. very good. an inevitable backlash that should not let people allow justice to be subverted this country couldn't are now talking of taking away benefits council houses from those who were involved in the riots now what that says is you will be punished twice for a pig committing a crime if you are poor because obviously that will not affect anyone it doesn't account for the harm done isn't on benefits now i think we need to be just needs to be done it needs to be proportionate to the crime and the idea of attacking poor people more than the poor for punishing them twice is fundamentally unjust and also self-defeating because if you take away all forms of income and all forms of housing from people then what reason is there not to be involved in criminality i mean in effect that becomes the new means of survival so i think this is near hysteria gripping the magistrates in this country and we need to resist up i mean jones thank you.

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libyan capital after a major nato back to advance and the report free of the songs being corrupted by the opposition but the location of the libyan leader is unknown. opposition supporters rejoice in the forty year old regime is nearing a dead end the skeptics point to the bitter disillusionment could follow the fall of egypt's dictator. and the international reaction ranges from you for it out right caution may concern that with the likelihood of an unstable rebel government torn apart by competing interests. for more from me in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime it's the sports news with kate and after a weekend of football action across the continent you have news of a much anticipated match up old trafford in england.

hello you're watching a monday evening sports update and views the top stories. on the rise i'm going to want to time today now to go back up to fall in the russian premier league. while at the right time maria sharapova be killing a younger veteran cincinnati the second title of the season a week before the start of the usa that. snow leopards in focus with less than a fortnight ago before the start of the k.h. all season we take a closer look at favorites like pass. stars football and angie are back up to fourth in the table after two one win it. in the russian premier league and she took the lead off a twenty two minutes to the scene from i had his first assist the defensive mix up . but still not managed to grab an equaliser on the strength of our time under a lead on him claiming his sixth goal the season. however twenty minutes ago

alexander pulled me off struck to give the home side to win their third victory. my gangs use them to within two points of their opponents he states that. oh me one but that must have slipped a fist after coming back to draw one more stocking stuffer nazi the visit is fell behind off to twenty six minutes to a close range header. of course well then leveled early in the second half but the school remained one long sponsor not to go second ball so now let me point clear of safety. elsewhere thirty fourth minute goal from denise boucher cost a lot of moscow all three points in time to consummate up the railway men and undefeated in six games since manager there's a conservative challenge at the beginning you do you like they stay at one place behind their opponents. and there was a goal of fasting crassness as a flashed fellow you boys valda five nil this in a try or are you off to twenty minutes. and then had

a few second in first hole stoppage time. number hosts continued to press off to the break gale be caught up soon made it three nil with another header . take out some call for maybe four nil off to seventy minutes this time it is bruce. has nightmares of although there's not been the start again that bit of completed the ranch in the dying minutes so five now a spectacular victory for the band of gold to have taken one point the last six games. so awful that actually let's take a look at the top of the table after twenty one games to sky remain top two points clear of the next number off five points further adrift closely followed by angie unsponsored moscow while at the other end of the table clearly it's about to stay bottom but they're calling their way back as three seems a knock on one point about them all go their stuff and spot something.

over in the english premier league like a moderate warmest tautness trip to munch tonight on this monday evening with manager harry redknapp saying the want to a midfield as head is not in the right place the absence could be seen as moderates taking a step towards a move to chelsea despite all the efforts by spurs to keep up the twenty five year old croatia star tottenham last won that old trafford more than twenty years ago looking for their first points of the season after last week's opening game to everton was postponed because of the riots in london while a win for united would propel them into joint top spot with rivals manchester city and wolves as the only two sides to have trained maximum points after two games united are missing the injured defensive trio of rio ferdinand when you did it and the file. well the city leading the way following a three two victory at bolton that it's over gary barry and injector were all on target for them as it is one of those who escaped relegation last may be full of

material for stoke rampage last going to draw a new board nor each week both sides still looking for their first wind of the season. but in the meantime more pressure has been heaped on also manage austin's anger after picking up just one point from two games since the start of the best season of the gunners will now have to do without vango for the next to your skin games the coach was suspended for two further you wait for the fix just after reaching the previous touchline ban during last year's day one is know when it's time to deny easy in the first leg of the champions league qualifying playoffs the second leg will be held in italy on wednesday. well meanwhile manchester city manager roberto mancini says he wants to complete the signing of austin midfielder samir nasri before that second leg on wednesday if the deal does not go through by then the twenty four year old france star could feature in that time northeastern italy which means he'll be ineligible to play for

city later in the competition and cheney says it's vital windfield is free to play in full city's games. and chelsea say they've agreed a transfer fee with but i fear for me still there which is thought to be around thirty eight million dollars the move is subjects to the twenty three year old agreeing personal terms and passing a medical doctor who has won eleven caps so far for spain scored four goals part of his country's world cup winning squad last year. while elsewhere footballers officials and founders had to run for cover it and that you're mexico after a gunfight broke out at snyder stadium on sunday gunmen opened fire on police and stray bullets hit the exterior of the venue in the northern city of gori on no casualties have been reported estimated twenty thousand spectators watched that talk to a match between some things like guna on august motherly or if it was abandoned in the fortieth minute no goals had been scored while the other fixtures across the

country went on the show jewels. that switched to tennis now every issue up of a has climbed three places to number four in the world rankings for having a hard for when i view later yankovic in the final of the cincinnati open the russian threw away a four lead in the first sets to lose that six four but she held her nerve to take a back and forth second set on the time break for brits in the decider at six three wins your chap the second title of the year after winning to rome and the twenty fourth over the course of her career it was also the perfect preparation for the u.s. open which starts in a week's time. well on the men's side andy murray was over the moon after beating a man of the moment novak djokovic. and that title came off the red hot serbian retired to throw right shoulder injury second three left down however dr beach retained his top ranking and is hoping to get his shoulder right in time for what could be his third grand slam crack of the season at flushing meadows but if it was i'd be the second i say cross is the season for djokovic who has won fifty thing

that has so far. so many matches this year. being winning. you know a lot. and reaching the final stages of each event that i've participated on and. you know they do considering the schedule it is very busy in term is it's kind of normal to expect that at some stage you are exhausted but. as i said you know i am confident that i can recover and be ready for you so. now in a couple of weeks' time the new cold chill ice hockey season will the defending champions that boss well again be the ones to be although the part of the next pre-season it takes a look at that preparations are prospects for more so way in the weeks fall season . ugh bars are getting used to life without bill on the dino was relinquished his club d.d.'s demands the national team. were cool none of those should command the

respect of the players the former defenseman led team rushed the bronze at the two thousand five world championships and held the novel moscow with a russian championship the same year you know the you know it's not too far from the action though taking the time to scope out potential prospects for international duty. lawyers darzi was acquired from do not believe in the off season i am a latvian international is already feeling the pressure of the finals with the season yet to start i know the goal is to throw in the last game of the season or so so you can lift the cup. and if not it's oh it's always a disappointment no matter what team they're playing and especially if you're playing in bars has always such high hopes for the championship and so you know we just we just got to try and try to win the cup and then everyone.

will have fun with the. odd bar set of top notch training facilities if you ask former n.h.l. star finds he needs a new signing also understands the huge expectations that coach down in the snow leopard jersey i think our training facility and all that is. all i know it's a top notch organization and. not been very happy there and. be a good player for us. to take time to garden copely there's also added one of the most heated men in the league in the offseason transfer bonanza. denise kulash a former almost call could boast a world record slap shot register your speed of nearly one hundred seventy eight kilometers an hour during the latest all-star game dog barks faithful fully ready to embrace the new signing but captain alex a morozov been called to know those same fans expect nothing less than a third guy in court trying to get done gorski our team. and finally let's end

with some spectacular shots from the latest round of the test diving well series britain's gary hart won in boston to claim the overall title. that the runners up spot well as there are no actual cliffs in boston a board was attached to the contemporary arts building which is eighteen meters above the waterfront comments have a chance to successfully defend his world series title as victory at the u.s. then you would ensure he'd once again be crowned world champion and no one could match his spectacular dive one and a half twisting quadruple somersault so it's a force victory of the season for hundreds and still think at first runner up for the fourth time he's also set to finish second in the season's overall standings however he does have one last chance of winning a stage at the final dive of the year in ukraine in two weeks' time. and that's all those policies by.

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our breaking news this hour rebels claim to control the libyan capital after major nato back to advance and there are reports three of color that the songs have been captured by the opposition but the location of the libyan leader is unknown. john of this in tripoli report gun fire near the hotel saying reports of overnight looting of holes in the capital has left them feeling unsafe. and opposition supporters rejoice hoping the forty year old regime is nearing a dead end but skeptics point to be disillusioned that followed before egypt's dictator. from an international reaction ranges from euphoria to caution amid concern over the likelihood of an unstable rebel government torn apart by competing interests.