Journalism professor emeritus Clancy Sigal

Journalism professor emeritus Clancy Sigal wrote an op-ed piece titled “My Riotous Life” for Counterpunch as a response to the recent rioting in London. The narrative explains the involvements and run-ins that Sigal has had with riots since he was 15. Sigal wrote that in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, “it was ‘us’ against the police, Black Power vs The Man, an angry, violent, semi-political statement about sus laws and ghettoisation." Sigal writes the ironic way in which class riots in London have resurfaced: “The overture to the present riots, in the midst of huge youth unemployment, was a Royal wedding enjoyed by many as a morale-boosting spectacle or perhaps felt by some as a wet fish smacked across the face.” Full story