For the working class, the jury is not just a legal institution; it is a fragile but crucial check on state and corporate power. Its proposed dismantling exposes the ruling class’s fear of popular judgment and its drive to streamline repression.
The UK government’s latest proposal for an inquiry into ‘grooming gangs’ is a thinly veiled racist witch-hunt, designed to scapegoat Muslim and South Asian communities while ignoring systemic failures in protecting vulnerable children.
Grooming gangs: Racist scapegoating trumps justice Read Post »
The acquittal of Martyn Blake has been seized on by police chiefs to demand immunity for killings
Another vile bill from the ‘Nasty Party’.
Criminal Justice Bill 2023: Criminalising poverty Read Post »
Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak have rushed to reassure the police.
After officer charged with Chris Kaba’s murder, Police demand impunity Read Post »
27 June, Nanterre (a banlieue of Paris): two policemen stop a car, one shouting, ‘Open or I put a bullet in your head!’. Seconds later, a shot. 17-year-old Nahel M is dead.
Oppressed French youth demand justice for Nahel! Read Post »
By Alex Rutherford As industrial militancy rises again in Britain for the first time in many years, criminal barristers have
Interview with a striking barrister: “We will wear them down” Read Post »
Racist judicial system frees right wing militiaman Kyle Rittenhouse, but murders Michael Reinoehl
Kyle Rittenhouse and Michael Reinoehl: a tale of two shootings Read Post »
By Rebecca Anderson THE TRIAL of Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard has shone a spotlight on violence
Violence against women: workers’ inquiry not judges’ cover-up Read Post »
Despite a career of abuse, cover-up and racism, Cressida Dick will be reappointed as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
The police do not exist to ‘protect and serve’ the population at large.
Only 43 of 800 accused officers have been prosecuted.
Police officers evade prosecution for domestic violence Read Post »
If our “leaders” won’t lead, then grassroots activists need to take initiative and organise.
Inquiry has exposed a pattern of corruption among some of the country’s top coppers.
Morgan inquiry: Met police found ‘institutionally corrupt’ Read Post »
Wright’s murder, and the sheer number of such killings over many years, proves the inherently racist character of the police force. Quite simply, they cannot be reformed.
USA: Daunte Wright’s murder shows police cannot be reformed Read Post »
State surveillance, political trials and blacklisting
Victory for the Shrewsbury 24—but this is only the beginning Read Post »
