Politics

Many self-identifying leftists are going along with the imperialist campaign to vilify China, including by cheering on attempts to crush all debate and dissent. Carlos Martinez The language and hysterical atmostphere of the cold war are being resuscitated, this time in an attempt to demonise China and to persuade workers in the imperialist countries to view the country and its people as enemies. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1011372901&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true The following article is reproduced from Invent the Future, with thanks. ***** Freedom of speech is one of the key trademarks of capitalist democracy. For decades, people living in the west have been brought up with ...

A marked increase in police violence against workers has already been in evidence even before the new policing bill has passed into law. British workers have every reason to be worried at the massive extension of powers being handed not only to police but to many other organs of the state, which, through this and other laws, are being given a license to crush dissent and even to commit crimes of their own if their officers deem it to be necessary, even as our right to protest against such abuses is being removed in all but name. For those that have not noticed, there appears to have been a definite increase in police violence against the public, and a wilful, arrogant even, breaking of rules and laws by our ‘guardians of law’, both during the third lockdown a...

Our rulers are in a hurry to pass new laws while the excuse of Covid lingers and before workers have woken up to the true scale of the present economic crisis. Proletarian writers Amid the confusion of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill are sinister measures taking aim at freedom of assembly and of association. Whilst the most visible targets of the repressive Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill currently wending its way through Halitosis Hall are Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists, the bill has as its longer-term goal the extension of (already generous) police powers in readiness for the social convulsions that must surely result from the deepening capitalist crisis. Picking on soft targets like the XR and BLM muddleheads, d...