groups are politically dangerous.
THE IDEA that the police are needed to combat crime is a myth. criminal behaviour has been a feature of all class societies, the police force is an invention system.
There was no police force as such in Britain before 1829. In revolutionary Cuba today Havana they have the only genuine community policing' possible... community itself prevents crime in its own area! Needless because capitalism has been abolished in Cuba that such a thing is possi ble.
he Metropean Ponce was founded it 1829 along the lines of the organised in heland by the Duke of Wellgion do combat resolutionary nationalism.
I was the Iron Duke himselt who suggested deal with the rebellions lower orders per Wellineton explained to the Both rule casthan me the pen soda conditions of cl besome industrialisation in Britain and the pen political comdions in Purope followag de French Revolution. the method of reling on the ama to disperse the mole was pressing unreliable The spadied riots in 1816 and the Porcion Missere in I81" had shown pored milan fionar movements detented Tondon in 1820 rescaled a 's vulnerabin of the soldiers to pole done la to mone do gee of camelon.
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capitalist there are no cops. In the to say is alreads assembled Robert Ped mounted a campaign for the establishment of a police A number ed special commissions were set #p to chamine the problem. One in 1X22 yared. Iris ditten to reconcile an effective sparem of ponce wah that perfect freddom of adion and stompton from interference whach are the great pridege and blesong of scene in this commis Berneen 1820 and 182d the proposal was repeatedle rejected as being in and of uself a blow agame democrate rights Talware the ruling class's belict in its oun right to rule. asploit and profit, eventually won out over is concern for democrate rights, and tearing the growing labour morement, it had canned ponce force all over the rantra hv the middle of the century in order to deal with the workers The increased ability to delect and panish crime was only a spin off of the main role of the ponce force as a more cacctve straine or repression than the arms:
The technical difference in function her ween the cop and the soldie leads to a decisive difference in outlood berneen them soldier. raperall removed from visition We do the amhad en the barracks nometheless, is it masters of chan, sorrel mand oat emplosing and ruling classes of seren ENEMY The soldie i tell won! di smithi "..
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which done dran dom she ones as a necessary sacrifice as long as their duties seem to be directed at 'defending the nation' trom external enemies This acceptance is put at risk when soldiers are asked to use their weapons against workers in their own country. A feature of event sircessful revolution has heend he winning over of the mont of the arms lo the side o/ lhe The soldier is the natural ally of the worker The reason for raising the slogan 'trade union rights for the army" is to promote the hest possifor making the soldiers conThe cons on the other hand are the trained enemies of the workers. Their life experiences of picher-lines and disrupters of demonstrations reach them to hate the working class Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolu non is full of descriptions of how workers aim. ed slogans at the soldiers and bullets and hand Avery revolution in the history of capitalisn has revealed the police, along with the officer corps, as the most reliable detachment of the forces of counter-resolution.
The dogan for trade union rights for the police hides the truth about the class nature of the police force from therefore i reactionars slogan which forms no part of a genomely socalist programme In this contest the call for policing is a nonsense. What gain is it for black cops with pointed helmets and big boots instead panda cars, or for of ones that dive panda cars, or for workery that their strikes he broken by local cops indead of ones drafted in from another area?
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