How to replace the police

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The police force is tightly controlled from above he police force is tightly controlled from above Can the police be reformed? Disbandment of Can the police be reformed? Disbandment of Chief Constables closely linked with the ruling special groups, dismissal of police chiefs, greater › five per cent. Workers' patrols in each area public control, and democratic rights in the force, ruld be directly controlled by the local should be demanded and sometimes can be part- Working class law and order in those areas means getting the cops withdrawn, and establish.

To many people it seems that the police are nec- But in a society dominated by class struggle, the ing organised labour movement/community ary to establish formal equality before the law. police are the weapon of the ruling class - and e may reform them, but we can't remove them. the ruling class will never allow the defences of When we kick out the Tories, we need a worker: But formal equality, in a class-divided society, their power and privilege to dissolve peacefully government - a government really accountable n only be half equality. 'Impartially', the police and gradually. They will use their weapons while ›p effective picketing for everyone alike; 'im- they still have them, to suppress any dangerous Already Labour and the TUC have demander rially', they protect multi-million accumula- disbandment of the SPG. But a workers' govern ins of property for whoever owns them. The police of the capitalist class must be replacProtecting established privilege and power, the ed by the self-organisation of the working class. In Britain's cities now, every section of the lice are the weapon of the wealth top five per The school for that self-organisation is picket lines, police is being turned to 'SPG' tactics. Anderton nt. Holding the monopoly of licensed demonstrations, meetings - any activity where Oxford, and McNee, and their colleagues anx e police force recruits the least class-conscious working people democratically organise our own deputies, are all determined to make the police 1 is from the working class, and trains them in a combat force against the working class. it-house of corruption, brutality, authoritarian- Liverpool 8 and Moss Side need to stop police vans Right now, working class communities like and replaced by workers' patrols, drawn from ans The whole police force must be disbanded -And so blacks, trade unionists, women and tearing down their streets at 50 mph, killing and accountable to the communities where the! ruth cannot expect even formal equal treatment maiming those who are too slow getting out of the Salan and most of the has also been a techi faericte seized nower in other leaders of the COUD advise?' to the Presiden out.

"community self-policing'.

The socialist alternative to force is the extension of that organisation from individual whole of society.

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ment will have to go further. operate.

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