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The State
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US: Socialists and the state — how to end racist policing
By Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative USA The nature of policing in the United States is inseparable from the…
COVID-19: No attacks on democratic rights
By James McCabe Across the globe, governments are introducing sweeping curtailments of basic democratic rights in the name…
Review: ‘The Guards: Inside the K’
By Dean O’Donnell The first episode of Virgin Media’s new 5-part docuseries The Guards: Inside the K aired…
The State: An instrument of capitalist rule
By James McCabe The depraved witch-hunt against Garda whistleblower, Maurice McCabe, by a cabal of senior level Gardaí…
Collusion: The British State’s dirty war
By Stephen Boyd The BBC Panorama programme ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Deals’ has shed light again on the murky…
The State – a tool to defend the rule of the 1%
The Occupy movement that began in the US in 2011 coined the terms, the 1% and the 99%. The movement was evocatively referring to the existence of a ruling class, encapsulated in the term the 1% a – the super-rich elite that owns and controls the key global wealth, resources and means of production.