Bourgeois political power is not as unassailable as they would like us to think. Our rulers can be relied upon, periodically, to split. James Turley looks at the botched attempt of the Metropolitan Police to use the Official Secrets Act Once again, The Guardian has found itself targeted because of its phone-hacking investigation. Waving around the ...
Last week's riots revealed anger but also the weakness of our class. We must inspire disaffected youth with a vision of a different society, says Callum Williamson Urban riots, such as those we witnessed over four nights last week, rarely result in a positive outcome for our class and at worst can lead to tragedy. The ...
Maciej Zurowski spoke to Donnacha DeLong, anarchist and NUJ President (first published here) “Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to the local police” - that is what the good citizens of Westminster were being urged in a notice recently issued by the Metropolitan Police. After all, they are told, “anarchism is a political philosophy ...
The scandal at News International reveals a few home truths about the corrupt establishment, writes James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) Some starry-eyed commentators have, of late, begun comparing the implosion of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire with another spectacular collapse: the Berlin wall. This is, obviously enough, overstating the case by some considerable margin. Anybody ...
Chris Strafford identifies a virtual split in the ruling class over current police tactics that we should use Following the death of Ian Tomlinson at the April 1 G20 protest, the policing of recent demonstrations has come under close scrutiny. After their initial account of the incident was exposed as clearly false, thanks to the numerous ...
James Turley assesses the politics around Sir Ian Blair's resignation Ian Blair: faux-liberalLast week's resignation of Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair followed a long period of mounting controversies. He had been ‘encouraged' to depart (he was the first commissioner to resign since 1918) by Boris Johnson, the London mayor, who argues that it is time for ...
The accusations of Tarique Ghaffur against the Metropolitan Police have given the lie to the state’s ‘liberal’ PR, argues James Turley On September 9, Metropolitan Police commissioner Ian Blair formally suspended an assistant commissioner, Tarique Ghaffur, from his duties. Less than a fortnight earlier, Ghaffur had staged a highly visible and incendiary press conference, in which he ...