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Sexism, the police and abolition

Posted on 10th October 2022 by International Socialism

Policing in England is in crisis.1 The Metropolitan Police was put into “special measures” on 28 June 2022; the total number of forces in special measures is now six.2 Although the police in Britain have always been a repressive force,… Continue Reading →

The language of the unheard

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

A review of Matt Clement, A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), £65. Dr Martin Luther King once described riots as “the language of the unheard”. The great civil rights… Continue Reading →