Police And Thieves
🕑 Added 2021-06-01 19:11:53 +0000 UTCIn this episode Alex and Leila the emergence of the police under capitalism. From their beginning as a semi military force to "manage" the industrial working class and how the role has evolved but also remained the same. They also look at the contradictions of policing and how the police are actually managers of crime.
Episode image is from the 1984-85 miners strike in Britain.
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William Mckay
yeah, absolutely. Divide and conquer strategy, always has been.
D E
Joe Biden is still alive and not so well, but still creeping out people who are sane enough to notice! On the BLM front I think the fact that the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller foundation donating money is a sign that it’s just another NGO being weaponised against us, which is nice.
William Mckay
I'd love to claim at as my own invention David but it is in fact a quote from the incredible film version of "Network"
David Green
"mutterings of mutilated Marxism", a keeper. Please don't have that TMed if you're really serious about this Marxist stuff.