[personal relationships. Capialism teaches men to be macho…]
Class Fighter1984 1984-04-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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personal relationships. Capialism teaches men to be macho and women to be passive. Capitalism tries to wipe out the feelings people have to their own sex and to members of the opposite sex unless it's contained within a monogamous relationship. Fighting for lesbian and gay liberation is fighting for the sexual liberation of all of us; getting rid of the ties and limitations capitalism tries to impose on us. ARE they really workers in uniform? Not a chance. A lot of coppers might come from working class backgrounds, but when they join the Police they start working for the bosses state.
When it comes down to it. the police force isn't there to stop crime, they are an army the bosses use against the working class. They've used them like that it Greenbam, at Warrington, and now on the coal-fields. The police. it work, are our enemy.
Drawing the police into the labour movement won't solve the problem, in fact it would weaken the labour movement. The police force are our. class enemy we don't want them in our organisations.
Organised police would campaign for better wages, better conditions, better equipment. We don't want to see better equipped coppers: we want them weakened and demoralized.
In a time of tremendous class
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