Louisa McCarthy
Mass incarceration. Racist over policing. Killer cops. Indigenous deaths in custody. From the United States to Australia, the ‘criminal justice’ system is a blight which only exists to maintain an unequal and class divided system. The police represent the monopoly on violence that the ruling class holds under capitalism. The injustice at the heart of policing and prisons has also spurred important social struggles like the global Black Lives Matter movement, which has raised the demand to ‘abolish the police’. The cops are vital to the running of the system - to really abolish the police we need to smash capitalism.