The BBC recently reported the case of Sarah (a pseudonym), a woman who tried to use the UK’s Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme — better known as Clare’s Law — to find out whether her partner had a history of abuse….
Tag: The State
Among the many peculiarities of the British state, few embody its class contradictions more clearly than the Crown Estate. Officially described as “a collection of lands and holdings belonging to the monarch in right of the Crown,” the Estate claims…
The state consists of all the institutions that the ruling class uses to coerce the other classes in society. This includes the institutions of “legitimate” violence, such as the police, military, courts, and jails, as well as the institutions of…
It’s easy to get lost in efforts to convert your country to Socialism, and that is the most useful place to apply most of our efforts. However, it’s worth asking now how we’ll protect Socialism once we manage to achieve…
While it’s common for people to use the words state and government interchangeably, Marxists view the two terms as having very different meanings. What’s the difference between the state and the government? To Marxists, the state consists of all the…