Recent Portside posts have explored different sides of the repressive role of the police and whether or not police unions as they are constituted should remain within the labor movement. Here Portside readers respond.
Taking law enforcement out of the equation in this 31-year-old program in Eugene, Oregon.
Opposing views on Mexico's leader, international statements on the upsurge in the US, and more
Americans are getting a small taste of the fire and fury that the U.S. military...inflict on people overseas on a regular basis from Iraq and Afghanistan to Yemen and Palestine, and the intimidation felt by the people of Iran, Venezuela...
Let’s put police unions on a raft and set them adrift. They can reapply for solidarity if they stop abusing the rest of us.
With the mass outcry over the cop murders of George Floyd and so many other African Americans, it's worth reprising the review of a key 2017 book that sees even beyond defunding police to challenging the actual role of law enforcement in society.
Photos from the international upsurge, in Europe and Asia - and more
Organized labor is a direct threat to white supremacy. We need to put that threat into action.
Despite the numerous international agreements barring the use of tear gas in war, number of restrictions on its use for domestic crowd control: 0.
The George Floyd murder is turning society inside out
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