Debate and discussion: Undercut the terrorists
In Solidarity 3/49 Alan Johnson objects to the arguments in my article"War on terror, war on rights" about socialists not trusting the state. They are anarchoid, he says. The AWL is in favour of the rule of law - a society with rules which stop people from killing and hurting other people, apart from in some cases of self-defence. The police sometimes do a socially useful job, catching murderers and so on, sometimes well and at other times extremely badly. We don't scream "capitalist tools!" when the police and courts pursue child abusers, prosecute rapists and lock up murderers. But - and...