The state
What is it and what's its role.

Democracy:
Do we really live in a democratic society?

Whenever we challenge the multimillionaire corporations that rule the world, against every march, every protest, every picket, boycott, strike and action... there is an organised force trained, prepared and waiting to block us, smother us and stop us. What is this force? Revolutionaries call it the State.
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We are told we live in a democracy. The word means "rule of the people". But how democratic is Britain really? And do the people really hold the power?
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The police:
Only doing their job?

The police:
Whose side are they on?

The TV and the papers portray them as the thin blue line, defending 'normal' people from the hordes of criminals waiting to rob us blind, rape us, or murder us in our beds. The truth is something entirely different.
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The riots which occurred during the J18 Stop The City demonstration have once again illustrated the true nature and role of the British police. That is to defend private property and the existing social order.
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State and Revolution
A review

The lessons of Chile
Reform or revolution

Lenin outlines in State and Revolution the Marxist position on the state, its origins, and what its purpose is. He then shows the need for revolution and the need to replace the state with a workers’ democratic dictatorship, a workers state.
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On 11 September 1973 the head of the Chilean military, General Pinochet, launched a military coup against the Popular Unity government, it's Socialist President Salvador Allende and the Chilean masses.
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