The Socialist 4 April 2007 Children suffer in low pay Britain Children suffer in low pay Britain Iran - Sailors fall victim to imperialist policies Blair: No solutions to crime or crowded prisons Waltham Forest protest - more memorable than Prince Charles! Commemorating the abolition of the slave trade Take national action to defend education Labour's market policies damage education Privilege and privation in our schools NUS leadership abandon fees fight London strikers close passport office PCS members take industrial action How to stop the BNP: Build a political alternative Campaign for a New Workers' Party Ammanford home care workers march Leicester protesters challenge Home Office Trade union leaders heckled over inaction Action needed as Ford bosses close Leamington plant Greenwich: "We've got to strike" Burslem postal workers strike again British government and local parties retreat on water charges |
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Home | The Socialist 4 April 2007 | Join the Socialist Party Blair's crime reviewNo solutions to crime or crowded prisonsTONY BLAIR has had 53 'law and order' bills passed in ten years at number ten, but still thinks he isn't being tough enough on crime yet. New Labour's latest crime review includes extending 'early intervention' to monitoring all children to examine their 'risk' of criminality. Iain Dalton'Summary justice', ie 'on the spot' fines, would be extended as would fixed penalty notices and ASBOs, which lack even the limited accountability of the undemocratic judiciary. The review also wants to increase police DNA databases to all suspects they come into contact with. So it is more of the same authoritarian policy we have come to expect. Blair also decided that "the pace of public service reform in criminal justice needed to match that in health and education" (the guardian, 28 March) and is proposing 'workforce reform' (read privatisation) of court, probation and prison staff and the introduction of league tables for courts (which already exist for prisons). Such proposals show New Labour have no real solutions to the record prison population announced last week and the gun and knife crime in the headlines recently. Not that the other capitalist parties have solutions. The Tories decry the logical conclusions of some of the policies they first put into practice during their 18-year rule while the Lib-Dems claim that Blair has adopted some of their policies. In the guardian on the same day as the crime review, an article on Britain's high levels of poverty, low pay, youth unemployment and McJobs showed that life is bleak for young people. Although there is no simple relationship between crime and poverty, the two are intimately associated with each other and are rooted in the exploitative capitalist system. We can win higher pay, better working conditions and other reforms under capitalism, but we need a socialist world to make these problems a thing of the past. In this issue
Socialist Party editorial
Socialist Party news and analysis
Socialist Party reviews Education
PCS takes industrial action
Campaign for a New Workers Party
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Asylum
Workplace news and analysis
Northern Ireland
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