Drugs

Articles on drug use in working class communities, it's consequences and possible solutions. Reproduced from the Red Action Bulletin.

At issue is not whether drugs are good or bad, suggests Joe Reilly, but how the subsequent anti-social problems should be managed. Key to this is deciding from a Marxist perspective, whether ‘junkies’ are part of the working class or a key component of the most dangerous of classes opposed to it.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 5, Feb/March '00

CRACKING UP
In this first of a series of two articles, Charlie Dow looks at the impact of drug use on working class communities and looks at the development and impact of drugs policy through to the development of the drug users movement.
Reproduced from RA Vol 4, Issue 1, June/July 1999

CARROT AND STICK?
Markedly different perspectives on the issue of drugs surfaced during debate on the subject at Red Action 's National Meeting. Here Charlie Dow again puts the case for a more 'enlightened ' approach.
Reproduced from RA Vol 4, Issue 2, Aug/Sept 1999

DON'T RUN BEFORE WE CAN WALK
In response to previous articles relating to the effects of drug policy on users and communities, Bob Martin argues that while State policy creates the illusion of prohibition, the reality is one of withdrawal and containment
Reproduced from RA Vol 4, Issue 3, Oct/Nov 1999