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Bill: Implementation of Workers' Justice
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hizb al-'Amal al-Thawriy
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 4474
Description[?]:
| Members of the Supreme Workers' Council, Among the various institutions of bourgeois society which served to oppress and deceive the working class, bourgeois justice must not be forgotten. The old court system, its processes and decisions, incorporated all the privileges of capital and the exploiting class and all the lack of privileges of the toiling masses. Reform is necessary. We need Workers' Justice for our Workers' Republic. 1. Workers' Justice shall see and end to the graded series of law courts, which allowed the wealthy to continue to carry a case from court to court until they secured a favourable decision. The right of appeal secured an equitable decision only in that it secured a judgement in the interest of exploiting class. The working class, unable to secure the services of high priced legal experts, were forced to abandon claims on grounds of expense. 2. In order to successfully transition from bourgeois justice to workers' justice we must ensure that the judiciary is elected by the workers. Under bourgeois justice the exploiting class passed judgement on the working majority, by electing a new judiciary we can ensure a representative judicial body. 3. Workers' Justice shall see an end to cruel and barbaric punishments. The majority of crimes committed in bourgeois society were either direct infringements of property rights or are indirectly connected with property. Under bourgeois justice it then followed that the punishments inflicted were expressions of the vengeful sentiments of the property owner. This need not be the case under Workers' Justice. 4. Workers' Justice shall see the introduction of policing by consent and bring to an end the use of armed police to make submissive the mass of the population in order to protect the interests of the exploiting and property owning class. 5. Whilst the threat of counter revolution continues, the abolition of the death penalty is impossible. What is evident however is the leniency of the Workers' Justice when compared to the executioners of bourgeois justice. The workers shall pass death sentences in extreme cases only. The 700 counter-revolutionaries captured after the atrocities committed by their forces at the Battle of al-Manoun shall be tried under Workers' Justice. The Workers are Victorious! Suhaila al-Semaan Minister for Justice |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to appeal against a judgement rendered by a court.
Old value:: Every person has the right to appeal against a judgement and to have it reviewed by a higher court.
Current: Every person has the right to appeal against a judgement and to have it reviewed by a higher court.
Proposed: All judgements are final and binding; appealing against them is not possible.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Current: The death penalty is applied for capital crimes.
Proposed: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Legality of judicial physical punishment
Old value:: Judicial corporal punishment (eg. caning or flogging) is legal.
Current: All forms of physical punishment are illegal.
Proposed: All forms of physical punishment are illegal.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers carry standard firearms.
Current: Police officers carry military-grade equipment.
Proposed: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons apart from specially trained firearms units.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Jury selection (if trial by jury is allowed).
Old value:: Jurors are randomly selected from the population.
Current: Jurors are randomly selected from the population.
Proposed: Jurors are politically appointed.
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 100 | |
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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