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The other 9/11 – The Pinochet Coup in Chile 1973
The capitalist media and commentators have given great emphasis to discussing the consequences and lessons of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York a decade ago. Yet this was not the first ‘9/11’. Following the first 9/11, thousands were slaughtered and thousands more tortured and suffered the horrific consequences which followed. This slaughter took place not in the US but in Chile on September 11th 1973. It was planned and executed not from the tribal territories of Afghanistan or Pakistan but in the head-quarters of the CIA and the White House, in collusion with the ruling elite in Chile and its armed forces. This 9/11 should be commemorated, and its lessons studied, by socialists and workers everywhere.
Don’t pay the Household Tax
The government’s proposed Household Charge of €100 is the forerunner for water charges and a property tax on every home. A pensioner or low paid worker pays the same as a millionaire. How rotten! This new tax has absolutely nothing to do with improving council services – the proceeds go towards the bailout of wealthy gamblers and bankers, for which ordinary people are being bled dry.
Socialist Party delegation travelling to Rossport to protest against Shell’s onshore pipeline
History repeats itself with Minister Rabbitte following path trod by Eamon Ryan of overseeing criminal giveaway of vital oil and gas resources
Government’s hypocritical response to mortgage debt forgivness
Socialist Party and United Left Alliance support write down of all negative equity mortgages and a ban on repossessions
Government’s hypocritical response to mortgage debt forgivness
Socialist Party and United Left Alliance support write down of all negative equity mortgages and a ban on repossessions
Report from protest in support of Kazakh oil wokrers
A protest took place in Dublin on the 12th of August in solidarity with striking oil workers in Kazakhstan who are engaged in a 3 month long strike against Kazmuniagas.
Why is the HSE costing a daytime-only A&E at Blanchardstown Hospital?
It has come to our attention that the HSE is costing a daytime-only A & E service for Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown. We have received confidential information that this is being done and that a real threat now exists to a 24-hour A&E service at the hospital.
London’s Burning: Looking back at the Brixton riots of 1981
The recent riots in the most unequal borough in the UK - Tottenham, London - in response to the shooting of Mark Duggan by police have many parrallels with the Brixton riots in London 30 years ago. In advance of a fuller analysis of the recent events, we repost an article for our readers from April of this year, where the Socialist Party of England and Wales (our sister group) loked back at the Brixton riots on it's thirtieth anniversary and warned that the "conditions for new 'Brixtons' are being prepared".
Fresh rise in unemployment is further proof that austerity is not working
Fine Gael / Labour government's commitment to more cuts will worsen jobs situation
