Nae Pasaran Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra Debasers Filums, 2018 Reviewed by Neil Moore On the 45th anniversary of the Chilean coup d’état, a new documentary tells the story of a group of Scottish factory workers and their incredible act of solidarity with the Chilean people against a brutal right-wing dictatorship. Chile, the 11 September 1973 – a military coup backed ...
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British state repression, the IRA’s armed campaign and the Labour Movement
Article written by Peter Hadden in 2008 Death on the rock of Gibraltar – 20 years since SAS killing of three IRA volunteers It is twenty years since the execution style killing by the SAS of three IRA members in Gibraltar. In Northern Ireland these deaths sparked a brief but particularly bloody upsurge in violence. Over the next thirteen days ...
Read More »TK Whitaker: Neo-liberal capitalist establishment sings his praises
Since his death on 8 January, the Irish establishment has been unanimous in its acclaim for former civil servant TK Whitaker.
Read More »After decades of neo-liberalism… The political “centre” cannot hold
By Stephen Boyd Over 35 years ago, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan took up the ideas of neo-libearlism and used them as the foundation of what they saw as a new era for capitalism. “The market would discover a natural hierarchy of winners and losers, creating a more efficient system than could ever be devised through planning or by design. ...
Read More »Neo-Liberalism: The 1%’s war on our living standards
What do the ideas neo-liberalism mean?
Read More »The inspiring victory that buried Thatcher
By Sean Malone In 1987 Margret Thatcher had wielded the axe of austerity for almost a decade by drastically cutting social expenditure and privatising public services. Militant, forerunner to the Socialist Party, recognised that the poll tax was a generalised attack on working class and poor that could act like a lightning rod for united struggle against Thatcher’s-pro rich polices ...
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