JUNE 8TH—21ST VOL:2 NUMBER 152 inside Corrupt Bin Tax Socialist kicks in — ‘Fat Cats’ Campaign kicks back cash in on — PAGE 10 Worker privatisation — PAGES 6&7 For a Workers’ Republic and International Socialism 50p Solidarity price £1 STOP THE DEPORTATIONS NOW! REFUGEES ARE WELCOME Protest Saturday 16th June HERE! Assemble 2pm Dept. of Justice St.Stephen's Green Dublin 2 Speakers: BLACK Suresh Grover (Stephen Lawrence Campaign), Jack O'Connor (SIPTU), Michael D.Higgins (Labour), Global Music, Gabriel Okenla (Pan African Org.), Nigerian Support Group, Comhlamh, Seamus Dooley (NUJ), Pat Guerin (ARC), & WHITE Kieran Allen (SWP), Congo Solidarity Group, Anton McCabe (Meath Trades Council & Socialist Party), Sinn Fein, Amnesty, Arasi, Community of Romanians in UNITE Ireland, Cllr. Finian McGrath (Ind.), Anti-Nazi League

Organised by TO FIGHT STOP DEPORTATIONS CAMPAIGN Tel: 087 9889244 Email: [email protected] RACISM AMNESTY FOR ALL SOCIALIST WORKER PAGE 2 WISHFUL Health crisis deepens Barbaric treatment Kelly, a senior official in The crisis has devel- WAITING LISTS A SEVERELY mentally Ill man Reform Trust published a report, THINKING are growing and the Department of oped because Irish Health. health care spending is was locked up in a padded cell Out of Mind Out of Sight, on solitary CHARLES the life expectan- HAUGHEY has But the government is way below the level of in Mountjoy for two weeks confinement in jails. cy of Irish people ignoring the warning. other EU countries. spent the last six because there were no beds is falling below The result is that Irish Revealed weeks on board a people now have shorter available in the Central Mental the European Waiting friend's yacht off life spans than their Hospital. average. European counterparts. It revealed that prisoners who the French coast The man who is in his 20s, has a need psychiatric treatment are recuperating from These are the terri- Some 43 percent of Irish women are now ble results of under- adults on the waiting lists dying two years earlier long history of mental illness and being dumped in padded cells his hard life. are still in the queue than the EU life average treatment in the Dundrum hospital. because there is no treatment avail- He believes that giv- funding of the health after more than twelve while men die a year ear- service, which began The man was kept naked and able. ing further testimony to months while 74 percent lier. The report surveyed Mountjoy, with Haughey's gov- of children have still not Low taxes on profit after two days in the cell, he became the tribunals will kill him so agitated that he was eating his Limerick and Cork prisons between before the end of the ernment in 1987. been seen after more mean a poor health ser- The Irish health ser- than six months. vice. The lower life own faeces. February 20 and March 20 and year. vice now needs an extra Meanwhile a An extra 9,500 hospi- expectancy is part of the Yet he was detained in these con- revealed that 224 prisoners had annual investment of £2 tal beds are needed over price we pay for subsidis- ditions for another 12 days until a been placed in solitary confinement. Sunday Independent billion. So says Michael the next ten years. ing the rich. poll found 87 percent of bed was found in Dundrum. In 78 percent of the cases, it was people said they did Last month, the Irish Prison for mental illnesses. not believe Haughey's evidence to the tri- bunals. But who are the Sudan other 13 percent? Give the Indo a scoop Oil companies The Cayman Islands courts ruled last month that they wouldn't release the names of the Ansbacher sponsor murder account holders. However, in the evi- THE SUDANESE actions such as these in to start. This involved about this carnage for the dence 30 new account Government is Sudan where blood is dropping more than 850 sake of profit. holders were revealed. shed so that they can col- bombs on hospitals, Trócaire in Ireland Mary Harney has murdering its lect oil. schools, churches, mar- also urged the Irish gov- the names but refuses to own people. These companies kets and relief centres ernment to lobby the UN release them. It has sent forces to include the Canadian between July and and EU to stop all west- Interestingly the bomb and burn villages Independent group Talisman Energy Inc, December. ern investments in these claims to have them too. in the Upper Nile region whose main operations oilfields. The fact that Tony of Southern Sudan, are in Canada, the North Figures David, is a war O'Reilly used the killing, maiming and Sea, Indonesia as well as traumatized child. dodgy bank wouldn't forcing hundreds of thou- Sudan and Sweden's be the reason they Over a period of four He was unfortu- sands to leave their Lundin Oil AB which months this year, more haven't printed them, operates in Europe, North nate enough to of course. homes. than 75,000 people have Why? The areas con- and East Africa, the fled their homes. These have been born in cerned are oilfields and Middle East and South figures are from the New a village located international oil compa- East Asia. Sudan Council of above oil. His vil- Foul nies wish to start drilling OMV as well as oper- Churches. lage was wiped there. ating in its home base in At the end of May a out in the The government has Austria also has concerns group of 44 European in the UK, Libya, "scorched earth" been fighting rebels in organisations under the attempts to free trade Southern Sudan for forty Bulgaria, Tunisia, umbrella of ECOS years and needs the funds Pakistan, Russia and (European Coalition on up all non-govern- AN IRISH company provided by these com- Vietnam and France's Oil in Sudan) organised a ment claims to the is involved in the panies to continue its TotalFinaElf, which day of action to protest oil rich land. sale and produc- onslaught. boasts operations in more tion of dangerous- The oil companies than 100 countries. apparently have no scru- Last year the ly toxic mercury ples and continue to Sudanese government soap despite a make huge profits from cleared the area for work Women on waves Europe-wide ban. The soap is supposed A "WOMEN on woman who is suicidal. physician on Rainbow out surgical operations to lighten the colour of Expensive B&B Waves" ship is But the Dail has put no Warrior, the Greenpeace but it will issue advice black people's skin,. legislation in place to ship which was blown up and support to women Skin products containing FARMLEIGH, the Documents released to due to sail into give effect to this verdict. by the French intelli- who want an abortion. To mercury can cause foetal former Guinness Socialist Worker under the Dublin in June to Women on Waves was gence service after it contact Women on damage, kidney failure, Freedom of Information Act family home, is show that spiraling con- highlight the fact founded by a Dutch doc- protested about nuclear Waves: Phone 087- nervous disorders and almost ready for its struction costs began almost that Irish women tor, Rebecca Gomperts. tests. 9220902 or e mail: lead to a number of can- immediately after Rohcon Dr Gomperts was a The ship will not carry www.womenonwaves.org cers. first guests. do not have the At £37 million, it will Ltd were awarded the con- tract. right to abortion. Illegal be the most expensive Each year 6,200 B&B in the country, and THE De- women give an Irish taxpayers will be picking fence address when they get an Mercury soap is openly ★ No Logos in our schools up the tab for it. Forces did- abortion in Britain. Many available for sale in shops schools, is it going to be names. around Ireland even though However it's not your n't wait for the Nice more give a false British AN Irish advertis- the first time a child has it is illegal and is produced av]erage five-star lodg- referendum result. address. ing company Last year Michael at a factory in Arklow, Co. ing. plans to sell bill- ever seen that logo? What Woods, the minister for They are to receive 80 Hypocrisy harm can it do." Wicklow, for export to armoured vehicles at a board space in all education asked education Africa. En-suite cost of £80 million. secondary boards to consider the Killarney Enterprises The abortion rate in Purchasing make the deadly "soap" The Initially their order Ireland is no different to schools to com- implication of "allowing product, described by the The bomb-proof, securi- was for forty vehicles but mercial compa- situations to develop many other countries but School-based advertis- World Health Organisation ty ring-fenced en-suite- the Army need at least women are forced to pay nies. which would result in as a "serious health hazard", mini-mansion is strictly 67 to fulfill Ireland's com- More than 10percent of ing falls into a category is used to bleach dark hair reserved for visiting digni- huge expenses for travel known as ambient adver- undue pressure to purchase mitment to the Rapid just to suit the hypocrisy schools already display and skin to obtain a lighter taries, heads of state and the Reaction Force. So they advertisements in school tising, which is designed particular commercial complexion. odd cabinet minister. of politicians who will to have a high short-term products". just ordered forty more not face down the yards and corridors. Killarney Enterprises' The residence was pur- during the referendum "It's money for noth- impact on purchasing pat- Perhaps if the soaps trade under the popu- chased from the Guinness Bishops. campaign. ing," said Gareth Lloyd, terns. lar names Tura, Arut, Swan, family in 1999 at a cost to Under a Supreme Government banned the The vehicles are the managing director of Ad Research shows that, at Sukisa Bango, Meriko. the tax payer of £23m. Court judgement, abor- 18 months, before they can ads and funded education type used by the US mil- Infinitum, which sells ads South Africa, Zimbabwe, The extra cost arises tion is supposed to be in schools. "If Coca-Cola read their own name, chil- properly the situation itary and the British Nigeria and Kenya have all from making it fit for a king, legal in Ireland for any sponsors material in dren recognise brand won't develop at all. banned the products. or at least a Taoiseach. Army. SOCIALIST WORKER PAGE 3 what we think

They are involved THE TAOI- joined in calls for the O'Donoghue ARE involved SEACH'S office posters to be removed. in policies that promote discrimination against rang up Amnesty black people. International to tell Discrimination Harney has said that the them to remove Celtic Tiger needs to their anti-racist The Labour Party recruit 200,000 more in racism billboard posters. also said that it did not workers. Ahern has done nothing to Gardaí extra powers to detain to the run down of our public They claimed that agree with the inference But her government is discipline Fianna Fail politicians asylum seekers and has cut services. It suits them when that the politicians are refusing to give asylum who have called refugees down the time they have to people scapegoat asylum seek- they were "defam- racist. seekers the right to work. "scroungers". make appeals. ers and don't focus on their atory". But Amnesty Interna- Instead state agencies are His government has with- All of these politicians have right wing policies. The Fine Gael tional's posters are spot trying to recruit immigrant drawn social welfare payments presided over huge corruption This is why they preside spokesman on Foreign on. workers who are mainly from asylum seekers. scandals.Their policy of cutting over a system of institution- Affairs, Jim O'Keefe, Harney, Ahern and white. O'Donoghue has given the taxes on big business has led alised racism. POLICIES THAT LEAD TO RACIST ATTACKS Join the anti capitalists... "ABOUT TWENTY of For the past few years, Jus- This systematic campaign to loyalist violence. them came to our tice Minister John O'Donoghue, vilify asylum seekers has given Nindja Mandiangu who came house with masks and has been mounting a propagan- ammunition to the thugs who from the Congo has pointed the JOIN THE Socialist Workers Party da campaign claiming that 75 harass black people on the finger of blame at who was real- baseball bats. It is all percent of asylum seekers are streets. ly responsible for harassing his because my partner is bogus. O'Donoghue may claim that family in Tallaght. He has implied that they are "The government, the politi- Nigerian. 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SOCIALIST WORKER PAGE 4 Sharon prepares for war EVEN BEFORE the Palestinians who have suicide bombing at mainly used stones against the might of the Israeli army a Tel Aviv disco, wanted revenge for this cru- Israel was prepar- elty. ing for full scale The bombing was proba- war against its bly conducted by Islamic Palestinian neigh- Jihad or Hamas. bours. Brigadier General Brushed ARIEL SHARON, Yisrael Ziv had told jour- After the bombing, the is the man respon- nalists that Israel was "not so far removed" Israeli cabinet brushed aside sible for the mas- from full-scale war. Arafat's pathetic promise to sacre of 2,000 The bombing came as a crack down on militants. Palestinian desperate response to the It warned that unless refugees in West wholesale slaughter that there was wholesale intern- Beirut in 1982. Israel has inflicted on ment within hours it would Palestinians. launch bloody reprisals. He is a vicious Just weeks before the The roots of this whole racist who has bombing Israeli warplanes, pattern of violence is the made his living supplied by the US, pound- expansionist policy of over the last 50 ed the Palestinian West Israel. years repressing Bank killing 12 people. It It treats the Arab peoples and persecuting was the first use of jet of the area as sub-human Friends carry the wounded Mohammed Assadi after Israeli troops shot him Palestinians. bombers against the and operates a colonial poli- for trying to raise a Palestinian flag. He was the mili- Palestinians for 34 years. cy of taking their land. tary commander of Gaza throughout the 1970s after Greece strikes again Israel invaded and Building for war occupied the West A MILITANT gener- That spirit has forced before entering talks with Bank and Gaza in the Greek government to the government. 1967. Sharon took ONE OF the major The number of Jewish defends their "natural al strike in Greece settlers rose from 275,000 to growth". abandon its planned pen- The underlying feeling, on his role with glee. causes of the forced the govern- sion "reform" and promise particularly among fresh 400,000 between 1993 and Yet a quarter of the hous- ment to retreat He ordered troops recent conflict has 2000. es in West Bank settlements new measures backed by groups of workers, is not more money. going to go away." to take extreme been the determi- Successive Israeli gov- are unoccupied. and shocked the measures to deal nation of Israel to ernments have encouraged union leaders who A key section of union The success of the Sharon's "natural leaders wanted to grasp campaign to defend with demonstrators. build new settle- the steady expansion of growth" consists of small called it. He was defence these settlements. that concession and go into pensions in Greece is an ments on groups of racist zealots It came three weeks negotiations. example for workers minister in the moving out of established after a similar strike Israeli government Palestinian land. They wanted the strike across Europe. Seizure settlements to set up new against plans by the to be less militant than "There is already offi- in the 1980s and Edward Saïd calls the ones. urged soldiers to Greek government to April's, a symbolic show of cial trade union backing growth of these settle- They then demand both strength rather than a beat Arab school ments in the Occupied It is part of the unceas- attack pensions, and for delegations to go to the military protection and was at least as well sup- springboard to further children in the West Territories since the 1993 ing, illegal seizure of infra-structural support Genoa protests outside the Palestinian land by Israel for ported. action. Bank. Oslo agreement "cancer- from the Israeli state. G8 summit in July," says His advice when the past 34 years, which has "Many workplaces But the rank and file ous". The settlers' attitude to mood changed that. Panos. asked how to deal created 200 Jewish settle- struck that had not taken the Palestinians was "The union leaders The task now is to build with demonstrators They were one of the ments, including 13 in Arab action for 15 or 20 years," main factors that East Jerusalem, with revealed by one woman who says Panos Garganas, edi- have been forced to stiffen on the mood shown by was, "Cut off their their position," says Panos. rank and file workers, and testicles." destroyed the so called 400,000 residents. said that the Palestinians tor of Socialist Worker's "peace process". Today Ariel Sharon would soon stop resisting if sister paper in Greece. "They are now saying connect it to those protests. every time a Jew was killed "There is a new militancy." they want to hear how That can shape events or injured a new settlement much money is on offer across Europe." Zionism is a dead end was built. ISRAEL'S POLITI- nial powers for their cause. it would give them a power World round up CAL philosophy is The first British military base in the Middle East. usually described governor of Jerusalem Israel has acted as the explained that the Zionists watchdog for US interests in Argentina Brazil unpaid wages were streets of Algiers, dur- as "Zionism". wanted to create a "little the region ever since. paid. ing a protest to This is a partly reli- loyal Jewish Ulster". Peace is possible in the demand greater rights gious and partly historical Middle East. Jews and Arabs THOUSANDS OF STUDENT DEMON- STRATORS shouted Korea for Algeria's minority idea that the world's have lived alongside each workers protested Berbers. After a teen- Created other before and they could anti-government slogans Jewish population has a the government's THOUSANDS OF car ager died in police do so again. economic policies. and bared their back- claim on part of the terri- The Zionists created a The first step is to sup- sides to politicians as workers took to the custody in April riots tory of the Middle East An estimated 13 mil- streets and battled with have broken out myth that Palestine was port the Palestinians in their lion people live in some 2,000 students took that has been occupied by unpopulated.. struggle against the Israeli to the streets to protest riot police to protest almost daily in the poverty in Argentina, Berber region. Palestinian Arabs for well Zionism gained wider state and the imperialist where unemployment against government cor- against economic over a thousand years. currency following the powers, like the US. stands at nearly 15 ruption. "reform", which will Zionism had little sup- Holocaust, where 6 million We are for a democratic percent. lead to thousands of job France port among Jewish people Jews were murdered. secular state in Palestine for Employees of Dubai cuts. until the revival of anti- Since none of the allies Jews and Arabs where each Aerolineas Argentinas STRIKING AIRPORT Semitism in the late 19th were prepared to offer a has equal rights. blocked the runway of THOUSANDS OF con- Algeria workers occupied the century. home to Jewish people, they Ultimately lasting peace the Buenos Aires struction workers, runway at Orly Airport, Jewish socialists always backed the Zionist calls for a and equality for people in domestic airport. defied the dictatorial POLICE FIRED a water south of Paris. opposed it as a reactionary Jewish state. the Middle East can only be Unions have called a regime to march in cannon at some of The strike and protest response to racism. America in particular achieved by a revolution to general strike for later protest along motor- more than 100,000 was sparked by staff cuts Zionist leaders tried to recognised a strategic inter- overthrow all the corrupt this month. ways demanding that demonstrators in the of some 1,300. win the support of the colo- est in backing Israel because regimes in the region. SOCIALIST WORKER PAGE 5 Eamonn Local elections McCann SEA makes How they stick together A SUDDEN visitor to the North might an impact have been perplexed by Martin McGuinness' statement a week before the election that, the key negotiations THE SOCIALIST will get under way as soon as the elec- Environmental tion is over. Alliance stood in The outsider might have assumed that the key four council seats negotiations had ended more than three years ago. in Northern Ireland. The euphoria which greeted the conclusion of the Whatever the result negotiations in April 1998 had been reported world- in votes cast, the wide. The vast bulk of people, from both sides of the campaign has been historic divide, were pictured as warmly united in highly successful. pinning their hopes for the future on the Agreement. The SEA revealed that, But Seamus Mallon, too, reckoned that the far from being apathetic, issues which divide us would be sorted out in 'post- many working people are election' talks. And on BBC's Hearts and Minds pro- highly political but until gramme seven days before the poll, David Trimble now have had no vehicle by insisted that his post-dated resignation had been which to express their designed to help the negotiations which will follow, views. not hinder them. The response on the Even the DUP stressed that its talks team would doorsteps has been brilliant. be ready for action as soonas the result was On every street canvassers declared. met people who said: "I was A connoisseur of the ridiculous might conclude going to spoil my vote, but that here we have a singular and original political now I won't have to" or "I process whereby an Agreement is reached and the wasn't going to vote, but negotiations to see if it’s reachable scheduled after- now that I know about the wards. SEA, I will." In fact, this isn't as implausible a formulation as The anti-sectarian stance it might seem. One helpful way to see the current of the SEA is the first thing The Derry SEA candidates situation is that the Agreement was about the par- commented on by many. For ties getting themselves into government. The nego- others, the fact that it is In Derry, the picture was candidate Shauna Deery welcome given by all the agers. tiations now imminent are about the extent to which about building the anti-capi- similar, if the issues are dif- "I'll give you my No 1, parties on the council to the Now that the election is they have to compromise what they have always talist movement -- cam- ferent. that shower of bastards cer- arms manufacturer, over, most SEA members presented as their principles in order to achieve paigning around issues, not There was a shared feel- tainly aren't getting it." Oth- Raytheon, meant that many hope to keep the Alliance this. just vote-seeking -- has ing that the establishment ers were less forthright in people were waiting to wel- going. made all the difference. parties are letting ordinary their language but said come the SEA to their door. The first activity in working people down by much the same thing. Others were waiting to Derry will be to support the Cynical bringing low paid, non- tell us about conditions at Women in Black protest at Divide union jobs to the city. their workplaces, about the the continued Israeli occu- This, of course, is the cynical view. But in a twist- One man in Creggan Incinerator agency working which has pation of Palestinian territo- ed way, the cynical view is the most constructive. It Many people said they who had voted Sinn Fein become widespread, about ry at the War Memorial, 12 means that although, on the face of it, there's no would not vote for any of since the early 1980s told The incinerator and the low pay and bullying man- noon Sat. June 9th. way the Republicans can deliver decommissioning the mainstream politicians on the timescale which David Trimble says is his and agreed that all the estab- minimum requirement, they'll either find a formula to lished parties use the keep the show up and running, or fumble their way Orange/Green divide to Doctors threaten resignation from NHS forward anyway. dodge dealing with "the real Although the Provos say the police havn't been issues". OVER NINETY per The action just boards are closing hospi- mainly due to financial reformed nearly enough, and the Unionists com- Barbara Muldoon, who cent of Northern scratches the surface of tals. reasons. The Minister plain the reforms have gone too far already, policing stood in the Belfast Lagan- the problems in the NHS. In a recent survey, who presides over this will carry on in some rough and ready fashion, chil- side ward told Socialist Ireland's General Practitioners A report published survey 24 percent of glaring mistreatment of dren on working-class estates will continue to be Worker: "A door in the this month lifted the lid nurses said they intend to hospital workers is Sinn battered into better behaviour, and the Assembly Donegal Pass area was threatened to and Executive will continue to get on with the busi- opened by a man in a Lin- on "fat cat" executives in leave the health service, Fein's Bairbre de Brun. resign en masse the health boards. ness of governance. field shirt who launched from the NHS There will be tremors, but the edifice won't col- into a tirade that started with All of Northern Ire- lapse. 'all these companies coming unless their con- lands NHS chief execu- This relative stability arises from the fact the par- here are just screwing us, tracts are redrawn. tives are paid from the Lethal w eapon 2 ties are agreed on certain fundamental matters. expecting us to work for The action comes lowest, £68,000 and to It's widely acknowledged that sharp ideological lousy wages and to be grate- after a one-day strike on the highest, £108,000. even more lethal. ful for it' and ended minutes THE NEW plastic divisions are no longer a feature of conventional May Day this year. bullet, or 'baton The new plastic bul- party politics in Britain. 'Vote Conservative' read the later with 'that's why I'm Doctors have com- pre-election cover of the Economist, over a picture voting for none of them. Expenses round' was intro- let will hit the victim at They're all a shower of plained that unless "the 160 mph risking death of Tony Blair. increasingly massive duced in the North There's less acknowledgement of the fact that, in liars'. and injury to anyone workload is reduced and On top of this, two on 1 June. relation to the issues on which New Labour and the "When I explained that nearby, children in par- we aren't politicians but a proper environment health boards in Belfast While the old plastic Tories have converged, the Northern parties, too pay the executives travel ticular. have come together. On class issues, there's a cen- campaigners for trade union created whereby family bullets were clearly tre-right consensus in the North. rights, a decent minimum doctors have sufficient expenses of £37,400 and very dangerous — The secret Defence wage and so on, he was time for their patients, £34,383. killing 17 people, 11 of and Scientific Advisory Market delighted and said he would then the time will come This comes at a time them children — US Council report of 21 tell his wife and friends to when they will be forced when the NHS is military data suggests August 2000 recom- The extent to which the free market is being let vote for us too." to vote with their feet" strapped for cash and the new bullets may be mended that "research rip though the public services is documented in In Belfast, the Private Socialist Worker every fortnight. The Departments Finance Initiative and the should be undertaken chiefly involved — Health, Education, Higher Edu- special treatment given by into post-ricochet tra- cation, the Environment (transport) and Finance — the planning authorities to jectories and energy of companies involved in PFI Blank paper degrees are run by Sinn Fein, SDLP and DUP Ministers. baton rounds and that was a big issue. It's their basic agreement on class issues which Over 1,000 stu- of paper instead. with debts between steps could be taken to enables the Executive parties to stick together even For example the PFI reduce the risk to non- company involved in dents could be Some 700 students at £7,000 and £10,000. when seemingly irreconcilable differences on other Queens University In a recent survey it targeted personnel matters look certain to bring the house of cards down. Wellington College was excluded from given the go-ahead to build Belfast,and a further was discovered that up to from ricochets", but the Negotiations on the other matters may stop and their own gradua- 300 students at the Government refuses to start and continue to pose awkward problems for 400 apartments on what had 20% of students leave been school rugby pitches. tion ceremonies Ulster University have university early, mainly say whether this work the participants. But the machinery of government not been able to pay established under the Agreement will continue to Local residents in the because they due to financial reasons. has been carried out. their fees this year. function. And the ruling class will continue to extend already overcrowded area have not been The cost of abolishing Several of the chil- appealed against the plan- Every year thousands its direct rule over wider and wider areas of life with- able to pay their tuition fees in Northern dren who were killed out any pretence of negotiation at all. ning permission and lost. of students leave North- by plastic bullets were It has already cost them tuition fees. ern Irelands university Ireland would cost the Only a strong socialist force unentangled in the Queens University government less than £35 hit by ricochets. Executive can hope to mobilise working people to £5,000 and they cannot in debt, one figure esti- It is a disgrace that confront this offensive. Hence the need for the afford the cost of taking it told students that, if mates that the average million, less than half the further - something the fees aren't paid you student in Northern Ire- money given to the arms the British army and Socialist Environmental Alliance to stay together RUC continue to use and build for the future. property speculators count can get a blank piece land leaves university company Raytheon. on to get their own way. these lethal weapons. SOCIALIST WORKER PAGE 7 Joe As the rich fight over Eircom ... issues for anti-capitalists Moore Coffee giants Corrupt Fat Cats cash roast poorest Prison HAVE YOU noticed a change in the price of cof- fee? The answer is no, there hasn't been, for you Notebook by SIMON and me. Yet the profits of JOE MOORE was jailed last month for BASKETTER the big coffee companies helping to organise a campaign have soared. against bin charges in Cork. The pre- in on privatisation Nestlé, the world's largest text used was that he was flouting the coffee roaster, made about litter laws. £1 billion profit from coffee Just after Joe was jailed still more reve- THE MINISTER for last year, and profits are up lations trickled out about network of Privatisation, Mary 20 percent so far this year. bribery and corruption that entangled O'Rourke, claimed Profits in selling Luas the future of CIE politicians like Michael Lowry and Charles that selling off Halved International Group, The vultures of greed Haughey. Eircom would lead THE GOVERN- Mary O'Rourke is also trying to sell off MENT has paid received £520,184, Yet these gangsters walk about as free to "ownership by while public relations most of CIE to private operators. She is The giant US coffee house out almost three DERMOT DESMOND is the man chain, Starbucks' , saw its men while people like Joe Moore are jailed the people". In fact consultancy Drury using the Luas system as a dry run for by SAM for taking a principled stance against dou- it meant the break quarters of a mil- behind the onshore tax scam that is privatising the whole company. profits triple in the last five lion pounds for Communications was years and rose 40 percent in ASHMAN ble taxation. Here is Joe's impression of up of the company paid £66,360. the IFSC is also bidding for Eircom. Five companies are set to cash in on Luas. prison life in a Cork Jail. and fortunes for the public relations the first quarter of this year. Legal advice on the He has in excess of £150 million and They see it as their entry into the Irish trans- How has this been fat cats. and advice just on flotation cost the govern- was originally behind NCB Stockbrokers. port market. been torn up by organisations the privatisation ment £130,527, with solici- achieved? Because the price like the IMF, World Bank and "The purpose of It is impossible to The mobile phone NCB were the government appointed con- ● paid to millions of people who imprisonment is explain to a young child or company Eircell, which of Aer Lingus. tors William Fry being paid sultants to Bord na Móna, ESB, Telecom Éire- Stagecoach World Trade Organisation as elderly parent that they can- The advertising £62,500, Mason Hayes & grow the coffee has plummet- "barriers to free trade". firstly to punish used to be owned by ann. In Britain, Stagecoach operates a fleet of ed. Two years ago coffee was not hug their loved ones. Eircom, is now owned by group, Irish Curran £50,000 and In all NCB received ten major contracts Coffee production has offenders by deny- Each prisoner is allowed McCann Fitzgerald £3,027. more than 7,000 buses and owns worth about $1 a pound. become a free for all. Other global giant Vodaphone from semi state companies between 1987 and Today it is nearer 50 cents ing them their lib- one such 30-minute visit 1992. Prestwick International Airport in countries like Indonesia and per week. and there is a feeding erty, and secondly They also played a central role in the Glasgow. and still falling. This has Vietnam have entered the The exercise yard con- frenzy to buy the rest of halved the income of an esti- to rehabilitate sists of an area 75 yards by the company. Greencore and Irish Life flotations where It has been at the forefront of the chaos of market. them, in order that they received hugely inflated fees. When mated 20 million coffee grow- The amount of coffee pro- 24 yards, surrounded by 30- privatised rail in Britain, running the South ers. Who exactly are these when they re-enter foot high walls and covered Desmond was on the Board of Aer Rianta, West trains franchise and has a 49 per cent duced has soared, the price by a steel wire mesh, giving Awarded development plans were "accidentally" growers? has fallen, and millions have society, that the stake in Richard Branson's Virgin Rail Group. An Oxfam report last week the impression of a giant leaked to a rival company owned by Its boss Brian Souter is a right-wing bigot who been pushed into despera- chances of re- Denis O'Brien's is one said that about 70 percent of aviary. Haughey's son. campaigns against homosexuality. tion. offending are mini- The only physical activ- Celtic Tiger capitalist who is the world's coffee is grown on At the same time the World mal. ity is to continually walk up trying to buy Eircom His ● farms of less than 12 acres. Bank and the IMF encourage My recent experience in and down, and when tired to previous record shows what National Express The growers are poor peo- Cork prison, demonstrated poor countries to get locked sit on ground as seating is deregulating the market National Express was the national British ple in Brazil and Colombia, or into the world market. that this second goal is not not provided. means --huge profits for bus company prior to privatisation in in the Kafe region of Ethiopia, being pursued by the Places in the workshop business and dodgy deals They encourage countries Department of Justice. 1988. where the falling price of cof- to turn more land over to pro- and the school are limited to with politicians. fee is leading to food short- The conditions, under small numbers, so the In 1995 his company, It has the largest number of train-operating ducing crops to sell for cash. which inmates are incarcer- majority of prisoners spend Esat Digifone, was awarded ages. But when the price on the franchises in Britain and is involved in the They are in Chiapas, ated, have not changed their days either locked in a lucrative mobile-phone joint venture management company of world market falls, the poor- since Victorian times. their cells or in the yard. licence by Michael Lowry, Mexico, where wages of the est countries have to export Prisoners are kept The racism in Irish soci- then Minister for Transport, Eurostar. It is the largest private operator of pub- indigenous peoples working lic transport in Australia. more to get the same amount locked in their cells for a ety against Travellers is Energy and Michael and Denis on coffee farms are being cut. of money. minimum of sixteen hours demonstrated by the fact Communications, in the Fine They are in Tanzania, per day. that although they only con- Gael-Labour coalition gov- ● Connex So people go hungry while tables at a New York function Not really surprising where one woman told swathes of land are devoted The two-man cells mea- stitute less than 1 percent of ernment. to raise funds for the party. since he has a home on the SIR ANTHONY O'Reilly as he is now sure roughly 14 feet by 6½ Swedish company Connex claims to be Oxfam, "How can I pay for to producing things like luxury the population, they account Some £50,000 came from Cayman Islands where the known is also trying to get the phone school fees when I can barely feet and consist of a bunk for almost 9 percent of the Telenor, the Norwegian bank is based. Europe's largest private public passenger flowers for export, or mange- bed, two lockers and two population in Cork prison. Fortune network. transport company. A wholly-owned sub- feed and clothe my children? tout. phone company which He has previous experi- My children don't go to school chairs. owned 40 percent of Esat. ence of telecom licenses. He as already is worth at least £1.6 The walls are concrete sidiary of communications giant Vivendi, and we starve." Frustrating O'Brien paid only £15 O'Brien then proceeded to One of O'Reilly's compa- million. The man who owns most of the company runs 17 per cent of the dis- Destroy block with a steel door. million and made a £221 mil- set up various property and nies bribed Ray Burke and Ireland's newspapers, used the dodgy Do the giants of the coffee The only natural light lion fortune when he sold offshore deals which netted another of his companies got astrous British rail network. industry care? Of course not. comes from a window high The positive fact is how- Esat Digifone to British Ansbacher Bank for some of his deals. The mad logic of the mar- Lowry another £950,000. most of the licenses for digi- Not really surprising since he has a home ● "Trading profits increased and up on the wall, consisting of ever that there is no racism Telecom some years later. Sir Anthony O'Reilly as tal television TV masts. Serco margins improved thanks to ket leads to further madness. ten glass panes each mea- shown towards them by the The scale of that windfall on the Cayman Islands where the bank is he is now known is also try- For a £I million sweeten- based. Serco is a service company which spe- favourable commodity One idea being put forward suring 3 inches square. other prisoners. profit was amazing. It helps ing to get the phone network. er, O'Brien eventually to help poor coffee farmers is Outside the window is a Other bureaucratic prac- to explain why he gave near- He has previous experience of telecom cialises in "managing change" - or cut prices," says Nestlé. He as already is worth at cleared £206 million in pure The giants of the global to destroy the existing stocks steel mesh grill. tices also make life difficult ly a million pounds to least £1.6 million. profit. licenses. One of O'Reilly's companies bribed backs. It is in involved in the defence Cells do not have inter- for the inmates, the most Michael Lowry. Ray Burke and another of his companies got coffee industry met in London of coffee in order to remove The man who owns most He added nothing of The Fat Cats Friend: Minister for industry and privatising health services. about one million tonnes from nal plumbing. There is no frustrating of which is the A month after Esat won of Ireland's newspapers, used value and never worked most of the licenses for digital television TV recently. They were no doubt running water and no toilet amount of time from being the licence, David Austin, a the dodgy Ansbacher Bank much harder than the Eircom Privatisation Mary O’Rourke masts. ● Transdev rubbing their hands with glee- the market. facilities. admitted until a prisoners wealthy Fine Gael supporter, for some of his deals. staff. and they want to make mat- What a waste, of coffee While locked in the cell, receives their own clothing. asked O'Brien to take two Transdev is at the forefront of the deregu- ters even worse. and people's labour! prisoners are given a small These items of clothing lation of public transport in France. Coffee production is very Some people say the key stainless steel pot, in which are taken, so that they can labour intensive because to ending this awful situation to relieve themselves. All be labelled. is to back schemes such as meals are eaten in this However sometimes this berries ripen at different Private Power speeds and have to be hand "fair trade" coffee, where a unhygienic atmosphere. can take up to 6 weeks, dur- Visiting conditions are ing which time, inmates are picked. greater amount goes to the THE ESB is set up ESB is "utterly committed" Researchers have devel- grower. barbaric, as no physical forced to wear prison issue to competition, "and will not Privatising everything contact is allowed. for privatisation oped a new genetically modi- But, while well intentioned, clothing, which is often the do things in the sense of Black Gold The visiting room is 30 wrong size and can be in a and the vultures are fied coffee bean that stops the idea that the solution to feet long with a 4½ foot putting barriers in the way of DENIS O'BRIEN was then a government min- directly benefit to Esat. vice. lives. He controls the non- state of disrepair. already circling. ■ THE GOVERNMENT pany. These amount to growing just before it is ready the problem is for consumers wide table running down All in all, my limited competitors". likes to portray him- ister Denis O'Brien knows Emergency legislation union 98FM radio station. to pay more is wide of the Former Fianna Privately owned, power- ● Charlie Haughey's spin every scam in the book. to allow private road build- O'Brien's power company gave away the last exactly £100 million to be harvested. the centre. stay has debunked the holi- fundraiser Tadhg self as a thrusting Worse the Government The plan is to then ripen mark. Prisoners stand at one day camp image, that is generating stations are doctor PJ Maran Last month he built two ing. Epower, is currently trying to public owned oil O'Donoghue, a tax partner entrepreneur who ● will pay any costs caused by them all at once using a The real and obvious solu- side, while their visitors are often portrayed in the already being built around Pauric O'hUiginn, who boats in Donegal. On Dublin airport he said, get contracts in the run up to refinery last month. on the other. There is no with accountants doesn't need any made £3.5 million out of the "Michael O'Leary of Ryanair ESB's privatisation. failures to meet existing chemical spray, and harvest tion is to cut the vast profits of media, and the food is far the country, The Irish National environmental standards. separation between each from hotel standard. Pricewaterhouse Coopers For instance, at state help.Yet the Esat deal was an advisor to is right. mechanically. the big firms and make them both Charlie Haughey and Saved Baldonnel should be Tosco, has the worst envi- prisoner. These conditions should is running the "rationalisa- Dungarvan, Co Waterford are Esat deal was all Deregulate Petroleum Corporation The agro-chemical indus- pay more to the growers. In such conditions it is be ended immediately. tion" plan. Bertie Ahern handed over to a private sec- (INPC), which operates ronmental record of any of try, the big coffee corpora- The market produces a building one Rolls-Royce about government ● Fianna Fail TD Conor He availed of a little- tor operator and within six the US oil refiners. impossible to hear what A more humane regime This will reduce staff by Power Ventures Ltd as are the Whitegate Oil tions and the big farmers will crazy spiral that results in your visitors are saying, should be introduced, with almost a quarter, to 6,500 handing wealth to Lenihan. known tax incentive scheme months Dublin would have He says "The Tosco has annual rev- profits for few and despair for Statoil in Ringsend, Dublin. A special deal was done and saved himself £15 mil- two airports." Government needs to imme- Refinery and the enues of $25 billion and gain. Poor farmers and while at the same time you an emphasis on rehabilita- from 8,500. business. Whiddy Oil Terminal in labourers will suffer. millions. are hearing snatches of con- The main rival operators so Esat could put its masts up lion in tax. Denis O'Brien is worth at diately deregulate the whole refines 1.2 million barrels of tion to ensure that people do O'Donoghue says the In the run up to the Cork, was sold to US oil Until about ten years ago We need to fight for every versation from those on not re-offend. company needs the job cuts waiting for privatisation are deal O'Brien hired a rake on the top of Garda stations. In a recent speech to least £398 million. industry". oil throughout the US. ePower owned by Denis The then Minister for the ISME O'Brien outlined his While he owns a £7mil- This may explain why he giant Tosco Corporation an international agreement small gain that can be made either side of you. What is also very obvi- because "pressure from com- of political advisors to And when the oil and This does psychological ous is the class nature of the petitors in the liberalising O'Brien and CRH the con- Environment, Labour's wish list for the Irish econo- lion pad in Ballsbridge, his gave £50,000 each to Fine Gael, for £100 million. gas of the Irish coast flows regulated the volume of cof- within the system. But it is the help him out, including: Brendan Howlin, even my: love of taxes avoidance keeps Fianna Fail and the Progressive chains of the market that ulti- damage to prisoners' fami- society we live in, as prison market means it needs a nim- struction giant who used to ● But the Government has through the refinery, the fee produced. lies, who are not guilty of Fine Gael Deputy changed the Planning Act ■ Privatise the health ser- him in Portugal where he Democrats last year. Such agreements have mately must be broken. seems to be a "rich free" bler, more supple structure". run the Ansbacher accounts leader, Jim Mitchell, who guaranteed to pay all out- Irish tax payer will receive, any crime. zone. O'Donoghue claims the from their head office. standing debts for the com- you guessed it, nothing. SOCIALIST WORKER PAGE 8 After Abbeylara and corruption scandals Who do the police serve?

Corruption scandals in Donegal and attempts to cover-up the Abbeylara shooting have focused attention on how the Gardai operate. Here KIERAN ALLEN exposes the reality of the Irish police.

HE UNITED Sates have a force to protect the people runs approximate- who are willing to work." Ever since, the essential task Tly 125 police of police officers has been to act assistance pro- as the muscle men for the grammes in foreign wealthy. countries. Officially the Throughout the nineteenth century, the pattern in most coun- aim is to establish pro- tries was to "professionalise" the fessional police forces police force. that uphold the rule of This involved an emphasis on law, without fear or training, discipline and develop- favour. ing a bureaucratic hierarchy, which was supposed to govern Yet results hardly match the the behaviour of officers. claims. One of the countries But moves to a professional which received help from this police force also arose from programme since 1954 is important lessons that the ruling Guatemala where over class drew from early conflicts between security forces and the 130,000 people have either working class. been tortured or "disappeared" n some countries, the militia at the hands of the police and or even the army was used to deal army. with civil unrest. But the wealthy Another is El Salvador where found that ordinary soldiers who the police have regularly been lived in the same sort of poverty condemned for human rights as the local working class were abuses. often unreliable. When it comes to the police there is a large gap between myth T WAS necessary to and reality. develop a force that In every country, the police Iwas relatively isolat- Gardai attacking Water Charge protestors in Waterford are put on a pedestal by right- ed from working class wing politicians. From an early suspicious of every action and ent to this general pattern. It is was greeted by the fascist dictator confessions out of suspects. age children are encouraged to communities - one that earned more and had a motive of those around them. But claimed that they were unarmed Mussolini. One woman, Joanne Hayes, believe in "their" police force. this same suspicion never extends and more rooted in their commu- In 1933, O Duffy was sacked was forced to confess to the The police are there "to help the career structure that to their political masters. nities. by the new Fianna Fail govern- killing of a baby which she could community". rewarded absolute The result is that within the But the same pressures that ment and went on to form the not have committed. obedience. police is concentrated all the most operate to produce police force Blueshirts. Between 1975 and 1979 no Enforcing Moreover, this professional reactionary and conservative that is biased to serving the inter- But the nature of the police less than twenty people died in police force could also give the ideas of society. ests of the elite operate in Ireland force did not fundamentally police stations and prisons. Studies in Britain have shown as well. change. The activities of the Gardai They are supposed to be com- impression of being neutral and so above politics. for example that 80 percent of The Irish Gardai were origi- have always been concentrated on pletely impartial in enforcing the police officers vote for the nally drawn overwhelmingly IANNA FAIL the "crimes" of the poor and on law. Their main job is to prevent In the United States, for exam- recruited 80 of its ple, local police forces were regu- Conservatives. In France, one of from the ranks of the IRA. One political "subversion". crime against ordinary people. the police officers' unions has study showed that two thirds of supporters into Each and every one of these larly changed depending on F links with the fascist right. Gardai who were recruited claims is false. whether Democrats and the Special Branch but Defeated Republicans took control of between 1922 and 1952 claimed instead of spying on "Police" was originally the ACISM AND sex- an IRA membership. name for plain clothes agents in cities. But this only weakened ism is rampant fascists they concen- their legitimacy in the eyes of But even though they came Major workers struggles such France associated with spying within the police. from a revolutionary nationalist trated most of their as the post office workers' strike and violence. The first moves to contending factions. R tradition, the structures of the of 1979 were defeated by Garda establish a local police force in A professional police force Nine out of ten women activity on radical left that appeared to stand above police officers have police force soon moulded them wing republicans. baton charges on picket lines. Ireland occurred in the 1780s in into a conservative force. This record shows that it response to nationalist and peas- political and class divisions was said they face sexual There was never any pretence far more useful to the ruling elite. makes little sense to treat the ant agitation. Even the moderate harassment. that the Irish Gardai were subject police as "workers in uniform". politician, Henry Grattan called Ever since, police forces have Revealed to democratic control. been relatively isolated from the Only two percent of the Their whole role brings them them "an abominable institution". Unlike Britain, no local police into conflict with working people rest of society. British police come from ethnic boards were established. The The modern police force came minorities. Not surprisingly, One of the first commanders because they have to enforce the about when Robert Peel intro- They see themselves as being Gardai were run directly by the on a mission to enforce the rule of black people are four times more of the police between 1922 and rule of the privileged. duced the Metropolitan Police 1932 was Eoin O Duffy, a former secretive Department of Justice. Very occasionally, they may law. But the law they enforce is likely to be stopped by a police Gardai never interfered in the Act in 1829. Originally sections officer than a white person. OC of the Northern Brigade of take industrial action such as dur- of the local aristocracy objected overwhelmingly biased towards affairs of the rich but concentrat- defending the privileges of the Of course, individual police the IRA. ing the "blue flu". to the idea of a body of trained O Duffy joined the IRA to ed on working class crime. But this has never prevented rich. officers vary. Not every one of The Guards never prosecuted men who were answerable only to them is a racist or a sexist who fight the empire but he soon them breaking strikes of workers state officials -- rather than to Ninety percent of those who Charles Haughey, Ray Burke or are jailed have committed crimes treats working class people with revealed his class prejudices or attacking protests. themselves. when he warned the force about those who avoided DIRT tax. Anti-capitalists need to chal- against property. The vast majori- contempt. For every miscarriage of jus- But the growing labour unrest But the effect of the whole "city scum who are always alive lenge police propaganda which convinced them that the new ty of offenders are poor. tice scandal that occurred in The police see themselves as structure of the police is to for any chance to plunder and tries to demonise and divide their police force was needed. loot, ready to espouse any cause Britain, there has been one in movement. being almost at war with sections encourage these attitudes and ren- Ireland. One manufacturer summed up der the police a pliable tool at the which undermines order and gov- It is also why we need to their feelings when he told a of the working class community In the mid seventies, for they are supposed to serve. disposal of our rulers. ernment". organise the largest possible num- Royal Commission, "In case of In 1928, he led a police pil- example, a Heavy Gang was bers to overcome the resistance of They are encouraged to be Until recently, the Irish Gardai formed within the Gardai to beat turn-outs, it would be desirable to have been viewed as being differ- grimage to the Vatican where he the police to direct action. SOCIALIST WORKER PAGE 9 in my film view From here Approaching Highway 60 "How much do I know to inanity To talk out of turn AS CORPORATE You might say that I'm young shindigs go, the US premiere of You might say I'm unlearned" Pearl Harbor took a lot of beating. Two SO BEGAN one of the verses of the vit- thousand guests riolic anti-war song "Masters of War". were flown in to The message is as powerful and rele- Hawaii for a vant today as it was when it was written, screening aboard a but its composer would have a problem US Navy aircraft carrier that had singing about his youth now. Bob Dylan been refitted for has just turned 60. the event. There are many yardsticks people use when Hawaii National Guard's measuring the advance of years. But Dylan the air wing flew formations angry young protest singer, the man who revo- overhead. Country singer lutionised popular music, now fast approaching Faith Hill sang the a pension - that really does seem too much. national anthem and, as I went to see Dylan a few months ago, but I must he walked up the 900ft admit I went with something of a heavy heart. red carpet, Disney chair- The previous time I saw him was about five years man Michael Eisner earlier, when he wheezed and mumbled his way could have been forgiven through songs that, although famous, were barely for feeling that times recognisable. This time, though, he was great. were rather good, What fascinated me was that in amongst the age- ing hippies and the reformed punks there was a sur- despite the $5m party prisingly large smattering of much younger people. price. What is more, they whooped and hollered at the classics written many years before some of them Smoothes were born. For in as much as a Dylan revival exists, it is to the early Dylan -- the folk protester, the rock rebel -- that So we have the sum- people are looking. mer's first mega-movie. I happen to love his last album, Time Out of Mind. Nice people in a histori- An album that deals bleakly with loneliness, aging, cal romance with explo- impending death is unlikely to inspire many young sions. Pearl Harbor offers a vision of what Titanic RUN FOR cover Ben the whole thing is going to flop people though. might have looked like if What had been a ris- historical context given. heading the retaliatory sands, started the Cold the iceberg was the war- ing tide of virulent racism The American govern- raid on Tokyo on April 18 War and led to America's Exploded like Japanese. against the Japanese ment knew of the attack 1942, "America suffered, It's a love story about turned into the illegal and moved the majority and grew stronger," the imperialist domination of a triangle of pretty young The earlier stuff? Ah, that's a different question. imprisonment of thou- of their fleet out of the heroine says, "through the region that was the people — two best bud- sands of Japanese harbour. But they wanted the trial we overcame." revenge for Pearl Harbor. Dylan exploded onto the music scene in the early dies and the nurse they 1960s as the post-war consensus was breaking Americans in the after- to use Pearl Harbor to No mention of But then again both love — set against math of the attack. enter the war. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki, down, black civil rights were taking off and fear of the mighty backdrop of atomic wipeout was growing. On Pearl Harbor itself movie's final act is to the nuclear strikes, that George Bush Jnr is in the war, planes, shooting, there is, of course, no show the heroes spear- vapourised tens of thou- White House. Like many young folk singers of the time, he guns and ammo. began to break with the idea that folk singers could The film smoothes sing only old songs. over America's "yellow These new singers used new words relevant to peril" racist invective. In Film the world they lived in. Dylan's strange and angry the film the Japanese voice articulated protest in ways sometimes more characters are carefully stark, sometimes more subtle, but always full of drawn: they are thought- greater rage than his contemporaries. ful, almost regretful When he sang of the murder of a black civil rights about launching the leader, he attempted in a breathtakingly successful Better then Tarintino attack. There is the token way to explain not just the tragedy of the event, but black guy forced through the nature of racism itself, in "Only a Pawn in Their MEXICO CITY is home to unfortunate comparison. life in a sharply different way prejudice to be a cook. Tarantino is slick and to the pampered existence of Game". None of this is an 20 million people and each Just as his audience thought they knew him, of them has a different superficial in his treatment of a trendy media couple, self attempt at liberalism but violence. Amores Perros is absorbed and obsessed with Dylan turned away from folk and protest, picked up rather ensuring the film story to tell in the new film the electric guitar, and began painting verbal images profound, delving into the their irritating little pooch, doesn't offend in the Amores Perros. The film's consequences of violence Richie. of alienation. important Asian market. Well now he's 60, and hopefully a new generation title is translated as Love's and showing its painful reali- The most attractive of the will discover why he inspired many of us as we began a Bitch, but its meaning, ty. There is no attempt to characters is, at first glance, the task of trying to change the world. Devoid derived from street slang, glamorise — violence is pre- the pleasant, dishevelled, Let's finish where we started-Dylan's rage at the is closer to tough or sav- sented in all its gruesome smelly tramp who lives a banality. squalid life with his pack of politicians, profiteers and arms dealers in "Masters of A Disney film about age love. War": stray dogs. World War Two was He is in fact an ex-guerrilla "And I hope that you die always going to be scary. Mexican director Alejandro Brutality Hawaii is a place Gonzalez Inarritu inventively who now earns (though does- And your death'll come soon strangely devoid of weaves together the stories of n't spend) big money as a three unconnected couples. Where Tarantino uses black hired assassin. His story, like I will follow your casket Hawaiians. Never at any time He uses the device of a humour to minimise the reali- that of the others, is reflected In the pale afternoon does director Michael horrific car crash in the centre ty of violence, this film does by his dog's story. Bay give any hint of the of the city and, curiously, the not disguise the brutality of This is a rich, complicated And I'll watch while you're lowered real human cost of war. protagonists' pet dogs. life in this place. and hugely enjoyable film that The result is a film divided Though not an overtly ultimately deals with humani- Down to your deathbed The movie has as much relationship to the reality into three separate but inter- political film, Amores Perros ty's struggle to lead a decent And I'll stand o'er your grave of wartime combat as a connected parts, which is contrasts the lives of the par- life in a corrupt world. Gap ad for khakis. both extraordinarily original ticipants drawn from wildly Don't be put off by subti- Till I'm sure that you're dead." The company founder and utterly absorbing. different backgrounds. There tles, the seriousness of the Now, if Eminem could ever direct his undoubted Walt was keener on the The film has attracted a lot is a working class youth subject, or the length of the of media attention because of involved in the seedy but talent and rage in that way, the anti-capitalist move- Nazi regime in Germany film. This is well worth the trip its violence. Its maker has lucrative world of dog fight- to the cinema. ment would truly have a troubadour. than the wonders of American democracy. been hailed as the "Mexican ing. But far more important Tarantino". But this is an He makes his way through — TIM SANDERS by PAT STACK things are left out. PAGE 10 SOCIALIST WORKER where we news & reports/politics/industry/the unions (01) 8722682 /fax (01) 872 3838 e-mail [email protected] stand ☎ PHONE REPORTS ABOUT STRIKES/LOCAL CAMPAIGNS/PROTESTS ☎ Workers create all the wealth in capitalist soci- ety. A new society can only be constructed when Toll Bridge Strike they collectively seize control of that wealth and plan its production and distribution. FOR REVOLUTION, As £95 Bills drop through Dublin letterboxes NOT REFORM The present system can- not be reformed out of existence. Parliament cannot be used to end the system. Don’t pay the bin tax The courts army and police are there to defend the interests of the capi- AS BIN charge have been set up in a num- brought together up to 80 ful meeting in the Holly- been set up in a number of bourhoods and organising talist class not to run bills dropped ber of areas across Dublin people who are delivering brook Hotel a few weeks areas. In Glasnevin; Bally- public meetings to get the society in a neutral fash- and these are swinging into leaflets and getting the ago. And they joined up mun; Poppintree; Killester; campaign on a war footing. ion. through letter action as the bills are deliv- word out." with a local Residents Howth; Beaumont; Crum- To contact your local To destroy capitalism, boxes in Dublin ered. In Killester/Howth a Association to get the max- lin; Kimmage and Rath- group phone Brid from workers need to smash over the past cou- In Ballyfermot a big lively group of residents imum non-payment. mines were just some of the the Campaign Against the the state and create a meeting of sixty people and have been leafleting and From previous meetings areas where these groups Bin Tax on 878-8170 workers’ state based on ple of weeks, thou- workers’ councils. in Cherry Orchard another organising since a success- networks of activists had were leafleting their neigh- sands of Dubliners 40 have voted unanimously FOR REAL vowed not to pay to refuse to pay the charge SOCIALISM, EAST this charge. and to organise among their Ballymore Eustace AND WEST The Campaign Against neighbours for mass non- The SWP welcomed the the Bin Tax is organising payment campaign. break-up of the USSR and across Dublin to fight the At the end of May the end of the East Euro- charges. Labour Councillor Eric pean dictatorships. These Dublin Corporation is Byrne organised a meeting states were not socialist demanding £95 in two denouncing these militant Waterworks not for sale but were run by a state- instalments from those it tactics and instead urging capitalist class. deleivers a wheelie bin to people to have faith in the A THREAT by ed that it will cost £40 agreed that only a nor- under public ownership. We are against the domi- and £65 from those with no councillors to end the tax. nation of the globe by workers at the million. mal "design and build The threat had some imperialist powers and we bin. This did not go down at It was at first pro- contract" should be immediate effects. oppose their wars. We are Half of the charge is due all well with the 40 people Ballymore for payment by the end of posed to built the exten- looked for. "The Gods from on for the right of all who came to meeting, who Eustace water- sion under a public-pri- This means that the high in the corporation nations, East and West, to June. But they are unlikely applauded activists from self-determination. to have an easy time col- the anti-bins tax campaign works to take vate partnership scheme. extension and the exist- came down to meet us. FOR AN END TO lecting the money. who argued for organised strike action has This is based on ing plant would stay in “We put out case well Nicola from the Kim- mass non payment. pushed back Britain's "Private public ownership. at the partnership com- ALL OPPRESSION mage action group told Finance Initiative" But top officials in mittee and they stuck to We oppose all forms of Socialist Worker, "The plans for privati- oppression which divide Scare schemes. the corporation were not their original recommen- and weaken the working Corporation is trying to sation. Big business builds happy and they got an dation." one worker pretend that this charge will Eric Byrne then tried to class. We are for full scare people saying non- The first that work- badly needed facilities engineering firm MC said. social, economic and help clean up the environ- ers heard of these and then leases them for O'Sullivan to draw up a The workers have political equality for ment. But in reality it is payers could go to jail. It women. simply double taxation. was quickly pointed out plans was in October about 25 years and report which recom- also set up meetings We stand for: free contra- "We have already paid that no-one went to jail dur- 1999. charges for the use of the mended privatisation. with other corporation ception and free, legalised for these services through ing the successful cam- Ever since then the service. "It was like sending workers in the Marlboro abortion and the right to PAYE and VAT and we paign of non-payment of issue has been under The new extension in someone to the shop to Lane depot in Dublin divorce; the complete should not have to pay this the water charges. Ballymore Eustace was do a message for you. and have won full back- separation of church and At the end of the meet- discussion at a part- state, an end to church charge." due to supply 15 million They were just buying ing to resist any threat of Fiona from the Glas- ing more than a dozen peo- nership committee in control over schools and ple left their details to get extra gallons of water to what they wanted to privatisation. hospitals; an end to dis- nevin action group added, Dublin Corporation an already existing sup- hear," one SIPTU mem- The final decision on crimination against gays "As much as 80 million involved with the Cam- which is responsible tonnes of waste is produced paign Against the Bin Tax. ply of 55 million. ber told Socialist Work- the matter rests with and lesbians; an end to for the waterworks. er. Noel Dempsey, the Min- racism and anti-traveller each year in this country, Peadar from Ballyfer- Private bigotry. but most of it comes from mot told Socialist Worker, An extension is need- Workers were out- ister for the Environment We argue for working construction, industry and "The word here is DON'T ed for the waterworks A private contractor raged when this report who is due to issue con- class unity in the fight farming. PAY!. Our local action because of growing would both build the was issued on May 12th. tract by August 1st. against oppression. "Ordinary domestic groups in this area have demand and it is estimat- extension and then take After a ballot they Workers have now FOR WORKERS’ waste from householders over the existing plant agreed to strike on the shown that they will not UNITY IN THE accounts for just 2 million and manage both for a next date that the part- be taken in by the fraud NORTH tonnes. Globalise Resistance profit. nership committee met. of "public private part- Northern Ireland is a sec- "The Corporation However after Their aim was to nerships" which is just tarian state, propped up should be going after the Building for Genoa big-business polluters." months of discussion, pressurise that commit- privatisation by another by the British Army. the partnership commit- tee to stick to its promise name. Catholic workers are sys- Both agree that the slo- Day of Workshops, meet- tematically discriminated gan of "Don't Pay the Bin tee of the Corporation to keep the waterworks against by the state. The Tax" is striking a chord ings, videos and music. division between Catholic with many, many angry Dun Laoghaire and Protestant workers working class people. Project Arts Centre, Dublin weakens the whole work- Over the previous cou- THE CORPORATE unsafe. ahead. The council are ing class. ple of months action groups Saturday June 9th take over of Dun Instead of spending prepared to consider sell- Workers’ unity can only money to repair and ing off our heritage for a be won and maintained in Laoghaire is con- improve the baths the quick profit. a fight to smash both the tinuing with the Northern and Southern council now have propos- The only people to states. council's attempt als to sell off the baths to gain from this will be the We stand for the immedi- to privatise any private developers who private developers. These ate withdrawal of British Clinton disrupted remaining public plan to build a private sites are much sought leisure centre or luxury after because of their troops. Violence will only spaces alone the end when workers unite OVER 50 protest- mer US president had ple were arrested and flats on the sites. ideal location to build lux- in the fight for a workers’ seafront. ury apartments with a sea ers disrupted Bill to depart from his charged with "behav- Meeting republic. scripted speech to iour likely to lead to Dun Laoghaire and view." FOR A FIGHTING Clinton's visit to acknowledge the pro- the breach of the Blackrock Baths have A group called the The campaign has Derry at the end testors! peace". been used by generations Dun Laoghaire Heritage launched a petition to TRADE UNION and Renewal Campaign MOVEMENT of May. Carrying The following day The protesters of people in the Dun campaign to save the in Belfast there were were man handled by Laoghaire area as a local was set up at a meeting in baths. "Any proposed sell Trade unions exist to placards saying amenity that was open for Dun Laoghaire last off to private developers defend workers’ interests. further protests. Fol- police and in one case "Half a million lowing a peaceful got dragged by the all to use. month to campaign to build private leisure But the union leaders’ against any such plans. role is to negotiate with children killed by alternative feast at hair over barricades. Over the last few years facilities or luxury flats capitalism—not to end it. Clinton's Sanc- Queen's offering a Belfast was the the Council has let them Richard Boyd Barrett, will be resisted. We want We support the leaders choice of veggie burg- only place in Ireland fall into a state of disre- chair of the campaign the Baths refurbished and tions in Iraq", they said, "Every local public when they fight but ensured Clinton ers for 50p or a table where he did not do a pair. They eventually shut kept open to the public", oppose them when they at Clinton's banquet walk about because the baths a few years ago amenity faces a similar said Richard Boyd Bar- betray workers. We stand could not get for £15,000, four peo- of the protests. stating that they were threat if this sell off goes rett. for independent rank and away with his file action. phony concern Anti Capitalism FOR A for Irish children. Marxist worshops for Anti capitalists REVOLUTIONARY When the Sinn Fein refom or revolution Mayor Cathal Crumley Saturdays 4-6pm PARTY said Clinton had speakers: To win socialism socialists offered hope to Irish June 9th: Exploitation and the working Class need to organise in a rev- Eamonn McCann & olutionary party. This children, there were Martin Smith (SWP Britatin) June 16th: Marxism and Oppression party needs to argue shouts of "he kills against right-wing ideas Iraqi and Palestinian Belfast: 18th June June 23th:Their democracy and ours and for overthrowing the kids". Derry: 19th June Nerve Centre, system. The SWP aims to Four times, the for- Ring (01)8722682 for more details build such a party here. Magazine Street SOCIALIST WORKER PAGE 11

news & reports/politics/industry/the unions (01) 8722682 /fax (01) 872 3838 e-mail [email protected] / www.clubi.ie/swp PHONE REPORTS ABOUT STRIKES/LOCAL CAMPAIGNS/PROTESTS ESB Ispat SWP branch meetings — Steel bosses all welcome Vote no to PACT ❏ ATHLONE: Contact 01- want wage cuts 872 2682 for details ❏ BRAY: Meets every WORKERS IN the "They want to bring in a out proper travel time. Voting will be by differ- Wednesday at the Mayfair ESB are due to ballot sort of lump work arrange- "This has been dropped - ent categories of worker. WORKERS AT sure on workers. In Hotel at 8.30pm on new deal called ment where a group of but only temporarily. It will Those who vote Yes get the the former Irish May they presented ❏ BELFAST CENTRAL: "PACT — The Pro- workers are given a job and come back again if they get pay reward immediately, them with three Meets every Tuesday at gramme for Action, a number of timed hours to through this deal". putting more pressure on Steel plant in demands for cut-backs 8.30pm in Kitchen Bar, 16 Competitiveness and complete it. It will be a way Management and some those who vote No. Cork are experi- to help save the plant. Victoria Square, near Corn- Transparency" in the of really stepping up pres- union leaders have been Rank and file workers, They wanted: market encing some of ❏ coming weeks. sure on us. mounting a major campaign though, should co-ordinate the harsh reali- 10 percent reduc- BELFAST SOUTH: Meets The deal will mean 2,000 "Originally they wanted for the deal. Regular their opposition to this new tion in wages every Wednesday at redundancies and will wors- us to 'start on site' which "progress reports" were sent deal and ensure it gets the ties of privatisa- 8.30pm in Queens Students 15 more redundan- Union en conditions dramatically. could have meant travelling out during the negotiations thumbs down. tion. cies from the 240 ❏ up to 60 hours to a job, with- by management. BELFAST WEST ring for But it is being promoted The plant originally strong staff. details 07771 781 958 with a once-off sweetener belonged to the state A cut off 6 days off ❏ BELFAST QUEENS UNI- payment of £2,250 and a 10 Translink but was sold off to the the annual leave VERSITY Wednesdays percent "reward" increase. Indian multi-national 1pm, Peter Froggatt Centre The company is desper- days. ❏ Ispat for a nominal fee. SIPTU members at CORK: Meets every ate to sell the deal because it Ever since there Wednesday at 8.00pm in will help open up the ESB Fury at 3.5% pay offer the plant rejected these O’Donoghue’s, Drawbridge for privatisation. have been several com- proposals overwhelm- St The last time they tried BUS DRIVERS in company responded with a Translink's Head of plaints about the level ingly and many are ❏ DERRY: Meets every to sell it, network techni- Translink, which final offer just 3.5 percent. Human Resources, of safety in the plant. now questioning Ispat's Wednesday at 8.15pm in cians — members of the "Even that would be tied Alan Mercer, has blamed But now Ispat have commitment to keeping Badgers Bar upstairs, operates Ulsterbus to a longer working day. the company's workers for really turned the pres- the plant open. Orchard St. ATGWU — turned it down ❏ by 4 to 1. and Belfast's City- "Translink rejected any the damage to their health DROGHEDA: Meets bus, are furious move on the lower paid or caused by the job. Wednesdays 8:30pm in holidays and big restrictions Earlier this year after an McHugh’s Pub St, Lawer- Contract over a rotten pay on travel passes."Although inspector died suddenly ences Gate Travellers protest for sites ❏ offer. union representatives from a heart attack Mercer DUNDALK Meets Recently their unions - SOME 60 trav- has been built. Wednesdays 8pm phone The PACT deal opens the accepted the offer it has to wrote to the supervisors' The protest followed the ATGWU and GMB -- be put to a ballot. "Drivers ellers held a 01-8722682 for details way for contract labour on a union the TSSA claiming the eviction of travellers ❏ DUN LAOGHAIRE: Meets put in a claim for a 5 percent are furious at this offer. that busworkers smoke and protest outside huge scale. pay increase.. from campsites in Rath- every Thursday at 8.30pm "Union members need to drink too much, are over- "Virtually anything can As one driver told the offices of the farnham and Firhouse. in the Christian Institute organise to make sure it is weight and eat the badly. be turned over to contract Socialist Worker, "Many of South Dublin Travellers had moved on ❏ DUBLIN ARTANE / labour. They are building thrown out in the ballot," the One driver told Socialist us thought the claim should driver said. Council in Tal- to these sites after older COOLOCK: Meets every Worker, "Mercer should new 110KV stations to sup- have been for more but the laght recently. sites were surrounded Tuesday at 8.30pm in ply growing demand in resign. His letter is an insult with boulders. Artane / Beaumont Recre- Dublin. to drivers. The hours we They were The councils did this ational Centre (opp. Artane "Normally this would Big business interests in Cork are trying to work and the stress of the demanding prop- without any consulta- Castle) have been done by ESB shut down public access to Kinsale Head. A job takes its toll on our er transient sites tions with the travellers ❏ DUBLIN NORTH CEN- TRAL: workers as it involved main- swanky golf links which caters for high-fly- health. Employees have for travellers who who in some cases had Meets every Wednes- ly steel and electrical work. ing business executives has operated at the beau- organised sports clubs and wish to move been coming to these sits day at 8.30pm in Conways gyms at their own expense for nearly thirty years. Pub, Parnell St "But under this proposal ty spot for some time. But the sight of ordinary peo- about. ❏ it would be all contracted ple is putting these creeps off their shot. So the and the company have given The protesters were DUBLIN KILLBARRACK: The protestors came Phone 01-8722682 out". one union activist told public walkway which local have enjoyed for us no support. denied water or toilet from the Clondalkin facilities at the council ❏ DUBLIN CABRA: Meets Socialist Worker. decades has been blocked off and is patrolled by "If Translink bosses Traveller Support Group, every Thursday at 8.30pm Management are also security guards.But local activists have not taken were seriously concerned offices. Pavee Point and the Irish One official also in Aughrim St Parish Hall, looking for complete flexi- this lying down. Local activist Tracy told Socialist about the health of its work- Traveller Movement. 13 Prussia St ers they would not be trying threatened to have trav- bility on deployment of Worker, "The view from the walkway is breathtak- A government task ellers physically ❏ DUBLIN BALLYMUN: labour. ing and we see no reason why the rich should take to force us to work longer force report in 1996 rec- Meets every Wednesday at hours, would give us a removed. It was just a "They want Saturday and this amenity from us. "We are organising to chal- ommended that each small example of the 6.30pm in Balcurris Road Sunday working but for no lenge them".On July 1st the first of a series of Peo- decent basic pay and recruit local council establish a more drivers and so drasti- racism that pervades Phone Kevin on 086- extra pay. You would get ple's Picnics is organised for the site in order to transient site. council policy in this 3074060 for details cally cut reduce the need for But not a single one other days off instead. reclaim it for local people.More details from Tracy overtime working." area. ❏ DUBLIN DUNDRUM: Meets every Wednesday at 8.30pm in Dundrum Family ICTU Recreation Centre ❏ DUBLIN RIALTO: Meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm St. Andrews Com- munity Centre, SCR New General Secretary, same ICTU ❏ DUBLIN RATHMINES: Meets every Thursday at THE NEW General being negotiated, tens of were pushed through. had won a base in the Cen- Programme. Proper pension 8.30pm downstairs J O’Con- Secretary of the Irish thousands of trade unionists The Heritage Foundation, tral Sorting Office in Dublin's rights were traded off for nells (Pub) Sth. Richmond from France and Spain for example, is one of the Sheriff Street. getting a share in the com- Street Dublin 2. Congress of Trade protested outside.They were foremost right-wing think He led the union into a pany. ❏ DUBLIN SOUTH CEN- Unions is David Begg. looking for a "social Europe" tanks in the US that is back- merger in 1989 to form the But this only laid the TRAL: Meets at 8.30pm Begg played a key role ratherthan one run by big ing the Bush regime. Recent- Communications Workers ground for the ultimate pri- every Tuesday upstairs in the Communication business. ly it issued a report praising Union. The merger was one vatisation of the firm. Begg Bowes (pub) Fleet Street Dublin 2 Workers Union before The Irish Congress of Ireland for being the second of the first of a series which now claims that if he had ❏ Trade Unions has refused to most de-regulated economy was backed up with state known it was going in this DUBLIN TALLAGHT: going on to work for support these anti-globalisa- in the world. grants. It is believed that the direction, he would not have Meets every Tuesday at the charity agency,Con- 8pm in Jobstown Communi- tion protests. The OECD has also stated CWU received approximate- proposed the ESOP scheme. ty Centre cern. He will do nothing Begg is likely to shift the that the Celtic Tiger has the ly £290,000. But it was just a small ❏ ENNISKILLEN: Phone 01 to change the current rhetoric of the ICTU slightly most de-regulated economy Like other subsequent example of the flawed think- - 872 2682 for details direction of the ICTU. while keeping the organisa- behind the US and New mergers, the occasion was ing at the heart of partner- ❏ GALWAY: Meets every The former ICTU Gener- tion firmly on the partner- Zealand. used to strengthen control of ship itself. Wednesday in Currans al Secretary, Peter Cassells, is ship path. the full time apparatus over The privatisation of Eir- Hotel, Eyre Square (beside He has acknowledged that Reports the rank and file.Annual con- com has been a disaster for Cuba) 8.30pm moving on to a higher paid ❏ job with the National Part- "people are really fed up" ferences were scrapped in the workers. LIMERICK: Phone 01 - with the partnership model Yet these reports favour of biennial confer- Far from bringing more 872 2682 for details nership Council. ❏ but claims they "haven't real- appeared after fourteen ences, which in turn were efficiency, the company has MAYNOOTH meets Thus- ly looked at whether it's a years of social partnership. broken down into "work- pulled out of investment in a day lunchtime ring Endorsed good or a bad thing". shops". broad band infrastructure (01)8722682 for details When this model was first ❏ SLIGO Phone 087 Begg's approach will be to established in 1987, ICTU Begg was soon rewarded which could have created make more speeches attack- with a seat on the Central jobs in the future. 6329511 for details Cassells final days in office leaders claimed it would pre- ❏ SWORDS Meets Tues- sums up the whole approach ing jungle capitalism and vent "the New Right" setting Bank in 1995.There he sat on The whole company looks days 8pm Semior Citizens of the ICTU. He called for a unregulated markets while the economic agenda. a board which turned a blind like falling into the hands of a Hall Yes vote in the Nice Referen- holding up social partnership Begg's own history shows eye to the systematic fraud vulture like Tony O'Reilly ❏ TRALEE: Phone 087 dum even before any major as an alternative. exactly how hollow the which private banks perpetu- who will bring even more job 6329511 for details union had endorsed this posi- But social partnership has rhetoric about social part- ated over the DIRT tax. losses. ❏ TRINITY COLLEGE: tion. been the main way in which nership is. Begg's singular contribu- Begg's record shows that Meets Thursdays 7pm see He issued a statement de-regulation has been After assuming the lead- tion was to develop the part- behind the rhetoric about posters for details denouncing "scare-monger- pushed in Ireland. It has ership of the Post and T ele- nership model at workplace "an unregulated markets" is ❏ UCD meets Wednesdays ing" over the European helped to disarm the labour graph Workers Union he level. Eircom workers were a figure who has helped dis- 1pm see posters for details ❏ Rapid Reaction force. movement as privatisation launched a major attack on persuaded to set up a special arm opposition to these WATERFORD: Meets When the Nice Treaty was and low corporate taxes left wing trade unionists who Employee Share Ownership Thatcherite economics. every Thursday at 8pm in the ATGWU Hall, Keizer St. PAGE 12 inside ISRAEL PREPARES DON’T PAY THE FOR WAR —PAGES 4 Socialist BIN TAX — PAGE 10 Corrupt Fat Cats cash Worker in on privatisation — page 6-7 For a Workers’ Republic and International Socialism 50p Solidarity price £1 100,000 TO PROTEST IN GENOA: RESISTANCE ‘I think there is a pressing humani- tarian need to combat globalisa- tion and corpo- rate rule over the world. Mass direct action works. That IS GLOBAL was shown in THE WORLD Bank everyone to step up their Seattle, Cologne was forced to can- efforts to build the and Prague. that’s cel its planned protest planned in Genoa why I’m going to on July 21st and 22nd Shut down the G8 June summit in when leaders of the G8 Genoa’ Barcelona for fear richest countries will — GARY WALSHE of anti-capitalist gather in the Italian port. Student protests. The drive to build the 50,000 protestors gath- It is the first time protests was given a ered to put pressure on Seattle major boost last month anti-capitalist protes- the leaders of the wealth- tors have succeeded in when Trocaire, the offi- cial development agency iest countries. Washington completely halting a They responded with meeting of one of the of the Catholic Church, called on people to go to the Highly Indebted Poor Prague major institutions of Countries scheme which global capitalism. Genoa to voice their con- cern about the debt bur- was supposed to alleviate Nice 'Victory! Protest den on developing coun- debt. Works' was the jubilant tries. But this was very headline on the statement much a public relations by the Barcelona cam- Millions exercise and poorer paign against the World GENOA countries are still paying bank summit. Trocaire points out more in debt repayments It will encourage that Africa still pays $37 that the amount that was million each day in debt cancelled. OME 150 protestors promotes a cool image but it July 21st and July 22nd.” said repayments even though Trocaire says that a are travelling from uses sweatshop labour. Rory Hearne from Globalise millions of its children pre-Genoa meeting of “We are also bringing over are malnourished. SIreland with the anti- people from Trident Resistance. Finance Minsiters in capitalist organisation, Countries like Hon- February did not send out Ploughshares to talk abut If you want to go to duras and Uganda are Globalise Resistance. organising direct action. positive signals and 'no ★Genoa or help raise spending twice as much The network has been meet- new ideas on debt relief on debt repayment as ing regularly to plan activities Involved funds for people for poor countries were to educate people on the reali- they do on health and who are going, contact education. announced'. ties of globalisation and to They were involved in the Some 100,000 people raise funds for Genoa. Globalise Resistance on Debt is one of the big protests at Fastlane which are expected to gather in “On June 23rd we are hold- attempted to close down the 086 4098186 or e mail: major issues that is under ing a protest outside the newly nuclear submarine base. discussion at the G 8 Genoa to voice their opened GAP inside Arnott's on “'We are going to bring this globalise_resistance@yaho summit. opposition to the priori- Dublin's Grafton Street. GAP spirit of protest to Genoa on o.com At a previous summit ties of a system that puts in Cologne in 1999, profit before people.