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Living in Sheffield with Pinochet's victims
When our city gave shelter to around 300 refugees from Chile after the coup, those of us who helped them soon realised that some would never recover, writes RUTH AYLETT
Demonstrators at Wentworth, Surrey, where Pinochet was temporarily housed, look at photos and crosses bearing the names of his victims, 2000
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ON “the other 9/11,” in 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a coup against the democratically elected government of Chile, overthrew it, and started a campaign of mass imprisonment, murder and torture of his political opponents.
While the so-called “free world” was silent on this (where they had not already actively encouraged the coup), the international labour movement took a leading role in trying to rescue Pinochet’s targets.
In Britain, Edward Heath led a Tory government when the coup took place, but he was replaced in 1974 by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
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