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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
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
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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