A-Infos (en) Ireland's anarchist paper Workers Solidarity #107 - That's Capitalism

One child in eight in less developed countries gets no primary schooling, according to UNESCO. Of 
the approximately 75 million children who receive no primary schooling, about 55% are girls. In 
sub-Saharan Africa one-third of all children receive no schooling. ---- Each of the 12 Residential 
Institutions Redress Board members took home an average of €135,583 last year for listening to the 
horrific stories of abuse and stolen childhoods suffered by former residents of care homes and 
industrial schools. Despite receiving more than €135,000 each in the space of a year, the board 
members have approved settlements of an average of just €65,000 to victims since the scheme's 
inception. ---- Between 1998 and 2003 the United Nations has estimated that the war in the Congo 
led to the deaths of as many as 5.2 million civilians.

The death toll is still climbing. It is the bloodiest conflict since the end of the Second World 
War. Western multinationals and both European and African states have armed ‘rebel’ groups in their 
attempts to control the DRC’s huge mining and mineral resources.

You might think that the government appointees to the AIB and Bank of Ireland boards are supposed 
to represent the interests of the tax payer, whose money was used to bail them out. They include 
former Labour leader Dick Spring and Fine Gael’s Alan Dukes, the first is now a businessman and the 
other is employed as a lobbyist for multi-national firms. As board members they are legally obliged 
to look after the interests of bank shareholders first.

According to the London Times of November 26th, a wealthy female surgeon has commissioned a £1.4 
million kennel for her two Great Danes, next to her second home on the exclusive Lower Mill Estate, 
near Cirencester in England. The kennel has a Jacuzzi, a plasma screen TV, thermostatically 
controlled beds, a £150,000 music system and a security gate with retinal scanner.

Meanwhile, the following day’s BBC News reported an Age Concern poll which found many over-60s were 
worried about being able to heat their homes because of soaring energy prices. With one of the 
coldest winters for some years predicted, the death toll among seniors is expected to rise.

Workers Solidarity Movement - Anarchist communist organisation in Ireland     http://www.wsm.ie
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The Workers Solidarity Movement is an anarchist communist group based in Ireland. It is involved in
workplace and social struggles.
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