We welcome the cease-fire. It represents little more than arguments over who exactly will administer capitalism in Ireland. The problem for the unionist politicians is that, unlike the period of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when over a hundred thousand could be mobilised in demonstrations, now they are unable to organise any significant opposition. It costs a fortune own a newspaper or TV company. Anybody who does so is a millionaire.
Media moguls are in the same league as the rest of the rich.
They hang about in the same clubs, they buy racehorses from each other and, more importantly, they have similar economic interests. Stripping the mystery from the money markets Government ministers appear on TV to inform us that interest rates will have to go up or down, or reassure us that, having spent hundreds of millions of pounds, our standing in the ERM is now safe. International campaign wins stay of execution for US black activist American black activist and journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, was sentenced to die at 10pm on August 17th. Protests which took place in over twenty countries forced the US authorities to grant a stay of execution, just 11 days before he was to be killed. It is based on the long running battle between the CNT and the shipyard bosses.