Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Raytheon 14 go on trial

from Socialist Worker. This tells the story of the brave Irish activists who took on a major US weapons contractor.
Raytheon is a leading U.S. arms manufacturer. It produces Tomahawk cruise missiles, Sidewinder missiles, Hellfire missiles, the "bunker buster" bombs, the delivery systems for cluster bombs, white phosphate and Napalm. The Derry plant manufactured guidance systems for Israeli missiles that have been used to kill and maim Palestinian and Lebanese people.