SOCIALISTS from all over the country will gather in London on factory. October 22 for a dinner to honour the memory of our comrade Bob Smith, who died earlier this year at the age of 46. Bob, who lived in Birmingham, was Fight. well-known in the anti-racist and Irish solidarity movements, and devoted much of bis finat year to the struggle of Asian money for the memorial women at the Burnsalls fund.
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SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No.70, October 22 1994, Page 4 "MARK Thatcher. f40 mil lion. Business. The son of Baroness Thatcher. Mark Thatcher made his fortune from his Middle East and American business deals. Joint 219th".
So reads the entry for Mark Thatcher in the 1993 Sunday Times ranking of the super-rich. The truth is somewhat more complex: Mark Thatcher made his fortune as a go-between in the global death trade, playing on the family name to amass a fortune.
Tam Dayell, Labour MPs for Linlithgow, claimed in 1992 that Thatcher junior was "up to his neck" in arms deals with Iraq.
It has been established that on December 14 1992 Mark Thatcher's 11 Swiss bank accounts at three separate financial institutions added up to 93.142.139 francs (£41,581,312).
That was just his liquid assets. There are also shareholdings in South Africa, and considerable personal assets around the world, including a one-million dollar home in Dallas, a simi larly-priced one in Switzerland and a £2,100,000 home in LonThroughout his nine years in exile, Mark Thatcher made most of his real money from introducing private arms and munitions manufacturers to key contracts in various governments. Bringing a few quid back home? Mark Thatcher emerging from Number Ten - and not the tradesmen's entrance Pointing towards the cash? company's Saudi agent, Wafic Said, was a personal friend of the Thatchers, and provided Mark Thatcher with a f1 million house in London in 1988.
In weapons sales, especially when sanctions-busting is involved, commissions often outstrip the actual cost of the equipment.
Mark Thatcher, it has been claimed, was involved in deals including the supply of 48 Chieftain tanks to Pinochet's regime in Chile in 1983; light arnations of which it disapproves. This category included Mark Thatcher, and only the fact that his mother was serving prime minister stayed Mossad's hand.
Yitzak Shamir, the Israeli prime minister, wrote to Margaret Thatcher officially, expressing his disapproval at the involvement of unnamed "British nationals" in supplying Iraq, an obvious potential enemy. He was clearly referring to her son.