04.09.1997

Fighting fund

Danny Hammill reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund

Mrs Windsor’s untimely and violent death has, unfortunately, generated a vast amount of charity-mongering. All the talk is of Di and her ‘marvellous’ work for charitable causes - charity, charity, charity ...

Landmines, Aids, homelessness - all will be magically cured by pious speeches and a few pennies from the pockets of the rich and powerful. To mention the fact that the rich and powerful - and the system they serve - are the creators of misery, poverty and inequality is considered to be in awfully bad taste, awfully vulgar. Have you no respect for Diana Spencer and her ‘achievements’?

Well, we are not afraid to say it - charity stinks. Don’t do it, don’t get involved in it. Do something else.

Yes, you guessed it. Instead of wasting your money by sending it to dubious organisations like Oxfam or Christian Aid, give it to a revolutionary organisation which is committed to the genuine liberation of humanity. Every penny sent to us goes towards this fight - and not a single penny is wasted on bureaucracy or paying full-timers either.

Choose communism, not charity. Rush us your money now.

Danny Hammill