19.01.1995

Fighting fund

TONY BLAIR has just taken his first step on the road to Damascus. Commenting on Andy Cole’s seven million pound transfer fee to Manchester United, he mused that entrance to football grounds could be cheaper if transfer fees were lower.

He only needs to trip up and bang his head now to realise how amazingly cheap things could be if you charged nothing for everything - ie, communism. But, while striving to overthrow this system that reduces everybody to the level of a commodity, we must in the meantime pay our bills.

If we have a regular income that can be relied on we can plan our expenditure and keep our costs down. For this reason bankers orders are particularly useful. We urge comrades to make their donations, big or small, in this way.

We have until Sunday January 21 to reach this month’s £3,000 target. As we went to press we had reached a total of £2,047, which means we still have £953 to raise. This is well within our reach if all comrades put fund-raising to the top of the agenda this weekend. Rush cash and pledges in before Sunday.

Phil Kent