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Class War issue 81: Pants To Comic Relief
Thank you to the BBC and hundreds of fading celebrities and entertainers for inflicting yet another Comic Relief on us all in March. Has it never occurred to the likes of Lenny Henry, Bob Geldof, Vanessa Feltz etc that if charity could solve people's problems it would have done so by now? Does anybody seriously believe Africa (to take an example) is a healthier and more prosperous continent now than it was before Live Aid? Of course it is not. People are poor, people are sick, people are fucked over because of global capitalism, not because Mrs Smith of Congleton has failed to send £10 to an appeal fronted by Boyzone.
What has become so offensive about Comic Relief is the way so many big employers and their personnel departments use it as a day to show how much they care. Companies in the city that spend 364 days a year pillaging the Earth are suddenly devoting one day to saving it.
Anybody in the office who does not want to wear a big red nose and a pair of silly pants is instantly labelled as at best a misery guts, at worst as some sort of inadequate who cannot relate to his or her colleagues. Even worse is the way the biggest wankers in senior management are portrayed as incredibly zany generous guys because for one day a year they wear a silly shirt, donate £50 and allow a few of the junior ranks to have a drink in the office.
Class War would like to work with others to organise a national phone in sick day when the next Comic Relief is upon us. Join us.
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