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Class War issue 81: Our Money - Let Us Decide
In a recent letter in a political newspaper, a Communication Workers Union full-time official took the leadership of the union to task for donating half a million pounds of union funds to the Labour Party. She also questioned why tens of thousands of pounds of our money goes to Labour candidates at local level. There was no mention of this in the Voice, official publication of the CWU. What there was, was a call for donations to The Tolstoy Millenium Project which tries to fight poverty and disease among orphans and street children in Moldova. The project are renovating a former prison in which they hope to house these unfortunates. Communication Workers Union Humanitarian Aid (CWUHA) have involved themselves in this scheme. They require another £80,000 to complete the work on the prison and allow the children to move in. Schemes such as this can only ever hope to relieve poverty in the very short term as the real cause of poverty is the existence of capitalism. To do away with poverty, we must destroy capitalism. However, the half a million quid would have paid for the new home for these children with a few bob to spare. Now it will help perpetuate a Government which has proved itself no friend of the poor and needy here, or anywhere else. Surely in the interests of democracy the members should decide how our money is spent, and given the choice between Blair, Straw and Byers, the kids in Moldova would win hands down. But then, there are no knighthoods or seats in the House of Lords for helping the casualties of capitalism.
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