Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 07:12:43 +0200
Subject: M-G: [FWD] Diana and the ICU


Comrade Crawford has asked me to "post this on all suitable 
left bulletin boards and discussion sites".

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In today's Evening Standard (a London paper) there is a depressing
report 
of workers at Fords in the big Dagenham factory going "absolutely 
ballistic" when they read the bulletin of the Workers Fight group (the 
affiliate in the UK of Lutte Ouvriere In France and the ICU) which 
criticised Diana. There is a long quotation in the Standard from the 
leaflet which runs as follows. No left winger could disagree.

"Diana was well known for her support of good causes. But despite all
her 
benevolent gestures, she and her boy friend, the Al Fayed heir, were 
first of all members of the tiny minority of privileged whose absolute 
control over all wealth is the main plague of this society. Diana never 
gave up her aristocratic way of life. Nor did she offer Kensington
Palace 
to the homeless or her millions to the starving people of the Third 
world.

"Yet this would have been the best way to dampen the enthusiasm of 
journalists and photographers.

"Instead she used the media to her advantage, to enhance her image and
to 
bargain for better conditions for her divorce"

It is unclear as to whether the Workers Fight comrades were beaten up
and 
the report does not make this clear. I believe these comrades were very 
courageous to thus swim against the stream and they should be given 
credit for it. They are unlikely to post any news about it themselves.

Even if you disagree with aspects of the Workers Fight tactics towards 
Trade Union (which I do) you have to hand it to them. They at least show 
they are determined to take the ideological fight to the class with 
whatever puny resources.

Ted Crawford


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