RUSSIA SOLIDARITY FUND REOPENS – comrades from 24 countries involved.

 

RUSSIA SOLIDARITY FUND REOPENS – comrades from 24 countries involved.

 

Over the years, experienced anti-fascists across the world have politically, morally and financially supported their comrades in Russia in their fight against the tyranny of the Putin regime.

 

We have now reopened a solidarity fund and at the start of week beginning 7^th March 2022. €6681 has already been sent to our friends in Poland to be sent on to Russia.

 

Comrades from 24 countries are now involved. Here in Great Britain, we are now collecting and want you, comrades and friends, to start to collect funds towards paying the legal and medical costs of Russian war-resisters and anti-fascists.

 

Please send your collected funds to the centralised bank account below. It will be sent to Russia by safe route.

 

For obvious security reasons we can't give further details.

 

We will send you a receipt and transfer money, as a larger sum, to Paris to cut transfer costs. Everything will be transparent to the point that money leaves for Russia.

 

The details are:

 

NatWest Bank

Sort code: 01 06 05

Account number: 83968792

 

As of early on Friday 11^th March a further £1200  has been collected.

 

We also have available t-shirt designs in English and Russian – the words in Russian mean: I support war-resisters and anti-fascists in Russia -  that anyone is welcome to use. There is no charge for this artwork but donations to the fund would be appreciated.

 

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The organiser of this collection has had responsibility variously for solidarity fund collections for Medical Aid for Vietnam in the late 1960s and early 1970s, for jailed dockers and construction workers, for striking miners in 1972, 1974 and 1984-85, for more strikes and industrial action than he can remember, for arrested and jailed anti-fascists in the UK and Germany, for Asian workers in struggle, for an anti-deportation campaign, for solidarity support for German anti-fascists in 1990 and 1996 and most recently for Russian anti-fascists and striking miners in Spain. The total sums of money involved have been considerable and always scrupulously accountable.

 

During the miners’ strike of 1984-85, he moved sums of money to help striking miners to continue mass picketing and to feed their families. This was illegal because at the time Mrs Thatcher’s government had sequestrated the funds of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). In addition to being trusted to do that, he was also designated by the North Derbyshire NUM with the responsibility of organising the collection and delivery of funds, food and clothing for miners and their families across a region of northern England.

 

At no time has anyone ever, whatever their political differences with him, questioned his honesty, integrity or commitment to the cause.