Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 73, 18 February 1982 · scan pp. 3–4 · about 629 words

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Is Gang By Patrick Spilling The good thing about capitalism is that we can all win.

Granted socialism makes everybody equal-but all equally poor. You are not allowed to be more clever than anyone, or taller than anyone or laugh or anything like that. And you have your children taken away from you and they have to turn you over to the secret police to prove themselves. We don't want that kind of society, and its thanks to capitalism that we don't have it.

Under capitalism those who are most talented and work hardest get ahead. It's nature's own law. People like Freddie Laker and De Lorean. They have the flair and the vision that socialism snuffs out.

And if they are unlucky enough to go bust because of some bizarre freak circumstances, then there's someone like Tiny Rowlands to step in and help. That's just like capitalists-always And remember that it's newspapers that bring you all this good news. That's another thing about capitalism- the great and rich variety of the press.

if this was Russia of course all the press would look the same. But with a free press we have all the Pres range from the Sun to the Times. (Well, from the Sun to the Daily Telegraph, anyway).

And now, not content with this, the press brings all its readers a chance to win. £70,000. That's what you could win. Think what you could buy with that. A house? A car? The Daily Mail has been offering this to you for weeks.

Of course other_papers offer you Bingo. But we know that our readers are above that kind of working class activity.

That is why we at the Daily Mail decided to bring the sophistication of a Monte Carlo casino right into your home.

Every night we spin the wheel in Monte Carlo and every day you have the fun whether you £35,000 in our Casino game. have won [/0,000 This worked fine for a few weeks but then we found a snag. Although lots of our readers like playing bingo, (sorry, Casino), not all that many of them were actually winning. To be perfectly honest, a large majority were never winning at all So we thought well why can't everybody win? And that's why you dear reader are one of the tens of thousands of people who have won a share of our £70,000 all ine WUII a 5114a Jang prize this week. We decided that by printing • identical bingo, sorry Casino, cards, and by drawing all the right numbers, all our readers could share in this good luck!

And any of you who claim, sending a first class stamped addressed envelope by first thing tomorrow morning will receive your share of the prize money.* Of course like anyone who tries something new we into some carping have run critics. The thousands of enthusiastic Daily Mail readers who travelled to London to congratulate the paper have been seized on in some quarters to try to attack our success. It was purely an oversight that only the nightwatchman was in the building and if he had been quicker at locking the doors he would not have been so badly injured. Basically the crowd just wanted to congratulate him but became over excited.

Naturally, some, who had not properly studied the rules, were disappointed not to get £70,000 each. But out lawyers have pointed out that we acted perfectly fairly. This breakthrough could not have happened under socialism. Let the other jackal Fleet Street papers

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