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Monday, February 14, 2011

War on Want:

60 years on, still fighting poverty and militarism


Biafra taught me the importance of fighting injustice's causes – not just its symptoms. I feel the same about Afghanistan now

An elderly Afghan refugee from Kabul with his grandson in a refugee camp near Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 2001. Photograph: David Longstreath/AP

12 February 2011 - History sometimes circles around. Sixty years ago today the Guardian published a letter from Victor Gollancz calling for an end to a world of "poverty and militarism". From that letter grew the charity War on Want. Now that same organisation writes in the same spirit, calling for the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan. I hope it will be as effective as its predecessor.

I have had a long association with War on Want. The late Donald Chesworth, a London Labour man to his radical roots, was responsible for getting me actively involved, years ago. We were both working on various projects in Notting Hill, where I was a curate in a local parish. He was doing his best to heal a community shattered by the race riots of the early 1960s and was on the board of War on Want.

The stars of the day in War on Want were people like Canon Austen Williams of St Martins-in-the-Fields, Dr David Kerr, a south London GP, and Michael Barnes MP. The powerful, inspirational, but dominating administrator at the centre of it all was Frank Harcourt-Munning. To do him justice, Frank did much imaginative work and even saved War on Want in 1954, when the new organisation was on the edge of financial collapse. It has been on that edge many times since.

In 1969 I had seen in person the deaths of many innocent victims of the starvation embargo imposed on Biafra during the Nigerian civil war. As a result I became convinced that to deal with symptoms of injustice and not with its causes is to short-change the poor of this world. That is why I have stuck with War on Want. It has always made causes not symptoms its priority. {continued}

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