SLOV MONT branch of the Alliance of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia - a coalition of parties and member from Croatia, sonal regime has completely revealed its real intentions in regard to the future of Yugoslavia.
We are witnessing the final act of the destruction of Yugoslavia, which has been pursued over the last few years in accordance with a clear plan: to force Slovenia to leave Yugoslavia; to cause chaos within, and the territorial disintegration of, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovinia; to transform Macedonia into the southern province of Serbia; provoke military intervention in the name of defending Yugoslavia - understood as Serb property; to prevent all reforms and stop all economic and social changes which could bring Milosevic's personal regime into question.
'By their refusal to accept the constitutionally prescribed procedure for electVojvodina HERCEGOVINA Belgrade YUGOSL A Sarajevo MONTENBGRO.
Titograd LA KOSONO ALBANIA MAC ing the president, the representatives of so-called 'unified' Serbia, acting as Milosevic's nersonal representatives. have shown that they do not recognise the equality and sovereignty of the other republics, or accept the basic rules of democratic procedure. shown, in other words, that they no longer recognise Yugoslavia.' Military Coup?
Mesic's election would have increased the chances of a new inter-Yugoslav settlement, based on a respect for internal borders and republican sovereignty. Rather than accept a situation in which the federal institutions would bestow egitimacy on his opponents, Milosevic chose to destroy them. At the same time as blocking the election of Mesic, Serbia (via its satellite Vojvodina) tabled its intention to seek a vote of confidence in the Markovic's government.
It Markovicwereto fall, a state of anarMiniSter chy would follow. Since the federal institutions are located in Belgrade, which is also Serbia's capital, the latter would be in a position to take over the federal reserves and machinery. In this way Milosevic would finance its war on Yugoslavia.
Serbia's destruction of the presidency has left the army without its legal commander-in-chief. Markovicand the army have both, in fact, come out in favour of Mesic becoming president.
However, as this now looks unlikely, it is possible that the army would support a move in the federal assembly to ransfer the powers of the collapsed presidency to Markovic. This would amount to a coup d'etat, and de facto military rule. It would solve nothing and should be resisted. However, the unfolding economic catastrophe is forcing the hand of all actors on the Yugoslav stage. The end of the Yugoslav drama is in sight. It looks unlikely to be a pretty spectacle. Includino vorodina and Kosovo the Szczecin area. independent sentation.
Solidarity
majority ' Skopje MACEDONIA the nomenklatura.
GREECE tending to century-style capitalism.
They have investors. 1) Unconditional defence of the vorkers' livina standards 2) The right to work mass sackings. money-printing • An ambitious pro works - particularly frastructure. 3) Defend social services education and housing. • An immediate rent freeze. 4) Reject the Balcerowicz Plan Rejection privațisation of factories. foreign trade. sion of Solidarity '80 in the Warsaw ESO car plant, a traditional bastion of workers' militancy. Solidarity '80 is a breakaway from Walesa's Solidarity (some would say the political continuation of the Solidarity of 1980). It has 250,000 members (to Solidarity's 2.5 million) and is strong in We must have our own interfactory, workers' repreThe elections are drawing nearer and will be different from those in 1989. Then voted by an overwhelming for the Solidarity side of the health care. Round-Table Agreement. The elections were like a plebiscite, in which the majority voted unambiguously against the Communist Party(CP) - to be rid of However, it became clear that the Solidarity side of the Agreement was inco-operate with the still exist. nomenklatura. From the Balcerowicz Plan, it was clear that the new order meant a swift transition to nineteenth This is the aim of both the former op position elite and the nomenklatura, who are trying to transform themselves into a schools. new class of businessmen. Those who are benefitting are the new political elite, the new class of private owners and foreign Those who are losing out are the ve are people the cost of inflation, Hearing the cost of inflation, unemployment, cuts in social services tors. a real assessment of workers' needs • Automatic indexation of wages anc • Abolition of the 'payroll tax'.
• End the closure of workplaces and work.
• For a sliding scale of working hours - if output is reduced, working hours will be cut equally without loss of earnings.
housing and ineducation.
• Priority for investment in health, 'marketiatient of the economy dad the • Restoration of government controlof • Repudiation of the foreign debt. schools. and losing our jobs.
They, on the other hand, have cause to be pleased with themselves.
They have unlimited potential to enrich themselves at our cost, from our work, and can use private schools and It seems that there is no longer room in the political system for the democracy that we voted for two years ago. It seems that the transition to capitalism has so many problems that it cannot accept democracy. Trade union rights still have to be restricted and the political police Workers councils are being closed down. We are still defenceless against the lawless state apparatus. Undemocratic laws are being introduced with the goal of clericalisation - banning abortion, blocking divorce, imposing religion in It is time to protest. Time to say loudly that this is not why we overthrew the nomenklatura, to substitute for it a dic tatorship of money, of the rich, of speculators and the same party parasites who are now métamorphosing into direc 5) plan for connie development Workers' control in the factories, ised by elected delega • A national economic plan to be elaborated by theself-management coun 6) Defend Women's Rights • Stop the exclusion of women from feminised professions. creches and nurseries.
• Freedom of choice - free access t contraception, abortion and universal se 7) Fully democratic political life • Freedom to establish political parties, without state interference, apart from openly fascist ones.
Restoration of trade union rigt d the right to strike, includi, solidarity action.
• Halt clericalisation of public life -separation of church from state. Inde pendence of all state institutions from the church. End religious education in Translation by David Holland. No. 3 June 8, 1991 Page 9
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• Equal pay for women. Wage rises in i ridprofes investment in free.