THE FIRST conference of Workers Aid for Bosnia was held in London on Sunday 6 June and attended by approximately 50 people.
The main speaker, Indiana Harper from the Bosnia-Herzegovina Information Centre, said the British government was identified by Bosnians as the main supporter of the division of What the Bosnians need are arms to defend themselves, She comes from Tuzla and spoke of the solidarity shown by miners from the regon with the wow dunng the 190wos strike day's pay per month. drawal of UN troops. Tel: 071 252 5122 who despite desperate poverty, donated a The campaign aims to build solidarity with the struggle of the Bosnians and for material aid for Bosnian refugees in Britain and to campaign for the immediate lifting of the British backed UN arms embargo and the withThe launch conference of this campaign is a positive step in breaking the inaction of the eft and labour movement in solidarity with the Bosnian people. The campaign can be contacted at: PO Box 3104, London, S13 6BU using the full powers of the state. capitalism.
In response, most TUC and Labour leaders have embraced the defeatist politics of 'new realism", effectively proclaiming total surrender on every front, while ditching any pretence that they offer a socialist alternative. Every retreat and concession they have made to the employers and the government has simply fuelled and encouraged the offensive against jobs, wages, conditions and union New realism is the latest form taken by the politics of reformism, seeking no more than improved conditions within the framework of Socialist Outlook rejects reformism, not because we are against fighting for reforms, but because we know that the needs of the working class - for full employment, decent living standards, a clean environment, peace and democracy - can never be achieved under Nor. as we argued long before the collapse of Stalinism, could these demands ever be achleved under the bureaucratically de-