WHILE imperialism has given the green light to the reactionary regimes in Serbia and Croatia to carve up Bosnia the international workers' movement is - at long last - beginning to oppose this crime.
The national conference of the 270,000 strong Graphical, Paper and Media Union (GPMU) has agreed to support the aid convoy organised by Workers' Aid for Bosnia.
Further support has been given by the Timex strikers. The convoy will now depart from Dundee on August 9 atter a mass picket of the Timex plant. The decision to link support for their own fight shows a remartable level of internationalist consciousness amongst the Timex workers.
Bosnian miner Almir Baralic was given a tremendous reception when he spoke at the end of the recent People's March for Jobs in the North West. His emotional account of how the Bosnian miners endured hardship in order to support British miners in their 1985 strike has encouraged activists to get support for the convoy throughout the North West.
Other Bosnians living in Britain - Including Indiana Harper of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Information Centre -are actively involved in the London busworkers at Leaside garages have added their support - some of them willing to drive to ex-YugoslaBarking & Dagenham, Bexley. Bury & Radcliffe and Leicester Trades Councils are also helping build the convoy. come from the Belgian Metal. workers Union, the persecuted Turkish daily paper Aydinük and the Belgian and Swedish sections of the Fourth International. Bus workers in Athens have been asked to help.
Well known writers on ex-Yugoslavia Branka Magas and Catherine Samary are giving their backing.
It is only a few weeks since the idea of the convoy was first put forward. The support so far shows it is possible for the workers' movement to put forward an alternative to the policies of the EC governments.
We need to build on this initial support to ensure the convoy is a huge success Socialist Outlook calls on all its supporters to raise this vital issue in their union branch, Labour Party. women's group, workplace or wherever they can to ensure that the people of Bosnia are not abandoned to the cynical destruction of their country sanctioned by Major, Clinton and co. Further details from Workers Aid for Bosnia, 081 964 9799.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 46, July 10 1993. Page 3