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I include a donation of £... NAME.... ADDRESS WORKERS ID Send to Socialist Outlook PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU Printed by Trident Press, Edenbridge. Published by Idolrare Ltd, PO Box 1109 London N4 2UU. Copyright 1993. HUGE support is building up for the Workers Aid convoy to Bosnia. Not only has support been flooding in from Britain, but workers from as far away as Argentina, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden and the United States have signalled their support and begun collecting money and other material aid.
The convoy set off from the Timex plant in Dundee on 9 August with full support from the strikers. It has travelled from Dundee, through Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Leeds collecting thousands of pounds en route.
Workers from the threatened Swan Hunter shipyard donated £1,000 trainers to the convoy and Muslim organisations in Newcastle donated £2,000 worth of dried milk. On Saturday 14 August £3,000 worth of goods were donated to the convoy at the Islamic Cultural festival in collected at a U2 concert and campaign the opportunity to have a Bosnian speaker at The convoy will arrive at the TUC Conference on Sept 6. It then sets off for one one to dost On its way it will stop at food and aid collected by the various lecal The convoy is to take and solidarity to the large around Tuzla. Tuzla is a multi-ethnic town where miners freely donated a day's pay each month to striking miners during the '84-85 strike despite being impoverished themselves.
The message of the convoy, at a time where the ruling class all over Europe increasingly turns people against each other in classic divide and rule tactics is simple: it is for international workers solidarity and against this barbarism and denial of humanity.
The RMT in Dover have managed to negotiate free travel from Sealink for the convoy across the channel. In Liverpool and Leicester the T&G have managed to get free diesel fuel for the convoy.
Workers Aid groups are also being set up internationally - throughout Europe and in the United States. The campaign wants to build the biggest possible support for the convoy as it arrives at the TUC It is crucial is to try to get more trucks onto the convoy. supported by as many trade union, Labour Party and community organisations as possible.