The United States and the European Community are pushing hard for the Bosnian government to accept the 'peace plan, albeit with a few amendments giving the rump of Bosnia access to a sea port.
The plan would split the territory of Bosnia into three on ethnic lines, and give the rump Bosnian state only 30 per cent of its former territory.
The Bosnian resistance should reject this plan. It would mean the death of multi-ethnic Bosnia and set the seal of approval on 'ethThe Bosnian republic of Yugoslavia was multi-ethnic, a republic in which Muslims, Croats and Serbs lived together. When Bosnia was invaded, many Serbs and Croats fought together with Muslims in the resistance.
The ethnic map of Bosnia before the Serbian invasion was so mixed that the only Karadzic way to create three ethnic ardas was wy eunic cicansing:
If Serb leader Karadzic gets his way, the same thing will happen to Bosnian capital Sarajevo; dividing the city means a population movement to create an 'ethnically pure Serbian area.
The rump Bosnia envis. aged by the peace plan will be, like the rump Palestinlan 'autonomous' area, a Bantustan - a tiny statelet dominated by its neighbours. Hundreds of thousands of people will not be able to go back to their homes and remain refugees.
The peace plan shows the cynicism of the United Nations and imperialism. The aggressors, the prison camp guards, the torturers and murders are to be rewarded with the fruits of victory. Multi-ethnic Bosnia is to be sacrificed at the alter of imperialist realpolitik. Facing mass unemployment, rampant employers equipped with savage anti-union laws, and a war on hard-won education, health and welfare services, the working class in Britain faces a real crisis -an avoidable crisis created by the historic failure of its official leadership.
Socialist Outlook exists to fight for a new type of working class leadership, based on the politics of class struggle and revolutionary socialism, to tackle this crisis.
The capitalist class, driven and politically united by its own mise profits at the expense of the workers, has been given determined, vanguard leadership by a brutal class-war Tory high command.
The Tory strategy has been to shackle the unions with legislation, and to fragment and weaken the resistance of the working class and oppressed, allowing them to pick off isolated sections one at a time, using the full powers of the state.
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 Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.
Our socialist alternative is not based on parliamentary elections or illusions of peaceful legislative change. We fight to mobilise and unleash the power of the working class - the overwhelming majority of society -to topple the corrupt and reactionary rule of capital and establish its own class rule.
We struggle against fragmentation by building solidarity. working to link and unite the varous struggies or workers, thie unemployed, , of women, of pensioners, of the black communities and ethnic minorities, of lesbians and gay men, of stucents. or vouth - and or those fighting imperialism in Ireland and throughout the world. Socialist Outlook is above all an internationalist current, in solidarity with the Trotskyist Fourth International, which organises co-thinkers in 40 countries world-wide.
Unlike some other groupings on the British left, we do not believe a mass revolutionary party can be built simply by proclaiming ourselves to be one. too oren sis cogenerates Inio sectarian posturing and abstention from the actual struggle taking shape within the labour movement, playing into the hands of the right wing.
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