do Bosnia Statement from Tuzla WE ARE WARMLY grateful for the aid you have given. We are very sorry that the complete convoy has not been successful in crossing the northern corridor from Zupanja and just some of the trade unionists' representatives from Britain, Belgium and Sweden reached Tuzla. We are especially grateful to the autonomous trade union from Sweden.
Jenny Mees from Belgium, Tim Wise from London, Terry Moore and Mohammamod Abdolmohadaler from Sweden, and Mick Woods from Great Britain are heroes in that they succeeded in their aim despite a disastrous blockade. Because of that for seven and a half months nothing has WORKERS been delivered to Tuzla.
We have heard with fear the news and problems of putting into practise the idea that all the miners in Europe help miners and electricity workers in Tuzla. As the information about your humanitarian mission has been arriving our fears have been turning into great pride that we belong to that big family - the family of European workers and European trades unionists.
Blockade
We hope that during your stay in Tuzla, seeing our mines, our power station and our struggle that you realise that our life under blockade is extremely hard. We expect disastrous consequences this winter - freezing and starvation.
We hope that on your return home you will tell the truth about our situation and build the demonstrations on inle 11 December which are calling for the Tuzla airport to be opened or any corridor for getting through food and fuel. If any of this cannot be done the forecast is bleak.
We, the miners and other workers in the energy industry, are doing super-human work to get some light and heat in the houses of hundreds of thousands of people in the Tuzia district. We are helpless without food, medicines, clothes, shoes and the means to produce. We believe in you, your strength, to succeed together and help us survive.
Thank you for everything you have done and want to do in the future. We will never forget it. and we look forward to the next meeting and we wish you every luck and success.
With all best wishes to wiGood Luck! 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 crisis, its requirement to maximise 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 fuelled and encouraged the offensive against jobs, wages, conditions and union rights.
New realism is the latest form taken by the politics of reformism, seeking no more than improved conditions within the framework of capitalist rule. 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 various struggles of workers, the unemployed, of women, of pensioners, of the black communities and ethnic minorities, of lesbians and gay men, of students, of youth - and of 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 often this degenerates into sectarian posturing and abstention from the actual struggle taking shape within the labour movement, playing into the hands of the right wing.
Nor do we believe that the demands of women, black people, lesbians and gays or the national demands of people in Scotland and Wales should be left to await the outcome of a socialist revolution. The oppressed must organise themselves and fight now around their own demands, which are a part of the struggle for socialism.
But propaganda alone, however good, will not bring social-