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Socialist Outlook no. 61, April 30 1994 · 235 words

Balkans

071 226 5436 LOBBY of Parliament against deregulation 2.30pm - lege, Bristol Rd. March to Union Club. Speakers: Lynne Jones MP, Clir Theresa Stewart, ANGOLA Emergency Campaign Lobby of Parliamitted indefensible atrocities A military bloc with the Bosnian government if necessary is no problem - what is important is political independence from it.

Rather than making ultimatist demands we are for developing a practical orientation which brings out the class dynamic in every question, particularly the national question. This is the only method capable of realising our long-term objectives.

Wooden

Here Militant's wooden, abstract approach is exposed. To the Bosnian second army, largely recruited from miners and heroically defending Tuzla, Murray Smith counterposes an idealised norm of a multi-ethnic militia existing only in his head.

It was correct to call for Tuzla airport to be opened. It was kept shut tor political reasons as part of imperialism's 'aid on a drip feed' strategy. We do not make this demand in isolation.

It is in the context of a campaign exposing imperialism's entire intervention: its role in Bosnia's partition, the starving out of the cities, the shooting down of Serb aircraft, its threats of airstrikes and the sanctions against Serbia.

The demand isn't isolated from our defence of Bosnia, nor our class perspective of a Balkan Socialist federation.

Nick Davies, Swansea. Saturday 11 FIGHT for Full Employment! Socialist Campaign Group THE OPENING paragraph of

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