THE SIXTH meeting of International Workers Aid. held in Stockholm last weekend and attended by 40 delegates representing campaigns in 11 countries, reviewed the progress of the campaign so far and decided ambitious new plans.
Reports confirmed that the programme of providing bread to the Tuzla area remains the basic solidarity initiative of IWA.
IWA has won a prestigious silver diploma from the Tuzla municipality for the work of the bread programme in supporting the miners.
Reports from the IWA office in Tuzla described the conditions faced by the miners and the rest of the population. Although there is more food in the shops no one has money to buy it.
A Tuzla miner's pay is just £1 a month; thus international aid is absolutely vital.
IWA activists reported
standing for two hours outside a food shop, without a single person going in.
IWA has now sent 14 convoys to Tuzla and 7,000 miners and their families continue to receive IWA aid through the Kreka miners union.
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