Aid continues to develop European wide. It has held seven international conferences in different parts of Europe and has now sent 20 convoys of aid through to Tuzla in central Bosnia.
All its aid has gone to the miners union in Tuzla which has distributed it to about 12,000 families. It has an international office in Stockholm and a logistics office in Macarska in Croatia.
Campaigns
It has active campaigns or initiatives in Denmark, Sweden (which has 50 local groups), France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland and a small initiative in Britain. Recent convoys have been women's convoys taking large quantities of women's packs to the women's organisations in Tuzla.
IWA has also built links with Women In Black and women in opposition to Milosevic in Belgrade. Some IWA sections are making solidarity with women. Visoko, on the road near Tuzla in ex-Yugoslavia the theme of their International Womens Day activities.
The aid convoys (there will be four during the spring) will continue as an expression of direct aid and international working class solidarity from the Labour movement on Western Europe to the trade unions in Bosnia. This work has built strong links between the unions and the many other community organisations involved.
Now IWA is taking an even •bolder initiative to meet a situation where the need is growing all the time - IWA is organising a ship to Bosnia - or more precisely a ship to Macarska with containers for transit through into Bosnia itself.
This initiative comes out of a visit to Tuzla on behalf of IWA by a delegation from the Swedish dock workers' union. It will be another practical way to defend a multi-ethnic Bosnia.
Trade unions
The venture is supported by a range of trade union leaders'" in ex-Yugoslavia including: Josip Radovanovic - president, shipbuilding unions in Split, Vedran Dragicevic - president, metalworking unions of Dalmatia, Damir Bacinovic - President, Rijeka shipyard workers, Branco Kuzet - president Rijeka metal workers, Avdagic Mohamid - president of the unions for agriculture, food, tobacco and water in Bosnia, Ismet Bairanovic - president. Croatian metalworkers, Hugic Salam -president, wood and paper workers in Sarajevo, Kojci Ferdija - president - textile, leather and footware unions Sarajevo, Fikret Suljic - president Tuzla metal workers.
The appeal is particularly directed to transport trade unions and port workers. The ship will leave from Stockholm and visit various European ports picking up containers and then go to Croatia. • Raise support for this project in your union - even more if your union covers transport or shipping. Further information can be obtained from: Arbetarkonvojen, Box 6507, S-11383 Stockholm, Sweden. tion contact group of Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the US are presenting yet another "peace plan" (their fifth) to Milosevic under conditions where most of the cards are in his hands and they are deeply split amongst themselves.
They are offering a three point deal: 49 per cent of Bosnia plus the lifting of UN sanctions in exchange for the recognition of Bosnia and Croatia. Whilst Russia is a party to the plan they have already announced that they are seeking closer ties with Serbia and plan to supply the country with natural gas.
Overall Western aims remain the same - to force a settlement which would be massively to the advantage of Serbia.
But their means of delivering it are long gone, and the day of air strikes and NATO threats will not return short of a widening of the war beyond ex-Yugoslavia.
The Serbs want 100 per cent of their demands and will not settle for 95 per cent and Bosnia still cannot bludgeoned into surrender.
The prospect therefore is a renewed war in which the Bosnian army will fight to regain parts of the occupied territories and the Serbs battle on to force them into capitulation.
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