By Duncan Chapel THE EUROPEAN sections of International Workers' Aid are responding to the new military situation in For the first time in the war, Bosnian troops have the initiative. Serb troops have been pushed off Mount Vlasic, which overlooks the Bosnian town of Travnik.
The offensive reflects a new mood of hopefulness in the Bosnian population around Travnik, and a new policy from the Bosnian government of greater aloofness from the UN and foreign press.
Cease-fire
Elsewhere in Bosnia there is renewed despair at the breakdown in the erratic cease-fire which had filled the winter months.
Bosnian forces have been retrained and rearmed over the winter and now on almost equal terms with the Serb forces that have partitioned the country.
The UN, which wants to contain the war in the Balkans, aims to force a partition settlement which would be massively to the advantage of Serbia in order to stop the war.
International solidarity with the fight of Bosnia for self-determinaton 1s more pressing, and more difficult, than ever.
Last week marked the 1,000th day of the Sarajevo airlift, making it by far the biggest airlift in history. Ninety-five per cent of humanitarian aid to the besieged city comes by air.
Roads
But solidarity supplies of aid for other centres of multi-ethnic resistance such as Tuzla have to be transported by road.
Since November 1994 the major supplier of medicines and medical treatment to the three Bosnian enclaves has been refused permission to continue Serb forces have prevented all but one Medecins San Frontiers convoy to the enclaves of Gorazde, Srebrenica and Zepa from passing.
International Workers' Aid, an international labour movement campaign supported by Socialist Outlook and by sections of the Fourth International, is stepping up its solidarity work in the Bosnian industrial centre around Tuzla. People in the mining town are very aware that it is war-time again.
Ship
The IWA's ambitious 'Ship to Bosnia' project is getting substantial support. Ten tonnes of flour and other goods were collected in at Malmo, Sweden, and another 20 tonnes have been gathered by the growing Norwegian campaign.
Twelve tonnes of flour and eight tonnes of clothes have been sent to IWA's Croatia office by Dutch campaigners. new car and Mercedes truck are on the way.
A resolution of last month's meeting of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International has called for greater solidarity with the fight of the Bosnian people for the self-determination of their multi-ethnic state. For further details of the Ship to Bosnia, write to Arbetarkonvojen, Box 6507, S-11383 Stockholm, Sweden.