FOLLOWING the shelling of Tuzla by Bosnian Serb forces, International Workers' Aid received several faxes from contacts in Tuzla. We print an eye-witness account from a wester aid worker.
IWA also received copies of faxes sent by Tuzla's mayor, Selim Beslagic, to the UN Security Council. After describing the massacre, he wrote "Tonight parents of Tuzla tillery positions on the hills were collecting parts of their around Tuzla. You must bomb children's bodies on the all the heavy weapons posistreets of Tuzla.... there is no tions of Bosnian Serb fascists dilemma any more - the UN's in Bosnia. inaction participated in this "Ifyou do not, there will be crime. no difference between you and "If after this terrible crime the killers of our children you again stay silent; if after here." this you do not act using force Although we share Mayor as the only legal way left to Beslagic's contempt for the protect innocent people from UN Security Council, we opKaradzic Serbs' crimes, then pose any attacks by NATO or without any doubt you were the UN in ex-Yugoslavia. and stay on the side of evil, Any such attacks would darkness and fascism... enable the Serbian forces to "There is only one possible portray themselves as victims action. You must bomb the ar- of imperialist aggression, they would encourage war-mania project of Greater Serbia. and chauvinist racism in our Their so-called 'peace own countries, and they plans' have all been designed would be designed to impose to formalise this project. Any one or other of the west's armed intervention which 'peace plans' (ie carve-ups) in they carry out now is not in defence of the people of BosEvery intervention which nia, but merely to protect their has led to a worsening of the own troops and to save face. situation for the people of The imperialist governBosnia, as well as for the ments, alongside Russia, beforces of opposition within lieve that they have the right Serbia itself. to carve up the world and its The governments which peoples. They are the primary control NATO and the UN al- allies of the forces of ethnic ways supported the division cleansing and the division of of Bosnia along ethnic lines. They legitimised the racist Socialists and opponents of imperialism must oppose the imperialist intervention, and argue that the international community' can play no progressive role in Bosnia or anywhere else in the world. We call for their immediate withdrawal from the Balkans.
We also demand an end to the arms embargo, to enable the people of Bosnia to defend themselves, their families and communities, against the murderous policies of ethnic cleansing and genocide being carried out by the forces of Greater Serbia.
WHEN Tony Blair was crusading for the abandonment of Clause Four, he described the votes in his support as votes 'for change'. more easily than that of his modified Thatcherism." own Party's members: But by discarding any no-"...One of Mr Blair's most tion of socialism or the tradiattractive characteristics is his tional Keynesian economics willingness to recognise which have informed most where his opponents were post-war Labour policies and right and his own side embracing Tory market ideolSOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 85 June 10 1995, Page 3