951-8657 Published by Socialist Outlook PO Box 1109 London N4 2UU. All rights reserved. Printed by Eastway Offset (TU all depts) read Don't miss an issue: SUBSCRIBE now! subscribers 12 issues for just £20. PLUS one year of International Viewpoint (Fourth International magazine) for only f30. PLEASE send me • 12 issues of Socialist Outlook Viewpoint. I enclose £... Name Address Phone SEND TO: Soclalist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU Outlook 20 pages of internationalist news, views and marxist analysis each month. 12 issues delivered for just €10. OVERSEAS SPECIAL OFFER (UK only): One year of Socialist Outlook, • 12 issues of Socialist Outlook plus International Post Code _Age enticing the Russians into a tains of the South.
In fact, this is the scenario avoid, with its echoes of their a castrous and for them humiliating defeat by he Chechens in 1994.96.
"Putin's War" been dubbed by the Russian press, was supposed lanty of the new tough on terrorists* president at At the same time, it was to rehabilitate Russia's standing in the outside world as a still powerful milito maintain the unity of the Federation and to police its This after the West's expansion of NATO to satellites of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic and Is War apainst Turosavio duning which Russia was If Russia loses control of Chechnya, it also loses con. vitally important cil pipeline A lone survicor walls the shattered streets of Groany from the Caspian. Here arain, the UsA has been planning to cut Russia out by proposing a new pipeline to so instead throup Turkey.
At the start of the war, sioned with the present Grozy regime and dreading resigning themseives to Russian occupation. Now the brutality of the invaders has tumed the majority against them, and more and more are once again joining the guerrillas.
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In Russia, protest against this present war has previously been small. Now, the emerged, including such groups as the Soldiers' , who are currently claiming a death toll of over 5,000 another 6,000 wounded.
(In the 1994.96 war Russian women organised and linked up with Chechen sons and call for an end to the conflict). also begun to criticise the growing casualties and military, and politicians such as Yavlinst and Zyuganov Internationally, London, Warsaw, Madrid, Paris and Beirut have all see protests against the war, and opposi-