International Workers Aid fights on for Bosnia
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INTERNATIONAL Workers Aid held a successful international meeting in Brescia, Northern Italy on the weekend of June 24 and 25, attended by 40 delegates from the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Spain and Italy.
The first day was also attended by a representative of the Union of Autonomous Unions of Croatia.
A public IWA meeting at the festival of the Brescia region of the Party of Communist Refoundation attracted 100 people.
Reports were given on the current political/military situation and the success of the programme to provide bread to the people of Tuzla.
IWA have now sent seven convoys to Tuzia for the bread programme and 7,000 people have directly benefitted from this, receiving flour and oil via the miners union - which receives and delivers all the and we take into Tuzla.
Until the election in Bosnia in November the conference decided IWA will have two main priorities; continuing the bread programme, and building an international political camSocialist paign in support of the non-nationalistic points of view in the Bosnian October elections.
IWA will support the international conference in Tuzla on October 12-14 1994 which has been initiated by the Verona Forum, the Forum of Tuzla Citizens, and Circle 99 (which organises a charter for a multi-ethnic Bosnia).
Another all European IWA convoy to Tuzla just before the. international conference will be initiated in order to underline our support for a multi-ethnic society and to stress that our Activists at Brescia conference agreed to organise youth and women's aid convoys to besieged Tuzla in the Autumn support for the is Bosnian people is not only political but material.
Linked to this will be two other initiatives: a women's convoy - crewed by women with goods for women and delivered to women's organisations - and a youth convoy which will deliver aid to Tuzla university.
There will be a common political campaign until November centred around the Bosnian trade unions and anti-nationalistic groups in ex-Yugoslavia. • Thirty activists from eight local British IWA groups met in Birmingham on July 2 to discuss the development of the campaign.
As well a electing a new steering committee the meeting took a report from the international meeting in Brescia.
It was decided to continue supporting the rolling convoys and the bread programme and to support the international convoy targeted for mid-October.
The meeting decided to strengthen the campaign in Britain through the publication of a regular bulletin.