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• AUSTRALIA $2.00 • BELGIUM BF60 • CANADA $2.00 • FRANCE FF1 0 • ICELAND Kr150 • NEW ZEALAND $2.50 • SWEDEN Kr12 • UK £1.00 • U.S. $1.50 TH£ A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 59/NO. 28 AUGUST 7, 1995 White House Bosnia war expands as hesitates on UN 'havens' collapse affirmative Imperialist powers prepare military intervention action attack BY MAURICE WILLIAMS BY GREG ROSENBERG The Clinton administration released a The warring gangs running the rival report July 18 that proposed only minor regimes in the former Yugoslavia have ex­ changes to federal affirmative action pro­ panded the Balkans war anew. With the grams. White House officials said they taking of Srebrenica, the misnamed were concerned that pushing too far in the United Nations "safe haven," rightist Serb government's probes against affirmative forces operating in Bosnia unleashed a action carried political risks they were re­ new wave of so-called ethnic cleansing, luctant to take, given widespread support expelling tens of thousands of residents of for such programs. the enclave while carrying out mass mur­ In a speech the following day,President der, imprisonment, and rape. Bill Clinton summarized his stance toward The chief imperialist powers - Wash- affirmative action with the slogan, "Mend it but don't end it." The White House report concluded that "the evidence shows that, on the whole, NEWS ANALYSIS the Federal programs are fair and do not unduly burden non-beneficiaries." In­ stead, it proposed cracking down on al" ington, Paris, London, and Bonn - are leged "fraud" in such programs. being drawn willy-nilly toward greater Officials reiterated the Clinton's oppo­ military intervention in the Balkans war. sition to the use of quotas to enforce affir­ The latest developments shattered the pre­ mative action. They said the president tense that the imperialist troop deploy­ would issue a directive requiring all fed­ ments in Bosnia, under UN cover, have eral agencies to eliminate or reform any anything to do with protecting civilian program that "creates a quota, creates a populations. The fiasco left the "allies" preference for unqualified individuals, blaming each other and scrambling for German troops disembark July 18 at NATO base in Italy in preparation for imperi­ alist Balkans military operation. Washington and its rivals are divided over Bosnia. creates reverse discrimination or contin­ plans enabling each to defend rival inter­ ues even after its equal oppOrtunity pur­ ests. A proposal· t() withdraw the UN poses have been achieved." troops is now being bandied about more month-old conflict, which has left hun­ involves introducing 60,000 new troops Major Republican politicians have also prominently. dreds of thousands dead and made mil­ - 25,000 of them U.S. Gls- to bail out backpedaled in their probes to attack affir­ The capitalist governments are at pains lions of working people into refugees. the UN soldiers. mative action. Newt Gingrich, Speaker of to avoid the -political consequences of The three main "options" for Washing­ Srebrenica was one of six so-called safe the House of Representatives, persuaded their national armies receiving large casu­ ton and other NATO members, as summa- - havens for mostly Muslim civilians within Senate Republican leader Bob Dole to put alties on the Balkan battlefields. But each rized by the New York Times, are "exit and the 70 percent of Bosnia that is controlled of the options they are now fractiously de­ arm," "stay and strengthen," or "storm and by Bosnian Serb rightist Radovan Continued on Page 12 bating will impel them deeper into the 39- conquer." The envisioned "exit" option Continued on Page 3 Defense of Cuba, Youth: 'I want to see socialist Cuba working-class resistance are firsthand at world solidarity festival' heart ofSWP BY LAURA GARZA trip a few days before the deadline On August 5 thousands of youth for applications and put down a de­ convention will gather in Havana for a rally posit the next day. "I believe that if against the U.S. embargo of Cuba. in Latin America we could free our­ BY PAUL MAILHOT Among those marching will be stu­ selves from the oppressive U.S. AND ARGIRIS MALAPANIS dents, workers, and other opponents government and authoritarian gov­ OBERLIN, Ohio-Leaving the 38th of U.S. policy who traveled from ernments like in Mexico, if we had Constitutional Convention of the Socialist the United States to join with youth a more socialist, fair, and just gov­ Workers Party here July 12, delegates and from around the world in standing ernment in Latin America, we guests headed back to their cities pressing with the people of Cuba to defend would be better off," Garcia said. "I ahead to build the broadest possible dele­ their sovereignty. The rally will in­ want to go to Cuba because I want gation from the United States to the Cuba clude all those gathered for the Au­ to see what it's like to live in a so­ Lives International Youth Festival, which gust 1-7 Cuba Lives International cialist society firsthand." will be held in Havana and other Cuban Youth Festival. Some I ,400 people As they learn more about the provinces August 1-7. Defense of the so­ from 65 countries had registered to Cuban revolution, participants in cialist revolution in Cuba was at the center attend by mid-July. the festival will also bring their ex­ qf the deliberations of the four~day con­ The number of people planning periences and struggles 'in the vention. to make the trip has shot up in the United States and other countries to Delegates discussed and adopted a reso­ last few weeks. The U.S. delegation workers and youth in Cuba. lution on the growing volatility of world to the festival will include some 130 Young people planning to make capitalism and the fighting stance commu­ people who applied to participate the trip to Cuba have been organiz­ nist workers must take to its disastrous ef­ through the Cuba Information Pro­ ing fund-raising raffles, setting up fects for working people. Entitled, "So Far ject, about a dozen organized by speaking engagements at campuses from God, So Close to Orange County," Global Exchange, more than 80 par­ for when they return, and making the document serves as a guide for practi­ ticipants in the Venceremos banners. cal political activity by party members and Brigade, and a group of 22 traveling The Washington, D.C., Hands supporters in the coming period. from Boston, including many high Off Cuba Coalition plans to raise Increasing sales of Pathfinder books school students. Across Canada money for those going to the festi­ and other communist literature is at the about 30 people had registered by val with proceeds from a dinner on center of the SWP's priorities coming out July 14 to attend the festival, includ­ July 26. The event will feature pre­ of the convention. Delegates disc1;1Ssed the ing youth and others from Montreal, sentations by Hugo Yedra, Cuba's indispensable place in advancing class consciousness among workers and youth Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver. consul in Washington; Adjoa Militant/Ben Fiering Rosemary Garcia, a student in Aiyetoro of the National Confer- Building youth festival at July 3 protest against Mu­ and the building of a proletarian party that Los Angeles, found out about the Continued on Page 5 mia Abu-Jamal death sentence in Philadelphia. Continued on Page 8 Why Washington, Tokyo clashed in World War II- pages 6-7 Mexico cops charged in killing pany's assembly-line workforce. Mit­ Ten Mexican cops were arrested July subishi plans to increase production 4 1 for the murder of at least 18 peasants percent to 1.4 million vehicles in the in Guerrero, one of Mexico's poorest year ending March 30, 1996. and most rebellious states. On June 28, Car sales dropped in Japan because the peasants were on their way to a of an economic slump and shift of car protest rally near Coyuca de Benitez manufacturing out of Japan as the yen when they were ambushed by some 100 has risen sharply against the dollar. cops. · Twelve more peasants were killed re­ Rightists hit Israei-PLO pact turning from a fishing trip July 5, appar­ Hundreds of right-wing Israeli set­ ently also by the police. tlers blocked roads in the West Bank Members of the Peasant Organization July 12 protesting plans for Israeli of the Southern Sierra stormed the main troop withdrawal under a tentative government building in Guerrero June agreement between Tel Aviv and the 29, chased away officials, and set it Palestine Liberation Organization. Is­ ablaze. They pledged to occupy the raeli and Palestinian officials set July building until the cops involved were 25 as the target date for signing a pact brought to justice. over a gradual withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from six West Bank towns and Oil workers strike in Ecuador other populated areas. Energy workers in Ecuador began an The Union of Rabbis for the Land of indefinite strike July 13 that could halt Israel issued a ruling July 12 calling electricity and petroleum production. for Israeli troops to refuse orders to The unions want a repeal of laws that leave the army bases in the West Bank, restrict the right of public workers to heightening fractures among right­ strike. wing forces. A spokesperson for the Union of "This is a political act that can de­ Petroleum Workers said administration . stroy the army," said Rabbi Yehuda buildings of the state petroleum and Amital, who heads a large religious school in the West Bank and opposes electricity companies was occupied by Marchers in Chilpancingo, Mexico, carry fake coffins to protest police killing of peasants.
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