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• AUSTRALIA$2.00 • BELGIUM BF60 • CANADA$2.00 • FRANCE FF10 • ICELAND Kr150 • NEW ZEALAND $2.50 • SWEDEN Kr10 • UK £1 .00 • U.S. $1.50 INSIDE Fighter against cop brutality framed up in Canada THE -PAGE4 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 56/NO. 24 JUNE 19, 1992 SWPfights for ballot Stop U.S. moves to war access in 25 in Haiti and Yugoslavia states BY FRANK FORREST AL BY FRANK FORREST AL "My campaign is completely opposed to From now until the November elections, Washington's plans to use its military might supporters of the L992 Socialist Workers in Haiti under the guise of an international Party presidential ticket of James Warren peacekeeping force," said Socialist Workers ..,. •l presidential candidate James Warren in an ! and Estelle DeBates will be campaigning .~ across the country to present the socialist interview in New York. 'The announcement alternative to the increasingly reactionary June 5 by administration officials that they course of the twin parties of big business­ are planning such action should be a warn­ the Democrats and the Republicans. The ing signal to step up our efforts to organize ticket is also campaigning against the so­ meetings, pickets, and demonstrations to called "independent" billionaire H. Ross demand: No to U.S. Intervention! Open the Perot. Borders to Haitian Refugees!" The SWP campaign is the only socialist Warren said Haiti's president in exile. voice in the 1992 elections and the only Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was over­ election campaign giving working-class an­ thrown in a bloody military coup in Septem­ swers to the real questions underl ying cap­ ber 1991, should be allowed to return to his italist politics today. country. Aristide was elected in 1990, re­ Collecting enough signatures to place the ceiving 67 percent of the vote. GUARD socialist candidates on the ballot is a central "We stand shoulder to shoulder with our part of the political work and activity of the Haitian brothers and sisters in their fight to ' G r campaign. Unlike the candidates of the rid themselves of the bloody military re­ ( . r Democratic and Republican parties, the so­ gime," said Warren. "In recent weeks dem­ cialists are denied equal access to the ballot. onstrations, strikes, and other forms of re­ They must submit to a maze of rules, regu­ sistance by students and working people are lations, and procedures - all designed by making their stamp on political life in Haiti. the ruling parties to block challenges, These developments are new and should be followed closely by working people." mostly from the working class, to their un­ Teun Voeten/Impact Visuals contested predominance. Turning to Yugoslavia. the socialist can­ U.S. Coast Guard ship at Port-au-Prince, Haiti. US. government has forcibly returned The SWP campaign is petitioning to get on didate said the United States, after orches­ 37,000 Haitian refugees since October the ballot in 25 states. The party is currently trating United Nations sanctions against Serbia, is now threatening to intervene mil­ petitioning in Ohio, Michigan, and Ulinois. itarily in Yugoslavia. As with Haiti, he Belgrade on May 31, the largest antiwar sponsible for the slaughter of thousands of Soon the party will be campaigning to get on noted, the planned intervention is under UN protest since the disintegration of Yugosla­ working people," said Warren. "The huge the ballot in New York and Massachusetts. cover. via, "is a major world event pointing the size of the march in Belgrade is an indica­ The heart of petitioning is organized by "Other imperialist interventions -last way forward," said Warren. "There also, we tion that there is deep opposition on all sides local supporters of the campaign. The party year's U.S.-Ied war against Iraq, and earlier stand with working people fighting to end by working people to the war." is also fielding a national petitioning team the Korean War- were also organized with the war. Warren demanded that Washington send made up mostly of foot-loose young people. UN cover," warned the socialist. ''Workers and farmers in Yugoslavia will emergency aid to the people of Sarajevo. An eight-person full -time team of volun­ "Working people everywhere should op­ keep pressing their way into politics. The According to recent news accounts, Serb­ teers is helping to lead the petitioning effort pose the Washington-led sanctions and steps biggest obstacle in their path is the craven ian military forces continue to attack the in Illinois. Petitioners have collected more towards military intervention in Yugoslavia. and reactionary bureaucratic layers who city. Thirty people were reported killed on than 12,000 signatures toward their goal of The dangers of imperialist wars in this part have fanned the flames of ancient ethnic June 7. At least 6,000 people have been 30,000. They plan to finish by June 20. of the world will grow, not recede, in the divisions and have cut them off from poli­ killed already in the conflict in Bosnia. Socialist campaigners in Michigan coming months and years," added Warren. tics. These corrupt layers - whether they "The senseless killing should be opposed launched their petitioning effort in early The march of 50,000 working people in are Serb, Croatian, or Muslim - are re- Continued on Page 9 June. Like the socialist campaign in Illinois, their goal is to sign up 30,000 by the filing deadline of mid-July. Party presidential candidates have not Japan moves to allow troop use abroad been on the ballot in Illinois or Michigan since the 1984 election. BY DEREK BRACEY and put the bill on the floor of the house. In Florida SWP campaign supporters The Japanese government has taken a Representatives from the Socialist Party, successfully wrapped up their petitioning decisive step toward being able to use mil­ which is the largest opposition party and drive June 6. During this six-week effort itary force beyond the nation's borders. opposes the bill charged toward Shimojo 's Continued on Page 8 The parliament is debating a bill that desk to try to prevent him from closing the would allow Japanese troops to participate debate. They were blocked by uniformed in "peacekeeping" operations with the sergeants and the bill passed the committee. United Nations. Opposition parties ac­ The Liberal Democrats have been press­ BRITAIN cepted the bill promoted by the ruling Lib­ ing for more than a year to lift the constitu­ You are invited to the eral Democratic Party (LOP) with a tional ban on Japanese troop deployments proviso that would place restrictions on the abroad. Their efforts to do this were quick­ Communist League government's ability to send troops abroad ened by the U.S.-led war against Iraq. Jap­ in the immediate future. anese rulers proposed sending forces to Jmq, and The parliamentary agreement calls for a but widespread opposition from the Japan­ Young Socialists freeze on deploying armed troops into war ese people made them hesitate. zones for an unspecified period. To rescind The most they managed was to send a fusion convention the freeze would require a further act of squadron of minesweepers to the gulf fol­ parliament. lowing the war's end. One example of Tokyo's attempts to ex­ The LOP attempt to modify the constitu­ Sheffield pand its influence around the world is re­ tion imposed on Tokyo by Washington after (location to be announced) flected by the fact that the head of the United World War II, has been a major debate for Nations operation in Cambodia is from many months. Saturday, June 27 Japan. The parliamentary deal, however, es­ Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, a leader in the LOP, Sunday, June 28 sentially guarantees that Japanese troops acknowledged that strong popular opposi­ will not be part of that mission. tion was the major challenge before the LOP in making the changes. "The Cold War is For more information: 742-73-8887 The bill has passed the lower house and the Liberal Democrats are now pressing for a vote over, and we need to begin to think about Japanese parachute brigade on training Direct flights from North America to in the upper house, where they are a minority. playing a different role in the future," he maneuvers. Japanese government is mov­ Manchester (close to Sheffield) are A scuffle broke out June 5 in a key parliamen­ said. "But we have to do it in a way that ing toward being able to send troops available. tary committee as the panel chairman, allows Japanese public opinion to mature." abroad for the first time since \\\>rid W..r Shinichiro Shimojo, moved to end the debate Continued on Page 3 D. How Israel developed its nuclear weapons-Page 11 INBRIEf __________________________ Students march in South Korea in Gaza exceeds 30 percent. The order was About 50,000 students converged on issued after an Israeli teenager was stabbed Seoul, South Korea's capital, the last week­ to death in a Tel Aviv suburb May 24, end of May to commemorate the sixth an­ allegedly by a young Palestinian. Israeli niversary of the dissident student movement mobs took to the streets smashing cars with Chondaehop. The movement was born out Arab license plates and shouting "Death to of a wave of student protests in 1986 that the Arabs!" following the killing. challenged the U.S.-backed dictatorial re­ gime of Chun Doo Hwan. 0 & Y bankrupt in Britain Nearly 30,000 students from 180 South Olympia & York, the world's largest real Korean universities marched from an eastern estate development company, was forced by Seoul campus to the center of the city May its creditors to file for bankruptcy in London 31, breaking through police cordons in the May 27, putting its $7-billion lavish but largest antigovernment demonstration this unfinished Canary Wharf office tower com­ year.

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