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Reports on some of the campaigns our readers are
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Zimbabwe
It is five years since Zimbabwe began its IMF/WB funded
Internationa
Economic Structural
Adjustment Programme.
Workers Aid
"Originally, the programme was meant to last only five years,
Rebuilding Bosnia's trade with the promise that after five years every Zimbabwean would
International Workers' Aid be laughing their way to the delegates from a number of
Bank!" writes the Harare-based
European countries decided at
NGO co-ordinating group
IMF World Bank WTO their 13-14 January meeting in
Ecumenical Support Services.
Enough
Berlin. Since autumn 1993,
*Five years later,
IWA's main project has been rentrenchemnts continue.
delivering food to the miners'
Government expenditure in union in Tuzla. Delegates health, education ans social argued that, with many roads
The re-colonisation of Bosnia services is being drastically re-opened, and the food reduced, under the watchful
Bosnia's new constitution situation in Tuzla greatly eye of the IMF and World entrusts the International improved, it was time to change
Bank... IMF people are
Monetary Fund with the choice the direction of our solidarity camped at the Treasury, to of Director of the new Central ensure that public expenditure
Bank of Bosnia. The allis drastically reduced. These
Limited food-deliveries for powerful Minister of Public policies have grace effects for certain groups of miners will
Enterprises and Services will be the poor. Rural district hospitals continue. But the IWA office in named by the European Bank under the Ministry of Health are
Makarska, Croatia will be for Reconstruction and now restricted from providing closed, and all but one of the
Development (EBRD).
ambulance services to the rural
IWA lorries sold. An IWA office
This kind of interference in the poor, as a result of the ZW$ 23 will be opened in Tuzla itself, to internal affairs of a state is million budget cut.one of the support the new projects.
uncommon, even for the IMF. A
African organisations
Lone Rasmussen from Danish just-published study by CACAD participating in the collection of
IWA presented the first issue of member Michel Chossudovsky signatures for the COCAD "50 the Tuzla miners' newspaper shows quite clearly that the real
Years is Enough" appeal, and priorities of IMF involvement in which has offered to become produced with IWA financial
Bosnia are not post-war the local contact for the support. The Berlin meeting reconstruction, nor campaign.
development, but obtaining
The IIRE and COCAD have co-
Internationalists' World Congress reimbursement of existing edited. Many of the texts have debts, and controlling the previously been published in
The resolutions of the 14th World economic levers in the new country. The first IMF loan to
Bosnia will be used to repay an earlier debt to the Netherlands, the lead country in the IMF group which includes Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
out.
unions is a top priority, work.
(dated 21 December), in September 1996. "I think we can get broad participation from the European union movement" said Theo Mewis, Belgian IWA, who represented IWA in Tuzla in Autumn 1995. Mewis hopes that this IWA-sponsored international conference will lead to new direct contacts for the Bosnian unions, in the difficult period after the "peace" settlement. IWA also decided to continue its Tuzla schools programme, which has broad support in Denmark and Belgium, and its support for a women's magazine in Tuzla Source: Arbetaren, Stockholm
Portugal 96
Youth Camp
It's official! The organisers of this year's summer camp of youth organisations in sympathy with the Fourth International have fixed the dates of the 1996 camp, late July, and the place, in northern Portugal. Representatives of all the participating organisations will meet at the International Institute for Research and Education (IRE) in AmsterdaminApril to fix the final agenda. According to Vincent Scheltiens, one of the camp coordinators, "the Portuguese comrades suggest that we focus the camp on the themes of police and state repression, racism, and the campaigns against the G7, IF and World Bank. For more information, contact your regular International Viewpoint seller, or write for the address of the participating youth group nearest to you.
War crimes in Bosnia