1992 Index

1992 index

(issues 220 - 241)

HIS year's index of articles published in

International Viewpoint is arranged alphabetically by continent, country and region. There are also categories for articles on Ecology, Economics, Five

Hundredth Anniversary, Fourth International,

Lesbian and Gay, Obituary, Racism, Reviews,

Socialism and Women. These articles also appear in country category where applicable.

1992 INDEX 17

Interview

Raining on the Vlaams Blok's parade

François Vercammen

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Revolt for peace

Catherine Verla

Canton: rhymes with Lebanon?

Slavko Mihalicek

What comes after sanctions?

Christian Pomitzer

The Bosnian war; what is to be done?

Document

Confusion in the peace camp

Adam Novak

BRAZIL

The PT debates socialism

José Correia

Seeking a niche in the New World Order

Eduardo Abuquerque

The last days of Mr. Clean?

Alfonso Moro

A history of Black resistance in Brazil

Isaac Akcelrud

Collor falls but his policies remain

Gustavo Cedas

BRITAIN

Anti-refugee laws

Finn Jensen

The debacle of new realism

Alan Thornett

A very British crisis

Jamie Gough

Major government undermined

Dave Osler

CAMBODIA

Will the United Nations bring peace?

Pierre Rousset

CANADIAN STATE

The crisis of the Canadian state

François Moreau

Who are the privileged? - Round table

Referendum results prolong instability

Raghu Krishnan

CENTRAL AMERICA

Poisonous gifts — Joan Palomes

A new power — Anne Durieux

CHINA

The Chinese Communist Party woos workers - Zhang Kai

A decade in prison

Interview with Lau Shanching

Inside the Chinese Gulag

Lau Shauching

A "line for a hundred years"

Livio Maitan

The old guard fades away

Roland Lew

Cracking the three irons

Zhang Kai

The Shenzen share riot

Zhang Kai

CIS

What future for the

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220 20 Jan 92 new "Commomwealth?" — David Seppo

The irresistible fall of Mikhail Gorbachev

3 Feb 92

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Ernest Mandel

December 210 # 241 International Viewpoint

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AFGHANISTAN

After the fall of Najibullah

Salah Jaber

AFRICA

Pan-African Forum meets - NB

Nigeria: Controlled transition on the ropes - Edwin Madunagu

Somalia: Not the Salvation Army

Salah Jaber

Angolan voters opt for lesser evi

Interview

ALGERIA

First round to the fundamentalists

Chawki Salhi

Women fight exclusion and poverty

Shafia Jemame

After the coup - Chawki Salhi

What is fundamentalism and how can it be fought? - Chawki Salhi

The leaders change, but the army still rules - Chawki Salhi

ANGOLA

The never-ending agony of Angola

Interview

ANTILLES

Vincent Placoly — Obituary

ARMENIA

Economic reform — and war

Vicken Cheterian

AUSTRALIA

Left candidate wins by-election - NB

Thatcherism spreads "Down Under"

John Tully

Workers resist draconian reforms

John Tully

BALTIC STATES

Elections reflect crisis of perspectives

Gerry Foley

BELARUS

The making of a trade unionist

Interview

"A market poses cruel conditions"

Interview

BELGIUM

A tidal wave against the far right

Vincent Scheltiens

Students strike back

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On the edge of the volcano?

Poul Funder Larsen

Imminent ecological disaster

Poul Funder Larsen

From the plan to the clan

Interview with Catherine Verla

A poisoned legacy - Barbara Schultz

The women's movement in Kaluga

Interview

Tension mounts in Nagorno-Karabakh

Vicken Cheterian

Yeltsin versus the people

David Mandel

More equal than the others

Poul Funder Larsen

COLOMBIA

Colombia: Is peace possible?

Alicia Ponces

CUBA

The loneliness of the long-distance runner - Janette Habel

European deputies condemn Cuba blockade - Document

Why confuse Cuba with hell?

Eduardo Galeano

International congress held in Germany

Stonewalling in a time of crisis

Janette Habel

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Witch-hunt - NB

Capitalism without capital

Adam Novak

Trade unions seek new role

Adam Novak

The end of Czechoslovakia?

Adam Nezval

Petr Uhl - NB

A Marxist in the Czech parliament

Interview

The Velvet Divorce - NB

The end of the federation

Adam Novack

DENMARK

Bomb attack on socialist group - NB

The Danish No to Maastricht

Bodil Rasmussen

When "No" means "Yes"

Åge Skovrind

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Free trade and social disaster

Andy Brock

Papal celebrations and repressions

Andy Brock

EASTERN EUROPE

The Great Depression

Peter Annear

ECOLOGY

Rio: The real debates are not on the agenda - Hermann Dworczak

Poisonous gifts — Joan Palomes

Rio or revolution? - Thies Gliess

Carry on as before

Hermann Dworczak

ECONOMICS

The future of capitalism

Claude Gabriel

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226 13 Apr 92

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233 20 Jul 92

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225 30 Mar 92

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International Viewpoint # 241 December 21, 1992

An unhappy new year

Maxime Durand

The battle of GATT

Claude Gabriel

US economy: the point of no return?

Winfried Wolf

End of an illusion

Winfried Wolf

Economic change and social turmoil

Alfonso Moro

From one dogma to another

Catherine Verla

A new model of growth?

Maxime Durand

In the jungle — without a map

Jesus Albarracin and Pedro Montes

Towards global involvement

Junichi Hirai

Capitalism without capital

Adam Novak

The great depression

Peter Annear

Seeking a niche in the New World Order

Eduardo Abuquerque

The mirage of the Social Europe

Maxime Durand

The mirage of Maastricht

Maxime Durand

The twilight of monetarism

Ernest Mandel

Markets go mad — Colin Meade

Where has all the money gone?

Dick Forslund

"A fox in the henhouse"

Interview

A very British crisis

Jamie Gough

Rail privatization or a rational transport policy?

Winfried Wolf

GATT: a battle in the trade war

Nicolas Benies

EGYPT

Women's Association dissolved

Luiza Maria

Farog Foda assassinated - NB

EUROPE

A tale of four elections

François Vercammen

The crisis of citizenship and the future of Europe — Claude Gabriel

50,000 votes that shook Europe

Claude Gabriel

The Danish No to Maastricht

Bodil Rasmussen

The mirage of the Social Europe

Maxime Durand

Norway and Europe

The mirage of Maastricht

Maxime Durand

Whither Europe?

Claude Gabriel

Yes, but... - Francis Sitel

European health and safety campaign

Anne Richter

European conscripts meet in Prague

Ron Blom

EUZKADI

National independence versus the state

Jose Iriarte "Bikila"

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Einar Braathen and Gunnar Guddal Michelsen

EL SALVADOR

Peace on the razor's edge

M. Velazquez and P. Pacheco

Towards war or peace?

Paquito Gomez and Rudie Hasting

FINLAND

"A fox in the henhouse" - Interview

FIVE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY

Expo 92: Selling Spain - Document

Where Columbus came from

Michel Lequenne

From one world to another

Maurice Lemoine

"It is the oppressed

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

Sri Lankan Marxists rally to Fourth International - Phil Hearse

Lift the blockade on the people of Iraq

Document

Ninth international youth camp - NB

FRANCE

A shift in the wind - François Olivier

Hue and cry over Habash - NB

March against racism - NB

The crisis of representation

Francis Sitel

"Workers fortress" falls

Keith Mann

Who votes for Le Pen? - Interview

Mitterrand shuffles the pack

Keith Mann

The crime of Solidarity

The mirage of Maastricht

Maxime Durand

Yes, but... - Francis Sitel

French government evacuates homeless Africans - Cecilia Garmendia

Why farmers are protesting

Keith Mann

GERMANY

Wage confrontations - NB

Pushed aside

Barbara Schultz

The trial of Erich Mielke

Georg Fülberh

The end of social partnership

Hans-Jürgen Schultz

Government fuels growth of far right

David Müller

Strikes highlight unification crisis

Colin Meade

Strike wave shakes Germany

François Vercammen

Striking at the heart of the German miracle - Winfried Wolt

Poverty in Germany

Marc Fischer

The eleven days of the ÖTV

Angela Klein

Youth protest against G-7 summit

Raphael Duffleaux

Racist attacks shake Germany

David Müller

The unification disaster

Hans-Jürgen Schultz

German rulers play

222 17 Feb 92 235 28 Sep 92 236 12 Oct 92 229 25 May 92 230 8 Jun 92 231 22 Jun 92 237 26 Oct 92 220 20 Jan 92 221 3 Feb 92 236 12 Oct 92 220 20 Jan 92 222 17 Feb 92 222 17 Feb 92 227 27 Apr 92 227 27 Apr 92 230 8 Jun 92 230 8 Jun 92 232 6 Jul 92

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German rulers play double game on racism - David Müller

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Fascism and capitalist unification

Angela Klein

Anti-racist protests - Manuel Kellner

GREECE

Peace campaign seeks support - NB

Greek socialists oppose warmongering

Document

A strike wave with a political edge

Nicos Simeonides

GUATEMALA

Guatemalan Indian leader wins Nobel Prize - Ulises Martinez Flores

HAITI

Aristide's gamble

Arthur Mahon

The pronhet unarmed — Arthur Mahon

The prophet unarmed - Arthur Mahon

One year after the coup

Arthur Mahon

HONG KONG

Return of a political prisoner -NB

HUNGARY

A hot winter in Hungary? — Laszlo Andor

INDIA

Tribal peoples face eviction - NB

Women and the NEP

Vibhuti Patel

The tragedy at Ayodhya

Raghu Krishnan

IRAQ

The betrayal of the Kurdish rebellion

Saman

Sanctions target the innocent

Patrick Debrest

IRELAND

Abortion debate rocks Ireland

Anne Conway

Nationalist loses in West Belfast

Philomena O'Malley

A new referendum on abortion

Anne Conway

Strip search of women prisoners - NB

Lesbian and gay rights in Ireland

Interview

Trouble ahead for Irish government

John Meehan and Anne Conway

Abortion referendum in Ireland - NB

Irish elections register swing to Labour

John Meehan

ISRAEL

Is Zionism racism?

Michel Warschawski

The road to nowhere - Interview

Israel: The elections

Bush won - Salah Jaber

Likud pays for austerity drive

Marcelo Meir

No respite for Palestinians

Bernard Gibbons

New hope or false dawn?

Michel Warshawsky

Heiahts of speculation?

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222 17 Feb 92

228 11 May 92

224 16 Mar 92

227 27 Apr 92

228 11 May 92

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232 6 Jul 92

239 23 Nov 92

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227 27 Apr 92

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235 28 Sep 92

Bernard Gibbons

December 21, 1992• # 241 International Viewpoint who discovers the oppressor" — Eduardo Galeano who discovers the oppressor" — Eduardo Galeano

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ITALY

Founding congress of

Communist Refoundation - Livio Mait

Outcome of PRC congress — NB

March against racism - NB

Towards a grand coalition?

Franco Turigliatto

What kind of left unity? - Interview

We need to win youth - Interview

The rise of a new far right

Luciano Muhhaner

Luciano Muhlbauer

Huge attack on welfare launched

Livio Maitan

Collaboration or resistance?

Gigi Malabarba

"Let the workers speak"

Sergio D'Amia

KURDISTAN

Kurdish guerilla leader speaks

Interview

LATIN AMERICA

Where Columbus came from

Michel Lequenne

From São Paulo to Managua

Alfonso Moro

For popular sovereignty

Document

LEBANON

More than an electoral ploy

Michel Warshawsky

Lebanon's tainted parliament

Salah Jaber

LESBIAN AND GAY

Lesbian and Gay rights in Ireland

Interview

The Lesbian and Gay struggle in South Africa today - Interview

Oregon voter defeat anti-gay/lesbian initiative - Gary Bills

LIBYA

Death by embargo - Salah Jaber

The scapegoat - Salah Jaber

Falling into line behind Washington

Luiza Maria

MEXICO

Free trade and the land

Sergio Rodriguez

Free José Ramon!

Alfonso Moro

MOLDOVA

Yeltsin and the generals

Colin Meade

MOROCCO

The growing isolation of Hassan II

Interview with Abraham Serfaty

Visions of Arab unity

Interview with Abraham Serfaty part I/

The absolutist constitution

Brahim Ouali

NAGORNO-KARABAKH

Tension mounts in Nagorno-Karabakh

Vicken Cheterian

From the front line in Karabakh

Vicken Cherterian

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222 17 Feb 92

227 27 Ар г92

227 27 Apr 92

25 May 92

230 8 Jun 92

236 12 Oct 92

237 26 Oct 92

238 9 Nov 92

227 27 Apr 92

230 8 Jun 92

234 14 Sep 92

224 16 Mar 92

236 12 Oct 92

230 8 Jun 92

234 14 Sep 92

240 7 Dec 92

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International Viewpoint # 241 December 21, 1992

NETHERLANDS

Massive anti-racist march in Holland

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13 Apr 92

Ron Blom

Dutch railworkers defeated

229

25 May 92

Wim Baltussen

NEW ZEALAND

Kiwis vote for change - NB

236

12 Oct 92

NICARAGUA

Sandinistas confront

233

20 Jul 92 fundamental decisions— Sergio Rodriguez

Sandinistas face fundamental choices

239

23 Nov 92

Victor Prisma

NIGERIA

Controlled transition on the ropes

239

23 Nov 92

Edwin Madunagu

NORWAY

Norway and Europe

233

20 Jul 92

Einar Braathen and Guddal Michelsen

OBITUARY

Vincent Placoly

Celia Stodola Wald

George Novack

Jim Percy

Willy Boepples

PALESTINE

Palestine opposition denounces sell-out

Salah Jaber

The intifada is alive and well

Michel Warshawsky

PERU

From the Fujishock to the Fujicoup

Alfonso Moro

The return of the military

Hugo Blanco

Fujimori's propaganda coup

Roland Wood

PHILIPPINES

Martial law general takes presidency

Paul Petitjean

The Philippine Communist Party at the crossroads - Document

Crisis in Philippine Communist Party

Paul Petitjean

POLAND

New government, new struggles

Jan Sy/westrowicz

Steelworkers score victory

Jan Sylwestrowicz

War at the summit

Jan Malewski and Jaroslaw Wardega

Workers' struggles revive

Jan Malewski

Strike at FSM-Fiat ends - NB

Pinior still under attack - NB

Poland's public enemy nember one

Jan Malewski

Attacks on women - Cyril Smuga

Polish clergy seek to extend power

Jan Malewski

RACISM

200,000 march against racism in France and Italy - NB

Strike against racist violence! - NB

Anti-refugee laws

Finn Jensen

221 3 Feb 92

233 20 Jul 92

234 14 Sep 92

237 26 Oct 92

238 9 Nov 92

237 26 Oct 92

238 9 Nov 92

227 27 Apr 92

229 25 May 92

235 28 Sep 92

236 12 Oct 92

240 7 Dec 92

241 21 Dec 92

221 3 Feb 92 221 3 Feb 92 234 14 Sep 92 235 28 Sep 92 236 12 Oct 92 237 26 Oct 92 238 9 Nov 92 239 23 Nov 92 240 7 Dec 92 222 17 Feb 92 222 17 Feb 92 222 17 Feb 92

Resisting rationalization — Gigi Malabarba 229

The end of complaceny

Paco Torres

A million join anti-racist action

Dick Forslund

Bomb attack on socialist group - NB

Fascism then and now

Ernest Mandel

A tidal wave against the far right

Vincent Scheltiens

Massive anti-racist march in Holland

Ron Blom

Is Zionism racism?

Michel Warschawski

Government fuels growth of far right

David Müller

The rise of a new far right

Luciano Muhlbauer

Who votes for Le Pen? - Interview

Racist attacks shake Germany

David Müller

Anti-fascists visit refugees - Interview

German rulers play double game on racism - David Müller

Fascism and capitalist unification

Angela Klein

Students strike back - Interview

Anti-racist round-up

Raining on the Vlaams Blok's parade

François Vercammen

REVIEW

It's not over till it's over

Phil Hearse

ROMANIA

Elections prolong uncertainty

Colin Meade

RUSSIA

Privatization in one district - Interview

After the price rises - Interview

"Shock therapy" comes to Russia

David Mandel

A situation of chaos

Renfrey Clarke

The new enemy within

Renfrey Clarke

Healthworkers strike in Russia

Poul Funder Larsen

Prospects for the left in Russia

Round-table

Voices from the Urals (introduction)

Poul Funder Larsen

"The workers need inependent organizations"

Interview (continued)

At the Lenin plant

Interview (continued)

Tankograd's second battle

Interview (continued)

When a bribe is not a bribe?

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SENEGAL

Senegalese revolutionaries form new organization — Claude Gabrie

SLOVENIA

Privatization and self-management

Catherine Samary

SOCIALISM

Socialism and the future

Ernest Mandel

SOMALIA

A catastrophe that needn't have been

François Piguet

Not the Salvation Army - Salah Jaber

SOUTH AFRICA

In the quicksands of negotiation

Peter Blumer

South Africa after the "yes" vote

Interview with WOSA

Towards a South African women's movement - Interview

The test of strength - Marc Lini

The Lesbian and Gay struggle in

South Africa today - Interview

Mass actions and negotiations

Peter Blumer

SPANISH STATE

Crisis of the United Left -NB

Report on abortion - NB

The end of complaceny

Paco Torres

The missing general strike

Joaquin Nieto

Maastricht versus the workers - NB

Expo 92: Selling Spain - Document

The shining future? - Antonio Flores

Resisting convergence

Interview

The boat people of Gibraltar

Cecilia Garmendia

Unions face PSOE "modernization"

Building communities of resistance

Manuel Garí

Protests against racist murders - NB

SRI LANKA

Sri Lankan Marxists rally to

Fourth International - Phil Hearse

Religion and Marxism - Interview

Trade union opposes repression - NE

Interview

NSSP leaders arrested - NB

The roots of Tamil oppression

V. Thirunavukkarasu

Big victory for Colombo portworkers

Bala Tampoe

SWEDEN

Strike against racist violence! - NB

A million join anti-racist action

Dick Forslund

Social democrat leaders back cuts

Dick Forslund

Where has all the money gone?

Dick Forslund

October 6 "Day of Justice"

Kjell Pettersson

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235 28 Sep 92

237 26 Oct 92

239 9 Nov 92

222 17 Feb 92

224 16 Mar 92

236 12 Oct 92

237 26 Oct 92

Irina Glushchenko and Boris Kagarlitsky

28 Sep 92

235

From shock to slump

Poul Funder Larsen

"The unions are my last hope"

239

23 Nov 92

Interview

7 Dec 92

240

"We are going ahead with our eyes open" - Interview

241

21 Dec 92

Russian socialists hold congress

Renfrey Clark

241

21 Dec 92

Programme of the Party of Labour

Document

Joaquin Nieto and Paulino Rodriguez

Trotskyists celebrate anniversary - NB

Privatizations meet mounting resistance

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Racists and anti-racists clash

214

21 Dec 92

Dick Forslund

SWITZERLAND

From the IMF to the FA/18s

232

6 Jul 92

Charles-Andre Udry

SYRIA

Crackdown on left

222

17 Feb 92 and democratic movements - Salah Jaber

VIETNAM

Political prisoners released

Pierre Rousset

WOMEN

Women's Association dissolved

Luiza Maria

Abortion debate rocks Ireland

Anne Conway

"Pro-Life" barbarism - Penny Duggan

A poisoned leaacy — Barbara Schultz

A poisoned legacy - Barbara Schultz

The women's movement in Kaluga

Interview

Pushed aside — Barbara Schultz

Unification and women's rights

Interview

Report on abortion - NB

Towards equal misery

Marienne Ebel

Towards a South African women's movement - Interview

A new referendum on abortion

Anne Conway

750,000 attend pro-choice march

Sarah M. Springer

A new power - Anne Durieux

US feminists challenge court abortion decision - Evelyn Sell

Women and the NEP

Vibhuti Patel

Attacks on women - Cyril Smuga

Abortion referendum in Ireland - NB

YEMEN

Unification and women's rights

Interview

YUGOSLAVIA

Privatization and self-management

Catherine Samary

Revolt for peace

Catherine Verla

Canton: rhymes with Lebanon?

Slavko Mihaljcek

Where the Yugoslav crisis began

Interview

The forced cantonization of

The infernal logic of the one-nation state

Catherine Verla

Serbia: talk of a military coup

Slavko Mihaijcek

The war continues - Interview

A war of our times - Claude Gabriel

The forces of disorder - Interview

A turning point in the war?

Slavko Mihaljcek

Party veterans and skinheads

Christian Pomitzer

Keeping the refugees out

Finn Jensen

The Bosnian war; what is to be done?

Document

Anti-fascists visit refugees - Interview

The Serbian opposition

Christian Pomitzer

The next flashpoints? - Document

After the fall of Jajce

Slavko Mihaljcek

The Panic alternative - Colin Meade

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225 30 Mar 92

226 13 Apr 92

227 27 Apr 92

231 22 Jun 92

233 20 Jul 92 235 28 Sep 92 239 23 Nov 92 239 23 Nov 92 224 16 Mar 92 222 17 Feb 92 225 30 Mar 92 225 30 Mar 92 227 27 Apr 92 229 25 May 92 231 22 Jun 92 231 22 Jun 92 233 20 Jul 92 234 14 Sep 92 234 14 Sep 92 234 14 Sep 92 234 14 Sep 92 234 14 Sep 92 237 26 Oct 92 237 26 Oct 92 238 9 Nov 92 238 9 Nov 92 239 23 Nov 92 239 23 Nov 92

THAILAND

The May massacre - Paul Petitjean

TUNISIA

Increasing repression

Rym Ben Amor

Tunisian Marxists sentenced - NB

Opposition outlawed - NB

TURKEY

The spring syndrome

Fuat Orçun

UKRAINE

A year of independence

Poul Funder Larsen

National rebirth and economic reform

Interview

The impasse of the Ukrainian left

Document

URUGUAY

We must stay subversive - Interview

The rights of street traders - NB

The spiral of decline

Interview

USA

Clarence Thomas hearings raise awareness on sexual harassment

Camille Colatosti

How reformers won Teamster election

Phil Kwik

Groundswell of support for creation of labor party - Keith Mann

CPUSA: towards a split?

Samuel Adams

Mark Curtis defence campaign - NB

750,000 attend pro-choice march o0,o atend pro-choice march

Sarah M Snrinner

Sarah M. Springer

The second civil war

Gustavo Buster

This time the fire - Dolores Treviso

No contest - Frank Lovell

Repression and resistance

Dolores Trevizo

US feminists challenge court abortion decision - Evelyn Sell

Panther fights for justice - Interview

Tahan Jones; the last of the

Gulf War anti-war fighters - Jeff Mackle

The economy sets the agenda

Keith Mann

From Kuwait to Los Angeles

Salah Jaber

What will Clinton do? - Gustavo Buster

Oregon voters defeat anti-gay/lesbian initiative — Gary Bills

VENEZUELA

A model of instability

Raul Zibechi

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225 30 Mar 92

228 11 May 92

227 27 Apr 92

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Bosnia-Herzegovonia — Christian Pomitzer

December 21, 1992

UKRAINE

THE Ukrainian referendum on

A year of

December 1,

1991, in which independence

90% voted "yes"

to independence, was an important watershed in

Eastern and Central Europe, as a new state of more than 50 million people emerged almost overnight. This also sounded the death knell of the Soviet Union which was liquidated within a month of the birth of the Ukrainian state.

POUL FUNDER LARSEN — December 7, 1992 strongly criticized by Ukrainian nationalist forces who saw it as a concession to Great Russian domination.

Likewise the issue of control over the strategic nuclear forces based in Ukraine and their eventual removal, remains unresolved. The West is exerting strong pressure on Ukraine to hand these forces over to Russia, while the Kravchuk leadership seems to be inclined to use them as a bargaining chip in negotiations over economic aid.

One of the potentially explosive differences between Russia and Ukraine concerns the future of Crimea, which is also the base of the Black Sea fleet. This peninsula belonged to Russia until 1954 when it was given to the Ukraine by Khrushchev. Two thirds of its current

OLLOWING the failed putsch of August 1991, the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet declared the republic's independence, a decision later confirmed by the December referendum. However, a mere five months earlier, in March 1991, 70% of Ukrainian voters had endorsed the concept of a "renewed Soviet Union" in the all-Union referendum staged by Gorbachev. Further adding to the uncertainty about Ukraine's new role as an independent state was the fact that even if a president was elected - with top former bureaucrat Leonid Kravchuk winning a resounding victory, no new elections were called for the Supreme Soviet (elected back in March 1990).

Ukraine was one of the three founders of the (at first exclusively Slavic) Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) set up in December 1991 and subsequently enlarged. But throughout this first, turbulent year of the CIS' existence, Ukraine has remained one of its most reluctant members. It has only signed a minority of the agreements made in the CIS framework — for example, only five out of the 15 agreements carried at the CIS summit this October. It has also recently refused to sign the Charter which outlines the Commonwealth's field of action.

Parts of the Ukrainian opposition have been highly critical of the CIS, pointing to the dangers of Russian domination of its institutions. Indeed, relations between Ukraine and Russia have been fraught with a series of tensions over security and territorial issues since the break up of the USSR.!

The protracted dispute over the division of the Black Sea fleet was temporarily settled by an agreement between Yeltsin and Kravchuk instituting a joint commando, which is to function for the next three years. But this decision was inhabitants are Russians. After the Russian-Ukrainian summit at Dagomys in June this year injected a temporary measure of stability into relations between the two states, and as Russian demands for the secession of Crimea subsided, the issue receded into the background.

Protests by Crimean Tatars