* The Belgrade Municipal Prosecutor has threatened to arrest eleven leaders of the "illegal" coal miners strike
* Belgrade University staff had begun a mass suspension of teaching and the Serbian-wide union of university teachers has called for a strike
* Postal workers have announced a two-hour strike with a threat to join the national, general strike
* Police in Vranje have broken up a demonstration of workers and students
* Workers at the Majdanpek copper mine have joined the general strike
All this has taken place in the last 3 hours. How do we know this? Thanks to the remarkable efforts made by FreeB92, the independent website and radio station broadcasting out of Belgrade.
The events taking place in Yugoslavia today are an inspiration -- they demonstrate the central role which workers play in the struggle for democracy.
The FreeB92 website, whose English-language news page is located at http://news.freeb92.net/ is this week's Labour Website of the Week. Visit it. Bookmark it. Tell your colleagues. Put links to it on your websites.
Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass --