Inicijativa za anarho-sindikat writes
"Dear friends,
this is a solidarity call from Initiative for anarcho-syndicate, only organized
anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist group from Serbia. Our group started publishing
propaganda magazine, called "Direktna Akcija" ("Direct Action"), on first of May
2002. Since than we maintained regular, monthly, publishing of our magazine
although we had a lot of financial problems. We are printing our magazine in
2000 copies, and costs of publishing are 310 Euros per issue, which is, when
you have in mind that average pay in Serbia is less than 100 Euros, substantial
amount of money for us. We are giving our magazine for free, because we think
that it would be improper to sell it to the factory workers (which is where we are
handing out most of DA's) who have pay which is much lass than average pay
here. Our magazine is ONLY monthly anarchist magazine in whole Ex-Yugoslavia
region and is, thus, read in all Ex-Yugoslavia republics: 500 copies of our
magazine are handed out to anarchists and activists in Slovenia, Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. Subjects that we covered (and that
are covered seriously for the first time in last 90 years here) in our magazine till now are: anarcho-syndicalism, general strike, sabotage, history of the first of
May, economical globalization, abolition of alienated work, self-management,
total conscience objection etc. It is important to say that we are getting GREAT
response from people who are reading DA.
First issue of our magazine was financially helped by some of anarchist and
anarcho-syndicalist groups around the world - and we are very grateful to them
for that, but since than all of our finances are covered by donations of our
membership. Now we are in the situation that some of our members have to sell
some of their belongings to maintain magazine publishing every month. Because
of that we would like to ask anarchists, anarcho-syndicalist and revolutionary-
syndicalist groups and individuals around the world, who are able to do so, to
help us financially. For any details on ways to send us money please contact
editorial collective of our magazine at: da@inicijativa.org We think that it is of
outmost importance for whole anarchist movement in Ex-Yugoslavia to maintain
publishing of DA, and we hope that some of you could help us with that!
Best anarchist greetings!
Initiative for anarcho-syndicate (IAS)"
