An Announcement To Our Readers

We draw your attention to some changes in NEWS & LETTERS. John Alan's "Black/Red View" column will appear on page 1 beginning with this issue, in place of Lou Turner's "Black World" column. We also ask you to join us in welcoming a new worker-writer for our "Workshop Talks" column, Htun Lin, whose articles have appeared on the labor page for several years and whose essay on health care in the October 1999 issue won considerable acclaim from our readers.

These changes result from the resignation of several members over various differences that have arisen within our committees on a number of points, the most recent being differences over our principled position on self-determination for the people of Bosnia and Kosova. Readers will remember our open airing of this debate through publication of letters of dissent together with our rebuttals; all readers can get our full revolutionary analysis, which has been published in two pamphlets: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: ARCHILLES HEEL OF WESTERN 'CIVILIZATION', published in 1996, and KOSOVA: WRITINGS FROM NEWS & LETTERS, published in January 2000. (See literature page to order.) Our lead in this issue on the current situation in Serbia continues this analysis.

We want to assure our friends and subscribers that we will continue to carry out the decisions made at our convention over Labor Day weekend, which had unanimously approved the Marxist-Humanist Perspectives we published as a draft in our July issue, copies of which can be obtained for 55¢ postage by writing to us at 36 S. Wabash, Chicago, IL 60603, or by visiting www.newsandletters.org on the internet.

-- The National Editorial Board, News and Letters Committees