Mihailo Markorie, one of the eight dissident Marxist professors recently dismissed by the Tito regine, spoke at a public meeting in London last Sunday about the present crisis in Yugoslar society. The meeting was organ ined by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foun dation, which has recently published a book of Professor Markovic's theoretical writings, The Conremporary Marx Dr Markovic, who was sacked along with the entire staff of the Belgrade University Philosophy Faculty (of which he was the Dean), explained that behind this move lay the bureaucrats" fear that the professors" writings might inspire a struggle as me povaged bureaucracy by the students and other sections of the populHe pointed out that Yugoslavia has an Inflation rate of 30%: that there is considerable discontent within the working class, sharpened by the return of immigrant workers unable to find work in Germany; and Tito: had dissident professors expelled upsurge among the students attempting to link up with the working class against the regime. He explained that in Yugnslavis that the coming months could see a renewed widely undenstood as a realistic possibility attract Westerit capital into the country living conditions of the working class also explained the one sided and ineffectnature of the self-management progra mme: the failure to develop effective wor kent' democracy at the level of che state affecting the life of the masses remain outside the control of the working class.
in favour of local antonomy, hut rather in combining effective local initiatives with strong democratic central institutions in place of the present bureaucratic reginse.
An international cumpaign has been Launched in defence of the Yugoslar professors. The regime chose its moment to attack when the students were on holiday. today the perspective of a mass struggle of but the struggle for the reinstatement of students and workers against the regime is the professors is far from over, both insile Yugoslavia and internationally. of refusal is not merely expulsion