When the people of Ontario and other provinces began their struggle against the anti-social offensive, the monopoly-controlled media and politicians let it be known that Harris and other governments across Canada had the "mandate" to do what they wish. The people, they said, have to wait till the next election to vote them out of office if they don't like what they are doing. It seems that they are not using the same logic when it comes to Serbia or Bulgaria and many other countries in the world. Why is this the case? It is as clear as clear can be that the complete restoration of capitalism in the countries of eastern Europe and the Russian Federation has plunged these countries into a profound all-sided crisis. Violence and anarchy have become the norm, the new Rule of Law pushed by the most reactionary sections of finance capital, especially by foreign imperialist countries such as those which belong to the European Union and North America. Monopolists from these countries cannot and do not want to see any left-overs of the old order. At the same time, they cannot afford to have a new rule of law. The working class is familiar with the stories of the kind of lawlessness which prevailed under capitalism in the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s and since then. Finance capital cannot afford to accept any rule of law, even one of its own. Capital can only flourish on the basis of anarchy and violence. The aim of manipulation of the people in Serbia and Bulgaria and other such countries is the same: to smash the old rule of law while it is replaced with nothing. They openly practice the rule of lawlessness and give it the name of "democracy" and a "multiparty system." This is how the imperialists and their social props are seeking to serve their interests in these countries. Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]