>From: "ILC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: We do not celebrate >Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 18:21:31 +0200 >Clinton and his European satraps are celebrating because they think that >with Milosevic leaving the scene they have taken Belgrade and thus paved the >way for their rule over the Balkans. > >They are wrong! It is not enough to oust Milosevic in order to take >Belgrade. Therefore the surrender of the Serb people, the destruction of the >federal army, the smashing of the state apparatus as well as their >substitution with servants of Western interests would be necessary. >Therefore that what happened is definitely not enough. It necessitates that >Nato finds a kind of KLA in Yugoslavia, a people that is ready to be >enslaved. > >The latest events only close a phase of the Balkanic turbulences. But they >do not bring the turbulences as such to an end. Those are defined by the >imperialist politics that by trying to destroy all obstacles for its >supremacy are doomed to create new and ever more destructive crisis. > >The analysis must be carried out from two different points of view, the >geopolitical and the class viewpoint. Even if they are interlinked it is >useful to regard them separately. > >Geopolitically speaking we doubt that Yugoslavia under Serb hegemony could >ever become a protectorate of Nato as the other �republics� of the Balkans. >History teaches that this is highly unlikely. Even Kostunica had to >demarcate himself from the tutelage offered to him by Nato in order to win >the consensus of the masses. > >The regime of Milosevic refused the capitulation of Yugoslavia to Nato. >Therefore, and only therefore, the serious anti-imperialist and >revolutionary forces throughout the world did support him. Actually they >never endorsed his domestic politics that � although never becoming >neo-liberal � did neither follow socialist principles nor strived for the >active defence of the interests of the working class and the poorest strata >of the population. > >This is the reason for the collapse of the regime facing the waves of the >mass movement led by Kostunica. If the regime is not able to defend the >parliament and the TV station being set on fire by the revolt that means >nothing else than that it has lost the social consensus it used to have. >Already since a certain time this rule has rested on sand and was secured >mainly by the monopoly of force. > >The conception that the attack of imperialism, the starvation caused by it, >the sanctions and the embargo could by put down solely by resorting to >nationalist and anti-Western sentiments has been proved to be a catastrophic >illusion. > >In order to destroy the magic it was enough that Kostunica by his turn >raised the patriotic banner. Nationalism is an important factor, but not the >decisive one. Such as all feelings it vanishes facing the daily struggle for >bread. In order to secure the social consensus resolute politics for social >justice and intransigent defence of the interests and rights of the workers >and peasants would have been indispensable. Contrary to that Milosevic had >been accepting privatisations and had been demanding unprecedented >sacrifices from the workers, while at the same time he let the mafia >bourgeoisie enrich itself at the black market. While the people had been >starving and had to send its sons to Kosovo to defend the country, the >nomenclature increased corruption and hold its protecting hands over its >sons in order to save them from serving in arms. > >>From this point of view we warn the youth that seems to have delivered the >final blow to the SPS JUL regime that the Serb people could fall out of the >frying-pan into the fire. Even if we would assume that Kostunica is the >brave and proper man as which he likes it to present himself we will not be >able to block the bourgeois forces that rally behind him in order to inflict >savage neo-liberal capitalism on the people. They hope for lucrative >business with the reconstruction and thirst for the money being promised by >the West with nice words. If the workers and the Serb people is not vigilant >the �Red mafia� will be substituted by a even more unscrupulous �democratic >Camorra�. > >We therefore refuse to participate at the hypocritical chorus of those who >celebrate an alleged �democratic revolution�. There never have been >communists who celebrate political events together with their worst enemies. >We still remember certain �anti-capitalists� who welcomed the collapse of >the USSR between 1989 and 1991 whose result was the creation of several >statelets that serve the Western interests. They claimed that we were facing >revolutions because some movements rallied masses behind them. But the >decisive criteria to evaluate events is not mainly that the masses get into >movement, but in what direction they move. The direction is determined by >the international relationship of forces as well as by the political groups >that take the leadership. > >Finally we want to re-iterate that our tenacious support for the resistance >of the Yugoslav people and the Yugoslav army against the Nato aggression was >not erroneous. Certain seeds only carry fruits after a long period. The >current flood, the �democratic� drunkenness will neither eradicate the deep >socialist tradition among the Serb people nor the traces of the tremendous >anti-imperialist solidarity delivered to it mainly in the last year. > >The Serb proletarians and among them the genuine communists will need our >help and fraternity. > >Executive Committee of the ILC >5th October, 2000 > >*************************************** >International Leninist Current (ILC) >Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI) >PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria >Tel & Fax +43 1 504 00 10 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.comports.com/ilc >www.antiimperialista.com > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. 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