----- Original Message ----- From: "ILC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 5:21 PM Subject: We do not celebrate > 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 >
