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From: Charles F. Moreira
Date: 03 April, 2001 9:24 PM
>Milan,
>
>I noticed from your posts to the Stalinskaya list that your organisation is
>anti-Serb chauvanism and anti-Milosevic and his SPS.
>Since you are there in Yugoslavia, your views are worth consideration.
M: To clear up things a bit. We are not against Milosevic nor SPS. We are
against fascistic policy, expresed during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia,
which were, in fact, wars for Great Serbia which should include Serbia,
Montenegro, Macedonia, whole Bosnia, and the great part of Croatia. On the
other hand, that policy, lead the country to total economic collapse so that
we have now completely destroyed country, which, once, had a good industry,
agriculture, roads, bridges... Also, that fascistic policy created apartheid
government on Kosovo where 90% of population was Albanian. During 1998.
Serbian police, with the help of paramilitary organizations, launch great
offensive on Kosovo with aim to destroy KLA. Whole world was blind, and
deaf, while these mercenaries were doing their job by killing, lootig,
raping and burning. If we put on the side other arguments against apartheid
policy on Kosovo, just this example is enough to prove "socialistic" thought
of Milosevic and such policy. Isn't a basic principle of Marxism-Leninism
that each nation have a right on selfdetermination until separating and
creating of their own state? That's why we supported righteous struggle of
Albanian people on Kosovo.
>However, while as you say, Milosevic has destroyed workers' organisations
>and is not socialist, don't you see Milosevic's arrest being a victory for
>imperialism which would make it more difficult for you to fight and win
your
>struggle for socialism in the Balkans?
M: Very fact that Milosevic procalims himself as "socialist" would make our
struggle much more difficult. It is very hard to explain to workers that we
are not Milosevic's satelites, but a real communists. You can imagine how is
that difficult only by looking at my struggle on Internet lists where I try
to explain what is really happens here. Arresting of Milosevic is a victory
of imperialism, but, as I mentioned, Milosevic was mostly a puppet of
Greato-Serb policy. He was brought to power by Serbian Academy of Art and
Science (SANU), few individuals (Dobrica Cosic, and other), and Serb
Orthodox Church (SPC). SAME SCUM WHICH OVERTHROWN HIM ON OCTOBER LAST YEAR,
AND WHICH BRING TO POWER KOSTUNICA! And while that scum have a great
influence on state, trial on Milosevic in this country would be ridicilous.
He would be sentenced for robbing. As a simple street thief. He must be
judged for war crimes. It is too much of people killed on his command. That
is why we (as a Party) argue trial in Den Haag. That would be great strike
to chauvinists here (including Kostunica himself).
>What is your opinion of this Workers World article on the matter below?
M: It proves that on Kosovo (and recently in Macedonia) we have people's
resistance which don't depend on NATO or any other world power. Position of
our Party is that aim of bombing was just that NATO come on Balkans, and
prevent future spreading of clashes, since there existed real threat that in
conflict come Albania, Macedonia, and then Greece and Turkey. That would be
a dissaster for NATO (two members of alliance fighting each other, while
both of them have interests on Balkans). Basic aim of KLA was not to create
Great Albania. We had many occasions to talk with Albanians, and their
position was that when Serbia does not recognise their will to have schools
and universities on their langauge, nor their will to participate in politic
life of YUGOSLAVIA! After many years of peaceful struggle, only thing which
left to them (especially when each major Albanian village was burned down by
Serbian forces) to escape to forests and take arms in their hands. It is
obviously that NATO inflitrate into KLA, but i think that this investment
would be bad for them. Just remember how many of money they give to Moslems
in Afganistan to fight against SSSR. About events in Macedonia I can't talk
properly, since I don't have enough of informations. But, our position is to
support any national liberation movement (of course, if is not
nationalistic). National question is very important question for us here on
Balkans. And, finally, about resistance to NATO. Demonstrations, like that
one, organized by SPS, are worthless. Only possibility for real struggle
against NATO is that people from Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bosnia,
solve national question, and turn on their real enemy: NATO.
>Charles
For Communism,
Milan
P.S. Sorry for delay. I had a lot of job to do these days.
>-------------------------
>Via Workers World News Service
>Reprinted from the April 5, 2001
>issue of Workers World newspaper
>-------------------------
>
>NEITHER ORDER NOR PEACE:
>WHAT NATO BROUGHT TO THE BALKANS
>
>By John Catalinotto
>Rome
>
>Two years after Washington and its NATO allies launched a
>destructive 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, and
>21 months after they began occupying the part of Serbia
>called Kosovo, the U.S.-NATO occupation has proven it is
>completely bankrupt.
>
>They claimed the brutal bombing war was a humanitarian
>intervention. That it would stop killings, bring peace,
>restore order and--if the Milosevic government were ousted--
>open the door to economic growth. But it has brought only
>chaos and the threat of new wars to the Balkans.
>
>The growing crisis has also increased tensions within the
>NATO alliance. The European powers have been critical of the
>U.S. policy of arming and giving a green light to aggression
>by the reactionary KLA forces, which have been trying to
>break Kosovo away from Yugoslavia and create a "greater
>Albania." They fear this policy is destabilizing the entire
>area.
>
>In the last months before the bombing started in 1999, the
>U.S. military had trained and armed the KLA. Washington has
>continued to back the KLA in Kosovo, allowing it to use
>terror and murder to drive out 250,000 Serbs and another
>100,000 Roma and other nationalities, including anti-fascist
>Albanians.
>
>The U.S. also encouraged KLA forces--under a new name--to
>cross the Kosovo border into Serbia proper and attack Serbs
>in the Presevo region. These attacks continued to apply
>pressure on the Slobodan Milosevic government before it was
>overthrown last Oct. 5 by a pro-imperialist coup. They later
>kept the pressure on the current Kostunica government to
>continually make concessions to NATO.
>
>Within Yugoslavia, growing disillusionment with the new
>regime that replaced the government of Milosevic and anger
>at the decline in the standard of living has revived a
>movement of resistance to NATO. On the March 24 anniversary
>of the start of NATO's bombing, Milosevic addressed a crowd
>of tens of thousands of people in Belgrade demonstrating
>against NATO in a strong sign of this growing resistance.
>
>WAR IN MACEDONIA
>
>The latest flash point is in Macedonia, a former republic of
>Yugoslavia that now has a pro-West government and has long
>been occupied by U.S. troops. Its population of 2 million is
>about one-third ethnic Albanians.
>
>The reactionary KLA was never disarmed by the NATO forces in
>Kosovo, as required by the treaty that allowed the
>occupation. Now it has launched attacks against Macedonia.
>On the weekend of March 24, the Macedonian army--only 17,000
>strong--launched retaliatory blows against the KLA.
>Newspapers in Europe began to write about "the fourth
>Balkans war."
>
>The war in Kosovo had followed a similar pattern. Armed by
>German and U.S. imperialism, the KLA attacked Yugoslav
>forces throughout 1998. When the Yugoslav army responded,
>Washington and the other NATO powers claimed that Belgrade
>was committing a crime against humanity. They demonized the
>Serbs, especially the Milosevic leadership, and used this
>"Big Lie" to justify their attack on Yugoslavia.
>
>For the last few weeks the KLA have been shooting at
>Macedonian police and military troops. When the Macedonians
>respond, the KLA propaganda machine charges them with using
>brutal methods. The KLA leaders apparently believe that in a
>showdown NATO will take their side, as happened in Kosovo.
>
>In 1999, the U.S. and the other NATO countries' strategy was
>to move toward military intervention against Yugoslavia and
>break it up into small countries that could not defend
>themselves. The KLA was a useful tool for carrying through
>this strategy.
>
>In the current fighting in Macedonia, both the U.S. and the
>European Union have criticized the KLA. But neither has
>taken definite steps to disarm this reactionary group, which
>many observers charge with running the drug and prostitution
>industries in the region.
>
>Indeed, both the pro-KLA U.S. General Wesley Clark--who
>headed the bombing campaign against Yugoslavia--and EU
>leaders like Javier Solana have demanded that the Macedonian
>government make concessions to the ethnic Albanian community
>within Macedonia while negotiating with the KLA.
>
>While it is hard to determine at this time if the U.S. is
>encouraging the KLA or merely refusing to take steps to stop
>it, the Macedonian fighting is more of a problem for the
>European NATO countries than for Washington. The European
>NATO powers are thrown back into the wartime situation of
>dependency on U.S. military might to get out of a crisis.
>
>Whatever the conscious strategy, it is apparent that neither
>the U.S. nor its allies can bring peace and prosperity to
>the region. They can only plunge it into another war.
>
>RESISTANCE TO U.S.-NATO OCCUPATION GROWS
>
>The NATO occupation was the focus of a series of
>international anti-war conferences held in Athens, Berlin
>and Belgrade on the anniversary of the attack on Yugoslavia.
>
>In Belgrade, 30 people from 17 countries and 100 people from
>Yugoslavia took part in the Belgrade Forum on March 22-23.
>They also took part in a mass anti-NATO protest
>demonstration on March 24.
>
>Italian journalist Fulvio Grimaldi, who attended the
>Belgrade Forum, told Workers World that "there were tens of
>thousands on the demonstration organized by the Socialist
>Party of Serbia. Many were young people, which is a new
>development. Last fall the pro-SPS people were mainly older,
>including former partisans. A new layer of the population is
>coming into activity." Grimaldi is a senatorial candidate of
>the Italian Communist Refoundation Party in the upcoming May
>13 national elections.
>
>The Belgrade Forum's closing appeal reviewed the crimes of
>the U.S. and NATO against Yugoslavia and against peace, and
>demanded an end to the occupation and reparations for
>damages. It also ended with the following program of action:
>
>"Raise public awareness in our respective countries on the
>truth about NATO aggression.
>
>"Demand the abolition of the illegal International Criminal
>Tribunal for the Federation of Yugoslavia, also called The
>Hague Tribunal. Defend the former president of the Federal
>Republic of Yugoslavia--Slobodan Milosevic--as well as
>Dragoljub Milanovic, former Director General of Radio-
>Television Serbia, and all victims of political oppression.
>
>"Raise the issue of the responsibility of Carla Del Ponte,
>[British commander] Michael Jackson, Bernard Kouchner and
>others for consolidating the Albanian terrorist groups.
>
>"Insist on NATO-member countries paying compensation for the
>damages done during the aggression."
>
>In Berlin, a group that had held popular anti-NATO tribunals-
>-like ones held in the U.S. by the International Action
>Center--hosted the founding meeting of the European Peace
>Convention on March 23-24. This too had Yugoslavia as its
>main theme. Some 200 people from both NATO countries and the
>formerly socialist countries met and again condemned the
>imperialist criminals who launched the war.
>
>NATO's aggression against Yugoslavia and its consequences
>remain the major war-and-peace issue within the European
>anti-war and anti-imperialist movement.
>
>- END -
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