Ex-Yugoslavia

Intensification of all the contradictions of imperialism War is politics continued by other (i.e., forcible) means.” This famous dictum of Clausewitz, one of the most profound writers on military questions, has received further confirmation from the latest imperialist war in the Balkans. This war started as a continuation of the imperialist peace, and the imperialist peace ending this war is in turn a continuation of the imperialist war, whose aim was, and remains, the securing of domination by imperialism of the entire area stretching from the Middle East to the shores of the Black and Caspian Seas, endowed as they are with fabulous mineral wealth and a vast network of oil pipelines. All talk about humanitarianism was just hocus pocus, meant to distract the gullible. The...

by David Ayrton The aim of this article is to show the reader the reactionary nature of the reporting on the war, and the way in which the ‘Left’ has proved to be incapable of charting a truly independent course from what is, essentially, the propaganda machine of the British capitalist class. With very few honourable exceptions, the ‘Left’ repeated chunks of the propaganda that the CIA and MI6 had fed through the various press agencies and briefings, on behalf of the imperialist bourgeoisie. Among the few taking a thoroughly principled stand was Arthur Scargill, General Secretary of the SLP, who was fast off the mark on Wednesday 24 th March in declaring that the SLP “condemned the unlawful and immoral bombing of Yugoslavia” for “Neither NATO, Britain or the ...

RT Ethnic Serbs blocked a major road in the south of Kosovo on Friday, in protest over a drive-by shooting of two youths on Christmas Eve. An 11-year-old boy and his 21-year-old cousin were shot not far from Strpce from a passing car, identified as belonging to an ethnic Albanian, as they walked with oak branches traditionally used to celebrate the holiday in the Orthodox Christian tradition. “Someone wanted to give us a bloody Christmas,” tweeted Petar Petkovic, the Serbian government’s commissioner for Kosovo. He described the shooting as “an attempted murder.” Cousins Milos and Stefan Stojanovic were taken to a hospital in nearby Gracanica. “One was shot in the hand and the other in the shoulder, and they survived only by sheer luck,” Petkovic’s...

It is the height of hypocrisy for the west to be crying about war in Europe while remaining silent about the blitzkrieg carried out by its own air force 20 years ago. Belgrade Forum Not only was a once-proud and independent country ripped apart and left in ruins by the illegal aggression of the imperialist camp, but their use of depleted uranium-tipped missiles has left a deadly legacy in the ground, air and water that continues to be felt by the Yugoslav people today. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1260326128&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true The following statement was issued by the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals and is reproduced here with thanks. ***** Twenty-three years since ...