>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:44:29 +0100
>From: Asteras Amaliadas <jm6 at st-andrews.ac.uk>
>To: Left Wing Union <leftwing at st-andrews.ac.uk>
>Subject: Balkan CPs joint statement-29.3.1999
>
>STRENGTHEN ANTIIMPERIALIST STRUGGLE FOR PEACE
>
>Joint statement of the Communist Parties of the region condemning
>NATO intervention
While these organisations may be different, what is the evidence that their claims to marxism are marxist. In particular the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, has taken the name of Yugoslavia without any attempt to acknowledge the need to build the unity of nations through non-cercion and respect for the right of nations to self-determination.
Their youth wing has just issued a racist "colour blind" statement that makes no mention of the Albanians desire for autonomy and independence.
>The CPs of the Balkans condemn the NATO intervention in our region. They
>express the conviction that both the Serb and Albanian peoples; as well
>as the other peoples of the Balkans, are able, by themselves and without
>any foreign intervention, to solve their problems peacefully.
So why could there not have been a velvet divorce between Kosovo and Serbia as occurred between Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
The reality is that ethnic clearing has been planned on a mass scale.
Yoshie is supporting social fascism.
Chris Burford
London