>From: Jug Öster Solibeweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Call for an >International Solidarity Conference >for the Yugoslav People > >********** >We ask the solidarity organisations throughout the world who fought against >the NATO aggression to support this call and to participate at the >conference for which the date is still to be fixed. >********** > >When NATO started its heinous bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, they were >hoping on quick capitulation. But the Yugoslav people and their army for 80 >days put up a great resistance the greatest military power of the world was >unable to defeat. NATO therefore waged its war in order to ”bomb Serbia back >for 50 years”, as the German NATO general Klaus Naumann put it. Industrial >infrastructure—as bridges and factories—was systematically bombed to plunge >the country that had turned out to be invincible into misery. Schools, >hospitals and residential areas were razed to the ground to test if the >population was ready to capitulate. But as during the First and Second World >Wars this only strengthened the will of the workers, peasants and soldiers >to resist. > >NATO occupied Kosovo and is now conducting ethnical cleansing, nationalist >atrocities and racist massacres Yugoslavia had formerly falsely been accused >of. Under NATO protection UÇK did not only expel Serbs, but all other >nationalities, subjecting the remaining Albanians to the rule of the drug >mafia. > >But the actual aim of the West in this war was not reached: to subject >Yugoslavia to their ”New World Order” and to bring to the power in >Yugoslavia a docile puppet régime. > >Aggression and War Are Continuing >The United States have been proving in countless instances that they are >ready to commit the most evil crimes and atrocities to realise their egoist >interests—just think of the genocide against the Kurdish people! To force to >the knees the only people on the Balkans defending its sovereignty, >imperialism will unscrupulously employ any means: > >· Embargo and economic strangling. The social crisis and terrible >impoverishment of the popular masses (in Iraq it has been killing over a >million people so far) is designed to bring up the idea that capitulation >could draw financial resources from abroad and create an economic upswing. >(That is actually possible, but as in all countries that depend on the USA >it would mean enormous wealth for a few parasites and misery for the broad >masses.) > >· Instigation of a civil war > >· Further secessions. Next preparations are being made by NATO for the >secession of Montenegro, Vojvodina and Sandzhak. > >· War and genocide. If Yugoslavia carries on its just resistance, another >military engagement of NATO is quite probable, and NATO will not shrink away >from genocide against the Serbs. > >Reconstruction for the people and by the people >The most urgent problem for the Yugoslav people is economic reconstruction >of the devastated country. Western aid can not be expected, because it would >only serve extortion. The catastrophic situation is shamelessly exploited by >war profiteers, new-riches and bureaucrats to enrich themselves at the >expense of the people. The widening gap between rich and poor is endangering >the national cohesion against NATO. As it was shown in Russia, exactly those >mafia-capitalists betray their country and sided with NATO to defend their >privileges. > >Reconstruction has thus to be controlled from below, democratically, by the >people, and has to be carried out directly by the people. Only thus it can >be ensured that reconstruction will actually serve the people. > >Yugoslavia Needs and Deserves Our Solidarity >The Yugoslav and the Serbian peoples has not only staunchly defended the >sovereignty and independence of their country against NATO, but also >resisted the tyranny of the ”New World Order” of neo-liberal globalisation >as a whole, although they will have to pay a dear price for that >resistance—for the third time in this century. > >The struggle of that rebellious people has become a model and ally of all >movements, peoples and nations fighting for liberty and against the empire. >Therefore the Yugoslav struggle is our struggle as well! > >Justice for Serbia! >Stop the embargo! >For an international solidarity movement to support the reconstruction from >below! >NATO out of Yugoslavia and the whole Balkans! >Oppressed of all countries, unite against the NATO empire! > >Yugoslav-Austrian Solidarity Movement (JÖSB) >September 20th 1999 > > >Initial supporters: > >* Committee Mexico for Yugoslavia >* High School Initiative Enragés (Jena, Germany) >* Independent Popular Front Fransisco Villa (Mexico) >* Italian Yugoslav Friendship and Solidarity Association (ASSIJUG) >* “Loyalty to man and earth” (Lebanon/Palestine) >* Popular Democratic Left (IDP, Mexico) >* Roman co-ordination for Yugoslavia (CRJ) >* Union “Worker” (Perm, Russia) >* Union for peace and social justice (Saxony, Germany) > >**************************** >Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB) >Yugoslav-Austrian Solidarity Movement >PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Austria >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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