Against the slaughter in Kosovo – And the bombing in Serbia: DOWN WITH THE IMPERIALIST WAR!

The crisis of Russian capitalism (forced to reveal the fakedness of its alleged socialist regime not so long ago) and the generalised crisis of world capitalism, have resulted in war in Europe.

The Balkan “tinder-box”, the so-called causer of wars, is the play-ground for the latest conflict between imperialist interests. Whilst NATO poses as the saviour of the helpless victims in Kosovo to justify the bombing of helpless victims in Serbia, Russia is bankrupt and incapable of intervening to defend historical interests in the area. Germany and the other European powers would like to extend the European Union across the former Yugoslavian states in order to link up with Greece. The U.S.A. has meanwhile used the present conflict to remind both Europe and the Middle East of its military presence and has used it to fully entrench itself in the Albanian ports and surrounding areas.

Comrades, Workers

The working class of the former Yugoslavia has been splintered by the only weapon the local bourgeoisie have – ethnic conflict. The so-called “ethnic cleansing” that is taking place is a classic divide-and-rule tactic, and is the latest refinement of previous bourgeois strategies to divide the working class. Any possibility of class consciousness and class organisation has been drowned in blood as the “atrocities” committed by both sides foment nationalistic hatreds, and push worker to kill worker.

The tragic faces of the refugees speak of the misery of the dispossessed of the Earth. And on the back of their misery, and cynically masked by trumpetings about “humanitarian aid”, a redivision of the market will take place, and the victors will jostle for contracts to repair the war damage.

Capitalism directs its war as always against the proletariat, in peace calling for sweat and toil, and in war for blood. The role of the bleating pacifists stands revealed as out and out allies of imperialism since their hymns to universal peace deny the class struggle; the one thing capable, as shown by the Revolution in 1917, of smashing the bourgeois regime and putting a stop to their wars.

Colluding in this disarmament of the working class in the British Isles are the official patriotic unions and the Left, orchestrated by the Labour Party and the TUC. During every imperialist undertaking, instead of organising the struggle out of the places of work, the opportunist good-for-nothings-constituting a real fifth column in the working class-call for debates in the Houses of Parliament, for the intervention of the United Nations, or international conferences – anything but class struggle and solidarity between workers on both sides of the battle zones.

Comrades, Workers

For a revival of the class struggle, to defend standards of living as much as to oppose the bourgeoisie’s warmongering interests, a reborn class union will be needed which will genuinely express proletarian interests; the other necessity is for the communist party to be strengthened, the one party capable of leading the class towards the final struggle for a real human society.