Kosovo war
Content about the war in Kosovo and NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999.
On the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia - Noam Chomsky
An interview with Noam Chomsky in which he exposes the hypocrisy behind the "humanitarian" bombing of Yugoslavia and outlines its real causes.
NOAM CHOMSKY, world-renowned linguist, political analyst, philosopher and activist, has been called "arguably the most important intellectual alive" by the New York Times. Recently, in a British magazine poll, he has been voted by a landslide as the top public intellectual in the world today.
The class nature of sanctions - Wildcat
Wildcat UK show how international sanctions imposed on former-Yugoslavian countries during the Yugoslav wars acted as attacks on the living conditions of the working class.
International trade sanctions imposed against various states in recent years can be roughly divided into two categories:
- Token sanctions like those imposed on South Africa in the 1980s. The function of these is more diplomatic than economic.
We won't go to Kosovo - No War But The Class War
A text produced by a participant in the NWBTCW group in London 1999 about the movement of desertion and protest in and around the Yugoslav Army towards the end of the NATO bombardment.
The movement of draft refusal and desertion in Kruševac, Aleksandrovac, Prokuplje, Raška…. May 1999 - a chronology of events
Introduction
The story of this group (in its various incarnations) - No War But The Class War
Following the re-formation of the No War But The Class War group shortly after September 11, 2001, members of the group look at its history and limitations.
In September 1990, US, British and other forces were mobilising in the Gulf following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and full scale war was imminent. At Conway Hall in London's Red Lion Square a meeting was held on Sunday 2 September "to organise a plan of action... to counteract the blatant warmongering and racism that is going on".
Notes On The Balkan War and the Media, 1999
A critique of the media's relation to the Kosovo war of 1999, coming out of the group "No War But The Class War". It includes a leaflet produced by the group for an anti-war demo. Written in June 1999.
The photo on the left was taken from a Tirana demonstration in support of NATO, May 18th 1999
- strangely, no irony was intended.
Chomsky ignores lessons of wars on Kosovo
Marxist Humanism's review of Chomsky's book on the war in Kosovo, in which they criticise him for failing to make enough of Milosevic's crimes.
BOOK REVIEW:
The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo, by Noam Chomsky (Monroe, Maine: 1999, Common Courage Press)
December 1999
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By Peter Hudis
Conkers or Bonkers? Humanitarian War in Kosovo
Explanations in terms of both imperialist gains and a descent into irrationality grasp only part of the reason why Europe and the USA recently went to war in Kosovo. This article argues that the timing of events is explicable in terms of both the end of the Cold War and the recent world financial crisis.
Introduction
After the Gulf War we carried an article that considered the failure of No War But the Class War to make an effective communist intervention in the anti-war movement. This time round, despite the fact that support for the war was incredibly weak on the part of the population at large, there was barely a credible anti-war movement to make an intervention in!
