Yugoslavia
The inhumanity of humanitarian aid - Wildcat
Article looking at the use of 'humanitarian' aid as a way of perpetuating war and reproducing capitalist social relations, as a means of social control, during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
In Yugoslavia, as in Somalia and in every other war-torn region, humanitarian aid functions as a means of maintaining the war effort. Outside the affected region it provides a wonderful alibi for intervention by the armies of the most powerful states and makes these states appear caring.
Yugoslavia: from wage cuts to war - Wildcat
A look at the effect of the 1991-1995 war in Yugoslavia on the class struggle, and the effect of class struggle on the war.
The war in former Yugoslavia has raged for more than four years and has attracted more media attention per death than any other war in history. Bourgeois commentators endlessly speculate about the military and political balance of forces, in other words about the significance of the war for this or that fraction of their class.
Notes from a journey to Sarajevo - Petar Petrović
A few impressions and speculations about the state and economy of Bosnia, by a revolutionary from Serbia who visited in 1998.
After the wars in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (in Slovenia, in Croatia, in Bosnia-Hercegovina), and after similar accompanying capitalist agressions across the world, in a small group of people that I know and with whom I like to discuss, a discussion developed about the immediate course of the development and spread of global capitalism in this region.
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
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.
Yugoslavia: Imperialist war against the world proletariat, 1990s - ICG
The ICG's analysis of the war in Yugoslavia, with information about the preceding wave of workers struggles in the region.
For us the analysis of the war in Yugoslavia is indispensable. This war is not only of the greatest importance for its direct consequences for the conditions of life and struggle of proletarians in the region - it is also important for the international proletariat, and because it announces and prefigures the military conflicts that are to come.
From Communism #9
- "Is that you, Mladic?"
Some basic ingredients of Yugoslav ideology
BM Blob's pamphlet on Yugoslavia including details of the strike wave in the mid-late '80s.
The Historical Context
Yugoslavia emerged from the ruins of the first world war and under the name of the Kingdom of Sets, Slovenes and Croats grouped itself around the kingdom of Serbia. In 1929 it became the 'Kingdom of Yugoslavia".
Yugoslavery: Yugoslavia: Capitalism and class struggle 1918-1967
An overview of developments in Yugoslavia between 1918 and 1967, including the wildcat strikes of 1965.
Yugoslavery
Yugoslavia: Capitalism and Class struggle 1918-1967
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Some Basic Ingredients of Yugoslav Ideology
Introduction
The role of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia's holocaust - Seán Mac Mathúna, 1941-1945
Historical information about Catholic priests and Muslim clerics being willing accomplices in the genocide of the Yugoslavia's Serbian, Jewish and Roma population during the Second World War.
During the Second World War in Yugoslavia, Catholic priests and Muslim clerics were willing accomplices in the genocide of the nations Serbian, Jewish and Roma population.
"The Renewal of Medieval Times" in Yugoslavia, 1941
Article from the Fascist-controlled press in Italy in 1941. The author, Corrado Zoli, was traveling through Bosnia and witnessed the Ustase massacres - and the assistance of Franciscan priests in the butchery - firsthand.
There can be little doubt that this article appeared with the agreement of the Fascist Party in Italy, and the Italian Army had already begun to stand between the Ustase and their victims in zones of the NDH under their authority.
