A New Internationalism? - Black Flag
On Friday 30 July those 'saviours' of the Balkans, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, arrived in Sarajevo to hold a press conference where they revealed their agenda for the 'reconstruction' of the region. Anyone still clinging to the notion that NATO bombarded the people of Yugoslavia out of humanitarian concerns for the Kosovar Albanians will have found little cause to retain such delusions after the Bill & Tony Show laid out their wares.
From Black Flag #218 1999.
The Bombing of Belgrade: Twenty Years On
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 5 2019 09:53
Twenty years ago, from 24 March to 10 June 1999, United States and other NATO airplanes conducted bombing raids over what was left of Yugoslavia. Ever since the late 1980s, as capitalism’s world economic crisis sharpened and the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia went down with the USSR, rival war lords had been whipping up ethnic and religious divisions in order to carve out new state territories for themselves.
Rogue states: the rule of force in world affairs
Submitted by Anonymous on Feb 23 2017 21:44
Book from 2000 by Noam Chomsky where he argues that, contrary to popular perception, the real 'rogue' states in the world today are not the dictator-led developing countries we hear about in the news, but the United States and its allies.
If you want peace, prepare for class war - TPTG
Amidst the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, TPTG analyse and explain the roots of the conflict and give an account of the original "Balkanisation" of the Balkans.
On the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia - Noam Chomsky
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 31 2009 20:09
An interview with Noam Chomsky in which he exposes the hypocrisy behind the "humanitarian" bombing of Yugoslavia and outlines its real causes.
The class nature of sanctions - Wildcat
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Aug 25 2009 10:19
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.
We won't go to Kosovo - No War But The Class War
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Aug 24 2009 12:21
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 story of this group (in its various incarnations) - No War But The Class War
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Aug 20 2009 11:25
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.
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.
Conkers or bonkers? Humanitarian war in Kosovo
Submitted by libcom on Jul 24 2005 15:01
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.
