Fri 04, January 2008 @ 19:19
The war in what used to be Yugoslavia brought a terrible toll of death and destruction, hundreds of thousands of refugees and the threat of an imperialist military intervention. But what was the war about? Paul Morris explains the changing aims of the participants, imperialism's dilemma and the class issues at stake.
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Thu 03, January 2008 @ 17:56
As Kosova slides towards a UN protectorate, we re-publish this article from 1993, which provides some background to the break up of Yugoslavia after the collapse of Stalinism.
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Tue 03, October 2006 @ 18:46
Yugoslavia faces the prospect of a horrific civil war between the peoples and ethnic groups that make up this most multi-national of European states. Revolutionary Marxists condemn without hesitation the fomentors of national strife. The Serbian, Croatian and Slovenia nationalists are all guilty of this. Cynically playing with the fire of chauvinism which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths during the Second World War, reviving the pogromist traditions of the Chetnik and Ustasha fascists, they have brought the country to the brink of a repetition of these events.
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